Emma Wing

Emma Wing

Psycholinguist

Cognitive Psychology

Undergraduate course, UConn, Psychological Sciences, 2025

PSYC2501. The biological organ that is the human brain supports all the extraordinary things our minds can do. This course introduces the foundations of mental phenomena by exploring key theories, concepts, and discoveries in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. As we delve into topics such as perception, memory, and reasoning, we’ll develop skills in scientific thinking, scientific communication, and the ability to test and refine models and theories through experimental research. We will also learn about the methods used to study the mind, including behavioral, neuroimaging, and clinical methods. Cognitive psychology is a highly interdisciplinary field, interacting with neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology, biology, linguistics, physics, computer science, engineering, chemistry, sociology, medicine—the list goes on! For this reason, cognitive psychology depends upon diverse perspectives and relies on interdisciplinary communication. We will also practice interdisciplinary communication in this class: each of us brings a unique set of background knowledge, experiences, and perspectives that together will lead us to rich discussions and innovative ideas as we learn about the human mind.

Psychology of Language

Undergraduate course, Psychological Sciences, UConn, 2023

PSYC3500. Description: Language is a human faculty that we take for granted, like breathing. Nobody taught us to breathe, just as no one taught us to listen, understand, and make sense of the jumble of sounds that we’re confronted with from the moment we’re born. Yet, somehow we learn to make sense of the sounds we hear; we hear patterns in those sounds and we associate meanings with those patterns. As adults, we possess knowledge about tens of thousands of words, what they mean, how they’re spelled, how they sound, how to move the muscles in the lips and tongue to pronounce them, how to join them up to form sentences. In this course we discuss ways in which psycholinguists study language in the mind and brain.