David W. Gow, Jr.

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EDUCATION

1987-1993 HARVARD UNIVERSITY Ph.D. in psychology, May, 1993. Thesis with Peter C. Gordon entitled "Lexical and prelexical factors in the perception of connected speech."

1985-1987 BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

M.A. in psychology with major emphasis in linguistics, May, 1987. Thesis with Ray Jackendoff entitled "Force dynamic representation of causatives."

1980-1984 TUFTS UNIVERSITY

B.A. in psychology with a second major of my own design (summa cum laude), May 1984. Honors thesis with David A. Swinney entitled "An assessment of linguistic competence in dolphins and the great apes."

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

1993-Present MGH NEUROPSYCHOLOGY LABORATORY

Post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of David Caplan, M.D., Ph.D. Studies of acoustic-phonetic processing, lexical access and lexical segmentation in brain-damaged populations.

1988-1993 HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Research assistant in the laboratory of Peter C. Gordon, Ph.D. Studies of lexical access and segmentation processes, and the role of syllabic stress in speech processing.

1988 HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Research assistant in the laboratory of Stephen M. Kosslyn, Ph.D. Development of a battery of computer-based tests to assess visual imagery abilities in normal and brain-damaged populations.

1987-1988 HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Research assistant in the laboratory of Jay G. Rueckl, Ph.D. Studies of letter migration effects in visual letter identification.

1986-1987 BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

Research assistant to Ray Jackendoff, Ph.D. Studies of the syntactic and semantic representation of causative verbs.

1982-1985 TUFTS UNIVERSITY

Research assistant to Maryanne Wolf, Ed.D. Studies of the acquisition of reading skills in children.

1982-1984 TUFTS UNIVERSITY

Research assistant in the laboratory of David A. Swinney, Ph.D. Studies of the development of sentence processing abilities in children.

GRANTS

1994 McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience

postdoctoral grant entitled ÒDisorders of lexical access and lexical segmentation in the perception of connected speechÓ. A two-year grant funded to $30,000 per year.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1994 HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Lecturer in the psychology department. Instructor for a one-semester introductory course on the psychology of language.

1988- 1993 HARVARD PSYCHOLOGY TUTOR

Instructor for a full year seminar survey course in psychology.

TEACHING FELLOW FOR:

Introduction to Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Science
Developmental Psychology

GRADER FOR:

The Psychology of Language

PUBLICATIONS

1. Wolf, M. and Gow, D.W. (1986). A longitudinal investigation of gender 
issues in language and reading development. First Language, 6, 81-110.

2. Gow, D.W., and Gordon, P.C. (1993). Coming to terms with stress: 
Effects of stress location in sentence processing. Journal of 
Psycholinguistic Research,  22, 537-570.

3. Caplan, D., Gow, D.W., and Makris, N. (1995). Analysis of lesions by MRI 
scanning in stroke patients with acoustic-phonetic processing deficits. 
Neurology, 45, 293-298.

4. Gow, D.W., and Gordon, P.C. (1995). Lexical and prelexical influences on 
word segmentation: Evidence from priming. Journal of Experimental 
Psychology: Human Perception and Performance,  21, 344-359.

5. Gow, D.W., and Caplan, D. (in press). An examination of impaired 
acoustic-phonetic processing in aphasia. Brain and Language.

6. Gow, D.W., and Gordon, P.C. (under review). Word onset distinctiveness.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

1. Gow, D.W., and Gow, D.W. (September, 1988). Memory and language: A theoretical
 view of reconstructive language techniques. Paper presented at the First Annual 
Gow Symposium on Dyslexia, South Wales, NY.

2. Gow, D.W., and Gordon, P.C. (November, 1989). Two paradigms for examining the 
role of phonological stress in sentence processing. Paper presented at the meeting 
of the Acoustical Society of America, St. Louis, MO.

3. Gow, D.W., and Gordon, P.C. (November, 1990). The acoustic and perceptual basis 
of stress shift. Paper presented at the meeting of the Acoustical Society of America,
 San Diego, CA.

4. Gow, D.W., and Gordon, P.C. (April, 1993). The distinctiveness of word onsets. 
Paper presented at the meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Ottawa, 
Ontario.

INVITED COLLOQUIA

1. Gow, D.W. : The perception of stress shift. Research Lab of Electronics Speech 
Group, M.I.T., 1989.

2. Gow, D.W. : A new approach to lexical segmentation. Psychology Department,
 Northeastern University, 1993.

3. Gow, D.W.:  The Good Start Model. Speech Research Laboratory, Indiana University,
 1993.

4. Gow, D.W. : Lexical access and lexical segmentation in the Good Start Model,
 Cognitive Science, University of Massachusetts,  1994.

5. Gow, D.W.: The Good Start Model: A new approach to lexical access and 
segmentation. Cognitive Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 
1994.

REFERENCES

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