Zenzi Griffin
The University of Texas at Austin
Zenzi M. Griffin is a Professor of Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin with courtesy appointments in Linguistics and Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. She has a BA in Psychology from Michigan State University and a PhD in Cognitive Psychology with a minor in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before moving to UT Austin in 2008, she served on the Psychology faculties at Stanford and Georgia Tech. Dr. Griffin studies the psychological processes that result in speech. She has been particularly concerned with how far in advance people plan the words and sentence structures for their utterances and how this planning affects fluency. She pioneered the use of eye tracking to study sentence production. Current projects also address the learning and retrieval of personal names.