Education
B.A. St. Olaf College, 1994
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2004
Research Interests
Comprehension and memory of narratives, inference-making during reading, verbal intonation, hemisphere differences for aspects of language comprehension.
Courses Taught
PSYC 101: Introductory Psychology (team taught)
PSYC 221: Cognitive Psychology
PSYC 325: Psychology of Language
PSYC 401: Psychological Issues (team taught)
Selected Publications
- Sundermeier, B., Virtue, S., Marsolek, C. J., & van den Broek, P. (in
press). Familiarity of causal inference scenarios: Evidence for dissociable
neural mechanisms. Brain and Language - Sundermeier, B., van den Broek, P., & Zwaan, R. (2005). Availability of
objects and locations during text comprehension. Memory & Cognition, 33(3),
462-470. - Linderholm, T., Gernsbacher, M. A., van den Broek, P., Neninde, L.,
Robertson, R., & Sundermeier, B. (2004). Suppression of story character
goals during reading. Discourse Processes, 37(1), 67-78.