Biography

University at Buffalo Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) - Psychology

Ph.D Candidate and Adjunct Faculty
Research
Tim A.
Pruitt
Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area
My primary passion is teaching the science of Psychology at the collegiate level. I have been fortunate to do this for the past ten years in both a formal classroom setting as well as mentoring undergraduates during their own academic pursuits. Over this time I have taught Introductory Psychology, Human Development, Cognitive Psychology, and Psychological Statistics courses at a variety of institutions. In doing so, I have experience teaching and managing class sizes from as small as 10 students to as large as 250 students.

Not only do I teach Psychology as a science, but I actively engage in research related to the field. Broadly put, my research interests involve auditory perception and cognition. I have published research examining how humans process self-generated auditory events (i.e. singing musical notes or producing speech) in order to maintain fluent production. My dissertation research examines the relationship between auditory imagery (i.e. imagination of a melody/song) and subvocalization as related to singing performance. I am attempting to capture subvocalization in this context by using surface electromyography (sEMG) to measure the covert activity of extrinsic laryngeal muscles during silent rehearsal of to-be-remembered melodies.

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