Libben Gary
In memoriam
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Biography
Gary Libben held a BA in Psychology and an MA in Applied Linguistics from Concordia University, as well as a PhD in Linguistics from McGill University. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a former President of the Canadian Linguistic Association, co-founder of the journal The Mental Lexicon, and the Founding Director of the University of Alberta’s Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics. He also served as Vice-President, Research, at Brock University.
Research interests
Gary Libben’s research addressed the question of how structurally complex words are represented and processed in the mind. He conducted psycholinguistic laboratory investigations on how words were processed across languages, how they were represented in the minds of bilinguals, and how their processing could be impaired as a result of brain damage. His research projects also included the study of psycholinguistic aspects of writing and lexical processing in interpersonal contexts.