Publications
Research Interests
My research investigates comprehension of language, semantic memory processes, and attentional limits related to cognitive resource demands. I am particularly focused on how brain injury disrupts these comprehension processes.
I direct an active research program in my Cognitive Science lab at Chapman University, which provides many students with first-hand experience in psychological research activities and supports student-based research projects.
[* indicates peer-reviewed publication, underlined are current or former students]
My research investigates comprehension of language, semantic memory processes, and attentional limits related to cognitive resource demands. I am particularly focused on how brain injury disrupts these comprehension processes.
I direct an active research program in my Cognitive Science lab at Chapman University, which provides many students with first-hand experience in psychological research activities and supports student-based research projects.
[* indicates peer-reviewed publication, underlined are current or former students]
Recent Peer Reviewed Publications:
Conferences and Presentations
Scholarly Work in Progress
Shears, C., Ariza, A., Bond, M., Sam, E., Cohen, A & Smith, M. (2015). Connecting cause to feelings: A search for knowledge-based inferences from emotional language. (Manuscript in submission.)
Shears, C., Ariza, A., Sam, E., Ung, S., and Head, J. (2015). Emotional Balance: Inferences in the Left and Right Hemispheres.
(Manuscript in submission.)
- *Shears, C. and Gauvain, M. (2015a). Acquired Brain Injury Results in Specific Impairment of Planning Knowledge. Brain Impairment, 16 (1), 1-18.
- *Shears, C. and Gauvain, M. (2015b). Mapping High vs Low Planning Knowledge in Survivors of Brain Injury. Brain Impairment, 16, (1), 1-7.
- *Head, J., Wilson, K.M., Helton, W. S., Neumann, E., Shears, C., (2013). Right hemisphere prefrontal cortical involvement in text-speak processing. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 57, 379 - 383.
- *Head, J., Shears, C., Neumann, E., & Helton, W. S. (2013). Novel word processing. American Journal of Psychology, 126 (3), 323-333.
- *Head, J. R., Neumann, E., Russell, P., Helton, W. S., Shears, C. (2013). New Zealand text-speak word norms and masked priming effects. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 42 (2)5-16.
Conferences and Presentations
- Shears, C., Smith, M., Amirazizi, S., Ariza, A., Bond, M., Cohen, A. To type or to talk? That is the question. (2015). Poster presented at Psychonomics Society Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
- Shears, C., Ariza, A., Kim, J., Sam, E. (2015). Emotional Balance: Inferences in the Left and Right Hemispheres Poster presented at The Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
- Ariza, A., Shears, C., Bond, M., Lam, M., Sam, E., Cohen, A. (2015). Why doesn’t Negative Behave? Inferences from emotional language. Poster presented at The Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
- Cohen, A., Shears, C., Ariza, A., Bond, M., Sam, E., Smith, M. (2015). Individual Differences in Processing Emotional Language: or how you feel influences how you comprehend. Poster presented at The Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
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Shears, C., Ariza, A., Sam, E., Kim, J., Bond, M. (2014). Insights into Inferencing: Quantifying Thinking. Poster presented for Psychonomics Society Annual Conference, Long Beach, California. - Ariza, A. and Shears, C. (2014). Do you quit? Resilience in First Generation College Students.
Poster presented at Psychonomics Society Annual Conference, Long Beach, California.
Scholarly Work in Progress
Shears, C., Ariza, A., Bond, M., Sam, E., Cohen, A & Smith, M. (2015). Connecting cause to feelings: A search for knowledge-based inferences from emotional language. (Manuscript in submission.)
Shears, C., Ariza, A., Sam, E., Ung, S., and Head, J. (2015). Emotional Balance: Inferences in the Left and Right Hemispheres.
(Manuscript in submission.)