Dr Todd M Bailey - BSc MA Phd University of Minnesota
Overview
Research Group:
Learning & Development
Location: Tower Building, Park Place
Email: BaileyTM1@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)29 2087 5375
Research Summary
My research interests include language processing, phonological and lexical development, and category learning. My research includes experimental studies and mathematical models of people's perception of similarity relationships, and of their ability to generalize knowledge acquired by limited experience to interpret and produce novel patterns.
How do English speakers decide whether novel words like pokami should be pronounced POkami, poKAmi, or pokaMI? Which pair sounds more similar, dog-cog or dog-dot, and why? When people encounter new objects and learn that this is a dax and that is a neem, how do they decide whether a third item is a dax or a neem? These are some of the questions my research addresses.
Research Group: Learning & Development
Teaching Summary
Levels 1 and 2: I am a Level I Coordinator and Exam Board Convenor. I teach on PS1015 Practical Psychology, developing students’ skills in analyzing data with SPSS and displaying results graphically in MS Excel. I coordinate and teach on PS2015 Cognitive Psychology I, covering various topics in the Psychology of Language.
Level 3: I coordinate and teach on PS3307 Language Development, including phonological development, conversation, bilingualism, and Specific Language Impairment. I supervise projects on categorization and language processing.
I am also the School’s Disability Contact for students.
Selected Publications (2008 onwards)
2013
Tomlinson, J. M., Bailey, T. M. and Bott, L.
(2013).
Possibly all of that and then some: Scalar implicatures are understood in two steps. Journal of Memory and Language, 89(1), 18-35.
(10.1016/j.jml.2013.02.003)
2012
Bott, L., Bailey, T. M. and Grodner, D.
(2012).
Distinguishing speed from accuracy in scalar implicatures. Journal of Memory and Language, 66(1), 123-142.
(10.1016/j.jml.2011.09.005)
2011
Pothos, E. M., Perlman, A., Bailey, T. M., Kurtz, K., Edwards, D. J., Hines, P. and McDonnell, J. V. (2011). Measuring category intuitiveness in unconstrained categorization tasks. Cognition, 121(1), 83-100. (10.1016/j.cognition.2011.06.002)
2009
Pothos, E. and Bailey, T. M. (2009). Predicting category intuitiveness with the rational model, the simplicity model, and the generalized context model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35(4), 1062-1080. (10.1037/a0015903)
2008
Bailey, T. M. and Pothos, E. M. (2008). AGL StimSelect: Software for automated selection of stimuli for artificial grammar learning. Behavior Research Methods, 40(1), 164-176. (10.3758/BRM.40.1.164 )
Publications
Online Publications
Online information about my publications can be obtained via Google Scholar or ResearcherID:
Full List of Publications
2013
Tomlinson, J. M., Bailey, T. M. and Bott, L.
(2013).
Possibly all of that and then some: Scalar implicatures are understood in two steps. Journal of Memory and Language, 89(1), 18-35.
(10.1016/j.jml.2013.02.003)
2012
Bott, L., Bailey, T. M. and Grodner, D.
(2012).
Distinguishing speed from accuracy in scalar implicatures. Journal of Memory and Language, 66(1), 123-142.
(10.1016/j.jml.2011.09.005)
2011
Pothos, E. M., Perlman, A., Bailey, T. M., Kurtz, K., Edwards, D. J., Hines, P. and McDonnell, J. V. (2011). Measuring category intuitiveness in unconstrained categorization tasks. Cognition, 121(1), 83-100. (10.1016/j.cognition.2011.06.002)
2009
Pothos, E. and Bailey, T. M. (2009). Predicting category intuitiveness with the rational model, the simplicity model, and the generalized context model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35(4), 1062-1080. (10.1037/a0015903)
2008
Bailey, T. M. and Pothos, E. M. (2008). AGL StimSelect: Software for automated selection of stimuli for artificial grammar learning. Behavior Research Methods, 40(1), 164-176. (10.3758/BRM.40.1.164 )
2005
Bailey, T. M. and Hahn, U. (2005). Phoneme similarity and confusability. Journal of Memory and Language, 52(3), 339-362. (10.1016/j.jml.2004.12.003)
Bailey, T. M. (2005). Rules work on one representation; similarity compares two representations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(1), 16.
Hahn, U., Bailey, T. M. and Elvin, L. B. C. (2005). Effects of category diversity on learning, memory, and generalization. Memory and Cognition, 33(2), 289-302.
Hahn, U. and Bailey, T. M. (2005). What makes words sound similar?. Cognition, 97(3), 227-267. (10.1016/j.cognition.2004.09.006)
2002
Bailey, T. M. and Plunkett, K. (2002). Phonological specificity in early words. Cognitive Development, 17, 1265-1282. (10.1016/S0885-2014(02)00116-8)
2001
Bailey, T. M. and Hahn, U. (2001). Determinants of wordlikeness: Phonotactics or lexical neighborhoods?. Journal of Memory and Language, 44(4), 568-591. (10.1006/jmla.2000.2756)
2000
Pothos, E. M. and Bailey, T. M. (2000). The role of similarity in artificial grammar learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26(4), 847-862. (10.1037//0278-7393.26.4.847)
1999
Bailey, T. M., Plunkett, K. and Scarpa, E. (1999). A cross-linguistic study in learning prosodic rhythms: rules, constraints, and similarity. Language and Speech, 42(1), 1-38. (10.1177/00238309990420010101)
1998
Bailey, T. M. and Hahn, U. (1998). Determinants of Wordlikeness. Presented at: Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI, USA, 1-4 August 1998.
Hahn, U., Nakisa, R. C., Bailey, T. M., Holmes, M., Kemp, D. and Palmer, L. (1998). Experimental evidence against the dual-route account of inflectional morphology. Presented at: Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI, USA, 1-4 August 1998.
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Research
Research Topics and Related Papers
AGL StimSelect. Bailey, T. M., & Pothos, E. M. (2008). AGL StimSelect: Software for automated selection of stimuli for artificial grammar. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 164-176. [zip to download v0.6c]
Stress System Database. The Stress System Database currently contains information on the patterns of primary (word) stress in nearly 200 languages.
Meta-Analysis Tools. EffectSize Calculator Converter is an MS Excel workbook that computes standard effect size measures from a variety of statistics that are commonly reported in clinical trials.
ForestPlot Tool is an MS Excel workbook that produces a forest plot showing results from individual studies included in a meta-analysis, combined with meta-analytic results.
Both meta-analysis tools are available for download.
Funding
Economic and Social Research Council, UK (end 2012). “The time course of inferences in language comprehension” (Bott, Bailey, Grodner).
British Academy (end 2011). ). “Brain activity and speech perception in Welsh/English bilingual infants” (Mills, Bailey).
Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (end 2010). “Language experience and the perception of phonologically similar words in monolingual and bilingual toddlers: an ERP study” (Mills, Bailey, Mennen).
Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (end 2010). “Understanding temporal order in language processing” (Bott, Bailey, Wilding, Thierry).
Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (end 2010). “Perceptual and representation-based contributions to priming of word recognition” (Boehm, Bailey).
Research Collaborations
Emmanuel Pothos (City University, London)
Lewis Bott (Psychology, Cardiff University)
Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck, University of London)
Teresa Scantamburlo (Ca' Foscari University, Venice)
Postgraduate Students
Postgraduate Research Interests
My research interests include language processing, phonological and lexical development, and category learning. My research includes experimental studies and mathematical models of people's perception of similarity relationships, and of their ability to apply knowledge acquired by limited experience to interpret and produce novel patterns.
If you are interested in applying for a PhD, or for further information regarding my postgraduate research, please contact me directly (contact details available on the 'Overview' page), or submit a formal application here.
Biography
Undergraduate Education
I received my undergraduate degree (BSc Computer Science with Distinction) from the University of Minnesota, USA, in 1983. I subsequently developed computer-aided engineering instruments at Hewlett-Packard in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
Postgraduate Education
I studied linguistics and cognitive science at the University of Minnesota from 1989 under the supervision of Professor Joseph Stemberger, and obtained an MA in 1993 and a PhD in 1995. During this time I was affiliated with the Center for Research in Learning, Perception and Cognition, and I enjoyed a Graduate Traineeship sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (1993-94). My thesis examined patterns of primary word stress across many languages and considered the mental representations required to learn and generalize various attested patterns and accommodate lexical exceptions. I also achieved a certificate in Spanish language proficiency.
Employment
worked with Professor Kim Plunkett in the McDonnell-Pew Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University from 1996 to 2000, studying phonological and lexical development in very young children. Establishing collaborations with Ulrike Hahn and Emmanuel Pothos, I also broadened my interest in categorisation and developed an interest in what it means for things to seem similar.
I took up my current post at Cardiff University in 2000. Lewis Bott and I have recently obtained research council funding to examine the time course of understanding literal and non-literal sentence meanings. Also, the Welsh Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience has helped to identify possibilities for collaboration with colleagues in Bangor, resulting in WICN grants to look at brain activity associated with phonological processing in monolingual and bilingual children (with Debbie Mills), to study memory for words using repetition priming (with Stephen Boehm), and to examine brain activity evoked by sentences describing the temporal order of events (with Lewis Bott, Ed Wilding, and Guillaume Thierry).