Department of Psychology > People > Faculty > Joseph Magliano
Joseph Magliano, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language and
Literacy (CISLL)
Professor of Psychology
Phone: (815)753-0805
Fax: (815)753-8088
jmagliano@niu.edu
Office: PM 361
EDUCATION
Ph.D.: University of Memphis 1992
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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.
FREQUENTLY TAUGHT CLASSES
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Psych 245 Critical Thinking
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Psych 412 Learning and Memory
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Psych 400 The Psychology of Language
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Psych 510 Cognitive Psychology
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
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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
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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.
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Magliano, J.P., Taylor, H.A., & Kim, H.J. (2005). When goals collide: monitoring the goals of
multiple characters. Memory & Cognition, 33, 1357-1367.
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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.
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Wolfe, M.B., Magliano, J.P., & Larsen, B. (2005). Causal and semantic relatedness in discourse
understanding and representation. Discourse Processes, 39, 165-187.
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Wahlberg, T., & Magliano, J. P. (2004). The ability of high function individuals with autism to
comprehend written texts. Discourse Processes, 38, 119-144.
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Magliano, J.P., & Millis, K.K. (2003). Assessing reading skill with a think-aloud procedure.
Cognition and Instruction. 21, 251-283.
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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.
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Magliano, J. P., Miller, J., & Zwaan, R. A. (2001). Indexing space and time in film understanding.
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 15, 533-545.
REPRESENTATIVE GRANTS
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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
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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.
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