{"id":255,"date":"2017-10-16T19:11:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T19:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-psychology\/facultystaff\/brookelea\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T20:42:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T20:42:19","slug":"brookelea","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/psychology\/facultystaff\/brookelea\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooke Lea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooke Lea specializes in human cognition, with an emphasis on higher mental processes. His research interests include theories of discourse comprehension, models of human logical competence, the interaction between culture and cognition, and comprehension processes involved in reading poetry. He serves on the editorial board of Psychological Bulletin. He teaches courses on cognition, psychology of language, and psychological statistics.\u00a0Questions about higher-level cognitive processes such as language comprehension and reasoning are investigated in Professor Brooke Lea\u2019s\u00a0research lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prof. Lea’s Bio<\/a><\/p>\n

Education<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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  • BA: Haverford College<\/li>\n
  • PhD: New York University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h4>\n

    *indicates current or former Macalester student<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    • Varma, S., Sanford, E.M*., Shaffer, O*., Marupudi, V., Lea, R.B. (2024) Recruitment of magnitude representations to process graded words.\u00a0\u00a0Cognitive Psychology<\/i>.<\/li>\n
    • Smith, E., Lea, R.B., & O\u2019Brien, E. (2023). Exploring the spatial gradient effect. Discourse Processes.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Lea, R.B., Elfenbein, E.., & Rapp, D.N. (2021). Rhyme as resonance in poetry comprehension: An expert-novice study. Memory & Cognition, 49, 12-85-1299.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Singer, M., & Lea, R.B. (2012) Inference and Reasoning in Discourse Comprehension.\u00a0 In Hans-Joerg Schmid and Dirk Geeraerts (Eds.), Handbook of cognitive pragmatics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Lea, R. B., Rapp, D. N., Elfenbein, A., Mitchel, A.D.*, & Romine, R. S.* (2008).\u00a0 Sweet silent thought: Alliteration and resonance in poetry comprehension. Psychological Science, 19, 709-716.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Lea, R.B., Mulligan, E.J.*, & Walton, J.* (2005). Accessing distant premise information: How memory feeds reasoning.\u00a0 Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 28, 303-317.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Long, D. L. & Lea, R.B. (2005).\u00a0 Have we been searching for meaning in all the wrong places? Defining the \u201csearch after meaning\u201d principle in comprehension. Discourse Processes, 39, 279-298.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Lea, R.B., Kayser, P.*, Mulligan, E.J.* & Myers, J. (2002). Do readers make inferences about conversational topics? Memory & Cognition, 30, 945-957.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Lea, R.B., & Mulligan, E.J.* (2002). The effect of negation on deductive inferences.\u00a0 Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 28, 303-317.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Lea, R.B., Mason, R.A., Albrecht, J.E., Birch, S., & Myers, J.L. (1998).\u00a0 Who knows what about whom: What role does common ground play in accessing distant information?\u00a0 Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 70-84.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":809,"featured_media":187,"template":"","class_list":["post-255","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/809"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1973,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/255\/revisions\/1973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}