• PhD, University at Buffalo, SUNY

I teach courses that focus on historic and modern psychological science methods. As a trained cognitive psychologist, it is my privilege to also teach both undergraduate and graduate-level cognitive science courses.

My passion for psychology extends into my research, which broadly focuses on auditory perception and cognition. I’m particularly interested in how these processes connect to emotion, mental imagery, and physiological responses within the music and language domains.

• Saltsman, T. L., Pruitt, T. A., Pfordresher, P. Q., & Seery, M. D. (2025). Singing your heart out: Singing pitch accuracy is associated with cardiovascular responses of task engagement and challenge/threat during vocal performance. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1-15.
• Greenspon, E. B, Pruitt, T. A., Halpern, A. R., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2025). Effects of vocalmotor interference on vocal pitch imitation. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 1-12.
• 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.