Elise C. Rosa
Department of Psychology, CB#3270, Davie Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27514 USA
erosa@unc.edu
Education
UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
M.A. in Cognitive Psychology
Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology
Concentration in Quantitative Psychology
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
B.A. in Cognitive Science
University of Edinburgh (Fall 2006), Edinburgh, Scotland
May 2013
Expected May 2015
May 2014
May 2008
Awards and Service
UNC Pre-graduate Education Program Advisor
August 2014-present
UNC Student Congress Graduate and Professional Student Rep.
Spring 2013-present
Pomona College Alumni Interview Volunteer
September 2013-present
Ad Hoc Reviewer- JAMA Psychiatry
June 2013-present
Carolina Experience Enrichment Scholarship Selection Committee
Spring 2013
Carolina Summer Reading Program Discussion Leader
Summer 2012, 2013, 2014
Graduation Student Marshal
May 2012, 2013
John Purvis prize for best Cognitive Science Thesis, Pomona College
May 2008
Scientific Experience
Research Assistant
Language Processing Lab, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Advisor: Jennifer E. Arnold, Ph.D.
August 2010-present
Research Assistant
Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award
Neuropsychology Group, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Principal Investigator: Daniel Weinberger, M.D.
May 2008-August 2010
Research Assistant
Cognition & Aging Lab, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Experimental Senior Thesis
“Positive Emotion in Language Production: Age Differences in Emotional Valence of Stories”
Advisor: Deborah Burke, Ph.D.
February 2007-May 2008
Summer Fellow, NIAID, Hamilton, MT
May 2004-August 2004
Teaching Experience
Psychological Statistics Teaching Assistant, UNC Chapel Hill
Instructor: Viji Sathy, Ph.D.
Instructor: Elizabeth Jordan, Ph.D.
Fall 2012, Spring 2013
Fall 2013
Biological Psychology Teaching Assistant, UNC Chapel Hill
Instructor: Jeannie Loeb, Ph.D.
Summer 2012
Research Methods Teaching Assistant, UNC Chapel Hill
Instructor: Viji Sathy, Ph.D.
Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2014
Graduate Research Consultant, UNC Chapel Hill
Instructor: Jennifer Arnold, Ph.D.
Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Fall 2014
Introductory Psychology Teaching Assistant, UNC Chapel Hill
Instructor: F. Charles Wiss, Ph.D.
Instructor: Jeannie Loeb, Ph.D.
Reading Tutor, For Love of Children, Washington D.C.
Fall 2010
Summer 2012
March 2009- August 2010
Publications
Arnold, J.E., Pancani, G.C., Rosa, E.C. (under revision). Listeners perceive acoustic prominence
differently for distracted and fluent speakers.
Rosa, E.C., Finch, K., Bergeson, M., & Arnold, J.E. (2013) The Effects of Addressee Attention
on Prosodic Prominence. Language and Cognitive Processes. Epub ahead of print.
Rosa, E.C. & Arnold. J.E. (2011). The role of attention in choice of referring expression. In L.
Carlson, C. Hoelscher, & T.F. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Rosa, E.C., Dickinson, D., Apud, J., Weinberger, D.R. & Elvevåg, B. (2010). COMT
Val156Met polymorphism, cognitive stability and cognitive flexibility: an experimental
examination. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 6:53.
Talks
Arnold, J., Rosa, E. C., Klinger, M., Powell, P., & Meyer, A. (2014). Mechanisms of prosody
production: Differences between children with and without ASD. Presented as a data blitz at the
North Carolina Cognition Conference, Durham, NC.
Rosa, E.C., Finch K., Bergeson M., Arnold J.E. (2011). The effects of addressee attention on
prosodic prominence. Presented as a talk at the ETAP 2 Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Rosa, E.C. & Arnold, J.E. (2011). The role of attention in choice of referring expression.
Presented as a talk at the Cognitive Science Society Conference, Boston, MA.
Posters
Arnold, J.E., Rosa, E.C., Powell, P., Meyer, A. (2014). Mechanisms of prosody production:
Differences between children with and without ASD. Presented as a poster at CUNY 2014
Conference, Columbus, OH.
Rosa, E. C., Arnold, J.E. (2013). Phonological priming effects on acoustic reduction. Presented
as a poster at North Carolina Cognition Conference, Raleigh, NC.
Arnold, J.E., Pancani, G., & Rosa, E.C. (2013). Speaker distraction interrupts prosodic cues to
discourse status. Presented as a poster at CUNY 2013 Conference, Columbia, SC.
Arnold, J.E., Pancani, G., & Rosa, E.C. (2012). Acoustic prominence perceived different for
fluent and distracted speakers. Presented as a poster at AMLaP Conference, Riva del Garda,
Italy.
Rosa, E.C., Finch, K., Bergeson M., Arnold J.E. (2012). The effects of addressee attention on
prosodic prominence. Presented as a poster at the CUNY Conference, New York, NY.
Rosa, E.C., Apud, J., Weinberger, D.R. & Elvevåg, B. (2009, 2010). The effect of the COMT
Val158Met polymorphism on cognitive stability and cognitive flexibility. Presented as a poster
at: The Psychology Post-Graduate Affairs Conference, Cardiff, Wales. The Schizophrenia
International Research Society Conference, Florence, Italy. The National Institute of Mental
Health Retreat, Gettysburg, PA.
Rosa, E.C. & Burke, D. (2008). Positive emotion in language production: age differences in
emotional valence of stories. Presented as a poster at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta,
GA.