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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
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Maryellen C. MacDonald
Professor
Ph.D. 1986, University of California-Los Angeles

Email: mcmacdonald@wisc.edu


Research Interests:
  • Human language comprehension, language production and the relationship between these skills
  • The role of experience in language processing in adults and children
  • The relationship between language processing and verbal working memory abilities
  • Language processing abilities in healthy aging and in Alzheimer's Disease
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

MacDonald, M.C. & Christiansen, M.H. (2002). Reassessing working memory: A comment on Just & Carpenter (1992) and Waters & Caplan (1996). Psychological Review 109, 35-54.

MacDonald, M.C. (1999). Distributional information in language comprehension, production, and acquisition: Three puzzles and a more. In B. MacWhinney (Ed.), The Emergence of Language. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Haskell, T.R. & MacDonald, M.C. (2005). Constituent structure and linear order in language production: Evidence from subject verb agreement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition 35, 891-904.

Haskell, T.R., MacDonald, M.C., & Seidenberg, M.S. (2003). Language learning and innateness: Some implications of compunds research. Congitive Psychology 47, 119-163.

MacDonald, M.C., Almor, A., Henderson, V.W., Kempler, D., & Andersen, E.S. (2001). Assessing working memory and language comprehension in Alzheimer's Disease. Brain and Language 78, 17-42.


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