Professor Gagnon enjoys sharing her enthusiasm for psychology and revealing its relevance to each student's life in her classroom. In her primary research in cognitive psychology, she evaluates questions related to the comprehension and production of language. As a teacher, she strives to instill a sense of awe for basic cognitive processes that are often taken for granted, reveal intriguing cross-disciplinary interconnections, provide students with the tools of inquiry to study psychological questions, and explore the ways in which both the content and the method of psychology can be of personal relevance.

Education:
1986     B.A. University at Buffalo, Psychology
1993     Ph.D. University at Buffalo, Cognitive Psychology

Select Publications:
Schwartz, M.F., Wilshire, C., Gagnon, D.A., and Polansky, M. "Origins of nonword phonological errors in aphasic picture naming." Cognitive Neurospychology (Special issue in tribute to Professor Eleanor M. Saffran) 21 (2004): 159-86.

Gagnon, D.A. & Martin, N. Connectionist approaches to diagnosis, prognosis, and remediation of acquired naming disorders. Connectionist accounts of normal and disordered language: A clinical perspective. Hillsdale, NJ: Erbaum, 2002.

Gagnon, D.A., Schwartz, M.F., Martin, N., Dell, G.S., & Saffran, E.M.
(1997). “The origins of formal paraphasias in aphasics’ picture naming.” Brain and Language, 1997.

Courses Taught:
General Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Sensation and Perception
Biological Bases of Behavior
Methodological Perspectives in Psychology
Child Cognitive Development
Neuropsychology
Quantitative Research Methods in Psychology
Perception, Art, Culture, and Experience
Positive Psychology
Cognition & Culture

Last updated: 04/13/2007