ANNE COOK
(she/her)
Professor
Educational Psychology
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research focuses on the cognitive processes involved in adult reading comprehension. This research is grounded in theories of memory retrieval, in that basic memory processes can be used to explain complex phenomena that occur during reading. Phenomena investigated in my lab include reactivation and validation of text contents, the role of general world knowledge in comprehension, inference generation, conceptual components of word processing, and figurative language comprehension.