Psychology and Neuroscience Department

Matthew Pastizzo

Director for Institutional Research & Effectiveness and Associate Professor of Psychology

Erwin 220A

585-245-5690

pastizzo@geneseo.edu

Matthew Pastizzo has been a member of the Geneseo faculty since 2003.

Areas of Interest

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics

Research Interests

  • Psycholinguistics. In particular, word frequency, statistical regularity in word structure, and the study of factors that influence visual word recognition.
  • visual word recognition
  • the representation of words in memory
  • vocabulary acquisition

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Portrait of Matthew Pastizzo

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, SUNY Albany, 2003

M.A., Cognitive Psychology, SUNY Albany, 2001

B.A., Psychology, Siena College, 1999

Employment

SUNY Geneseo since Fall 2003

Recent Courses Taught

Psychology of Language

Statistics

Research Methods

Selected Publications

Pastizzo, M.J., & Feldman, L.B. (2009). Multiple dimensions of relatedness among words: Conjoint effects of form and meaning in word recognition. The Mental Lexicon, 4:1, 1-25.

Pastizzo, M.J., Neely, J.H., & Tse, C.-S. (2008). With a letter-searched prime, boat primes float but swim and coatdon’t: Further evidence for automatic semantic activation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 845-849.

Hughes, S., Pastizzo, M.J., & Gallup, G. (2008). The sound of symmetry revisited: Subjective and objective analyses of voice. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 32, 93-108.

Pastizzo, M.J., & Carbone, R.F. (2007). Spoken word frequency counts based on 1.6 million words in American English. Behavior Research Methods, 39, 1025-1028.

Pastizzo, M.J. & Feldman, L.B. (2004). Morphological processing: A comparison between free and bound stem facilitation. Brain and Language, 90, 31-39.

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