Joseph Magliano, Ph.D.Phone: (815)753-0805
Fax: (815)753-8088
jmagliano@niu.edu
Office: 361 Psychology
B.A. University of Dayton 1987
M.A. University of Memphis 1990
Ph.D. University of Memphis 1992
My research focuses on how people understand what they read and watch (e.g., understanding a movie). I’m interested in understanding the mental processes that support comprehension and the nature of memory representations that we create for events depicted in text and film. I’m also interested in developing new ways to detect struggling readers and help them become successful comprehenders.
Psych 245 Critical Thinking
Psych 412 Learning and Memory
Psych 400 The Psychology of Language
Psych 510 Cognitive Psychology
Magliano, J.P., Skowronski, J.J., Britt, M.A., Güss, C.D., & Forsythe, C. (2008). What do you want? How perceivers use cues to make goal inferences about others. Cognition, 106, 594-632
Milllis, K.K., Magliano, J.P., & Todaro, S. (2006). Measuring discourse-level processes with verbal protocols and latent semantic analysis. Scientific Studies of Reading, 10, 251-283.
Magliano, J.P., Taylor, H.A., & Kim, H.J. (2005). When goals collide: monitoring the goals of multiple characters. Memory & Cognition, 33, 1357-1367.
Magliano, J.P., Todaro, S. Millis, K.K., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Kim, H..J. & McNamara, D.S. (2005). Changes in reading strategies as a function of reading training: A comparison of live and computerized training. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 32, 185-208.
Wolfe, M.B., Magliano, J.P., & Larsen, B. (2005). Causal and semantic relatedness in discourse understanding and representation. Discourse Processes, 39, 165-187.
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., & 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.
US Department of Education grant for “Acquiring research investigative and evaluative skills (ARIES) for scientific inquiry ” (September 2007-August 2011). K.,K. Millis (Project Director), M. A., Britt (Co-PI), J. P., Maglianom (C0-PI), K. Wiemer-Hasting (Co-PI), $1.986,743
US Department of Education grant for “Assessing reading skill with verbal protocols and latent semantic analysis” (July 2004-June 2008). J.P. Magliano (PI) & K.,K. Millis (Co-PI), $1.560,506.