Department of Psychology

Emily Soltano, Ph.D.

Contact Information

Office: Sullivan 241K

Phone: (508) 929-8764

Email: esoltano@worcester.edu

Education

PhD - University of Albany, SUNY

BA - University of Albany, SUNY

Area of Specialization

Dr. Soltano’s research examines the influence of linguistic information (e.g., sound, spelling) on spoken word comprehension.  Specifically, she examine whether response times to auditorilly presented words in isolation are facilitated or inhibited depending on whether an immediately preceding word contains similar (black-blast) or different (black-nurse) sounds.  She is also interested in examining the influence of similar linguistic information when words are embedded in a sentence.  More recent research projects examined the above topics to more applied situations, for example how we understand sarcastic comments and how we process online communications.

Representative Scholarly Activity

Soltano, E. G., (2004). The impact of learning communities on first year psychology majors.  Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Undergraduate Teaching of Psychology (18th, Ellenville, New York, March 2004).

Feldman, L. B., Soltano, E.G., Pastizzo, M., & Francis, S. E. (in press). Semantic Transparency Influences Morphological Processing. Brain and Language.

Martin, M., Dellicker, A., & Soltano, E. G. (2003).   Visual and auditory perception of sarcasm. Paper to be presented at the 43^rd annual meeting of the New England Psychological Association, Salem, MA.