Associate Professor
Experimental - Cognitive
jfolk@kent.edu
205 Kent Hall
T: (330) 672-4095
F: (330) 672-3786
Department of Psychology
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio 44242-0001
Department of psychology 
Jocelyn R. Folk, Ph.D.
Education: Ph.D., University of South Carolina (1997)
Research Interests
Research interests include reading, spelling, and cognitive neuropsychology. My laboratory includes a dual-purkinje eyetracker to explore moment-to-moment cognitive processing during reading. Additionally, my research involves studies of neurologically impaired individuals with acquired language impairments to investigate cognitive processes and representations involved in normal language processing and how they become impaired.
Courses Frequently Taught
- Cognitive Psychology (undergraduate)
- General Psychology (undergraduate)
- Cognitive Neuroscience (undergraduate)
- Cognitive Psychology (graduate)
- Cognitive Neuropsychology (graduate)
- Reading Processes (graduate)
Recent Publications
Folk, J. R., Rapp, B, & Goldrick, M. (2002). Lexical/sublexical interaction in spelling: What's the point? Cognitive Neuropsychology 19, 653-671.
Folk, J. R., & Morris, R. K. (2003). Effects of syntactic category assignment on lexical ambiguity resolution in reading: An eye movement analysis. Memory and Cognition, 31, 87-99.
Folk, J. R., & Jones, A. C. (2004). The purpose of lexical/sublexical interaction in spelling: Evidence from dysgraphia. Neurocase, 10, 65-69.
Folk, J. R., & Rapp, B. (2004). Interaction of lexical and sublexical information in spelling: Evidence from nonword priming. Applied Psycholinguistics, 25, 565-585.
Lacruz, I., & Folk, J. R. (2004). Feedforward and feedback consistency effects for high and low frequency words in lexical decision and naming. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57(A), 1261-1284.