Maryellen MacDonald
Expert on language comprehension, language comprehension, and the relationship between memory and language use
Professor, psychology College of Letters and Science Work: 608-262-3986 — Home and cell phones available upon request mcmacdonald@wisc.edu Home page Twitter: @mcmacdonald
Topics
- Language skill learning through the whole lifespan, not just in childhood
- Memory limitations and how they effect language production and comprehension
- Language production: why we make errors, how we learn from them
- Effects of prior language experience (such as dialect and amount of reading) on language comprehension and production
Achievements
- Distinguished Honors Faculty Award, 2014 (a teaching award from the UW College of Letters & Science Honors Program)
- WARF Professorship, 2012
- Fellow, Association for Psychological Science