Gail McKoon
g-mckoon@nwu.edu

Swift Hall, Room113
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208

847-491-7701


Research Interests:

Psycholinguistics, reading, human memory, knowledge representation.

Recent Publications: (Full listing)

These articles are not in final form (APA copyeditors alter things like meanings randomly). Any citation or quotations should come from the journal versions. Any articles not published should not be cited.

Allbritton, D. W., McKoon, G., & Gerrig, R. (1994). Metaphor-based schemas and text representations: Making connections through conceptual metaphors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 1-14.

Ratcliff, R., & McKoon, G. (1995). Bias and explicit memory in priming of object decisions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 511-526.

Greene, S. B., Gerrig, R. J., McKoon, G., & Ratcliff, R. (1994). Unheralded pronouns and the management of common ground. Journal of Memory and Language, 33, 511-526.

Ratcliff, R. & McKoon, G. (1995). Sequential Effects in Lexical Decision: Tests of Compound Cue Retrieval Theory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 1380-1388.

McKoon, G., & Ratcliff, R. (1994). Levels of representation for linguistic information: Evidence from studies of verb phrase anaphora. Submitted.

McKoon, G., & Ratcliff, R. (1994). Sentential context and on-line lexical decision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 1239-1243.

McKoon, G., & Ratcliff, R. (1995). The minimalist hypothesis: Directions for research. In C. Weaver, S. Mannes, & R. Fletcher (Eds.), Discourse comprehension: Essays in honor of Walter Kintsch, pp. 97-116. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Ratcliff, R., van Zandt, T., & McKoon, G. (1995).Two Factor Theory, Single Process Theories, and Recognition Memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 124, 352-374.

McKoon, G., & Ratcliff, R. (1995) Conceptual combination and relational contexts. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2, 527-533.

Ratcliff, R., Albritton, D.W., & McKoon, G. (1996). Bias in auditory priming. In Press, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. .

McKoon, G., Gerrig, R. J., & Greene, S. B. (1996). Pronoun resolution without pronouns: Some consequences of memory based text processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 22, 919-932.

Ratcliff, R., & McKoon, G. (1996). Biases in implicit memory tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 125, 403-421.

McKoon, G., & Ratcliff, R. (1996). Separating implicit from explicit retrieval processes in perceptual identification. Consciousness and Cognition, 5, 500-511.

McKoon, G., Allbritton, D.W., & Ratcliff, R. (1997). Sentential context effects on lexical decisions with a cross-modal instead of an all-visual procedure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 23, 143-152.

Ratcliff, R., Allbritton, D.W., & McKoon, G. (1997). Bias in auditory priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 23, 143-152.

Ratcliff, R., & McKoon, G. (1997). A counter model for implicit priming in perceptual word identification. Psychological Review, 104, 319-343.

McKoon, G., & Ratcliff, R. (1997). Optional? Episodic priming in lexical decision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Under revision.

McKoon, G., & Ratcliff, R. (1998). Memory based language processing: Psycholinguistic research in the 1990's. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 25-42.

Ratcliff, R., van Zandt, T, & McKoon, G. (1999). Connectionist and diffusion models of reaction time. Psychological Review, 106, 261-300.

Gerrig, R., & McKoon, G. (1998). The readiness is all: The functionality of memory-based text processing. Invited article, Discourse Processes, 26, 67-86.

Ratcliff, R., Rouder, J.F. & McKoon, G. (1999). A neural network model of implicit memory in object recognition. Psychological Science, 11, 13-19.

Ratcliff, R., Spieler, D., & McKoon, G. (2000). Explicitly modeling the effects of aging on response time. In Press, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.

McKoon, G., & Ratcliff, R. (2000). Bias in the counter model. In press, Psychological Review.

Ratcliff, R., & McKoon, G. (1999). Mathematical models of memory. In E. Tulving and F.I.M. Craik (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Memory. In press.

McKoon, G. & Macfarland, T. (2000). The interaction of syntax and semantics in the lexical representations of verbs. Submitted.

McKoon, G. & Macfarland, T. (2000). Externally and internally caused change of state verbs. In press, Language.

McKoon, G. & Macfarland, T. (2000). Complexity in the meaning and structure of verbs. Submitted.

Ratcliff, R. & McKoon, G. (2000). Modeling the effects of repetition and word frequency in perceptual identification. In Press, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.

Gerrig, R., & McKoon, G. (2000). Memory processes and experiential continuity. In press, Psychological Science.

McKoon, G., & Ratcliff, R. (1995). How Should Implicit Memory Phenomena Be Modeled? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 777-784.

Allbritton, D.W., McKoon, G., & Ratcliff, R. (1996). The reliability of prosodic cues for resolving syntactic ambiguity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 22, 714-735.

McKoon, G., Allbritton, D.W., & Ratcliff, R. (1996). Sentential context effects on lexical decisions with cross-model and all-visual procedures. In Press, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

REVISED: Ratcliff, R., & McKoon, G. (1996). A Counter Model for Implicit Priming in Perceptual Word Identification. Submitted.

Greene, S. B., & McKoon, G. (1995). Telling something we can't know: Experimental approaches to verbs exhibiting implicit causality. Psychological Science, 6, 262-270.

McKoon, G., Gerrig, R. J., & Greene, S. B. (1996). Pronoun Resolution without Pronouns: Some Consequences of Memory Based Text Processing. In Press, Journal of Experimental Psychol ogy: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Ratcliff, R., & McKoon, G. (1996). Bias Effects in Implicit Memory Tasks Processing. In Press, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.