Fraser Bleasdale
Associate Professor

Research interests:

My main research interests are in the area of cognition, and concern word and sentence comprehension,

as well as recognition, memory and comprehension processes in both uni- and bilinguals. This research

most often involves computer-based studies using lexical decision, naming, free association and free

recall tasks. A second area of interest is in the interplay of cognition and emotion, including the appraisal,

identification, and expression of emotion and its relationship to variables such as music training and

bilingualism. Typically this work involves the administration of a battery of tests, followed by multivariate analyses.

Teaching

PSYC 3430H-A FA PTBO:        Memory

PSYC 2400H-A WI PTBO:       Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

Selected publications

Bleasdale, F. A. (1987). Concreteness-dependent associative priming:Separate lexical organization for concrete

  and abstract words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 13, 582-594.