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Zenzi M. Griffin, Ph.D.
Professor

Email: griffinz@psy.utexas.edu Phone: 232-8062 Office: SEA 5.214 Griffin Web Site See also Cognition

Zenzi M. Griffin received a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (with a minor in Linguistics) from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1998. There she worked with Dr. Kathryn Bock and Dr. Gary Dell, before spending three years as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. Dr. Griffin moved to the School of Psychology at Georgia Tech in the summer of 2001 and was promoted to associate professor in 2005. In 2008, she became a professor in the Department of Psychology at UT Austin.

Dr. Griffin studies how people express thoughts or messages as spoken words. She is particularly concerned with how messages are mapped onto words and phrases and the way that speakers manage the timing of word retrieval and articulating speech.

Courses Taught:

PSY 418: Statistics and Methods

PSY 394U Human language processing

Recent Publications

Arnold, J. E., & Griffin, Z. M. (2007). The effect of additional characters on choice of referring expression: Everyone counts. Journal of Memory and Language, 56, 521–536.

Griffin, Z. M., & Ferreira, V. S. (2006). Properties of Spoken Language Production. In M. J. Traxler & M. A. Gernsbacher (Eds.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics (2nd ed., pp. 21-59). London, England: Elsevier.

Griffin, Z. M. (2004). Why look? Reasons for eye movements related to language production. In J. Henderson & F. Ferreira, (Eds.), The Interface of Language, Vision, and Action (pp. 213-247). New York: Taylor and Francis.

Griffin, Z. M., & Weinstein-Tull, J. (2003). Conceptual structure modulates structural priming in complex sentences. Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 537-555.

Griffin, Z. M. (2003). A reversed word length effect in coordinating the preparation and articulation of words in speaking. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 10, 603-609.

Griffin, Z. M. (2001). Gaze durations during speech reflect word selection and phonological encoding. Cognition, 82, B1-B14.

Griffin, Z. M., & Bock, K. (2000). What the eyes say about speaking. Psychological Science, 11, 274-279.