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Fernanda Ferreira (Born on September 22, 1960 in Portugal) is a psychologist and professor known for her research in the fields of Psycholinguistics, reading, language comprehension, language production, prosody and disfluency, individual differences, working memory and language processing.

Biography
Mrs.Ferreira recived her Bachelor's degree in Psychology in 1982 in the University of Manitoba, Canada. The later went on to receive her Master degree in Psychology in 1985 in the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. Then pursued her personal interest and received a Master of Arts in Linguistics in 1986 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. After that she finally went on to get her Ph.D in Psychology in 1988 in the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.

Not only does she have a highly respectable scholarly position, Fernanda Ferreira fills in as a chosen individual from the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society and fills in as an associate editor of the journal, Cognitive Psychology and a manager of Collabra. She is an individual of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) and the Association for Psychological Science (APS).

Listed here below is some of the few research publication she had contributed to:

-Executive function and intelligence in the resolution of temporary syntactic ambiguity: an individual differences investigation.

-Prediction, information structure, and good enough language processing, Psychology of Learning and Motivation

-Language structure in the brain: A fixation-related fMRI study of syntactic surprisal in reading.

-Prediction in the processing of repair disfluencies: Evidence from the visual-world paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

-Eye movements in reading and information processing: Keith Rayner’s 40 year legacy. Journal of Memory and Language

-Sentence processing. In G. Hickok & S. L. Small (Eds.), Neurobiology of language

-Language processing in the visual world: Effects of preview, visual complexity, and prediction. Journal of Memory and Language

-Over-specified referential expressions impair comprehension: An ERP study. Brain and Cognition

-Taking a new look at looking at nothing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Mrs.Ferreira has recived several awards and honors in 2015: Target of Excellence Hire, University of California, Davis, CA. In 2009: Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE). Again in 2009: Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS). Then here first in 1996: American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (Cognition and Human Learning).

Research
Mrs. Ferreira's area of research is psycholinguistics. She utilizes fundamental bits of knowledge from formal linguistics, mainly focuses on sentence phonology and language structure, to create models of language syntax. Her exact work depends both on social and neural measures, including eyetracking (for measurement of fixations, saccades and pupil diameter) and keeping track of all this data. The major point of her examination is to reveal the components that empower people to comprehend and produce dialect continuously and in participation with other intellectual frameworks.

Representative Publications
Engelhardt, P.E., Nigg, J., & Ferreira, F. (2017). Executive function and intelligence in the resolution of temporary syntactic ambiguity: an individual differences investigation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 1263-1281.

Ferreira, F.., & Lowder, M.W. (2016). Prediction, information structure, and good enough language processing, Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 65, 217-247.

Henderson, J. M., Choi, W., Lowder, M. W., & Ferreira, F. (2016). Language structure in the brain: A fixation-related fMRI study of syntactic surprisal in reading. NeuroImage, 132, 293-300.

Lowder, M. W., & Ferreira, F. (2016). Prediction in the processing of repair disfluencies: Evidence from the visual-world paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42, 1400-1416.

Clifton, C. Jr., Ferreira, F., Henderson, J. M., Inhoff, A. W., Liversedge, S. P., Reichle, E. D., & Schotter, E. R. (2016). Eye movements in reading and information processing: Keith Rayner’s 40 year legacy. Journal of Memory and Language, 86, 1-19.

Ferreira, F., & Çokal, D. (2015). Sentence processing. In G. Hickok & S. L. Small (Eds.), Neurobiology of language (pp. 265-274). Academic Press.

Ferreira, F., Foucart, A., & Engelhardt, P. E. (2013). Language processing in the visual world: Effects of preview, visual complexity, and prediction. Journal of Memory and Language. 69, 165-182.

Engelhardt, P. E., Demiral, S. B., &  Ferreira, F. (2011). Over-specified referential expressions impair comprehension: An ERP study. Brain and Cognition, 77, 304-314.

Ferreira, F., Apel, J., &  Henderson, J. M. (2008). Taking a new look at looking at nothing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 405-410.