Gary M. Oppenheim

June 19, 2012

Center for Research in Language
University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr., Dept 0526 
La Jolla, CA 92093-0526
 

crl.ucsd.edu/~goppenheim/

 

EDUCATION

    2011-present

Postdoctoral Training Fellowship
Center for Research in Language
University of California, San Diego

 

 

2011

Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation title: Incremental lexical learning in speech production: A computational model and empirical evaluation. *.pdf
Advisor: Gary S. Dell

 

 

2009

M.A. in Cognitive Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thesis title: The little voice in your head: Error-based investigations into abstracted and articulated inner speech *.pdf
Split minor in Developmental Psychology and Brain & Cognition.
Advisor: Gary S. Dell

 

 

2001

B.A. in Anthropology
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Interdisciplinary concentration in Russian and Eastern European Studies

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

 

Broad: cognition, language, learning, modeling, embodiment, flexibility, scientific epistemology

 

 

Specific: Speech production; mapping from ideas to words: lexical access, incremental learning; mapping from words to phonemes to articulation: inner speech, imagery

 

TEACHING INTERESTS

 

 

Graduate: psycholinguistics, language production, computational modeling

 

 

Undergraduate: introductory psychology, cognitive psychology, cognitive science, research methods, statistics

 

PUBLICATIONS (h-index=5)
   
[Note: Articles are the sole copyright of the respective publishers, and are provided for personal educational use only.]
    Oppenheim, G. M. (in prep). Persistent semantic interference in picture naming: tests of an incremental learning account. [Tentative title; includes three experiments described in the Psychonomics poster of the same name]
    Dell, G. S. & Oppenheim, G. M. (submitted, revised). Insights for speech production planning from errors in inner speech. In M. Redford (Ed.), Handbook of Speech Production. Wiley-Blackwell. *.pdf
    Oppenheim, G. M. (in press). Inner speech as a forward model? Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [Commentary on Pickering & Garrod, in press.] *.pdf
    Dell, G. S., Nozari, N. & Oppenheim, G. M. (in press). Lexical access: Behavioral and computational considerations. In V. Ferreira, M. Goldrick, & M. Miozzo (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language Production. Oxford University Press. *.pdf
    Oppenheim, G. M. (2012). The case for subphonemic attenuation in inner speech: comment on Corley, Brocklehurst, & Moat (2011). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38(2), 502-512. *pdf

 

 

Oppenheim, G. M., & Dell, G. S. (2010). Motor movement matters: the flexible abstractness of inner speech. Memory & Cognition, 38 (8), 1147-1160 *.pdf [14 citations]

 

 

Oppenheim, G. M., Dell, G. S., & Schwartz, M. F. (2010). The dark side of incremental learning: A model of cumulative semantic interference during lexical access in speech production. Cognition, 114(2), 227-52. *.pdf [37 citations]

 

 

Dell, G. S., Oppenheim, G. M., & Kittredge, A. K. (2008). Saying the right word at the right time: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic interference in sentence production. Invited paper for Language and Cognitive Processes, 23, 583-608. *.pdf [27 citations]

 

 

Oppenheim, G. M. & Dell, G. S. (2008). Inner speech slips exhibit lexical bias, but not the phonemic similarity effect. Cognition, 106, 528-537. *.pdf [49 citations]

 

 

Oppenheim, G. M., Dell, G. S., & Schwartz, M. F. (2007). Cumulative semantic interference as learning. Brain and Language, 103, 175-176. Extended abstract. *.pdf [15 citations]

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

    Fink, A, Oppenheim, G. M., & Goldrick, M. (2013). Dynamic interactions between lexical access and phonetic processes. Talk to be presented at Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing 2013, September 2-4, Marseille, France.
    Fink, A, Oppenheim, G. M., & Goldrick, M. (2013). When is articulatory variation affected by variation in higher level cognitive processes? Poster to be presented at the LSA workshop, How the brain accommodates variability in linguistic representations, July 14, Marseille, France.
    Oppenheim, G. M. (2012). Persistent semantic interference in picture naming: tests of an incremental learning account. Poster presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, November 15-18, Minneapolis, MN. *.pdf
    Oppenheim, G. M. (2012). Cumulative semantic interference without decay. Poster presented at the 7th International Workshop on Language Production, July 18-20, New York, NY. *.pdf
    Dell, G. S., & Oppenheim, G. M., (2011). The light and dark sides of incremental learning in the language production system. Talk presented at the 5th International Conference on Memory,, July 31-August 5, York, UK.
    Oppenheim, G. M. (2010). Cumulative semantic interference persists over a one-hour delay. Poster presented at the 6th International Workshop on Language Production, September 2-4, Edinburgh, UK.

 

 

Oppenheim, G. M., & Dell, G. S. (2009). Silent articulation affects error patterns in inner speech. Poster presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, November 19-22, Boston , MA. *.pdf

 

 

Oppenheim, G. M., Dell, G. S., & Schwartz, M. F. (2008). Cumulative semantic interference: the dark side of repetition priming. Poster presented at the Fifth International Workshop on Language Production, July 27-30, Annapolis, MD. *.pdf

 

 

Oppenheim, G. M., Dell, G. S., & Schwartz, M. F.(2007). Cumulative semantic interference as learning. Talk presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, October 20-22, Washington , D.C.

 

 

Oppenheim, G. M. & Dell, G. S. (2006). Inner-speech slips exhibit lexical bias, but not the phonemic similarity effect. Poster presented at the Third International Workshop on Language Production, August 13-15, Chicago , IL. *.pdf

 

 

Oppenheim, G. M. (2006). Inner and Overt Speech Errors: A Comparative Analysis. Poster presented at the 78th annual meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, May 4-6, Chicago , IL.

 

INVITED TALKS

    A dynamic view of language production. Talk presented at the UCSD Center for Research in Language, April 16, 2013, La Jolla, CA.
    Why do your lips move when you think? Talk presented at the UCSD Center for Research in Language, October 16, 2012, La Jolla, CA.
    Incremental lexical learning in speech production: a computation model and empirical evaluation. Talk presented at the UCSD Center for Research in Language, October 4, 2011, La Jolla, CA.
    What is that little voice in your head? Talk presented at the UIUC Department of Psychology, Knowledge for All lecture series, April 7, 2011, Champaign, IL.

 

 

Why do your lips move when you think? Talk presented at the Beckman Institute, UIUC, March 10, 2010, Urbana, IL.

 

 

On the interaction of thought and action: silent articulation changes inner speech. Talk presented at the UIUC Department of Psychology, Cognitive Division Brownbag, February 19, 2010, Champaign, IL .

 

 

Cumulative semantic interference as incremental learning. Talk presented at the UIUC Department of Psychology, Cognitive Division Brownbag, April 18, 2008, Champaign, IL .

 

 

On the Abstractness of Verbal Imagery. Talk presented at the UIUC Department of Psychology, Cognitive Division Brownbag, March 9, 2007, Champaign, IL .

 

 

Voices in Your Head. Talk presented at the UIUC Department of Psychology, Cognitive Division Brownbag, September 16, 2005, Champaign, IL .

 

 

Western Utopias of the Eastern Bloc. Talk presented at Grinnell College, May, 2001, Grinnell, IA. [Portions of this manuscript have been used in curricula at more than ten universities in at least four countries.]

 

 

Context-Dependent Reconciliation Patterns in a Captive Chimpanzee Colony at the Detroit Zoo. Talk presented at Grinnell College, May, 2001, Grinnell, IA.

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

    beginning fall, 2013 Lecturer (assistant professor). School of Psychology, Bangor University, Wales.
    2011-present Postdoctoral Training Fellow (NIDCD fellowship, mentored by Vic Ferreira). Work here has focused on testing and extending my model of incremental lexical learning in speech production, extending my inner speech work, and developing new collaborations. Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego.

 

 

2004-2011 

Research Assistant (with Gary S. Dell). Lexical access and phonological encoding. Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

 

2003-2004

Research Specialist (with Maryellen C. MacDonald & Mark S. Seidenberg). Managed psycholinguistics laboratory: programmed experiments, created stimuli, acquired and set up lab equipment, oversaw data collection and coding, trained assistants, various administrative tasks. Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin - Madison.

 

 

2001-2003

Associate Research Specialist (with Maryellen C. MacDonald & Mark S. Seidenberg). Managed psycholinguistics laboratory (as above). Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin - Madison.

 

 

2001

Field Archaeologist. Prehistoric and historic excavations in eastern and central Iowa . Louis Berger Group, East Orange, NJ .

 

 

2000-2001

Capstone research project (with Vicki Bentley-Condit). Pan troglodytes reconciliation behavior, with fieldwork at the Detroit Zoological Institute, Royal Oak, MI . Department of Anthropology, Grinnell College, Grinnell , IA.

 

 

1999

Research Assistant (with John Whittaker). Sinagua ceramic distributions as indications of social and trade networks. Department of Anthropology, Grinnell College , Grinnell , IA.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

 

2013

Guest lecturer, Language Development
Instructor: Jeremy Boyd.
Human Development Program, University of California, San Diego.

    2012

Student, The College Classroom
Semester-long course on the philosophy and practice of college teaching (CIRTL Practitioner course)
Center for Teaching Development, University of California, San Diego

    2012

Mentor, undergraduate research assistant
Faculty instructor: Vic Ferreira.
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego.
    2011

Panelist in a discussion advising current grad students on how to find postdoctoral fellowships
UCSD Psychology Grad Student Career Club

 

 

2009

Guest lecturer, Connectionism & Language Seminar
Instructor: Gary Dell.
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

 

2006-2009

Mentor, undergraduate research assistants
Taught general and specific experiment running protocols and data analysis, assigned and discussed readings related to the specific research and to experiment design in general.
Faculty instructor: Gary Dell.
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign.

 

 

2008

Instructor, Laboratory in Neural Networks (lab sections)
Led laboratory sections, gave short lectures, created a course website, taught students to code, created and graded homeworks, and graded term papers.
Faculty instructor: John Hummel.
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

 

2001-2004

Manager, Language and Cogntive Neuroscience Laboratory
Coordinated >10 undergraduate research assistants in designing stimuli, soliciting participants, running experiments, and coding data.
Supervisors: Maryellen C. MacDonald & Mark S. Seidenberg.
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin - Madison.

 

 

1999-2001

Instructor, Figure drawing
Experimental College at Grinnell College .

 

AWARDS & OTHER FUNDING

    2011-present Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NIDCD T32DC000041)
Post-doctoral training fellowship via the Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego
    2011

Invited lecture (Cognitive division representative), UIUC Department of Psychology, Knowledge for All lecture series.

 

 

2000-2001

Mentored Advanced Project Travel Funds, Grinnell College.

 

 

1997-2001

Grinnell College Trustees Honor Scholarship

 

 

1997-2001

Chrysler Fund Scholarship

 

SERVICE

 

 

Ad hoc reviewer:

Cognition;
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition;
Journal of Memory and Language;
Memory & Cognition;
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology;
Language and Cognitive Processes;
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science;
Frontiers;
Cognitive Processing;
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research;
Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing (AMLaP)

 

 

2005-2011

Division Representative, Psychology Department Graduate Students' Organization, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

 

2000-2001

Student Educational Policy Committee
Anthropology Department, Grinnell College

 

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

 

 

Latin (600 hours of instruction)
Spanish (400 hours of instruction, 2 months immersion)
Czech (200 hours of instruction, 6 months immersion)
Lithuanian (60 hours of instruction, 1 month immersion)
Mandarin (45 hours of instruction).

 

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

 

 

Basic, C++, Matlab, Pascal, Perl, R, Scheme; also, web technologies (cgi, css, html, js, ssi), E-Prime, Psyscope, and MEL.

 

OTHER EDUCATION

 

 

2004

Lietuviu Kalbos Kursai (Lithuanian language course)
Klaipedos Universitetas, Klaipeda, Lithuania

 

 

2000

Archaeological field school
University of Iowa , Iowa City

 

 

1999

Letní škola slovanských studií (Czech language course) & ACM Central European Studies Program
Univerzita Palackého, Olomouc , Czech Republic

 

COMMUNITY SERVICE

 

 

2007-2011

Board of Directors, Vice President for Education (2009-2010), Vice President for NASCO Properties (2007-2009)
Community of Urbana-Champaign Cooperative Housing, Urbana , IL

 

 

2007-2009

Board of Directors; NASCO Properties Representative
North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO), Ann Arbor , MI

 

 

2007-2009

Board of Directors; Treasurer (2008-2009)
NASCO Properties / NASCO Community Ownership, Ann Arbor , MI

 

 

2004-2007

Membership Coordinator
Gwendolyn Brooks Cooperative, Urbana , IL

 

 

2003-2004

Education Committee
Madison Community Cooperative, Madison , WI

 

 

1996-1997

Service Committee
Wildlife Interpretive Gallery, Detroit Zoological Institute, Royal Oak , MI