Jessamy Norton-Ford

Doctoral Candidate, Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine

  • Advisor: Jon Sprouse
    • Ph.D., Psychology, (expected graduation date: 2014)
    • M.A., Psychology, June 2010
      • Thesis: Sensitivity of the gamma band auditory steady state response to linguistic features of a stimulus.

Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Advisor: Jaye Padgett
    • M.A., Linguistics, June 2007
      • Thesis: Focus and Pitch Accent in English.
    • B.A., Linguistics, June 2004

Additional Training

  • Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of California, Santa Barbara, Summer 2009
    • Two-week seminar in cognitive neuroscience research; concurrent training in imaging techniques.
  • 12th annual EEGLAB workshop, University of California, San Diego, Nov 2010
    • Four-day workshop in EEG analysis techniques using EEGLAB

Technical Skills

  • Programs & Statistical Packages
    • Fluent in: Matlab, FieldTrip, Latex, Presentation, Praat
    • Comfortable with: EEGLAB, Unix, PERL, HTML, R, Winbugs
  • EEG/ERP Equipment
    • ASA-Lab EEG/ERP system 128-channel sponge-based HydroCel Geodesic sensor net (EGI) 32-channel Waveguard electrode cap (ANT)Cedrus StimTracker
  • Signal-processing techniques
    • ICA/PCA, Wavelet analysis, Phase-coherence analysis s

Relevant Course Work

    Statistical and Computational Cognitive Science Course Work: 1 year of Mathematical Statistics including Design of Experiments; Multivariate Time Series Analysis; Introduction & Advanced Bayesian Cognitive Modeling. Computational Course Work: Computational Methods: MATLAB; Experiments in MATLAB; Computational Methods in Language Science Research (in PERL). Cognitive Science Course Work: Learning, Memory and Knowledge Organization; Decision-Making and Problem Solving. Psycholinguistic/Neurolinguistic Course Work: Sentence Processing; Experimental Syntax; Lexical Access; Semantic Organization in the Brain; Neuroscience of Language.