Craig Chambers

Craig Chambers

Associate Professor

office: 905-569-4279, CCT Building room 4061
email: craig [DOT] chambers [AT] utoronto.ca

Language and Action Laboratory Website
Human Communication Group Website

Area of Research
Cognitive Science, Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition

Profile
When people speak, they strike a balance between information conveyed with language and information conveyed in other ways, e.g., through gestures, intonation, and the environment where conversation is taking place. Listeners, in turn, must draw on all these information sources to understand what the speaker means. The goal of research in my laboratory is to understand the mental components that underlie this comprehension process. Recently, we have been investigating how the real-time understanding of spoken language is influenced by aspects of action planning. This research uses a technique in which eye movements are recorded as listeners follow instructions to manipulate objects in a visual workspace. [more]

Courses Taught
PSY274 Introduction to the Psychology of Human Communication
PSY315 Language Acquisition
PSY376 Psychology of Bilingualism
PSY474 Special Topics in Human Communication
PSY5220 (Graduate) Advanced Topics in Cognition: Language