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Janice M. Keenan is affiliated with the University of Denver in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology, with a focus on developmental and educational psychology as well as statistics and probability. Additional subfields of study include education, experimental and cognitive psychology, and literature and literary theory.

Their main research topics cover areas such as reading and literacy development, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, writing and handwriting education, language, metaphor, and cognition, and discourse analysis in language studies.

The following are the recent papers authored or co-authored by Janice M. Keenan:

  • How Specific Are Learning Disabilities?, 2021, Journal of Learning Disabilities
  • Revolutions in the emergence of discourse processes research, 2024, Discourse Processes

Frequent co-authors include Robin L. Peterson, Lauren M. McGrath, Erik G. Willcutt, Richard K. Olson, and Bruce F. Pennington.

The venues in which Keenan has most often published are the Journal of Learning Disabilities and Discourse Processes.

Best Publications

  • Reading Comprehension Tests Vary in the Skills They Assess: Differential Dependence on Decoding and Oral Comprehension.

    Janice M. Keenan;Rebecca S. Betjemann;Richard K. Olson

  • Reading rate and retention as a function of the number of propositions in the base structure of sentences

    Walter Kintsch;Janice Keenan

  • Comprehension and recall of text as a function of content variables

    W. Kintsch;E. Kozminsky;W.J. Streby;G. McKoon

  • The effects of causal cohesion on comprehension and memory

    Janice M. Keenan;Susan D. Baillet;Polly Brown

  • Predicting Word Reading and Comprehension with Executive Function and Speed Measures Across Development: A Latent Variable Analysis

    Micaela E. Christopher;Akira Miyake;Janice M. Keenan;Bruce Pennington

  • Assessing the occurrence of elaborative inferences: Lexical decision versus naming

    George R Potts;Janice M Keenan;Jonathan M Golding

  • Pragmatics in memory: A study of natural conversation

    Janice M. Keenan;Brian MacWhinney;Deborah Mayhew

  • The Internal and External Validity of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and its Relation with DSM–IV ADHD

    Erik G. Willcutt;Nomita A Chhabildas;Mikaela Kinnear;John C. DeFries

  • How prior knowledge, WMC, and relevance of information affect eye fixations in expository text.

    Johanna K. Kaakinen;Jukka Hyönä;Janice M. Keenan

  • Imagery in the congenitally blind: How visual are visual images?

    Jerome Zimler;Janice M. Keenan

  • Perspective Effects on Online Text Processing

    Johanna K. Kaakinen;Jukka Hyönä;Janice M. Keenan

  • Comprehending the Gray Oral Reading Test Without Reading It: Why Comprehension Tests Should Not Include Passage-Independent Items

    Janice M. Keenan;Rebecca S. Betjemann

  • Genetic and environmental influences on reading and listening comprehension

    Janice M. Keenan;Rebecca S. Betjemann;Sally J. Wadsworth;John C. DeFries

  • Reading comprehension in children with ADHD: cognitive underpinnings of the centrality deficit.

    Amanda C. Miller;Janice M. Keenan;Rebecca S. Betjemann;Erik G. Willcutt

  • Understanding the complex etiologies of developmental disorders: behavioral and molecular genetic approaches.

    Erik G. Willcutt;Bruce F. Pennington;Laramie Duncan;Shelley D. Smith

  • Which elaborative inferences are drawn during reading? A question of methodologies.

    Janice M. Keenan;George R. Potts;Jonathan M. Golding;Tracy M. Jennings

  • Test Differences in Diagnosing Reading Comprehension Deficits

    Janice M. Keenan;Chelsea E. Meenan

  • The self-reference effect with imagery encoding.

    Polly Brown;Janice M. Keenan;George R. Potts

  • Longitudinal stability and predictors of poor oral comprehenders and poor decoders

    Asa Elwer;Janice M Keenan;Richard K Olson;Richard K Olson;Brian J Byrne;Brian J Byrne

  • Genetic and Environmental Influences on Vocabulary and Reading Development

    Richard K. Olson;Janice M. Keenan;Brian Byrne;Stefan Samuelsson

  • The role of arousal in memory for conversation.

    Brian MacWhinney;Janice M. Keenan;Peter Reinke

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard K. Olson
Richard K. Olson University of Colorado Boulder
Bruce F. Pennington
Bruce F. Pennington University of Denver
Erik G. Willcutt
Erik G. Willcutt University of Colorado Boulder
John C. DeFries
John C. DeFries University of Colorado Boulder
Sally J. Wadsworth
Sally J. Wadsworth University of Colorado Boulder
Brian Byrne
Brian Byrne University of New England
Stefan Samuelsson
Stefan Samuelsson Linköping University
Jukka Hyönä
Jukka Hyönä University of Turku
Jonathan M. Golding
Jonathan M. Golding University of Kentucky
Brian MacWhinney
Brian MacWhinney Carnegie Mellon University

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