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Maryellen C. MacDonald is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans several fields including psychology, neuroscience, and computer science, with a particular focus on developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

The main topics covered in their work include neurobiology of language and bilingualism, language development and disorders, reading and literacy development, topic modeling, action observation and synchronization, natural language processing techniques, and speech and dialogue systems.

Maryellen C. MacDonald has authored multiple research papers published in various academic venues. Recent publications include:

  • "Verbal Working Memory as Emergent from Language Comprehension and Production," 2020, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • "Exploring the Relationship Between Fiction Reading and Emotion Recognition," 2021, Affective Science
  • "Good-Enough Production: Selecting Easier Words Instead of More Accurate Ones," 2022, Psychological Science
  • "Is Language Production Planning Emergent From Action Planning? A Preliminary Investigation," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Expert musical improvisations contain sequencing biases seen in language production," 2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology General

Frequent publication venues for their research include the Journal of Experimental Psychology General, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Affective Science, Psychological Science, and Frontiers in Psychology. The Journal of Experimental Psychology General features their work most often.

Collaborative work is a significant aspect of Maryellen C. MacDonald's research. Notable frequent co-authors include Steven C. Schwering, Daniel J. Weiss, Arella E. Gussow, Cassandra L. Jacobs, and Mark Koranda.

Best Publications

  • The lexical nature of syntactic ambiguity resolution

    Maryellen C. MacDonald;Neal J. Pearlmutter;Mark S. Seidenberg

  • Reassessing Working Memory: Comment on Just and Carpenter (1992) and Waters and Caplan (1996)

    Maryellen C. MacDonald;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Working memory constraints on the processing of syntactic ambiguity

    Maryellen C MacDonald;Marcel Adam Just;Patricia A Carpenter

  • How language production shapes language form and comprehension.

    Maryellen C. MacDonald

  • Probabilistic constraints and syntactic ambiguity resolution

    Maryellen C. MacDonald

  • Experience and Sentence Processing: Statistical Learning and Relative Clause Comprehension.

    Justine B. Wells;Morten H. Christiansen;David S. Race;Daniel J. Acheson

  • A Probabilistic Constraints Approach to Language Acquisition and Processing

    Mark S. Seidenberg;Maryellen C. MacDonald

  • New and updated tests of print exposure and reading abilities in college students

    Daniel J. Acheson;Justine B. Wells;Maryellen C. MacDonald

  • Verbal working memory and language production: Common approaches to the serial ordering of verbal information.

    Daniel J. Acheson;Maryellen C. MacDonald

  • Resolution of quantifier scope ambiguities

    Howard S. Kurtzman;Maryellen C. MacDonald

  • Why Do Alzheimer Patients Have Difficulty with Pronouns? Working Memory, Semantics, and Reference in Comprehension and Production in Alzheimer's Disease ☆ ☆☆

    Amit Almor;Daniel Kempler;Maryellen C. MacDonald;Elaine S. Andersen

  • Individual Differences and Probabilistic Constraints in Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution

    Neal J. Pearlmutter;Maryellen C. MacDonald

  • Semantic indeterminacy in object relative clauses

    Silvia P. Gennari;Maryellen C. MacDonald

  • Changes in activation levels with negation.

    Maryellen C. MacDonald;Marcel A. Just

  • The interaction of lexical and syntactic ambiguity

    M.C. Macdonald

  • Phrasal Ordering Constraints in Sentence Production: Phrase Length and Verb Disposition in Heavy-NP Shift

    Lynne M. Stallings;Maryellen C. MacDonald;Padraig G. O'Seaghdha

  • Linking production and comprehension processes: the case of relative clauses.

    Silvia P. Gennari;Maryellen C. MacDonald

  • A Usage-Based Approach to Recursion in Sentence Processing

    Morten H. Christiansen;Maryellen C. MacDonald

  • Plausibility and grammatical agreement

    Robert Thornton;Maryellen C MacDonald

  • Animacy and competition in relative clause production: a cross-linguistic investigation.

    Silvia P. Gennari;Jelena Mirković;Maryellen C. MacDonald

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark S. Seidenberg
Mark S. Seidenberg University of Wisconsin–Madison
Morten H. Christiansen
Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University
Lorraine K. Tyler
Lorraine K. Tyler University of Cambridge
Marcel Adam Just
Marcel Adam Just Carnegie Mellon University
Jenny R. Saffran
Jenny R. Saffran University of Wisconsin–Madison
David C. Plaut
David C. Plaut Carnegie Mellon University
Brian MacWhinney
Brian MacWhinney Carnegie Mellon University
Timothy T. Rogers
Timothy T. Rogers University of Wisconsin–Madison

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