Brooke Breaux
- Faculty
- Leadership
- Interim Department Head
- Assistant Professor
- 337-482-6584
- brooke.breaux@louisiana.edu
- Girard Hall, Room 214
Education
Ph.D. in Cognitive Science, 2013
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
B.S., 2005
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Student Research/Collaboration
- Language and Cognition
- Death-related Language
- Lexical Semantics
- Metaphor
- Psycholinguistics
Publications
- Breaux, B. O., *Allam, A., *Alexander, T., & *Ortego, A. (2025). Resolving the ambiguity of “in” and “on” across spatial and abstract contexts. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47, 1641-1647. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6nc1b62s
- Michael, R. B., & Breaux, B. O. (2021). The relationship between political affiliation and beliefs about sources of “fake news.” Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6(6), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00278-1 [Direct access: https://rdcu.be/cfbJC]
- Breaux, B. O., *LaSalle, J. L., *Lute, P., **Brousse, C., & *Mijares, C. (2019). Is it better to be in shape or on top of it? The impact of control, valence, and expectedness on non-spatial uses of in and on. In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1422-1428). Cognitive Science Society. https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cogsci19_proceedings-8July2019-compressed.pdf
- Breaux, B. O. (2016). The language of death and dying. The Rehabilitation Professional, 24(2), 59-68. https://connect.rehabpro.org/newwww/publications/rehabproindex/rpivolumes24-20/volume24number2
- Breaux, B. O., & Feist, M. I. (2010). Extending beyond space. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1601-1606). Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8n2027g8