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Caitlin M. Fausey

Department of Psychology
Jordan Hall, Building 420
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2130

Email: cmfausey at stanford dot edu


 Education

2004 to present  Ph.D. Student, Psychology, Stanford University
2004   B.A. Psychology (with honors) and B.A. Spanish, Northwestern University
2003   NSF REU Program in Culture, Language and Cognition, Northwestern University
2002  NIH NINDS Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research


Research interests

Culture, language and cognition; causal reasoning; psychology of language; bilingualism


 Awards

2008   Centennial Teaching Award ($500), Stanford University
2008   Stanford University Research Grants, advisor to two undergraduate winners (two $5200 major research grants)
2007   Stanford University Research Grants, advisor to two undergraduate winners ($1500 travel grant; $5200 major research grant)
2007   Student Travel Award to Cognitive Science Meeting, Robert J. Glushko and Pamela Samuelson Foundation
2004   National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (3 years)
2004   James Alton James Award, Best undergraduate record in Social Sciences, Northwestern University
2004   William A. Hunt Award, Best Psychology paper, Honorable mention, Northwestern University
2004   Phi Beta Kappa
2003   Conference Travel Award, Northwestern University
2003   Conference Travel Award, NSF REU, Northwestern Univserity
2000   National Merit Scholar (4 years)

Research experience

2004 to present   Cognation Research Lab, Stanford University, P.I. Lera Boroditsky
2003 to 2004   Cognition and Language Lab, Northwestern University, P.I. Dedre Gentner
2001 to 2004   Psycholinguistics and Bilingualism Lab, Northwestern University, P.I. Viorica Marian
2002   Cognitive Neuroscience Section, NINDS, NIH, P.I. Jordan Grafman


Papers
Marian, V., & Fausey, C.M. (2006). Language-dependent memory in bilingual learning. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20(8), 1025-1047.


Conference Proceedings
Fausey, C.M., & Boroditsky, L. (2008, July). English and Spanish speakers remember causal agents differently. Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, DC.

Fausey, C.M., Snider, N., & Boroditsky, L. (2008, July). Causal priming: How a language production mechanism guides representation. Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, DC.

Fausey, C.M., Matlock, T., & Richardson, D.C. (2007, August). Agents and affordances: Listeners look for what they don’t hear. Proceedings of the 29th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, TN. (Received travel award for highly rated paper).

Fausey, C.M., Yoshida, H., Asmuth, J., & Gentner, D. (2006, July). The verb mutability effect: Noun and verb semantics in English and Japanese. Proceedings of the 28th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, BC.


Conference Talks
Fausey, C.M., & Boroditsky, L. (2008, August). Oops! Describing and remembering accidental agents in English, Spanish and Japanese. Paper presented at the International Conference on Language, Communication and Cognition, Brighton, UK.

Fausey, C.M., & Boroditsky, L. (2008, August). Speaking of accidents: Saying "He did it" invites more punishment than "It happened". Paper presented at the International Conference on Language, Communication and Cognition, Brighton, UK.

Matlock, T., Cargill, S., Fausey, C.M., & Spivey, M.J. (2008, August). On the path to understanding the dynamics of aspect. Paper presented at the International Conference on Language, Communication and Cognition, Brighton, UK.

Fausey, C.M., & Boroditsky, L. (2008, July). English and Spanish speakers remember causal agents differently. Paper presented at the 30th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, DC.

Matlock, T., Fausey, C.M., Cargill, S., & Spivey, M.J. (2007, November). On the path toward understanding the dynamics of aspect in descriptions of motion events. Paper presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

Matlock, T., Cargill, S., Fausey, C.M., & Spivey, M.J. (2007, August). The influence of linguistic aspect on motion trajectories: On the path to understanding the dynamics of perceptual simulation. Paper presented at the Workshop ESP07 Embodied Sentence Processing, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany.

Fausey, C.M., Matlock, T., & Richardson, D.C. (2007, August). Agents and affordances: Listeners look for what they don’t hear. Proceedings of the 29th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, TN. (Received travel award for highly rated paper).

Fausey, C.M., & Boroditsky, L. (2007, May). Who did it?: Agentive language and agentive memory in Spanish and English. Paper presented at the 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Hamburg, Germany.

Fausey, C.M., Yoshida, H., Asmuth, J., & Gentner, D. (2006, July). The verb mutability effect: Noun and verb semantics in English and Japanese. Proceedings of the 28th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, BC.

Marian, V., Kaushanskaya, M., & Fausey, C.M. (2003, April). Autobiographical narratives and the self in bicultural bilinguals. Paper presented at the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Tempe, AZ.

Marian, V., Fausey, C.M., & Kaushanskaya, M. (2003, May). Language-mediated emotion and self-construal in bilinguals. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.


Conference Posters
Fausey, C.M., Snider, N., & Boroditsky, L. (2008, July). Causal priming: How a language production mechanism guides representation. Poster presented at the 30th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, DC.

Flusberg, S.J., Fausey, C.M., & Boroditsky, L. (2008, July). Language affects the side effect effect. Poster presented at the 30th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, DC.

Fausey, C.M., & Boroditsky, L. (2007, August). Language changes causal attributions about agents and objects. Poster presented at the 29th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, TN, USA.

Fausey, C.M., & Boroditsky, L. (2006, July). Linguistic contributions to reasoning about causal agents. Poster presented at the 28th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Vancouver, BC.

Fausey, C.M., & Boroditsky, L. (2005, June). The linguistic encoding of agents and accidentality. Poster presented at Words and the World: How Words Capture Human Experience, Lehigh, PA, USA.

Fausey, C.M., & Marian, V. (2005, March). Language and memory in bilingual learning. Poster presented at the 5th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Barcelona, Spain.

Marian, V., & Fausey, C.M. (2004, April). Learning in Spanish and English: Language-dependent memory in bilinguals. Poster presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education in Latin America, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Marian, V., & Fausey, C.M. (2004, May). Language and learning in bilinguals. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Marian, V., Blumenfeld, H., Garstecki, D., Kaushanskaya, M., Fausey, C.M., & Lu, D. (2003, May). Developing a tool for assessing Language Experience and Bilingual Status. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.


Invited talks: Research

2008, April.  Stanford-Berkeley Cognitive Talks, University of California, Berkeley.
2008, April. SPLaT!, Stanford Psychology and Language Tea, Stanford University.
2008, March. Semantics Fest, Linguistics Department, Stanford University.
2007, February.   Friday Cognitive Seminar, Psychology Department, Stanford University.
2007, January.  UnUsual Events Fest, Linguistics Department, Stanford University.
2006, April.  Stanford-Berkeley Cognitive Talks, University of California, Berkeley.
2005, June.  Friday Cognitive Seminar, Psychology Department, Stanford University.
Invited talks: Lectures

2008, April.  Graduate student workshop series, Psychology Department, Stanford University.
2008, March.  Presentation to teaching staff of Bing Nursery school, Stanford University.
2007, April.  Presentation to teaching staff of Bing Nursery school, Stanford University.
2007, March.  Guest lecture, undergraduate course in Cognitive Psychology, Stanford University
2007, March.  Guest lecture, undergraduate course in Linguistics, University of California, Merced.
2007, February.   Guest lecture, graduate course in psychology Research Methods, Stanford University.
2005, October.   Guest lecture, undergraduate Psychology Research Seminar, Stanford University.
2005, June.   Guest lecture, undergraduate course in Cognitive Psychology, Stanford University.

Teaching

2008, Summer.   Cognitive Psychology (undergraduate), Co-instructor (with Adam November and Alexia Toskos).
2007, Fall.   Statistics for Social Sciences (undergraduate), Head TA.
2007, Summer.   Statistics for Linguists B, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, TA.
2007, Summer.   Statistics for Linguists A, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, TA.
2007, Winter.  Introduction to Cognition and the Brain (undergraduate), TA.
2006, Fall.  Statistical Methods for Behavioral and Social Sciences (graduate), TA.
2006, Summer.  People Talk: The Psychology of Language and Communication (undergraduate), Co-instructor (with Kirsten Thorpe).
2005, Fall.   Statistical Methods for Behavioral and Social Sciences (graduate), TA.


Service
2007-2008
Psychology Department Space Committee, Stanford University
Advisor to four undergraduate psychology students, Stanford University

2006-2007
Co-organized Friday Cognitive Seminar talk series, Stanford University
Cognitive Psychology Faculty Search Committee, Stanford University
Psychology Department Space Committee, Stanford University
Advisor to five undergraduate psychology students, Stanford University

2005-2006
Co-organized Stanford-Berkeley Cognitive Psychology Conference
Cognitive Psychology Graduate Admissions Committee, Stanford University

2004-2005
Cognitive Psychology Graduate Admissions Committee, Stanford University