Biography
Dr. April Drumm-Hewitt teaches students as a professor in class, advises students to build and achieve their academic plans, and mentors students one-on-one to plan and carry out independent research projects in psychology and neuroscience. Liberal arts colleges like Simpson offer students uniquely personalized education through small class sizes, and experiences like study abroad and one-on-one research projects. Dr. Drumm-Hewitt is glad to have had those experiences herself as an undergraduate at a small college, and is proud to be able to offer strong academic support to her own students at Simpson.
Expertise
Dr. April Drumm-Hewitt brings an expertise in Cognitive Psychology to the Psychology Department. Cognitive Psychology is the study mental processes such as sensation, perception, attention, memory, language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making.
Courses taught at Simpson:
Introduction to Psychology
Statistical Methods
Cognitive Psychology
Psychology of Language
Sensation and Perception
Cognitive Neuroscience
Ethics of Neuroscience
Simpson Colloquium: Humans are Dumb
Awards
Distinguished Faculty Research Award, Simpson College, 2017
Credentials
PhD Cognitive Psychology – Binghamton University (SUNY), 2012
MS Psychology – Binghamton University (SUNY), 2009
BA Psychology – The College of New Jersey, 2007
Publications
Gunraj, D.N., Drumm-Hewitt, A.M., Dashow, E.M., Upadhyay, S.S.N., & Klin, C.M. (2016). Texting insincerely: The role of the period in text messaging. Computers in Human Behavior, 56, 1067-1075, Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.11.003
Gunraj, D.N., Drumm-Hewitt, A.M., & Klin, C.M. (2013). Embodiment during reading: Simulating a story character’s linguistic actions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0034853
Drumm, A.M. & Klin, C.M. (2011). When story characters communicate: Readers' representations of characters' linguistic exchanges. Memory & Cognition, 39(7), 1348-1357. doi: 10.3758/s13421-011-0096-x
Klin, C.M., & Drumm, A.M. (2010). Seeing what they read and hearing what they say: Readers’ representation of the story characters’ world. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17(2), 231-236. doi: 10.3758/PBR.17.2.231
Klin, C.M., Drumm, A.M., & Ralano, A.S. (2009). Repeated text in unrelated passages: Repetition versus meaning selection effects. Memory & Cognition, 37 (5), 556-568. doi: 10.3758/MC.37.5.556