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Joe Magliano

Joseph Magliano, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology

Department  of Psychology
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, Illinois 60115
(815)753-0805
jmagliano@niu.edu

Office:  361 Psychology   |   FAX:  (815)-753-8088    |   Personal Webpage

    EDUCATION

B.A. University of Dayton 1987
M.A. University of Memphis 1990
Ph.D. University of Memphis 1992

    RESEARCH INTERESTS

    Text and Movie Comprehension, Inference Generation, Reading comprehension assessment, Literacy Education, Knowledge Representation and Organization, Mental Models.

    FREQUENTLY TAUGHT CLASSES

Psych 245   Critical Thinking 
Psych 412   Learning and Memory
Psych 400   The Psychology of Language
Psych 510   Cognitive Psychology

    REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Wolfe, M.B., Magliano, J.P., & Larsen, B. (in press). Causal and semantic relatedness in discourse understanding and representation. Discourse Processes.

Wahlberg, T., & Magliano, J. P. (2004). The ability of high function individuals with autism to comprehend written texts. Discourse Processes, 38, 119-144.

Magliano, J.P., & Millis, K.K. (2003). Assessing reading skill with a think-aloud procedure. Cognition and Instruction. 21, 251-283.

Magliano, J.P., Wiemer-Hastings, K Millis, K. K., Munoz, B.D., and & McNamara, D (2002). Using Latent Semantic Analysis to Assess Reader Strategies. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 34, 181-188.

Magliano, J. P., Miller, J., & Zwaan, R. A. (2001). Indexing space and time in film understanding. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 15, 533-545.

Magliano, J.P., & Radvansky, G.A. (2001). Goal coordination in narrative comprehension. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 8, 372-376.

Magliano, J. P., & Schleich, M. (2000). Verb aspect and situation models. Discourse Processes, 29, 83-112.

 

    REPRESENTATIVE GRANTS

US Department of Education grant for “Assessing reading skill with verbal protocols and latent semantic analysis” (July 2004-June 2008). J.P Maglinao (PI) & K.,K Millis (Co-PI), $1.560,506.

Research contract from Sandia National Laboratories for "Testing a model of situation recognition (January 2002 - September 2004)." $100,000.

NSF Subcontract Grant (CFDA No. 47.076), "Promoting Active Reading Strategies to Improve Students Understanding of Science," (2001-2006), K. Millis, J. Magliano, & K. Wiemer-Hastings (Co-Pls), $600,253.


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