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Sunfa Kim, Ph.D.

 

Postdoctoral research associate

 

Department of Psychology

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Buffalo, NY  14260-1030    U.S.A.

 

Office

363 Park Hall

North Campus

Email: sunfakim at buffalo dot edu

 

Research Interests

Language comprehension in monolingual and bilingual speakers

Language production in bilingual speakers

Spoken word recognition

 

           

Presentations

 

Invited Talks

2011    Center for Brain Science of Language Acquisition and Language Learning, University of

Hiroshima, November 11, 2011.

 

2010    Center for Cognitive Science, Fall 2010 Colloquia, The State University of New York at Buffalo, December 8, 2010.

 

Conference Posters

Kim, S., Mauner, G., & Koenig, J.-P. (2010). Shared mapping between concepts and functional

assignment across languages facilitates L2 production.  Poster presented at the 51st annual

Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.

 

Kim, S., Mauner, G., & Koenig, J.-P. (2009). Structural priming within a second language (L2)

– Do word order differences across languages or the absence of a structural alternation in a first

language (L1) matter? Poster presented at the 22nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human

Sentence Processing, Davis, CA.

 

Kim, S., & Luce, P. A. (2008). Perceptual learning of specificity vs. abstractness in spoken word

recognition. Poster presented at the 6th international conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff,

Alberta, Canada.

 

Kim, S., Mauner, G., & Koenig, J.-P. (2008). Verb repetition is not required for structural

priming in L2 English production in Japanese-English bilinguals. Poster presented at the 14th

Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Cambridge,

UK.

 

Kim, S., Mauner, G., & Koenig, J.-P. (2007). What is contingent about contingency learning?:

Evidence from structural priming in comprehension. Poster presented at the 20th Annual CUNY

Conference on Human Sentence Processing, La Jolla, CA.

 

Kim, S., & Mauner, G. (2006). Priming vs. Contingency Learning Accounts of Structural

Priming Effects in Comprehension. Poster presented at the 19th annual CUNY conference on

Human Sentence Processing. New York, NY.

 

 

Teaching

2012                            Psychology 341: Cognitive Psychology

                                    Psychology 445: Memory

 

2011                            Psychology 341: Cognitive Psychology

 

2007 – 2009                Psychology 250: Scientific Inquiry