Dr. Scott Payne is a Principal Instructional Design Analyst at McGraw-Hill Education. His research seeks to better understand the cognitive burden specific instructional tasks place on learners, with a particular emphasis on how technology-mediated language learning impacts the developmental trajectories of certain learners under specific task demands. To address these questions, I employ a combination of cognitive capacity and language processing measures (i.e. working memory, attentional control, information processing speed, susceptibility to interference, translation recognition, inhibitory control, etc.) together with language performance measures as well as the collection and analysis of naturally-occurring language use in instructional contexts over time. In the recent past, Dr. Payne was the Director of Academic Technology Services at Amherst College.