Dr. Kristen Tooley

  • Associate Professor at Psychology, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • Tooley, K. M., & Brehm, L. (n.d.). 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

2023

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

2020

  • Tooley, K. (2020). Contrasting mechanistic accounts of the lexical boost. Memory & Cognition, 48, 815–838. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.3758/s13421-020-01019-3

2019

  • Tooley, K., Pickering, M., & Traxler, M. (2019). Lexically-Mediated Syntactic Priming Effects in Comprehension: Sources of Facilitation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

2018

  • 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.
  • 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

2014

  • Tooley, K. M., Konopka, A. E., & Watson, D. G. (2014). Can prosodic structure be primed (like syntactic structure)? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(2), 348–363.
  • Tooley, K. M., Swaab, T. Y., Boudewyn, M., 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.
  • Tooley, K. M., & Bock, J. K. (2014). On the equivalence of structural priming in language comprehension and production. Cognition, 132, 101–136.
  • 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.

2012

  • Traxler, M. J., Long, D. L., Johns, C. L., & Tooley, K. M. (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.
  • 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.

2010

  • Tooley, K. M., & Traxler, M. J. (2010). Syntactic priming effects in comprehension: A critical review. Language and Linguistics Compass, 4(10), 925–937.
  • Tooley, K. M., & Traxler, M. J. (2010). Syntactic priming in comprehension:  A dual mechanism account. In R. Mishra & S. Narayanan (Eds.), Language-Cognition Interface: State of the Art. Lincom GmbH.

2009

  • Johns, C. L., Tooley, K., & Traxler, M. J. (2009). Discourse impairment following right hemisphere brain damage:  A critical review. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2.
  • 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.

2008

  • Traxler, M. J., & Tooley, K. (2008). riming in sentence comprehension:  Strategic or syntactic? Language and Cognitive Processes, 23(5), 609–645.

2007

  • Traxler, M. J., & Tooley, K. (2007). Lexical mediation and context effects in parsing. Brain Research, Special Issue: Mysteries of Meaning, 1146, 59–74.