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Garcia, A.C, Miller, K.A., & Raney, G.E. (2019, November). The Effect of Language Brokering on Idiom Meaning Activation. Poster presented at the Student Research Forum, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL.

 

Miller, K.A., & Raney, G.E. (2019, August). Six of one half a dozen of the other: Examining repetition effects in idiom processing. Oral presentation at the Metaphor Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 

Miller, K.A., Bernardo, C., & Raney, G.E. (2018, November). If you like me, you will tell me when you are “foaming at the mouth”: Idiom use increases perceived intimacy. Poster presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.

Miller, K.A., & Raney, G.E. (2016, July). Do context and familiarity trump the effect of word frequency in idiom processing? Oral presentation at the Society for Text and Discourse, Kassel, Germany.

Hall, D., Miller, K.A., & Raney, G.E. (2016, April). Examining gender stereotypes in present day contexts. Poster presented at the Student Research Forum, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL. 

 

Miller, K.A., & Raney, G.E. (2015, November). What a terrible poster: Examining the role of expectation in the reading time of canonical and non-canonical forms of irony. Poster presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL. 

 

Miller, K.A., & Raney, G.E. (2015, July). Time to Throw in the Towel: No Evidence of Conceptual Metaphor Activation in Idiom Processing. Oral presentation at the Society for Text and Discourse, Minneapolis, MN. 

Miller, K.A., & Raney, G.E. (2014, August). Examining idiom familiarity and predictability in context. Poster presented at the Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago, IL.

 

Education
University of Illinois at Chicago
Ph.D., Psychology

​2011 - present

 

University of Illinois at Chicago
M.A., Psychology

​2011 - 2015

 

“The Role of Context, Familiarity and Word Frequency in the Processing of Idiom Final Words”

(Advisor: Dr. Gary E. Raney)

 

Lake Forest College
B.A., magna cum laude
Major: Psychology; Major: Philosophy

​2005 - 2009

 

"I'm Hungry for Wax Fruit: An Exploration of the Non-Sequitor's Communicative Value"                     

(Advisor: Dr. Matthew Kelley)

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