The University of Chicago
Department of Psychology
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Chicago, IL, 60637
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Tiffany Bloomfield
Background
Tiffany is a second year doctoral student in the Cognitive Psychology program at the University of Chicago.
Tiffany graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. in Psychology in 2002. As an undergraduate, she worked in Nalini Ambady's lab, where she assisted in an electrophysiology study of lowered cognitive performance resulting from stereotype threat.
Research Interest
Tiffany’s broad research interest is language acquisition. She is interested in the learning mechanisms underlying people’s discovery of the forms and patterns in their language. Her trial research project focuses on the factors influencing acquisition of “long-distance dependencies” between sentence elements in an artificial language paradigm. Specifically, during learning, which aspects of language might draw attention to these relationships?
