Phillip Hamrick

Graduate Area: 

• Psychological Science - Cognitive

Does Dr. Hamrick plan to recruit a doctoral student for the next incoming class?

Research Interests

My research encompasses the domains of psycholinguistics and the psychology of learning and memory. Broadly, I research whether and how general learning and memory mechanisms underpin various aspects of language. I focus on declarative and procedural memory as well as explicit and implicit/statistical learning. I am most fascinated by the role of declarative memory in second language learning and bilingualism. I also have interests in other topics such as semantics of words and emoji, nostalgia, and music cognition.

Lab Site:

Memory and Language Laboratory

Courses Frequently Taught

• Quantitative Methods in Psychology II

Publications:

• Hamrick, P., Zhang, Y., & Was, C.A. (2024). Do verbal and nonverbal declarative memory tasks in second language research measure the same abilities? Studies in Second Language Acquisition.
• Hamrick, P., Byrnes, D., & Was, C.A. (in press). Implicit learning of melodic structure: A role for pitch? Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain.
• Burke, E., Gunstad, J., & Hamrick, P. (2023). Comparing global and local semantic coherence of spontaneous speech in persons with Alzheimer's disease and healthy controls. Applied Corpus Linguistics.
• Burke, E., Gunstad, J.,  Pavlenko, O.,  & Hamrick, P. (2023). Distinguishable features of spontaneous speech in Alzheimer's disease and healthy controls. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition.
• Morgan-Short, K., Hamrick, P., & Ullman, M.T. (2022). Declarative and procedural memory as predictors of second language development. Routledge handbook of SLA and individual differences.
• Zhang, Y., Ridchenko, M., Hayashi, A., & Hamrick, P. (2021). Episodic memory also predicts higher proficiency second language lexical abilities. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
• Murphy, J., Miller, R., & Hamrick, P. (2021). Contributions of declarative memory and prior knowledge to L2 word learning. The Mental Lexicon.
• Was, C.A., & Hamrick, P. (2021). What did they mean by that?: Young adults’ interpretations of 105 emojis. Frontiers in Psychology.
• Hamrick, P. & *Pandza, N.B. (2020). Contributions of semantic and contextual diversity to the word frequency effect in L2 lexical access. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology.
• Hamrick, P., Graff, C., & Finch, B. (2020). Contributions of episodic memory to novel word learning. The Mental Lexicon.
• Hamrick, P., Lum, J.A.G., & Ullman, M.T. (2018). Child first language and adult second language are both tied to general-purpose learning systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences​.​
• Hamrick, P. (2015). Declarative and procedural memory as individual differences in incidental language learning. Learning and Individual Differences.