Education

• Harvard University, Ph.D. in Psychology, June 2008
• Harvard University, A. M. in Psychology, June 2005

Honors/Awards

• Eliot Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University, 2007
• Mind/Brain/Behavior Graduate Student Award, Harvard University, 2006
• Harvard Graduate Society Fellowship, 2006
• Student Travel Award, CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, 2006
• Ditmars Fund Travel Grant, Harvard University, 2005
• Student Travel Award, CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, 2005
• McMasters Fund Research Grant, Harvard University, 2004
• Harvard University Graduate Fellowship, 2003-2005

Publications

• Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2008). Syntactic priming during language comprehension in three- and four-year-old children. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 188-213. pdf
  
• Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2008). Give and take: syntactic priming during spoken language comprehension. Cognition, 108(1), 51-68. pdf
  
• Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2006). Lively looks: priming preschoolers' predictions of post-verbal arguments during online sentence processing. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 2246). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2006). Children’s representation of verbs: Evidence from priming during online sentence comprehension. In Proceedings of the 30^th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (p. 643). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  

Book Chapters

• Snedeker, J. and Thothathiri, M. (2008). What lurks beneath: Structural priming during language comprehension in preschoolers (and adults). In I. A. Sekerina, E. M. Fernandez and H. Clahsen (Eds.), Developmental psycholinguistics: On-line methods in children’s language processing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.      
  

Manuscripts in Preparation

• Thothathiri, M., Snedeker, J. and Hannon, E. Distributional category learning by 12-month-old infants: an investigation into the role of prosody and distributional frames.
• Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. The role of thematic roles in sentence processing: Evidence from structural priming in young children.

Talks

• Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2007). Moving beyond the number and animacy of arguments: children show online evidence for mapping semantic roles to syntactic positions. Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
• Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. C. (2007). Using structural priming and eye movements to investigate children's early grammatical representations. Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Boston, MA.
• Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2006). Using structural priming to investigate children's early grammatical representations. CUNY Workshop on Online Methods in Children's Language Processing, New York, NY.
• Thothathiri, M. (2006). Learning to apply syntax: Nouns, Verbs and Babies. Mind/Brain/Behavior Seminar, Harvard University.
• Snedeker, J. and Thothathiri, M. (2005). The influence of lexical biases on eye-movements during unambiguous utterances: Disentangling linguistic and nonlinguistic effects in the visual-world paradigm. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Tucson, AZ.        

Posters

• Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2007). New methods for studying syntactic acquisition. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.
  
• Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2006). Structural priming during comprehension of datives. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, New York, NY.
• Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2005). Distributional learning of syntactic categories. Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, GA. pdf
  
• Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2005). Children’s representation of verb: Evidence from priming during online sentence comprehension. Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
• Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2005). Children’s representation of verb: Evidence from priming during online sentence comprehension. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Tucson, AZ.

Teaching Experience

• Harvard University, Teaching Fellow for Origins of Knowledge, 2005-06
  Cognitive development (Space, Number, Objects, Agency, Language); Conceptual change.
  
• Harvard University, Teaching Fellow for Developmental Psychology, 2005-06
  Developmental approaches and methods; Theories of cognitive, social, emotional and moral development.

Previous Education & Work Experience