Rate My Professor Stephen Goldinger

Stephen D. Goldinger is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. He earned a B.A. in Psychology in 1987 and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology in 1992, both from Indiana University Bloomington. Goldinger joined the Arizona State University faculty as Assistant Professor in 1992, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1998, and to Professor in 2005. His research focuses on cognitive psychology topics including perception, attention, memory, language, speech perception, face recognition, and visual search. He has served in editorial roles including Associate Editor of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review and consulting editor for journals such as Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Goldinger has received multiple NIH grants as principal investigator on projects examining speech perception, memory, and related cognitive processes. He is the recipient of awards including the Distinguished Early Career Award from the Society of Experimental Psychologists in 2004, election as Fellow of the American Psychological Association Division 3 in 2003, and Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science in 2015. His work has been widely cited, with over 14,000 citations recorded on Google Scholar. Goldinger has held roles such as NIH review panelist and has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications on episodic memory, lexical access, and attentional processes.

Throughout his career at Arizona State University, Goldinger has maintained active involvement in cognitive science research and mentoring. His academic appointments span more than three decades at the institution, during which he advanced through the faculty ranks while securing substantial external funding for empirical studies. Key contributions include investigations into the episodic lexicon in speech perception and memory representations revealed through eye-tracking and pupillometry methods. Goldinger’s influence extends through his service on review panels for the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, as well as his publications in high-impact outlets such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He continues to be recognized for his foundational work in experimental psychology.