Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Office
Room 250
Burrowes Building
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Postdoctoral Fellow- ISLab (PI: Giuli Dussias)
Department of Psychology
Pennsylvania State University (PSU)
Postdoctoral Fellow-SoundLab (PI: Matt Goldrick)
Department of Linguistics
Northwestern University (NU)
EDUCATION
The Pennsylvania State University (PSU)- University Park, PA
May 2015
April 2007
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant Neuroethology (PSU)
Assistant for an upper division Psychology class, graded assignments,
managed course web site, and held office hours.
Teaching Assistant Psychology of Language (PSU)
Assistant for an upper division Psychology class, graded assignments,
managed course web site, held office hours, and led review sessions.
Teaching Assistant Language and Thought (PSU)
Assistant for an upper division Psychology class, led discussion for one
lecture on Alzheimers disease and language
Instructor
Psychology of Language (PSU)
Fall 2008
Spring 2009
Fall 2012
Spring 2013
Fall 2014
Fall 2015
Spring 2016
Fall 2011
Summer 2010
TECHNICAL/LANGUAGE SKILLS
EEGLAB
E-Prime
Matlab
Moderate Proficiency
Advanced Proficiency
Beginner Proficiency
Advanced Proficiency
Moderate Proficiency
Moderate Proficiency
Preparation
September-December 2015
January-April 2016
https://youtu.be/SBBGwLdLRC0
https://youtu.be/___qtxakxfo
Northwestern University
Phonatics Discussion Group Coordinator
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Group (NUIN) Postdoc Affairs Committee
York.
McClain, R., Guo, T., Chen, B., & Kroll, J.F. (2011, November). What ERPs tell us about asymmetries in crosslanguage translation. Poster presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle,
Washington.
McClain, R., Kroll, J. F., Guo, T., & Chen, B. (2011, June). What distracting information tells us about bilingual
speech planning: Evidence for asymmetries in translation. Paper presented at the 8th International
Symposium on Bilingualism, Oslo, Norway.
McClain, R., & Kroll, J. F. (2011, January). Ice in my eye: What distracting information tells us about how
bilinguals select the language they intend to speak. Poster presented at the Second Annual Center For
Language Science Young Scholars Speakers Series, State College, U.S.
INVITED TALKS
McClain, R. (2016, January). Neural mechanisms of second language speech production and cognitive control as
revealed by event-related potentials. Invited presentation at the University of Illinois-Chicago Talks in
Linguistics (TiL) speaker series.
McClain, R. (2015, September). Catching inhibitory processes during speech planning on the fly. Invited
presentation at the Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience (NUIN) Faculty, Postdoc, and
Graduate Student Retreat.
REFERENCES
Dr. Giuli Dussias
Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Psychology
Penn State University
442 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
pdussias@psu.edu
814-865-4252
Dr. Matt Goldrick
Professor of Linguistics and Psychology
Northwestern University
2016 N. Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208
matt-goldrick@northwestern.edu
847-491-8053
Dr. Eleonora Rossi
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology and Sociology
Dr. Judith F.
Kroll
California
State
Polytechnic University, Pomona
Distinguished
Professor of Psychology
Pomona, California
University
of California Riverside
909-979-6984
Riverside,
California
erossi@cpp.edu
judith.kroll@ucr.edu
Dr. Judith F. Kroll
Professor of Psychology
University of California Riverside
900 University Ave.
Riverside, CA 92521
judith.kroll@ucr.edu
814-571-6453