Degrees: PHD, 2005, SUNY Binghamton; MA, 2003, SUNY Binghamton; BA, 2000, Lehigh Univ

Bio:

Dr. Brianna M. Eiter is an Assistant Professor of Psychology with primary responsibilities in the B.A. program. She received her doctoral degree in cognitive psychology from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2005. Dr. Eiter teaches courses in cognitive and perceptual psychology as well as research methods in psychology. Her primary research interest is in the psychology of reading. She is particularly interested in how readers use sound during the processing of visual information. To this end, she uses a combination of visual word recognition and online reading tasks as a means of uncovering the timeline of sound activation and use during reading.

Dr. Eiter's published works include investigations related to phonological activation in adult readers. She has also been involved in studies that investigated the use of different aspects of text, such as word length and transitional probability during visual word identification. Her goal as a researcher is to determine the means with which readers process visual information most effectively. Dr. Eiter's work has been published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Psychological Research, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. She is an associate member of the Psychonomic Society, the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, and the American Psychological Society.