{"id":140,"date":"2015-08-31T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/kathy-m-mathis\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:07:48","slug":"katherine-m-mathis","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/katherine-m-mathis\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine M. Mathis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Mathis has conducted research in a number of areas of cognitive psychology, including the conceptual and lexical mental representations of novice and expert bilinguals, the effects of a visual scene context on the recognition of individual objects, the visual perception of objects under masked conditions, automaticity of orthographic and phonological processing used during reading, and how magazine advertisements implicitly increase positive attitudes towards the products depicted.<\/p>\n<h3>Summary of Interests<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Object perception<\/li>\n<li>Object and scene recognition<\/li>\n<li>Bilingual memory representation<\/li>\n<li>Effects of implicit processing on preferences<\/li>\n<li>Automaticity of lexical and semantic processing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>B.A. Psychology, Siena College, 1992<\/li>\n<li>M.A. Cognitive Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1995<\/li>\n<li>Ph.D. Cognitive Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1998<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Courses Taught<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em>PSYC 101<\/em>\u00a0Principles of Psychology<\/li>\n<li><i>PSYC 222<\/i>\u00a0Applied Cognitive Psychology<\/li>\n<li><i>PSYC 230<\/i>\u00a0Cognitive Psychology<\/li>\n<li><em>PSYC 261<\/em>\u00a0Research Methods<\/li>\n<li><em>PSYC 374<\/em>\u00a0Psychology of Language<\/li>\n<li><em>FYS 389<\/em>\u00a0Psychology and Film<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Selected Publications<\/h3>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup>\u00a0indicates Bates student<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"DE\">Mathis, K. M., &amp; Kahan, T. A. (2014). <\/span>Holistic processing improves change detection but impairs change identification. <i>Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 21, <\/i>1250-1254.<\/p>\n<p>Kahan, T. A.,\u00a0<sup>*<\/sup>Hengen, K. B., &amp;\u00a0Mathis, K. M.\u00a0(2011). An examination of orthographic and phonological processing using the task-choice procedure.\u00a0<em>Language and Cognitive Processes, 26<\/em>, 171-190.<\/p>\n<p>Kahan, T. A., &amp;\u00a0Mathis, K. M.\u00a0(2007). Searching under cups for clues about memory: A classroom demonstration.\u00a0<em>Teaching of Psychology, 34<\/em>, 124-128.<\/p>\n<p>Kahan, T. A., &amp;\u00a0Mathis, K. M.\u00a0(2002).\u00a0 Gestalt grouping and common onset masking.\u00a0<em>Perception and Psychophysics, 64<\/em>, 1248-1259.<\/p>\n<p>Mathis, K. M.\u00a0 (2002). Semantic interference from objects both in and out of a scene context.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28<\/em>, 171\u2013182.<\/p>\n<p>Neill, W. T., &amp;\u00a0Mathis, K. M.\u00a0\u00a0(1998).\u00a0 Transfer-inappropriate processing:\u00a0 Negative priming and related phenomena. In D. L. Medin (Ed.)<em>Psychology of Learning and Motivation<\/em>\u00a0Vol. 38, pp. 1-40.\u00a0 San Diego: Academic Press.<\/p>\n<p>Altarriba, J., &amp;\u00a0Mathis, K. M.\u00a0(1997).\u00a0 Conceptual and lexical development in second language acquisition.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Journal of Memory and Language, 36<\/em>, 550-568.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":5574,"template":"","class_list":["post-140","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-cognitive-psychology","expertise-specific-automaticity-of-lexical-and-semantic-processing","expertise-specific-bilingual-memory-representation","expertise-specific-effects-of-implicit-processing-on-preferences","expertise-specific-object-and-scene-recognition","expertise-specific-object-perception","what-i-teach-psychology","what-i-teach-specific-applied-cognitive-psychology","what-i-teach-specific-cognitive-psychology","what-i-teach-specific-comparative-cognition","what-i-teach-specific-first-year-seminar","what-i-teach-specific-introductory-psychology","what-i-teach-specific-psycholinguistics","what-i-teach-specific-research-methodology-in-the-behavioral-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/140\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}