Curriculum Vitae


Education

Doctor of Philosophy (In progress - Expected May 2013). Psychology. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Masters of Arts. Psychology (2009). Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Honors Bachelors of Science. Specialist: Psychology; Minor: Philosophy (2007). University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada.

               

Publications

Khan, Manizeh and Meredith Daneman (2011). How Readers Spontaneously Interpret Man-Suffix Words: Evidence from Eye Movements. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 40, 351-366. pdf.

Pearson, Hazel, Manizeh Khan and Jesse Snedeker (2010). Even more evidence for the emptiness of plurality: An experimental investigation of plural interpretation as a species of implicature. Proceedings of SALT, 20. pdf.

               

Conference Talks

Huang, Yi Ting, Manizeh Khan, Shanshan Wang, Amy C. Geojo and Jesse Snedeker. (2011). From sounds to concepts and back again: Cascaded processing during word and object recognition. Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Montreal, Canada.

Hartshorne, Joshua, Manizeh Khan and Jesse Snedeker (2010). Predictability in the visual world. Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing (AMLaP), York, UK. abstract.

Khan, Manizeh, Hazel Pearson and Jesse Snedeker (2010). Does plural really mean 'more than one'? Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC), Philadelphia, PA.

Pearson, Hazel, Manizeh Khan and Jesse Snedeker (2010). Does plural really mean ‘more than one’? An experimental investigation of plural interpretation as a species of scalar implicature. Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen, Germany.

               

Conference Posters

Khan, Manizeh and Jesse Snedeker (2013). Referential ambiguity and pronoun resolution: Evidence from pupillometry. 26th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Columbia, SC.

Khan, Manizeh, Whitney Fitts and Jesse Snedeker (2013). What’s in a name? Lexical retrieval during visual object processing. 26th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Columbia, SC.

Romoli, Jacopo, Manizeh Khan, Yasutada Sudo and Jesse Snedeker (2013). Resolving temporary referential ambiguity using presupposed content. 26th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Columbia, SC.

Khan, Manizeh and Jesse Snedeker (2011). Spontaneous verbal encoding of visual objects in 24-month-olds. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 36, Boston, MA.

Khan, Manizeh and Jesse Snedeker (2011). Pupil Dilation as an index of processing load during pronoun resolution. Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing (AMLaP), Paris France. poster.

Khan, Manizeh, Mahesh Srinivasan, Eva Wittenberg and Jesse Snedeker (2011). Phonological overlap in German affect English lexical processing in German-English bilinguals. Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing (AMLaP), Paris France. poster.

Khan, Manizeh and Jesse Snedeker (2010). Spontaneous implicit naming of visual objects. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 35, Boston, MA. poster.

Pearson, Hazel, Manizeh Khan and Jesse Snedeker (2010). Even more evidence for the emptiness of plurality: An experimental investigation of plural interpretation as a species of scalar implicature. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), Vancouver, Canada.

Khan, Manizeh, Joshua Hartshorne and Jesse Snedeker (2009). Can listeners moduation rapid pragmatic inferences based on knowledge about the speaker? Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing (AMLaP), Barcelona, Spain. poster.

Hartshorne, Joshua, Manizeh Khan and Jesse Snedeker (2009). Do listeners model speakers in on-line sentence comprehension? Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing (AMLaP), Barcelona, Spain. poster.

Chen, Chen, Manizeh Khan and Jesse Snedeker (2009). The preview effect in the object-naming task: Evidence for parallel processing of multiple objects. 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA. poster.

               

Scholarships

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, PGS-D3 (2009-2012)

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, PGS-M (2008-2009)

University of Toronto Scholar (2003-2007)

Queen Elizabeth Aiming for the Top Award (2003-2007)

University of Toronto at Mississauga Chancellor’s Entrance Award (2003)

               

Awards

Harvard University, Travel Grant, Stimson Fund, $500 (August 2011)

Harvard University, Travel Grant, Stimson Fund, $500 (February 2011)

Harvard University, Mind Brain and Behavior Graduate Student Award, $1000 (2010)

Harvard University, Mind Brain and Behavior Graduate Student Award, $3500 (2010, with Hazel Pearson)

Harvard University, Graduate Student Research Grant, Barbara Ditmars Fund, $3500 (2009)

Harvard University, Travel Grant, McMasters Fund, $500 (2009)

Harvard University, Graduate Student Research Grant, Roger Brown Fund, $3500 (2008)

Harvard University, Graduate Student Research Grant, Stimson Fund, $1000 (2007)

Canadian Psychological Association, Certificate of Excellence for Undergraduate Thesis (2007)

University of Toronto, E.A. Robinson Silver Medal: Science (2007)

               

Teaching Experience

Honors Thesis Supervising.  Harvard University. Qingqing Wu (Linguistics, in progress), Whitney Fitts (Psychology, 2012), Shanshan Wang (Psychology, 2011). 

Teaching Fellow. Harvard University. Psychological Science (2011, taught by Steven Pinker), Cognitive Psychology (2010, Jesse Snedeker), Psychological Science (2010, Dan Gilbert).

               

Service

Seminar Organizer. Language and Cognition weekly meeting at Harvard, 2011-2012.

Conference Co-organizer. Southern New England Workshop in Sementics (SNEWS) at Harvard University, February 2010. (With Jacopo Romoli, Hazel Pearson and Andreea Nicolae).

Research Assistant to Craig Chambers, University of Toronto at Mississauga, 2006-2007.