John Hollander
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology and Counseling
Arkansas State University
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology and Counseling
Arkansas State University
I am a cognitive scientist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Counseling at Arkansas State University. I am interested in psychology of language, especially how we know the meanings of words and represent them in our minds. I am also interested in how this affects other aspects of cognition, such as literacy, music, and social skills.
Research interests
+ Embodied cognition and language processing
+ Semantic representation
+ Reading and literacy skills
+ Educational technology
+ Eye- and mouse-tracking methods
Hollander, J., & Olney, A. (2024). Raising the Roof: Situating Verbs in Symbolic and Embodied Language Processing. Cognitive Science, 48(4), e13442. [pdf]
Hollander, J., Sabatini, J., Graesser, A., Greenberg, D., O'Reilly, T., Frijters, J. (2023). Importance of learner characteristics in intelligent tutoring for adult literacy. Discourse Processes, 60(4-5), 397-409. [pdf]
Zhang, L., Lin, J., Borchers, C., Sabatini, J., Hollander, J., Cao, M., & Hu, X. (2024). Predicting Learning Performance with Large Language Models: A Study in Adult Literacy. In: Sottilare, R.A., Schwarz, J. (eds.) Adaptive Instructional Systems. HCII 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 14727. Springer, Cham. [pdf]
Sabatini, J., Graesser, A., Hollander, J., & O’Reilly, T. (2023). A framework of literacy development and how AI can transform theory and practice. British Journal of Educational Technology, 54(5), 1174-1203. [pdf]
This is a network visualization of my published co-authorships.
Line width corresponds to the number of co-authorships.
(This plot was made with a program that crawls my Google Scholar page, so its scope and accuracy may be limited).
As faculty member
Arkansas State University
Introduction to Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Foundations in Cognitive Psychology
Experimental Psychology
As Graduate Student Instructor of Record
University of Memphis
Research Methods and Statistics I (PSYC 3010)
As Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Research Methods and Statistics for Social Sciences