Education
2017-
- Ph.D., Cogntive Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2014-2017
- B.A., Linguistics, Computer Science and Cognitive Science of Language (individualized major), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Summa cum laude
- Senior thesis advisors: Karin Stromswold and Paul de Lacy
Appointments
2016-2017
- Research Assistant, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Deparment of Psychology
- Supervised by Karin Stromswold
2017-2019
- Teacher’s Assistantship, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Deparment of Psychology
Presentations
2019
- Knutsen, S., Stromswold, K., Kleinschmidt, D., Segmental duration as a cue to sentence structure, Poster presentation, 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boulder CO, March 29-31, 2019
- Knutsen, S., Stromswold, K., Kleinschmidt, D., Segmental duration as a cue to sentence structure, Poster presentation, 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Louisville, KY, May 13-17, 2019
Teaching
Fall 2017
- Teaching Assistant: Cognition and Psychology of Language, Rutgers University.
- Graded essays and exams, held office hours
Spring 2018
- Teaching Assistant: Sensation and Perception, Rutgers University.
Fall 2018- Spring 2019
- Instructor: Online Cogntion Lab, Rutgers University
- Lead a writing intensive course helping students to perform experiments and learn the process behind writing a research paper
- Lead weekly online discussions; developed, graded and provided feedback on weekly exercises.
Summer 2019
- Instructor: Psychology of Language, Rutgers University
Honors and Awards
- Henry Rutgers Scholar, Rutgers University, 2017. For outstanding interdisciplinary thesis in cognitive science: “Isolating the Elusive Verb Stem Vowel”
- Member, Phi Beta Kappa honors society, inducted 2017.
- Dean’s List, Rutgers Unversity, 2014-2017
- CUNY 2019 Student Travel Award, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2019