Sri Upadhyay, Ph.D.

Upadhyay’s research focuses on understanding the cognitive processes that inform reading. Discourse processing—or text and narrative comprehension—involves more than simply understanding the individual words on a page. Our mental representations for what we read build from the smallest units of language to the broadest higher-order representations, and include word and sentence level comprehension, memory, attention and social and pragmatic information. 
Upadhyay earned a bachelor's degree in psychology and English at Kent State University, a master's degree in psychology at Binghamton University and a doctorate in cognitive psychology at Binghamton University.
Upadhyay teaches: 

PSYC 380: Cognitive Psychology – an upper-level core psychology major course on the scientific study of the mind and mental processing (e.g., attention, memory, language). 
PSYC 497: Capstone Seminar: Psychology of Language – an entryway to the science of psycholinguistics, the psychological study of how people use and comprehend language.
PSYC 400: Attention & Mindfulness – an upper-level psychology major course on understanding how attention, distraction, and the recovery of human intention works in our day to day lives.