Associate Teaching Professor of Psychology

Ph. D. in Cognitive Science
Johns Hopkins University, 2007

Office: PAIS, Room 466
Email: tamara.n.medina@emory.edu

Tamara Medina completed post-doctoral training in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) in 2011, received a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) in 2007, and earned a B.S. in Psychology from Trinity College (Hartford, CT) in 1996. Prior to coming to Emory, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware (Newark, DE) and Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA).

Dr. Medina joined the Department of Psychology at Emory University as an Associate Teaching Professor in 2023.

Research:

Dr. Medina’s research lies at the intersection of linguistics and psychology. She is interested in how children learn the meanings of words and how they learn to use those words in sentences. Recently her work has focused on how learners benefit from statistical regularities in the linguistic input and in the world around them to infer the meanings of words from context.

Professor Medina’s Psychology Faculty Page:
https://psychology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/medina-tamara.html

Publications:

Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ijeXu7IAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Courses taught in Linguistics

LING 309 Brain and Language (same as PSYC 309)