Rate My Professor Karen Aicher

Dr. Aicher’s research focuses on the influence of prior knowledge on language behavior, with particular attention to new learning in adults. Key publications from her work include 'The Influence of Word Form on the Acquisition of Meaning: An Adult Visual Word Learning Study' (2016), 'The Time Course of Anticipatory Constraint Integration' (2011), 'Sentence comprehension affects the dynamics of bimanual coordination: Implications for embodied cognition' (2009), and 'Are CORNER and BROTHER morphologically complex? Not in the long term' (2008). These contributions have garnered over 230 citations. Previously, she served as lab manager in the Language and Brain Lab at the University of Connecticut. At Bridgewater State University, Dr. Aicher actively mentors undergraduate students on research projects, such as investigations into decibel levels and employee perceptions of noise in child care facilities, speech-language pathologists' roles in the field, and assessing speech and language disorders in multilingual children. She has also contributed to faculty grants, including assisting with a three-part Zoom series on aging, action, and social/racial justice issues. Her work bridges clinical experience, experimental psychology, and communication disorders education.