Iris Berent

Iris Berent
Academic background
Education
Doctoral advisorCharles Perfetti
Academic work
DisciplineCognitive psychology
Institutions
Websiteweb.northeastern.edu/berentlab/people/pi/

Iris Berent is an Israeli-American cognitive psychologist. She is a Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University and the director of the Language and Mind Lab. She is among the founders of experimental phonology—a field that uses the methods of experimental psychology and neuroscience to study phonological competence.[1][2][3] She has also explored the role of phonological competence in reading ability[4][5] and dyslexia.[6][7][8] Her recent work has examined how laypeople reason about innate knowledge,[9][10] such as universal grammar.[11][12]

  1. ^ Berent, I. and J. Shimron, Co-occurrence restrictions on identical consonants in the Hebrew lexicon : Are they due to similarity? Journal of Linguistics, 2003. 39(1): p. 31-55.
  2. ^ Everett, D.L. and I. Berent, An Experimental Approach to the OCP: Evidence for Violable Identity Constraints in Hebrew Roots. Rutgers Optimality Archive, 1999: p. Available  http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/roa.html (ROA-235).
  3. ^ Berent, I. and J. Shimron, The representation of Hebrew words: Evidence from the Obligatory Contour Principle. Cognition, 1997. 64: p. 39-72.
  4. ^ Berent, I., Phonological effects in the lexical decision task: Regularity effects are not necessary evidence for assembly. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1997. 23: p. 1727-1742.
  5. ^ Berent, Iris; Perfetti, Charles A. (1995). "A rose is a REEZ: The two-cycles model of phonology assembly in reading English" (PDF). Psychological Review. 102 (1): 146–184. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.102.1.146. ISSN 1939-1471.
  6. ^ Berent, I., X. Zhao, E. Balaban, and A.M. Galaburda, Phonology and phonetics dissociate in dyslexia: Evidence from adult English speakers. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2016. 31(9): p. 1178-1192
  7. ^ Berent, I., V. Vaknin-Nusbaum, E. Balaban, and A. Galaburda, Phonological generalizations in dyslexia: the phonological grammar may not be impaired. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 2013. 30(15): p. 285-310.
  8. ^ Berent, I., V. Vaknin-Nusbaum, E. Balaban, and A. Galaburda, M, Dyslexia impairs speech recognition but can spare phonological competence. PLoS ONE, 2012. 7(9): p. e44875.
  9. ^ Berent, I., The blind storyteller: how we reason about human nature. in press: Oxford University Press.
  10. ^ Berent, I., M. Platt, and G.M. Sandoboe, People’s intuitions about innateness. Open Mind: Discoveries in CognitiveScience, 2019.
  11. ^ Prince, A. and P. Smolensky, Optimality theory: Constraint interaction in generative grammar. 1993/2004, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
  12. ^ Chomsky, N., Language and mind. 1968, New York: New York, Harcourt, Brace & World.