Brooke Lea specializes in human cognition, with an emphasis on higher mental
processes. His research interests include theories of discourse comprehension, models of
human logical competence, the interaction between culture and cognition, and
comprehension processes involved in reading poetry. He serves on the editorial board of
Psychological Bulletin. 

Lea has been teaching at Macalester since 1998. 

EDUCATION: B.A., Haverford College, 1983; M.A., New York University, 1989; Ph.D., New
York University, 1993.

Journal Articles

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Sweet silent thought: Alliteration and resonance in poetry comprehension. Psychological Science, 19, 709-716 (with D. N. Rapp, N. Elfenbein, A. D. Mitchel, and R. S. Romine), Psychological Science (2008)
 

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Accessing Distant Premise Information: How Memory Feeds Reasoning (with Elizabeth J. Mulligan and Jennifer Lee Walton), Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (2005)
 

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Have We Been Searching for Meaning in All the Wrong Places? Defining the "Search After Meaning" Principle in Comprehension (with Debra L. Long), Discourse Processes (2005)
 

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Do Readers Make Inferences About Conversational Topics? (with Patrick A. Kayser, Elizabeth J. Mulligan, and Jerome L. Myers), Memory & Cognition (2002)
 

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The Effect of Negation on Deductive Inferences (with Elizabeth J. Mulligan), Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (2002)
 

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Books

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Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (with J. Welkowitz and B. H. Cohen) (2012)
 

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Essentials of Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences (with Barry H. Cohen) (2004)
 

Contributions to Books

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Logical Inferences and Comprehension: How Mental-Logic and Text Processing Theories Need Each Other, Mental Logic (1998)