Faculty Profiles

Tooley, K. M., & Dawkins, P. C. (2026). A lack of robust cross-domain structural priming effects. Memory & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-026-01901-6

Tooley, K. M., Howard, K. J., Dailey, S. L., Schmiedehaus, J. E., & Cordaro, M. M. (2026). When What We Say Isn’t What They Hear: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Quiet Quitting. Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2026.103668

Alhassan, S. W., Azim, K. A., Blanks Jones, J. L., Bielski, L. M., Butterworth, M., Campbell-Obaid, M., … Tooley, K. (2026). Caught between a rock and a hot place: How motherscholars engage in individual, collective, or other (in)actions to address climate precarity. In Mothers, Mothering, And Climate Change. Coe Hill, ON, Canada: Demeter Press. Retrieved from https://demeterpress.org/books/mothers-mothering-and-climate-change/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExZlBvN2k0MjhFWldvUk5DZXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR5aCI1Jhy08hqhTyH4N1JK7sCEKvKCF9y9FHmcG9mridfZQJ7smo4PjLM0YkA_aem_XwslTp7SK5_bGO7yht8KnA

Riley, M. L., Warnell, K. R., Clegg, J. M., Vonderharr, I., & Tooley, K. (n.d.). If I see what you see, do I say what you say? Assessing the relationship between perspective taking and linguistic alignment in monolingual and bilingual speakers. Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2026.10093

Tooley, K. M., & Brehm, L. (2025). Putting the prime in priming: Using prime processing behavior to predict target structural processing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02643-3

Tooley, K. M., Dailey, S. L., Schmiedehaus, J. E., Cordaro, M. M., Dwyer, N., Jerkins, D., & Howard, K. J. (2025). Between  class and career: Applying the job demands-resources model to working college students. Behavioral Sciences, 16(1), 61–77. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16010061

Tooley, K. (n.d.). Response to “Redefining Career.” In The MotherScholar Collective: A framework for redefining academic life. Brill Publishers. Retrieved from https://brill.com/display/title/75855?srsltid=AfmBOoqlXceFrawMgv-WnnJcsNj-8xb7VC0fbIfq2dgqF4TywxidEHwK&fbclid=IwdGRjcATYdphwZG9mAWZkaWQWULjz94AylYfK-jZHB_UQilP8C-oo4WV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR4UcRFRTuA48gNAblJfvM0Gb0ciDynsjC4R0t6xdkqiLqLT99a6l_gqG_ZJeQ_aem_fAEvMApZc0FjM97WRzXltw

Tooley, K. (2023). Structural priming during comprehension: A pattern from many pieces. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02209-7

Tooley, K. (2020). Contrasting mechanistic accounts of the lexical boost. Memory & Cognition, 48, 815–838. https://doi.org/DOI:%2010.3758/s13421-020-01019-3

Tooley, K., Pickering, M. J., & Traxler, M. J. (2019). Lexically-Mediated Syntactic Priming Effects in Comprehension: Sources of Facilitation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819834247

Tooley, K. M., Konopka, A. E., & Watson, D. G. (2018). Assessing Priming for Prosodic Representations: Speaking Rate, Intonational Phrase Boundaries, and Pitch Accenting. Memory & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-018-0789-5

Tooley, K. M., & Traxler, M. J. (2018). Implicit learning of structure occurs in parallel with lexically-mediated syntactic priming effects in sentence comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 98, 59–76. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2017.09.004

Tooley, K. M., Konopka, A. E., & Watson, D. G. (2014). Can intonational phrase structure be primed (like syntactic structure)? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(2), 348–363. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034900

Tooley, K. M., Swaab, T. Y., Boudewyn, M. A., Zirnstein, M., & Traxler, M. J. (2014). Evidence for priming across intervening sentences during on-line sentence comprehension. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 29(3), 289–311. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2013.770892

Tooley, K. M., & Bock, J. K. (2014). On the equivalence of structural priming in language comprehension and production. Cognition, 132, 101–136. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.04.002

Traxler, M. J., Tooley, K. M., & Pickering, M. J. (2014). Syntactic priming during sentence comprehension: Evidence for the lexical boost. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036377

Traxler, M. J., Johns, C. L., Long, D. L., Tooley, K. M., & Jonathan, E. (2012). Modeling individual differences in eye-movements during reading: Working memory and speed-of-processing effects. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 5(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.5.1.5

Traxler, M. J., & Tooley, K. M. (2012). Lexical and syntactic priming in language comprehension. In N. Hsu & Z. Sch_tt (Eds.), Psychology of Priming. Nova Publishers.

Tooley, K. M., & Traxler, M. J. (2011). Syntactic priming in comprehension:  A dual mechanism account. In R. Mishra & S. Narayanan (Eds.), Language-Cognition Interface: State of the Art. Lincom GmbH.

Tooley, K. M., & Traxler, M. J. (2010). Syntactic priming effects in comprehension: A critical review. Language and Linguistics Compass, 4(10), 925–937. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818x.2010.00249.x

Tooley, K., Traxler, M. J., & Swaab, T. Y. (2009). Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence of syntactic priming in sentence comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35(1), 19–45. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0013984

Johns, C. L., Tooley, K., & Traxler, M. J. (2008). Discourse impairment following right hemisphere brain damage:  A critical review. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818x.2008.00094.x

Traxler, M. J., & Tooley, K. (2008). Priming in sentence comprehension:  Strategic or syntactic? Language and Cognitive Processes, 23(5), 609–645. https://doi.org/10.1080/01690960701639898

Traxler, M. J., & Tooley, K. (2007). Lexical mediation and context effects in parsing. Brain Research, Special Issue: Mysteries of Meaning, 1146, 59–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2006.10.010