Phillip Wolff, Ph.D.

321 Psychology Building
Department of Psychology
Emory University
532 N. Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322 

Phone: (404) 727-7140
Fax: (404) 727-0372
Email: pwolff@emory.edu

Phillip Wolff received his MA and PhD degrees from Northwestern University. He comes to Emory from the University of Memphis, where he was Assistant Professor of Psychology. His research concerns the relationship between language and cognition, with particular interests in the relationship between word meaning and cognition in first and second language learners. He also has interests in computational models of causal meaning and reasoning.

• Courses Currently Taught
• PSYC 471S/LING 385S: Words and the World: How Words Capture Human Experience
• PSYC 507: Core Seminar in Knowledge and Conceptual Processes
• Research
• Description of Research
• Cognitive and Linguistic Systems Lab
• Recent Publications