New Faculty Member Highlight: Professor Fernanda Ferreira

     
    Fernanda Ferreira is a College of Arts and Sciences, honorary professor of psychology and linguistics. He joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina in June 2010 after the chair of language and perception at the University of Edinburgh. (Faculty of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences) in Edinburgh, held positions at the School of civilization and information to help organize interdisciplinary group of scientists led by Professor Scottish language university 1992-2006 and then as vice completely Ferreira, professor of psychology at 's Michigan State University, has also spent 1996-1997 working as Director of Linguistics Program of the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC, and was a visiting professor at Stanford University 1998-1999 Professor Ferreira. First degree - Class Honor in psychology at the University of Manitoba (awarded 1982), Master in Psychology (1985) and one in linguistics (1986) at the University of Massachusetts and a doctorate in cognitive psychology from UMass. (1988).Professor Ferreira's research focuses on language and understanding of the production and processing with special attention to grammar, prosody and disfluencies and communication has continued to study one of these with a combination of technical, behavioral and neuroimaging her. published over 70 articles and co-editor of three books. Their research was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, UK, the UK Leverhulme Trust, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health Prof. Ferreira has been supported Co - in the IGERT PI, the State of Michigan (Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training). University was assigned to study decision making in cognitive science.Career highlights include winning the 1996 American Psychological Association Award for outstanding scientific contribution to psychology, before the job. She is also a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the American Psychological Society, also Prof. Ferreira Editor - in - Chief of the Journal of the psychological experiment: general (this is one of the factors that affected the most psychological) and Deputy Editorial Page blog earlier Journal of memory and language, including Journal of Experimental Psychology: is learning, memory and perception Professor Ferreira on both NSF and the National Institutes of Health is the installation and monitoring in various magazines publishers.Prof. Ferreira has taught courses in psychology and linguistics. He has taught Introduction to Psychology of over 500 people, including small seminars that have taken up a PhD as an educator at various institutions around the world, including the University of Illlinois at Urbana - Champaign, Donders Institute in Netherlands, University of Northumbria, UK, University of Pittsburgh and the Valle Grande. Valley, Michigan State University.