Research & Publications

Current Projects

  • Evaluating the Dynamics of Speech Accommodation (NSF grant)​
  • Social perception in Parkinson’s Disease (Eye tracking study)​
  • Access to care for people with Parkinson’s Disease in Eastern North Carolina (+ mental health project)​
  • Brain stimulation study: The role of the temporoparietal junction in sarcasm perception​
  • Differences in sarcasm perception between the US and the UK

Publications:

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  1. Pell, M. D., Sethi, S., Rigoulot, S., ROTHERMICH K., Liu, P., & Jiang, X. (2022). Emotional Voices Modulate Perception and Predictions About an Upcoming Face. Cortex, 149, 148–164. Advance online publication. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.12.017
  2. ROTHERMICH K., Ahn, S., Dannhauer, M., & Pell, M. D. (2022). Social Appropriateness Perception of Dynamic Interactions. Social Neuroscience, 17(1), 37–57. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2022.2032326
  3. ROTHERMICH K., Ogunlana, A., & Jaworska, N. (2021). Change in Humor and Sarcasm Use Based on Anxiety and Depression Symptom Severity During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 140, 95–100. Advance online publication. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.05.027
  4. Johnson, E. K., & ROTHERMICH K. (2021). Affiliation Matters: The Influence of Political Affiliation on Responses to Social Media Content about Climate Change. International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts & Responses, 13(1), 121-130.
  1. Joergensen, G. H., Makarla, P. R., Fammartino, M., Benson, L., & ROTHERMICH K. (2021). No, No One Had Fun. Individual Differences in Nonliteral Language Perception. Language and Speech, Advance online publication. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309211010859
  2. ROTHERMICH K., Schoen Simmons, E., Rao Makarla, P., Benson, L., *Plyler, E., Kim, H., & Joergensen, G. H. (2021). Tracking Nonliteral Language Processing Using Audiovisual Scenarios. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology = Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 75(2), 211–220. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000223
  3. Sharma, S., Kim, H., *Harris, H., Haberstroh, A., Wright, H. H., & ROTHERMICH K., (2021). Eye Tracking Measures for Studying Language Comprehension Deficits in Aphasia: A Systematic Search and Scoping Review. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(3), 1008-1022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00287
  4. ROTHERMICH K., *Giorio, C., *Falkins, S., *Leonard, L., & Roberts, A. (2021). Nonliteral Language Processing Across the Lifespan. Acta Psychologica, 212, 103213. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103213
  5. Tahmasebifard, N., Ellis, C., Rothermich, K., Fang, X., & Perry, J. L. (2021). Evaluation of the Symmetry of the Levator Veli Palatini Muscle and Velopharyngeal Closure Among a Noncleft Adult Population. The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal: Official Publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, 58(6), 728–735. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1055665620961269
  6. Johnson, E. K., ROTHERMICH K., & Shoenberger, H. (2020). I’ll Have What She’s Having: Parasocial Communication via Social Media Influences on Risk Behavior. The Journal of Social Media in Society, 9(2), 319-334.
  7. ROTHERMICH K., Johnson, E. K., Griffith, R. M., & *Beingolea, M. M. The Influence of Personality Traits on Attitudes Towards Climate Change–An Exploratory Study. Personality and Individual Differences, 168, 110304. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110304
  8. Ellis, C., Peach, R. K., & ROTHERMICH K. (2020). Relative Weight Analysis of the Western Aphasia Battery. Aphasiology, 35(10), 1-12. DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02687038.2020.1787947
  9. ROTHERMICH K., Caivano, O., Knoll, L. J., & Talwar, V. (2020). Do They Really Mean it? Children’s Inference of Speaker Intentions and the Role of Age and Gender. Language and Speech, 63(4), 689- 712. DOI: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0023830919878742
  10. Giles, R. M., ROTHERMICH K.& Pell, M. D. (2019). Differences in the Evaluation of Prosocial Lies: A Cross-cultural Study of Canadian, Chinese and German Adults. Frontiers in Communication, 4, 38. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00038
  11. ROTHERMICH K., *Harris, H.L., Sewell, K., & Bobb, S.C. (2019). Listener Impressions of Foreigner-Directed Speech: ASysttematic Review. Speech Communication, 112, 22-29. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16/j.specom.2019.07.002
  12.  Bobb, S. C., Mello, K., Turco, E., Lemes, L., Fernandez, E., & ROTHERMICH K., (2019). Second Language Learners’ Listener Impressions of Foreigner-Directed Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_JSLHR-S-18-0392
  13. Schwartz R., ROTHERMICH K.,1, Kotz, S.A., Pell, M.D (2018). Unaltered Emotional Experience in Parkinson’s Disease: Pupillometry and Behavioral Evidence. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 40:3, 303-316. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2017.1343802
  1. Fish, K., ROTHERMICH K., Pell., M.D. (2017). The Sound of (In)sincerity. Journal of Pragmatics, 121, 147-161. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2017.10.008
  2. Pell, M.D., ROTHERMICH, K., Liu, P., Paulmann, S., Sethi, S., & Rigoulot, S (2015). Preferential Decoding of Emotion from Human Non-linguistic Vocalizations versus Speech Prosody. Biological Psychology, 111, 14-25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.08.008
  3. ROTHERMICH, K., & Pell, M.D (2015). Introducing RISC: A New Video Inventory for Testing Social Perception. PloS one, 10(7), 1-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133902
  4. Pell, M.D., Monetta, L., ROTHERMICH, K., Kotz S.A., Cheang, H.S., & McDonald, S. (2014). Social Perception in Adults with Parkinson’s Disease. Neuropsychology, 28(6), 905–916. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000090
  5. Paquette, S., Mignault Goulet, G., & ROTHERMICH, K. (2013). Prediction, Attention and Unconscious Processing in Hierarchical Auditory Perception. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 955. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00955
  6. ROTHERMICH, K., & Kotz, S.A. (2013). Predictions in Speech Comprehension: fMRI Evidence on the Meter-Semantic Interface. NeuroImage, 70, 89–100. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.12.013
  7. ROTHERMICH, K., Schmidt-Kassow, M. & Kotz, S. A. (2012). Rhythm’s Gonna Get You: Regular Meter Facilitates Semantic Sentence Processing. Neuropsychologia, 50(2), 232–244. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.10.025
  8. Schwartze, M., ROTHERMICH, K. & Kotz, S. A. (2012). Functional Dissociation of Pre-SMA and SMA- proper in Temporal Processing. NeuroImage, 60(1), 290–298. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.11.089
  9. Schwartze, M., ROTHERMICH, K., Schmidt-Kassow, M. & Kotz, S. A. (2011). Temporal Regularity Effects on Pre-attentive and Attentive Processing of Deviance. Biological Psychology, 87(1), 146–151. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.02.021
  10. Schmidt-Kassow, M., ROTHERMICH, K., Schwartze, M., & Kotz, S. A. (2011). Did You Get the Beat? Late Proficient French-German Learners Extract Strong-weak Patterns in Tonal but not in Linguistic Sequences. NeuroImage, 54(1), 568-76. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.07.062
  11. ROTHERMICH, K., Schmidt-Kassow, M., Schwartze, M., & Kotz, S. A. (2010). Event-related Potential Responses to Metric Violations: Rules versus Meaning. Neuroreport, 21(8), 580-584.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0b013e32833a7da7
  12. Schmidt-Kassow, M., Kulka, A., Gunter, T. C., ROTHERMICH, K., & Kotz, S. A. (2010). Exercising During Learning Improves Vocabulary Acquisition: Behavioral and ERP Evidence. Neuroscience Letters, 482(1), 40-44. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2010.06.089

EDITED VOLUMES

  1. Kotz, S. A., ROTHERMICH, K., & Schmidt-Kassow, M. (2015). The Role Of Default Stress Patterns

    in German Monolingual and L2 Sentence Processing. In R. Vogel & R. Vijver (Ed.), Rhythm in Cognition and Grammar: A Germanic Perspective (pp. 83-110). Berlin, München, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110378092.83

  2. Kotz, S. A., ROTHERMICH, K., & Schmidt-Kassow, M. (2013). Neurokognition des Sprachverstehens bei Gesunden und Patienten mit Fokalen Zerebralen Läsionen. [Neurocognition of Speech Comprehension in Healthy Subjects and Patients with Focal Cerebral Lesions.]. In E. Schröger, & S. Koelsch (Eds.).: Enzyklopädie der Psychologie/Themenbereich C: Theorie und Forschung/Kognition/Affektive und Kognitive Neurowissenschaft. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
  3. Kotz, S. A., ROTHERMICH, K., & Schmidt-Kassow, M. (2012). Sentence Comprehension in Healthy and Brain–Damaged Populations. In Miriam Faust (Ed.): The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language. New York: Wiley Blackwell.