• PhD, University at Buffalo, SUNY

The binding theme of courses I teach surveys methods and practices employed in the psychological sciences. These classes showcase different aspects of social, behavioral, and physiological research process. I am a cognitive psychologist by training who instructs both graduate and undergraduate courses related to the cognitive science disciplines as well. 

I not only teach psychology as a science, but actively engage in research related to the field. My academic interests broadly involve auditory perception and cognition but focus specifically on these processes’ interplay in human vocalization. My ongoing research examines connections among perception, production, mental imagery, emotional processing, and psychophysiology.

• Honda, C., Pruitt, T. A., Greenspon, E. B., Liu, F., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2023). The effects of musical and language backgrounds and acoustic structures on pitch imitation ability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 49, 1296-1309.
  
• Greenspon, E. B., Gentile, A. M., Pruitt, T. A., Halpern, A. H., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2023). Subvocalization during preparatory and non-preparatory auditory imagery. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 6, 108-127.
• Pfordresher, P. Q., Mantell, J. T., & Pruitt. T. A. (2021). Effects of intention in the imitation of sung and spoken pitch.  Psychological Research, 86, 792-807.
• Pruitt, T. A., Halpern, A. H., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2019). Covert singing in anticipatory auditory imagery. Psychophysiology, 56, e13297.
• Pruitt, T. A. & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2015). The role of auditory feedback in speech and song. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41, 152-166.