Dr. Christine Szostak - Shorter University

Dr. Christine Szostak

Assistant Professor of Psychology
706-233-7497
cszostak@shorter.edu
315 Shorter Ave.
Rome, Georgia 30165

Educational Background

  • PhD in Cognitive Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (2013)
  • MA in Cognitive Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (2009)
  • PhD in Clinical Psychology, Alliant International University, Fresno, California (2007)
  • MA in Clinical Psychology, Alliant International University, Fresno, California (2004)
  • BS in Elementary Education, Malone College (now Malone University), Canton, Ohio (2000)
  • BS in Special Education, Malone College, Canton, Ohio (2000)
  • BA in Psychology, Malone College, Canton, Ohio (1999)

Courses Taught

  • Adult Development and Aging
  • Addictive Behaviors
  • Child and Adolescent Development
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Group Processes
  • Introduction to Psychology
  • Life-Span Development
  • Physiological Psychology
  • Psychology Internship
  • Psychology of Learning and Behavior
  • Research Methods in Psychology
  • Sensation and Perception

Teaching Experience

  • Fall 2013-Present: Shorter University
  • Summer 2013: Haywood Community College
  • 2008-spring 2013: Ohio State University
  • 2005-2006: Fresno City College

Ministry Experience

  • Providing compassionate consultations to those who have newly developed disabilities and their loved-ones
  • Mission trip to Israel (helping in the running of a Christian day camp and assisting with repairs to a church)
  • Mission trip to Nicaragua (working in a Catholic Spanish-speaking orphanage)
  • Mission trip to Battle Creek, Michigan (working with Habitat for Humanity)
  • Jerry’s Kids national Muscular Dystrophy telethon volunteer
  • Quest Recovery Services (center helping those suffering with substance abuse) general volunteer services

Publications and Professional Presentations

Publications

  • Szostak, C. M., & Pitt, M. A. (2014). The influence of amplitude envelope information on resolving lexically ambiguous spoken words. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
  • Szostak, C. M. & Pitt, M. A. (2013). The prolonged influence of subsequent context on spoken word identification. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 75, 1533-1546.
  • Pitt, M. A. & Szostak, C. M. (2012). A lexically-biased attentional set compensates for variable speech quality caused by pronunciation variation. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27, 1225-1239.

Professional Presentations

  • Szostak, C. M. (2015). Individual differences in working memory capacity influence spoken word recognition. Invited Talk Presented at the Center for Visual and Neurocognitive Rehabilitation, Atlanta Department of Veteran Affairs Speaker Series.
  • Szostak, C. M. (2012). Individual differences in working memory capacity
    influence spoken word recognition. Talk presented at the Buckeye Language Network Symposium (Ohio State University), Columbus, Ohio.
  • Szostak, C. M., Pitt, M. A., & Dilley, L. C. (2012). Rate-dependent speech processing can be speech specific: Evidence from the disappearing word speech rate effect. Poster presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Szostak, C. M. & Pitt, M. A. (2011). Interaction of prior and subsequent context in spoken word recognition. Poster presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, Washington.
  • Szostak, C. M. & Pitt, M. A. (2011). The influence of subsequent sentential context on spoken word recognition when prior contextual information is available. Talk given during the 1st Annual Meeting of the Midwest Cognitive Science Society, East Lansing, Michigan.
  • Widmer, C. L., Kim, D., Szostak, C. M., & Pitt, M. A. (2011). The use of lexical and duration information in segmenting speech with unclear word boundaries. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
  • Kim, D., Widmer, C., Szostak, C. M., & Pitt, M. (2010). Did you say “gross snails” or “gross nails”? The problem of segmenting co-occurrences of the same segment. Poster presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
  • Kim, D., Szostak, C. M., Widmer, C., & Pitt, M. (2010). Word segmentation of American English /s/ in semi-spontaneous speech. Poster presented at the 159th Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
  • Szostak, C. M. & Pitt, M. A. (2010). Syntactic influences on resolving prior lexical ambiguities. Poster presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Szostak, C. M. & Pitt, M. A. (2009). The *eel was on the table: Revisiting the role of subsequent context in spoken word recognition. Poster presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Kim, D., Bergmann, A., Szostak, C. M., & Pitt, M. (2008). “a door” or “adore”? Word segmentation in semi-spontaneous speech. Poster presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington D.C.
  • Szostak, C. M. (2006). Teaching psychology–the challenges of teaching with vision loss. Invited talk given during the 114th Annual American Psychological Association Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • Szostak, C. M. & Seifert, L. S. (2006). Teaching with vision loss: Making the grade in academia. Talk given during the 20th Annual Conference on Undergraduate Teaching of Psychology: Ideas and Innovations, Monticello, New York.
  • Szostak, C. M. & Kuba, S. A. (2005). Eating disturbance and visual impairment: A matter of social identity. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the California Psychological Association, Pasadena, California.

Professional Organizations

  • Georgia Psychological Association

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