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Danielle S. McNamara Associate Professor, Director of Cognitive Psychology Experimental (Cognitive) Psychology Building, Room 434 FedEx Institute for Technology, Room 403 901.678.2326 (telephone) 901.678.2579 (fax) d.mcnamara@mail.psyc.memphis.edu website

Education

Ph.D., University of Colorado
M.A., Wichita State University
B.A., University of Kansas

Research Interests

• Text Comprehension
• Human Memory
• Computer Automated Reading Strategy Training
• Cognitive Applications to Educational Practice
• Human Factors

Recent Publications

• McNamara, D. S. (Ed.). Reading Comprehension Strategies: Theory, Interventions, and Technologies. Erlbaum: Mahwah, NJ.
• McNamara, D. S., Boonthum, C., Levinstein, I.  B., & Millis, K. (in press). Evaluating self-explanations in iSTART: comparing word-based and LSA algorithms. In T. Landauer, D. S. McNamara, S. Dennis, & W. Kintsch (Eds.), Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• McNamara, D. S., McDevitt-Murphy, M. E., Stout, R. L., Zywiak, W. H., & Schneider, R. J. (2006). Prospectively occurring trauma in a sample of patients treated for alcohol dependence. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 30, 46.
• McNamara, D. S., Ozuru, Y., Graesser, A. C., Louwerse, M. (2006). Validating Coh-Metrix. In R. Son (Ed.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meetings of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 573-578). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.