Biography

Karl Bailey is assistant professor of psychology on the campus of Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Mich. He joined the faculty in 2004.

Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Bailey graduated from Andrews University, in 1999, with bachelor of science degrees in psychology and biology. In 2002, he received a master's degree in psychology from Michigan State University, East Lansing. 

Bailey earned his doctoral degree in 2004 from Michigan State University. The title of his dissertation is: "Disfluent Speech and the Visual World: An Application of the Visual World Paradigm to the Study of Spoken Language Comprehension."  

Bailey is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Psi Chi National Honor Society in Psychology, and Beta Beta Beta Biological Society. He was awarded the Michigan State University Distinguished Fellowship from 1999-2004, and was awarded a 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 Faculty Development Grant from Andrews University. He has contributed chapters to volumes and has also published articles in several scholarly journals, including Journal of Memory and Language, as well as Trends in Cognitive Science.  

He is married to Rosemary Joy Bauer Bailey.

Current Research or Professional Activities

Primary Research Interests:

Psycholinguistics; Comprehension of disfluent spontaneous speech; Misinterpretation effects; Language and the Visual world; Visual attention as a measure of complex human cognition.

Poster Presentations:

Bailey, K.G.D., Chuah, M., Siebold, L.C., LaBianca, O. & Bailey, R.N. (2007, May)   Cultural background affects eye movements during scene perception.  Poster to be presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Bailey, K.G.D., Siebold, L.C., & Bailey, R.N. (2007, May)   Believing is seeing:   prior beliefs affect problem solving.   Poster to be presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Engelhardt, P.E., Bailey, K. G.D., & Ferreira, F. (November, 2005) Do speakers and listeners observe the Gricean Maxim of Quantity? Paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Toronto, Ontario.

Engelhardt, P.E., Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F. (2005, March) Coordination ambiguities in the visual world paradigm. Poster to be presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Tucson, AZ.

Engelhardt, P.E., Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F. (November, 2004) Garden Pathing or Syntactic Priming: A Closer look at the Visual World Paradigm. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Minneapolis, MN.

Bailey, K.G.D. & Ferreira, F. (2004, March) When is a Path Not a Path? Eye Movements and Parsing in the Visual World.  Poster presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, College Park, MD

Ferreira, R., Lau, E.F., & Bailey, K.G.D. (2003, November).  A model of disfluency processing during parsing.   Paper presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada.

Bailey, K.G.D., Xiang, M., & Ferreira, F.  (2003, March).  Parsing and misinterpretation in coordination ambigiguities.  Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA.

Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F.  (2003, March).   Eye movements and the comprehension of disfluent speech.   Poster presented at the 16th Annual meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA.

Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F.  (2001, March).   The disfluent hairy dog:   Can syntactic parsing be affected by non-word disfluencies?   Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Philadelphia, PA

Scholarly Papers Read:

Bailey, K.G.D. & Sorensen, D.W. (2007, May).  Array size and the time-locking of eye movements and language comprehension.   Paper to be presented at the 79th Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Sorensen, D.W. & Bailey, K.G.D. (2006, November).  The world is too much:   Effects of array size on the link between language comprehension and eye movements.   Paper presented at the 14th Annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory Conference, Houston, TX

Bailey, K.G.D & Ferreira, F (2005, March). Don't swim, hop: The timecourse of disfluency processing. Paper to be presented at the 18th annual meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Tucson, AZ.

Engelhardt, P.E., Bailey, K.G.D. & Ferreira, F. (2004, March). "But it's already on a towell": Reconsidering the one-referent visual context. Paper presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, College Park, MD.

Ferreira, F , Lau, E.F., & Bailey, K.G.D. (2004, March). A model of disfluency processing based on Tree-Adjoining Grammar. Paper presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, College Park, MD

Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F.  (2001, November).   Disfluencies influence parsing of garden-path sentences.   Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, Florida.

Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F. (2001, August).  Do Non-Word Disfluencies Affect Syntactic Parsing?   Paper presented at the 2001 Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech Tutorial and Research Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F.  (2001, May).   Syntactic parsing can be affected by non-word speech disfluency.   Paper presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Chapters Contributed to Volume:

Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferriera, F.  (in press).   The processing of filled pause disfluencies in the visual world.   To appear in R. van Gompel, M. Fischer, W. Murray & R. Hill (Eds.), Eye movements:   A window on mind and brain.   Amsterdam:   Elsevier.

Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F.  (2004).   The Disfluent Hairy Dog:   Can Syntactic Parsing be Affected by Non-Word Disfluencies?  In J. Trueswell & M.K. Tanenhaus (eds.), World situated language use:  Psycholinguistic, linguistic, and computational perspectives on bridging the product and action traditions.   Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press.

Refereed Journal Articles:

Engelhardt, P.E., Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F.  (2006).   Do speakers and listeners observe the Gricean Maxim of Quantity?   Journal of Memory and Language, 54, 554-573.

Ferreira, F. & Bailey, K.G.D.  (2004).   Disfluencies and human language processing.   Trends in Cognitive Science, 8, 231-237.

Ferreira, F., Lau, E.F., & Bailey, K.G.D.  (2004)   Disfluencies, parsing, and tree-adjoining grammars.   Cognitive Science. 

Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F.  (2003). Disfluencies affect the parsing of garden-path sentences.   Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 183-200.

Ferreira, F., Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferraro, V.  (2002).   Good-enough representations in language comprehension.   Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 11-15.