Associate Professor (1995)
Ph.D., Syracuse University
Courses typically taught: 230, 331, 332, 433.
(562) 985-5029
e-mail: maxfield@csulb.edu
Cognitive Psychology (Lecture and Lab), Cognitive Neuroscience, Critical Thinking, Human Neuropsychology, Research Methods in Experimental Psychology, Psychology of Language, Sensation and Perception (Lecture and Lab), Graduate Seminars in Cognition, Attention, Language and Neuropsychology.
My research program investigates the cognitive and neural bases of selective attention and visual word recognition in neurologically healthy individuals. My interests encompass how inhibitory mechanisms of attention modulate the availability of semantic information from memory. I approach these issues with purely cognitive paradigms as well as visual half-field methodology. The latter approach investigates how these processes are instantiated in the human brain, and in particular how the right and left cerebral hemispheres each uniquely contribute to normal language processing. I have also developed secondary interests in sensory processing and ambiguity resolution.
Chiarello, C., & Maxfield, L. (1996). Varieties of interhemispheric inhibition, or how to keep a good hemisphere down. Brain and Cognition, 30, 81-108.
Chiarello, C., Maxfield, L., Richards, L., & Kahan, T. (1995). Activation of lexical codes for simultaneously presented words: Modulation by attention and pathway strength. Journal of Experimental Psychology:Human Perception and Performance, 21, 776-808.
Chiarello, C., Maxfield, L., & Kahan, T. (1995). Initial right hemisphere activation of subordinate word meanings is not due to homotopic callosal inhibition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2, 375-380.