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Mara Breen

Associate Professor of Psychology and Education; Co-Chair of Psychology and Education

Mount Holyoke College

Affiliations

Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty

McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives

Weissman Center for Leadership

Mount Holyoke College

Africana Studies and Critical Race and Political Economy

Department of Biology/Biological Sciences

Department of Neuroscience

Politics

Weissman Center for Leadership

Department Of Chemistry And Surface Science Research Centre

Psychology and Education

Sustainability & environmentalism

Weissman Center for Leadership

Mara Breen is currently serving as an Academic Affairs And Dean Of Faculty Associate Professor of Psychology and Education; Co-Chair of Psychology and Education at Mount Holyoke College.

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Mount Holyoke College

Associate Professor of Psychology and Education; Co-Chair of Psychology and Education

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linguistics language speech perception cognitive science reading research prosody (linguistics) psychology experimental psychology psycholinguistics speech communication speech production phonetics language processing in the brain general linguistics neurolinguistics phonology syntactic structure psychoacoustics language comprehension silent reading audiology memory speech processing educational psychology music perception poetics phonology morphology speech-to-song illusion english today experimental child psychology experimental social psychology applied linguistics musical expression music psychology textual practice language resources information structure linguistic theory morphology (linguistics) language disorders bioacoustics speech acoustics cognitive psychology experimental analysis experimental psychopathology experiment design learning theory musical analysis vocal music variety (linguistics) auditory imagery auditory modeling parallelism (rhetoric) literary studies language monitoring perceptual user interfaces multisensory integration semantic analysis (linguistics) lexical semantics dependency linguistics distributional semantics speech science acoustic correlates prosodic annotation inter-transcriber reliability extraposed structures anticipated lexical stress implicit prosody sentence processing empirical investigations illegal syllables acoustic foundations boundary change experiment stress matters comprehension ability prosodic fluency

Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Evidence of Absence? Abstract Metrical Structure in Speech Planning. (2026)

Prosodic Fluency in Spoken Productions of the Cat in the Hat Predicts Reading Comprehension Skill in 6-10-Year-Olds. (2026)

Author Response for"Eye Movements During Silent Reading of Poetry Reflect Hierarchical Metric Structure". (2025)

author responseparallelism (rhetoric)literary studiestextual practiceenglishpoetrypoeticshierarchical metric structurereading researchliteratureliterary theorysilent reading

Eye Movements During Silent Reading of Poetry Reflect Hierarchical Metric Structure. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2025)

attentioneye movementspoetrypoeticsneurolinguisticsperceptual user interfacesreading researchlanguagemultisensory integrationcognitive sciencesilent reading

Adult Readers Signal Metric and Phrasing Structure Through Acoustic Variation in a Spanish Children’s Book. (2024)

Prosodic Features in Production Reflect Reading Comprehension Skill in High School Students.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition (2024)

Mara BreenJulie Van DykeJelena KrivokapićNicole Landi

learning theorypsychologyeducational researchprosody (linguistics)educational psychologyhigh school studentscognitive sciencememoryexperimental psychologylanguage comprehension

Investigating Syntactic Structure and Processing in the Auditory Modality. Oxford University Press eBooks (2023)

The Future of Experimental Syntax. Oxford University Press eBooks (2023)

Diogo AlmeidaMara BreenJonathan R. BrennanKaty CarlsonSandra ChungJennifer CulbertsonIan CunningsBrian DillonStephani ForakerTim HunterElsi KaiserDave KushJeffrey L. LidzWilliam MatchinLisa S. PearlLaurel PerkinsMaria PolinskyCorianne RogalskyJeffrey RunnerJon SprouseKristen SyrettKriszta Eszter SzendrőiMatthew WagersMasaya Yoshida

natural language processingcomputer sciencelinguisticsexperimental syntax

Sociolectal and Dialectal Variation in Prosody. Language and Speech (2022)

Meghan ArmstrongMara BreenShelome GoodenErez LevonKristine M. Yu

communicationlanguagesociolinguisticslinguisticsdialectal variation

Individual Differences in Perception of the Speech-To-Song Illusion Are Linked to Musical Aptitude but Not Musical Training.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance (2021)

Adam TierneyAniruddh D. PatelKyle JasminMara Breen

individual differencesmusical aptitudemusical trainingpsychologycognitive scienceexperimental psychologyspeech-to-song illusion

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Mara Breen

Associate Professor of Psychology and Education; Co-Chair of Psychology and Education

Mount Holyoke College

Affiliations

Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty

McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives

Weissman Center for Leadership

Mount Holyoke College

Africana Studies and Critical Race and Political Economy

Department of Biology/Biological Sciences

Department of Neuroscience

Politics

Weissman Center for Leadership

Department Of Chemistry And Surface Science Research Centre

Psychology and Education

Sustainability & environmentalism

Weissman Center for Leadership

Mara Breen is currently serving as an Academic Affairs And Dean Of Faculty Associate Professor of Psychology and Education; Co-Chair of Psychology and Education at Mount Holyoke College.

Honors

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Experiences

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Education

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Mara Breen

Mount Holyoke College

Associate Professor of Psychology and Education; Co-Chair of Psychology and Education

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Evidence of Absence? Abstract Metrical Structure in Speech Planning. (2026)

Prosodic Fluency in Spoken Productions of the Cat in the Hat Predicts Reading Comprehension Skill in 6-10-Year-Olds. (2026)

Author Response for"Eye Movements During Silent Reading of Poetry Reflect Hierarchical Metric Structure". (2025)

author responseparallelism (rhetoric)literary studiestextual practiceenglishpoetrypoeticshierarchical metric structurereading researchliteratureliterary theorysilent reading

Eye Movements During Silent Reading of Poetry Reflect Hierarchical Metric Structure. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2025)

attentioneye movementspoetrypoeticsneurolinguisticsperceptual user interfacesreading researchlanguagemultisensory integrationcognitive sciencesilent reading

Adult Readers Signal Metric and Phrasing Structure Through Acoustic Variation in a Spanish Children’s Book. (2024)

Prosodic Features in Production Reflect Reading Comprehension Skill in High School Students.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition (2024)

Mara BreenJulie Van DykeJelena KrivokapićNicole Landi

learning theorypsychologyeducational researchprosody (linguistics)educational psychologyhigh school studentscognitive sciencememoryexperimental psychologylanguage comprehension

Investigating Syntactic Structure and Processing in the Auditory Modality. Oxford University Press eBooks (2023)

The Future of Experimental Syntax. Oxford University Press eBooks (2023)

natural language processingcomputer sciencelinguisticsexperimental syntax

Sociolectal and Dialectal Variation in Prosody. Language and Speech (2022)

Meghan ArmstrongMara BreenShelome GoodenErez LevonKristine M. Yu

communicationlanguagesociolinguisticslinguisticsdialectal variation

Adam TierneyAniruddh D. PatelKyle JasminMara Breen

individual differencesmusical aptitudemusical trainingpsychologycognitive scienceexperimental psychologyspeech-to-song illusion

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