Gail+McKoon

submitted by Brandi Gutierrez __** Gail McKoon works at Ohio State University in the department of Psychology. Her teaching interests are Graduate and Undergraduate Courses in: Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Language, Memory, Reading, Statistics, and Experimental Design. McKoon’s research interests are psycholinguistics, reading, human memory, and knowledge representation. McKoon received her academic training as follows: University of Iowa, B. Sc., 1969, Psychology & Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, M. Sc., 1970, Psychology, University of Colorado, Ph. D., 1975, Psychology. She has been a professor and researcher at various universities. Professor, Ohio State University, beginning July 2003; Professor, Northwestern University, 1983 – 2003; Senior Research Associate, Yale University, July 1981 - Sept. 1983; Research Associate (Estes), Rockefeller University, March - Sept. 1979; Visiting Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, 1977 – 1981; Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, 1976-77. Her honors include but are not limited to: Phi Beta Kappa, University of Iowa, 1969, NSF Summer Research Fellowships, University of Iowa, 1968, 69, National Merit Scholar, 1965-66, designated by the Social Science Citation Indices as one of the 50 "Highest Impact Authors" across all research areas of psychology, 1985-1990, and elected to Society for Experimental Psychologists, March, 2002. Gail McKoon can be reached at: Ohio State University Dept of Psychology 291 Psychology Building 1835 Neil Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 email: mckoon.1@osu.edu 614-292-7888 Ratcliff, R., Schmiedek, F., & McKoon, G. (2008). [|A diffusion model explanation of the worst performance rule for reaction time and IQ.] //Intelligence//, //36//, 10-17. Ratcliff, R., & McKoon, G. (2008). [|Passive parallel automatic minimalist processing.] In, //Better than Conscious? Decision Making, the Human Mind, and Implications for Institutions//, C. Engel & W. Singer, (Eds.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Ratcliff, R., & McKoon, G. (2008). [|The diffusion decision model: Theory and data for two-choice decision tasks.] //Neural Computation//, //20//, 873-922. McKoon, G., & Ratcliff, R. (2008). [|Meanings, Propositions, and Verbs.] //Psychonomic Bulletin and Review//, In press. Passive Parallel Automatic Minimalist Processing Research for which the idea that many basic cognitive processes can be described as fast, parallel, and automatic is reviewed. Memory retrieval/decision processes have often been ignored in the cognitive literature. However, in some cases, computationally complex processes can be replaced with simple passive processes. Cue-dependent retrieval from memory provides a straightforward example of how encoding, memory, and retrieval can interact. Three other examples are reviewed: inference in text processing, compound cue models for priming, and implicit memory. In each case, the research benefit from a focus on retrieval and decision processes. For implicit memory, consideration of these kinds of processes leads to a view of implicit memory different than hypothesizing new specialized memory systems. Finally, how behavioral data from simple decisions and the models that explain the behavior can be related to neuroscience research on neural firing rates are discussed.
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