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MORTON ANN GERNSBACHER
1202 West Johnson Street
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706-1611
(608) 262-6989 [fax (608) 262-4029]
MAGernsb [at] wisc [dot] edu www.Gernsbacherlab.org

EDUCATION

Ph.D. 1983 University of Texas at Austin – Human Experimental Psychology
M.S. 1980 University of Texas at Dallas – Human Development
B.S. 1976 University of North Texas – Spanish, English, Education (Summa Cum Laude)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2003 – Pres. Vilas Research Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1994 – Pres. Sir Frederic C. Bartlett Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1992 – 1994 Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1991 – 1992 Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon
1988 – 1991 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon
1983 – 1988 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon
1980 – 1983 Research/Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
1976 – 1980 High School Teacher, Texas Independent School Districts

HONORS AND AWARDS

2019 Elected Fellow of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Academy
2018 Phi Kappa Phi, National Scholastic Honor Society, Distinguished Scholar Award
2018 Sloan Foundation TIER (Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research) Faculty Fellow
2018 American Psychological Association Outstanding Teaching Resources Award
2017 Lifetime Achievement Award, Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science
2014 Ernest Hilgard Lifetime Achievement Award, American Psychological Association
2014 Psi Chi Distinguished Lecture, Western Psychological Association
2013 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, Society for Text & Discourse
2013 Riccuiti Lecture, Department of Human Development, Cornell University
2010 Distinguished Service to Psychological Science, American Psychological Association
2010 Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Texas at Dallas
2010 Norman Anderson Distinguished Lecture, University of California, San Diego
2009 George A. Miller Award for Outstanding Journal Article in Psychology
2009 Inaugural Lufkin Honorary Lecture, Carleton College
2008 Advisor to the SBE Directorate, National Science Foundation
2008 Caskey Lecture, University of South Carolina
2008 Elected Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
2007 William James Distinguished Lecture, Southeastern Psychological Association
2007 Ferne Forman Fisher Lecture, University of Kansas
2007 John Kendall Lecture, Gustavus Adolphus College
2006 Elected President of the Association for Psychological Science (formerly the American Psychological Society)
2003 Elected Fellow, Society for Experimental Psychologists
2001 Senior Research Fellow, National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health
2001 Faculty Development Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2000 Distinguished Scientist Lecture, American Psychological Association
1999 Vilas Associate Research Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1998 Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Education Award (POWRE), National Science Foundation
1998 Hilldale Award for Distinguished Professional Accomplishment, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1998 James McKeen Cattell Foundation Fellowship
1996 Faculty Development Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1995 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
1994 Named “Sir Frederic C. Bartlett Professor,” University of Wisconsin-Madison
1993 Elected Fellow of the American Psychological Society
1992 Elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association
1991 Inaugural Evan L. Brown Memorial Lecture, University of Nebraska at Omaha
1989 Research Career Development (“K”) Award, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health
1989 Fulbright Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute, The Netherlands
1986 University Recipient of Ersted Award for Distinguished University Teaching, University of Oregon
1982 National Recipient of Edwin B. Newman “Excellence in Research” Award, Psi Chi & American Psychological Association
1981 Phi Kappa Phi, National Scholastic Honor Society
1981 National Institute of Mental Health Traineeship in Psycholinguistics
1981 Dallenbach Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Accomplishment, University of Texas at Austin

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chair-Elect, Section J (Psychology, 2019-20); Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committee (2012-Present); Elected Member-at-Large (2007-11); Elected Member of the Electorate Nominating Committee (2001-04; Chair, 2003-04, 2013-Present)
American Psychological Association, President, Division 3 (2001-02); Chair of the Board of Scientific Affairs (2001); Elected member of the Board of Scientific Affairs (2000-02); Elected Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee, Division 3 (1994-97; 1998–2001; Chair of the Membership Committee, 1995-98; Chair of Fellows Committee, 2000-01; Chair of Awards Committee, 2010-11); Elected Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee, Division 1 (1997-2000; Chair of the Fellows Committee, 1997-2000)
Association for Psychological Science (formerly, American Psychological Society), President (2006-07); President-Elect (2005-06); Past President (2007-08); Chair of the Publications Committee (2001-05); Member of the Publications Committee (1995-96; 1998-99; 2001-05), Chair of the Program Committee (1997-98); Member of the Nominations Committee (2001-03); Member of the Janet Taylor Spence Award Committee (2012)
Cognitive Science Society, Co-organizer and Program Chair CogSci98, Twentieth Annual Conference (1997-98)
Cornell Institute for Research on Children, Advisory Board (2004-Present)
Federation of Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences, Representative (2000-01)
FABBS Foundation (formerly, Foundation for the Advancement of Behavioral and Brain Sciences), President (2010-11); Board of Advisors (2005-Present)
Midwestern Psychological Association, Program Committee (1995-98)
Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation, Autism and Communication Initiative Advisory Board (2000-02)
National Alliance for Autism Research, Medical Affairs Committee (2001-02)
Phi Kappa Phi, National Love of Learning Committee (2018-20); Chapter President, University ofWisconsin-Madison Chapter (2014-2017); Public Outreach Coordinator, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chapter (2009-2014)
Psychonomic Society, Chair, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review Editor Search Committee (2019); Review Committee (2018-21); Psychonomic Bulletin and Review Editor Search Committee (2015); Governing Board (1996-2001); Membership Committee (1996-98)
Society for Text and Discourse, President (1994-99); Board of Governors (1992-99)
Society for the Teaching of Psychology, International Travel Award Committee, Chair (2018 – 2021)
Women in Cognitive Science, Advisory Board (2008-Present)

Journal Review Activities

Editor, Memory & Cognition (1997-2001)
Co-Editor, Psychological Science in the Public Interest (2004-2007)
Associate Editor, Cognitive Psychology (2003-2015)
Associate Editor, PLoS ONE (2013-2015)
Associate Editor, Language and Cognitive Processes (1994-97)
Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Psychology (1997-99)
Advisory Editor, Human Cognitive Processing series (1996-2006)
Advisory Editor, Narrative Inquiry (1997-2007)

Editorial Boards: Cognitiva (Spain) (1990-2006), Cognitive Linguistics (2005-2007), Discourse Processes (1992-2015), Discourse Studies (1997-Present), Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (1990-95), Learning and Individual Differences (1993-2012), Psychonomic Bulletin and Review (1994-97)

Ad hoc reviewer for American Psychologist; Attention and Performance; Autism; Behavioral and Brain Sciences; Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers; Biological Psychiatry; Brain and Cognition; Brain and Language; Cerebral Cortex; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health; Child Development Perspectives; Cognition; Cognition and Emotion; Cognition and Instruction; Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Science; Current Biology; Current Directions in Psychological Science; Developmental Psychobiology; Developmental Review; Developmental Science; Disability Studies Quarterly; Discourse Processes; Emotion and Cognition; eLife; Experimental Brain Research; European Journal of Cognitive Psychology; Experimental Brain Research; Human Brain Mapping; Journal of Abnormal Psychology; Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders; Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry; Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; Journal of Educational Psychology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Journal of Memory and Language; Journal of Pragmatics; Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Language and Linguistic Compass; Language and Speech; Linguistics; Memory & Cognition; Nature; Neurocase; NeuroImage; Neuropsychologia; Neuropsychology; Neuroscience Letters; PeerJ; Perception & Psychophysics; Perspectives on Psychological Science; Pragmatics and Language; Proceedings of the National Academies of Science; Psychological Bulletin; Psychological Review; Psychological Science; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; Royal Society Open Science; Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology; Written Communication

Grant Review Activities

Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program: Chairperson, Autism Pilot Projects (2013); Chairperson, Autism Clinical Research (2011); Chairperson Autism Basic Science (2010); Chairperson, Autism Research (2009); Chairperson, Autism Research (2007)
International Benchmark Review of UK Psychology, ESRC, ESPRC, MRC, BBSR, British Psychological Society, and Experimental Psychology Society (2010)
National Science Foundation, Member of Committee of Visitors, (2006)
National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders, Member of CDRC Study Section (1999–2003)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Member of HUD-1 Study Section (1993-97)
Pennsylvania Department of Health, Autism Services (2010)

Ad hoc reviewer for National Science Foundation; Air Force Office of Scientific Research; National Institutes of Health; Economic and Social Research Council (UK); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; Spencer Foundation; Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation; Ontario Mental Health Foundation; Toronto Hospital for Sick Children; The Leverhume Trust (UK); European Science Research Council; United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Keynote and Invited Addresses

“Research Transparency in Psychological Science: How and Why?” Graduate Student Teaching Association, Chicago, IL, August 2019
“Research Transparency in Psychological Science: How and Why?” Northern Lights Psychology Conference, Grand Forks, ND, October 2018
“Open Science: Best Practices for Scientific Progress,” International Congress of Applied Psychology, Montreal, Canada, June 2018
“The Changing Face of Disability in Higher Education,” Building Partnerships for Success, HR@UW-Madison, December 2017
“Rewarding Open Science,” Research Data Services, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 2017
“Universal Design for Instruction,” Teaching and Learning Academy Summer Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 2017
“Diverse Brains,” National Academy of Neuropsychology, Boston, MA, October 2017
“Psychological Effects of the Internet,” Madison Senior Center, Madison, WI, September 2017
“Use of Laptops in College Classrooms: What Do the Data Really Suggest?”, APA Convention, Washington, DC, August 2017
“Psychological Effects of the Internet,” Charlotte Founders’ Day Dinner, Charlotte, NC, April 2017
“Summative Assessment in Large Classes,” Teaching and Learning Academy Summer Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 2017
“Five Tips for Improving Online Discussion Boards,” Teaching and Learning Academy Summer Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 2016
Fokus på Autism (Focus on Autism), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, April 2016
“Psychological Effects of the Internet,” Kansas City Founders’ Day Dinner, Kansas City, KS, April 2016
Twin Ports Undergraduate Psychology Conference, Superior, WI, April 2016
“Diverse Brains,” USA Science and Engineering Festival, St. Thomas Aquinas Regional School, Woodbridge, VA, February 2016
“The Changing Face of Disability in Higher Education,” The University of Wisconsin Librarian Reference Retreat, January, 2016
“Conversation on Autism and Sign Language,” American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, December, 2015
“Five Tips for Professional Development,” Women in Science and Engineering Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December, 2015
“Diverse Brains,” Madison Kiwanis Club, September, 2015
“Different Lenses: One Vision,” Harvard School of Public Health, April, 2015
Diversity Day, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April, 2015
St Paul’s Liberty Lutheran Church, Deerfield, WI, March, 2015
“Conversations on Autism and Sign Language,” Stony Brook University, December, 2014
“Disability as Diversity,” Diversity Forum, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October, 2014
Walworth-Fontana Rotary Club, September, 2014
Committee of Psychology Teachers at Community Colleges, Washington, DC, August, 2014
“End the Stigma” Workshop, Kent State University, Kent, OH, April 2014
World University Networks Autism Conference, Hong Kong, January, 2014
Tri-State Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference, Cedar Rapids, IA, November, 2013
Cognitive Development Society, Memphis, TN, October, 2013
Society for Text & Discourse, Valencia, Spain, July, 2013
“Bring the Family” Address, Association for Psychological Science, Washington DC, May, 2013
Marshfield Founders’ Day Dinner, Marshfield, WI, April, 2013
UMINDS Neurodiversity Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, March, 2013
Association for Research in Memory, Attention, Decision-Making, Imagery, Language, Learning & Organized Perception, Laredo, TX, October, 2012
Wisconsin Rehabilitation & Transition Conference, Wisconsin Rehabilitation Association, Elkhart Lake, WI, April, 2012
Progress in Motor Control (PMC-VIII) Conference, Cincinnati, OH, July, 2011
Wisconsin Alumni Association Founder’s Day Dinner, Fond du Lac, WI, April, 2011
Midwest Society of Teachers of Psychology (MISTOP), February, 2011
Annual Red River Psychology Conference, Fargo, ND, March, 2010
Cognitive Science Research Day, Minneapolis, MN, March, 2010
UW Colleges Annual Meeting of Psychology faculty, Madison, WI, April, 2010
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, October, 2009
HCS-Net “Autism and Communication” Workshop, Sydney, Australia, August, 2009
Kiwanis Club of Belleville, WI, June, 2009
UConn/UCEDD Community Leadership Series on Autism Spectrum Differences, Cromwell, CT, June, 2009
Autism Society of Wisconsin Conference, Dells, WI, May, 2009
Giant Steps “Science, Respect, and Self-Determination; Towards Better Lives for Autistic People” Workshop, Montreal, CA, April, 2009
22nd Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA, March, 2009
Barbara Rider Colloquium in Occupational Therapy, Kalamazoo, MI, October, 2008
Wisconsin Association of Rehab Nurses, Milwaukee, WI, August, 2008
Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May, 2008
Midwestern Conference on Professional Psychology, Mankato, MN, 2008
Pediatric Therapy Network R2K Conference, Long Beach, CA, February, 2008
Women in Cognitive Science conference, Long Beach, CA, November, 2007
17th annual ARMADILLO (Association for Research in Memory, Attention, Decision making, Intelligence, Language, Learning, and Organization) Conference, San Antonio, TX, October, 2007
“Autism: Let’s Start Again from the Beginning” Conference, Montreal, CA, October, 2007
Jepson Leadership and Discovery Symposium, Richmond, VA, September, 2007
“Building Meaning from Language”, Tufts University, Medford, MA, June, 2007
29th annual conference of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg Beach, FL, January, 2007
“The Joy of Autism” Lecture Series and Gallery Exhibit, Toronto, CA, October, 2006
Autism National Committee, Nashua, New Hampshire, September, 2006
Brain Development & Learning: Making Sense of the Science, Vancouver, CA, August, 2006
Workshop on Metaphor and Story Comprehension, Kyoto University, January, 2006
First Annual KID Foundation Conference, Denver, CO, April, 2005
Autism Society of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, May, 2004
Third Annual Genevieve Staudt Guestship, Elmhurst College, Elmhust, IL, March, 2004
International Council for Developmental and Learning Disorders Annual Conference, Tysons Corners, VA, November, 2003
Autism Society of Southeast Wisconsin, Peewaukee, WI, October, 2003
ASD: Best Practice, Interventions and Programs Conference, Racine, WI, March, 2003
International Council for Developmental and Learning Disorders Annual Conference, Tysons Corners, VA, November, 2002
Sensory Integration: Praxis and Autism, Madison, WI, September, 2002
Autism Society of Minnesota Annual Conference, Minnetonka, MN, May, 2002
National Alliance for Autism Research Annual Conference, Washington, DC, April, 2002
Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences, New Orleans, LA, November, 2001
Science Seminar on Capitol Hill, July, 2001
Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD, March, 2000
Convocation Speaker, Austin College, March, 1998
Symposium on Experimental Psycholinguistics and Functional-Cognitive Approaches to Sentence and Discourse Processing, Sophienberg Castle, Copenhagen, January, 1998
Workshop on Textuality, Israel National Science Foundation, Tel Aviv University, December, 1997
Workshop on Text Representation, Centre for Language and Communication, The Netherlands, July, 1997
Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July, 1997
Workshop on Methodological Issues in Interpreting, Centro Stefano Francini and the Swiss National Science Foundation, Monte Verita, Switzerland, January, 1997
American Society of Newspaper Editors and University of North Carolina Writing and Reading Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, October, 1996;
Workshop on Anaphora and Reference, Center for Research on Information, Nancy, France, September, 1995
Conference on Functional Approaches to Grammar, Albuquerque, NM, July, 1995
Tri-State Undergraduate Research Conference, Rockford, IL, November, 1994
Dalhousie Symposium on Reading and Dyslexia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August, 1994
Banff Annual Seminar in Cognitive Science, Banff, Canada, May, 1994
American Educational Research Association (Interest Group on Basic Research in Reading and Literacy), New Orleans, LA, April, 1994
Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, April, 1993
Third International Association for the Empirical Study of Literature, Memphis, TN, May, 1992
First NSF Korea-US Cooperative Conference on Cognitive Science, Seoul, Korea, August, 1991
First Evan L. Brown Memorial Lecturer, University of Nebraska at Omaha, April, 1991
Third Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, CUNY Graduate School, NY, March, 1990
68th Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA, April, 1988
Fourth National Conference on Computers in Education, University of Oregon, August, 1985

Invited Colloquia

Murray State University, March 2018
University of North Dakota, March 2015
MIT, Simons Center for Social Brain, March 2015
Stony Brook University, May, 2014
New York University, February, 2014
University of Iowa, DELTA Center, April, 2011
Wayne State University, Merrill-Palmer Institute, March, 2009
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychology, March, 2008
University of Wisconsin-Stout, C-NET Program, February, 2008
Stony Brook University (SUNY), Language, Mind, and Brain Program, December, 2007
University of Kansas, Department of Psychology, September, 2007
UT Southwestern, Center for BrainHealth, April, 2007
Washington University, Program in Neuroscience, January, 2007
Notre Dame University, Department of Psychology, November, 2006
Grand Rounds, Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October, 2006
Kyoto University, Graduate School of Education, January, 2006
Washington University, Department of Psychology, September, 2005
Georgetown University Medical Center, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, May, 2005
University of Illinois, Chicago, Center for the Study of Learning, Instruction, & Teacher Development, October, 2003
MIND (Medical Investigations of Neurological Disorders) Institute, UCD Medical Center, February, 2002
University of California, Davis, Department of Human Development, February, 2002
Carnegie-Mellon University, Department of Computer Science, January, 2000
University of Pittsburgh, Learning, Research, and Development Center, January, 2000
University of Toronto, Department of Psychology, November, 1999
National Institutes of Health, Speech-Language Pathology Section, October, 1999
University of Oregon, Department of Linguistics, May, 1999
University of Oregon, Institute of Cognitive Science, May, 1999
University of Arizona, Department of Psychology, March, 1999
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Sociology, February, 1999
University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Psychology, November, 1998
Texas Tech University, Department of Psychology, November, 1998
Northern Illinois University, Department of Psychology, April, 1998
University of California, San Diego, Department of Cognitive Science, March, 1998
University of Texas at Dallas, Program in Human Development, March, 1998
Tel Aviv University, Department of Linguistics, January, 1998
Notre Dame University, Department of Psychology, February, 1997
University of South Florida, Department of Psychology, January, 1997
Florida State University, Department of Psychology, January, 1997
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Communication Science, February, 1996
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of Linguistics, January, 1996
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychology, January, 1996
University of Colorado, Boulder, Institute for Cognitive Science, October, 1995
Université Paul Valéry, Department of Psychology, Montpellier III, France, September, 1995
Université de Nancy 2, France, Department of Infomatics, September, 1995
Université de Bourgogne, France, Department for the Study of Psychological Behavior, September, 1995
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Center for Research in Language, Perception, and Cognition, May, 1995
Indiana University, Department of Psychology, March, 1995
Ohio State University, Department of Psychology, October, 1994
University of Chicago, Department of Psychology, April, 1994
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Psychology, March, 1994
Washington University, St. Louis, Department of Psychology, March, 1994
University of South Carolina, Department of Psychology, March, 1994
University of California, San Diego, Center for Research in Language, March, 1993
North Dakota State University, Department of Psychology, September, 1992
University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Psychology, May, 1992
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Psychology, April, 1991
University of Nebraska at Omaha, Department of Psychology, April, 1991
University of Georgia, Center for Cognitive Science, March, 1991
University of Chicago, Department of Psychology, January, 1991
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Psychology, November, December, 1990
University of California, San Diego, Department of Psychology, October, 1990
University of Edinburgh, UK, Department of Psychology, July, 1990
University of Glasgow, UK, Department of Psychology, July 1990
University of Durham, UK, Department of Psychology, July 1990
University of Cádiz, Spain, Department of Philology, June 1990
University of La Laguna, Spain, Department of Psychology, June, 1990
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands, June, 1990
University of Padova, Italy, Department of Psychology, June, 1990
University of Bologna, Italy, Department of Psychology, June, 1990
University of Barcelona, Spain, Department of Experimental Psychology, May, 1990
University of Salamanca, Spain, Department of Psychology, May, 1990
Cambridge University, UK, Department of Psychology, May, 1990
Sussex University, UK, Laboratory in Experimental Psychology, April, 1990
University of Exeter, UK, Department of Psychology, April, 1990
Carnegie-Mellon University, Department of Psychology, November, 1989
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychology, November, 1989
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Department of Psychology, May, 1989
University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Psychology, March, 1989
University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, Department of Psychology, November, 1988
University of Texas at Austin, Department of Psychology, October, 1988
University of Rochester, Department of Psychology, August, 1988
University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Psychology, March, 1987

Invited Symposia

“Fostering the Wisconsin Experience: Empathy and Humility,” Teaching Academy Winter Retreat, University of Wisconsin-Madison, January 2018
“Teaching Online,” Educational Innovations, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 2016
“Creating Inclusive and Equity-Minded Learning Environments,” Teaching and Learning Academy Summer Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 2016
“Professional Visibility,” Women in Cognitive Science, Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN November, 2012
“Grading Autistic People,” Autism Summer Institute, Institute of Disability, University of New Hampshire, August 2011
“Scientific Writing,” 20th, 21st, 22nd, and 23rd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, May, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011
“Stigma from Science: Group Differences, Not Deficits” 19th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC, May, 2007
“Advice from Journal Editors,” 18th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, New York, NY, May, 2006
“The Science of Autism,” Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, St. Louis, MO, February, 2006
“International Symposium on Inhibition in the Mind,” 21st Century COE Program, Kyoto, Japan, January, 2006
“Whither Psychology?,” Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology, Sarasota, FL, February, 2006
“How to Get Published: Guidance From Journal Editors,” 17th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA, May, 2005
“Is There a Core Deficit in Autism?,” 16th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL, May, 2004
“Show Me the Money: Grant-getting for Graduate Students and New Faculty,” 16th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL, May, 2004
“Profiles of Language Development Among Children with Autism,” 23rd Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders and 9th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Madison, WI, July , 2002
“Making Inferences During Reading: New Directions from Behavioral, Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Studies,” Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago, June, 2002
“Functional Brain Imaging and Higher Level Cognition,” 40th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, November, 1999
“Mind, Brain, and Behavior,” 107th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, August, 1999
“Inhibitory Processes in Psychology and Neuroscience,” 26th International Congress of Psychology, Montreal, Canada, August, 1996
“Inference Processes in Text Comprehension,” 26th International Congress of Psychology, Montreal, Canada, August, 1996
“Working Memory and Language,” 28th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA, November, 1995
“Conceptions of Inhibition across Psychological Domains,” 7th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, New York, NY, June, 1995
“Conceptions of Inhibition across Psychological Domains,” 66th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May, 1994
“What does it mean to be a scholar?,” American Educational Research Association (Interest Group on Basic Research in Reading and Literacy), New Orleans, LA, April, 1994
“Individual Differences in Text Comprehension,” 12th Biennial Meetings of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Recife, Brazil, July, 1993
“Cognitive Processes and Mechanisms in Reading and Writing,” 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, San Diego, CA, June, 1992
“Cognitive Processes in Reading, Writing, and Listening,” 71st Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA, April, 1991
“Cross Disciplinary Approaches to Language Processing,” 6th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boulder, CO, July, 1984

TEACHING ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Instructional Grants

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Educational Innovations Grant, 2017, $8,000
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Trewartha Senior Thesis Grant (for M. Theresa Balinghasay), 2013. $1,000.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Welton Sophomore Summer Honors Apprenticeship Award (for Phui Ng), 2011. $2,000.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Credit Outreach Course, 2006-07. $48,453.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Credit Outreach Course, 2004-05. $120,368.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Credit Outreach Course, 2003-04. $106,134.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Hilldale Faculty-Student Research Training Award (for Nicole Krause) Project: “Measuring the Broader Autism Phenotype,” 2004-05. $4,000.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Online Course Development, 2002-03. $112,000.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Faculty Development Award, 2001-02. $50,440.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Hilldale Faculty-Student Research Training Award (for Erin Sieberlich) Project: “Use of Home Video to Confirm Parental Retrospective Report of Childhood Motor Skills,” 2001-02. $4,000.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Faculty Mentor – University League Undergraduate Scholarship for Faculty Mentored Research (for Holly Herfel), 2001. $500.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Faculty Mentor – Academic Staff Development Award (for Jennifer Binzak), 2000. $1500. 8
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Hilldale Faculty-Student Research Training Award (for Maureen O’Reilly) Project: “Toward a Dyspraxic Subtype of Autism Spectrum Disorder,” 2000-01. $4,000.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Hilldale Faculty-Student Research Training Award (for Lana Shklyar) Project: “The Role of Suppression in Understanding Narrative Goals,” 1997-98. $4,000.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Faculty Mentor – Academic Staff Development Award (for Seline Guidotti), 1997-98. $1500.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Faculty Development Award, 1996-97. $35,622.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Hilldale Faculty-Student Research Training Award (for Martha Fuiten) Project: “How Do We Process Acronyms?,” 1996-97. $4,000.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Award, 1995. Project Director. Project: “Capstone Course Innovation,” $560.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Award, 1992. Project Director. Project: “Workshop on Inquiry-Based Mode of Undergraduate Instruction,” $500.

Teaching Honors and Awards

Invited Faculty, Forty-first Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (2019)
Invited Faculty, Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics (2019)
Invited Faculty, Twenty-ninth annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (2006)
Invited Faculty, First Annual Summer Course, “Brain Development and Learning: Making Sense of the Science” (2006)
Invited Faculty, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (2004-06)
Invited Faculty, Third Annual Summer Course, “Autism: From Research to Practice” (2004)
Invited Faculty, Twelfth Annual Brazilian Linguistics Institute (1997)
Invited Faculty, Netherlands Graduate School in Linguistics (1997)
Keynote Speaker, Tri-State Undergraduate Research in Psychology Conference (1994)
University of Oregon Recipient of the Ersted Award for Distinguished University Teaching (1986)
Invited Faculty, Fourth National Conference on Computers in Education (1985)

Courses Taught

Introductory Psychology
Introductory and Advanced Research Methods
Cognitive Psychology
Introductory and Advanced Psycholinguistics
Introductory Cognitive Science
Autism
Psychological Effects of the Internet

RESEARCH AND RESEARCH TRAINING GRANTS

Worldwide University Network, 2013. Co-Principal Investigator: Project: “Scoping Survey of Autism Support and Resources: Social Integration of Diagnosis, Healthcare, and Support Systems,” $50,000.
Centers for Disease Control, 2006-10. Co-Investigator. Project: “Wisconsin Autism and Other Developmental Disability Surveillance” (PI: Maureen Durkin), $1,400,000.
National Institutes of Health, 2006-10. Co-Principal Investigator. Project: “Early Language Development within the Autism Spectrum,” $3,512,443.
NLM Family Foundation, 2008-09. Principal Investigator. Project: “Origin of Severe Speech Impairment in Autism,” $100,000.
National Institutes of Health, 2005-09. Program Director. Project: “Behavioral and Biological Approaches to Typical and Atypical Development,” $1,227,905.
National Institute of Mental Health, 2004-09. Co-Principal Investigator. Project: “A Twin Study of the Autism Spectrum,” $2,067,252.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2005-06. Co-Investigator. Project: “Working Group on Media Representations of Health Problems,” $50,000.9
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Graduate School, 2004-2005. Co-Principal Investigator. Project: “Early Language Abilities of Toddlers with Autism: Comparison to Late-Talking Toddlers without Autism,” $31,005.
Centers for Disease Control, 2003-05. Co-Investigator. Project: “Wisconsin Autism and Other Developmental Disability Surveillance” (PI: Maureen Durkin), $841,652.
National Institutes of Health, 2003-08. Co-Investigator. Program Project: “Social and Affective Processes in Autism” (PI: Helen Tager-Flusberg), $8,500,000.
National Alliance for Autism Research, 2003-04. Co-Principal Investigator. Project: “A Birth Register-based Twin Study of Autism Spectrum Disorders,” $118,910.
National Institute of Mental Health, 2003-05. Training Faculty. Training Grant: “Training in Emotion Research” (Program Director: Richard Davidson), $2,824,695.
National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders, 2002-07. Core Training Faculty. Project: “Interdisciplinary Research Training in Speech-Language Disorders” (Program Directors: Raymond Kent and Susan Ellis Weismer), $1,000,000.
National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders, 2001-03. Senior Fellow. Project: “Genetics of Autism and Other Communication Disorders”
National Alliance for Autism Research, 2001-02. Principal Investigator. Project: “Toward a Dyspraxic Subtype of Autism Spectrum Disorder,” $100,000.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2001-06. Core Investigator. Program Project: “Wisconsin Center on Mental Retardation and Human Development,” $7,730,052.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 2000-04. Principal Investigator. Project: “Language Comprehension as Structure Building,” $648,000.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2000-05. Training Faculty. Training Grant: “Postdoctoral Training in Mental Retardation,” (Program Director, Leonard Abbeduto), $820,922.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Graduate School, Vilas Associate Award, 1999-01. $70,000.
Army Research Institute, 1998-99. Principal Investigator. Project: “Learning to Suppress Competing Information: Do the Skills Transfer?,” $35,000.
National Science Foundation (POWRE), 1998-99. Principal Investigator. Project: “Training in FMRI of Language Comprehension,” $50,000.
National Institute of Mental Health, 1997-2002. Training Faculty. Training Grant: “Training in Emotion Research” (Program Director: Richard Davidson), $1,638,032.
Augmentation Awards for Science and Engineering Research Training, 1997-2000. Program Director. Project: “Training in Laboratory Investigations of Suppression and Enhancement,” $301,423.
Army Research Institute, 1996-98. Principal Investigator. Project: “Learning to Suppress Competing Information: Do the Skills Transfer?,” $35,000.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 1995-99. Principal Investigator. Project: “Language Comprehension as Structure Building,” $697,055.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Graduate School, WARF Named Professorship, 1994-99. $65,000.
Army Research Institute, 1994-96. Principal Investigator. Project: “Learning to Suppress Competing Information and Enhance Relevant Information,” $196,172.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Graduate School, 1993-94. Principal Investigator. Project: “Learning to Suppress Competing Information and Enhance Relevant Information,” $16,540.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 1991-95. Principal Investigator. Project: “Language Comprehension as Structure Building,” $466,609.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 1989-94. Principal Investigator. Project: “Cognitive Processes and Mechanisms in Comprehension,” $300,000.
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 1991-92. Principal Investigator. Project: “Laboratory Investigations of the Mechanisms of Suppression and Enhancement,” $37,257.10
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 1989-91. Principal Investigator. Project: “Language Comprehension as Structure Building,” $154,560.
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 1990-91. Principal Investigator. Project: “The Sylvia Beach Language Comprehension Conference, 1991,” $8983.
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 1989-90. Principal Investigator. Project: “Investigating Individual Differences in General Comprehension Skill,” $25,749.
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 1989-90. Principal Investigator. Project: “Initiating the Sylvia Beach Language Comprehension Conference,” $5562.
National Science Foundation, 1985-88. Principal Investigator. Project: “Cognitive Processes in Comprehension,” $90,062.
Biomedical Research Funds, University of Oregon, 1984-85. Principal Investigator. Project: “Developing a Multi-media Comprehension Battery,” $1200.
Faculty Summer Research Award, University of Oregon, Summer, 1984. Principal Investigator. Project: “Investigating General Comprehension Skill,” $3000.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

GERNSBACHER, M. A., & POMERANTZ, J. (2015). Psychology and the real world: Essays illustrating fundamental contributions to society (2nd edition). New York: Worth.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., PEW, R., HOUGH, L., & POMERANTZ, J. (2010). Psychology and the real world: Essays illustrating fundamental contributions to society. New York: Worth.
TRAXLER, M., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2006). Handbook of psycholinguistics, Second Edition. New York: Elsevier.
DERRY, S. J., SCHUNN, C., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (Eds.) (2005). Interdisciplinary collaboration. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
SANDERS, T., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (Eds.) (2004). Accessibility in text and discourse processing. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
GRAESSER, A. C., GERNSBACHER, M. A., & GOLDMAN, S. J. (Eds.) (2002). Handbook of discourse processes. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & DERRY, S. J. (Eds.) (1998). Proceedings of the 20th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
GRAESSER, A. C., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (Eds.) (1997). Discourse processes after two decades. New York: Ablex.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & GIVÓN, T. (Eds.) (1995). Coherence in spontaneous text. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (Ed.) (1994). Handbook of psycholinguistics. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (1990). Language comprehension as structure building. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Articles and Chapters

GERNSBACHER,, M. A., & Yergeau, M. (in press). Empirical failures of the claim that autistic people lack a theory of mind. Archives of Scientific Psychology.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (in press). How to envision, design, and deliver engaging research presentations. In R. Harnish, K. R. Bridges, M. Munson, D. N. Sattler, F. J. Slack, & S. Brigden (Eds.), What I Wished My Mentor Had Told Me. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2019). Captions. In J. S. Damico (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & Morson, E. (2019). Fast mapping is a laboratory task, not a cognitive capacity. Cognitive Neuroscience.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2018). More shared responsibility for “more appropriate communication.” Perspectives of ASHA (SIG 1), 3, 58-67.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2018). Rewarding research transparency. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 953-956.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2018). Three ways to make replication mainstream. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, e129.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2018). Writing empirical articles: Transparency, reproducibility, clarity, and memorability. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1, 403-414.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2017). The use of person-first language in scholarly writing may accentuate stigma. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58, 859-86.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., Raimond, A. R., Stevenson, J. L., Boston, J. S., & Harp, B. (2017). Do puzzle pieces and autism puzzle piece logos evoke negative associations? Autism, 22, 118-125.
Graesser, A. C., GERNSBACHER, M. A., & Goldman, S. A. (2017). World-wide changes in discourse and the changing field of discourse processes. In M. F. Schober, D. N. Rapp, & M. A. Britt (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Processes (2nd edition, pp. 390-396). New York: Routledge.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., Stevenson, J. L., & Dern, S. (2016). Specificity, contexts, and reference groups matter when assessing autistic traits. PLoS ONE 12(2), e0171931.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2016). Five tips for improving online discussion boards. Observer, 29(9), 10.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. MORSON, E. M., & GRACE, E. J. (2016). Language and speech in autism. Annual Review of Linguistics, 2, 413-425.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., Raimond, A. R., Balinghasay, M. T., & Boston, J. S. (2016). “Special needs” is an ineffective euphemism. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. 1:29.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2015). Video captions benefit everyone. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2, 195-202.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., MORSON, E. M., & GRACE, E. J. (2015). Language development and autism. In G. Hickok & S. Small (Eds.), Neurobiology of Language (pp. 879-886). New York: Elsevier.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2015). Diverse brains. The General Psychologist, 49, 29-37.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2014). Internet-based communication. Discourse Processes, 51, 359-373.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2014). Why Internet-based education? Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1530. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01530
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & KASCHAK, M. (2013). Text comprehension. In D. Reisberg (Ed.), The oxford handbook of cognitive psychology (pp. 462-474). New York: Oxford University Press.
STEVENSON, J. L., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2013). Abstract spatial reasoning as an autistic strength. PLoS ONE 8, e59329. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059329
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2012). Seeking funding from private foundations. In R. Sternberg (Ed.), Writing successful grant proposals from the top down and bottom up (pp. 273-280). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & PRIPAS-KAPIT, S. (2012). Who’s missing the point? A commentary on claims that autistic persons have a specific deficit in figurative language comprehension. Metaphor & Symbol, 27, 93–105.
KASCHAK, M., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2012). Changing language. In S. Bischoff & C. Jany (Eds.), Functional approaches to language (pp. 149-175). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
ELLIS WEISMER, S., GERNSBACHER, M. A., STRONACK, S., KARASINSKI, C., EERNISSE, E., ERICKSON, C., & SINDBERG, H. (2011). Lexical and grammatical skills in toddlers on the autism spectrum compared to late talking toddlers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41, 1065-1075. [PMID: 21061053]
GALLESE, V., GERNSBACHER, M.A., HEYES, C., HICKOK, G., & IACOBONI, M. (2011). Mirror neuron forum. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 369–407.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2011). Understanding acronyms. In K. Allan and K. M. Jaszczolt (Eds.), Salience and defaults in utterance processing (pp. 151-163). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
KELLETT, K. A., STEVENSON, J. L., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2011). The role of the cerebellum in language processing. In M. Faust (Ed.), Handbook of the neuropsychology of language (pp. 294-316). Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell-Wiley.
SOULIÈRES, I., DAWSON, M., GERNSBACHER, M. A., & MOTTRON, L. (2011). The level and nature of autistic intelligence II: What about Asperger Syndrome? PLoS One 6, e25372. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025372
STEVENSON, J. L., HARP, B. & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2011). Infantilizing autism. Disability Studies Quarterly, 31, 14.
DAWSON, M., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2010). The effectiveness of intensive autism programmes. The Lancet, 375, 722-723.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2010). Stigma from psychological science: Group differences, not deficits. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 687.
STILP, R. L.H., GERNSBACHER, M. A., SCHWEIGERT, E. K., ARNESON, C. L., & GOLDSMITH, H. H. (2010). Genetic variance for autism screening items in an unselected sample of toddler-age twins. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 49, 269-278. PMCID: PMC2947446
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2009). A conspicuous absence of scientific leadership: The illusory epidemic of autism. In G. R. Goethals and J. T. Wren (Eds.), Leadership and discovery (pp. 157-169). New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & KASCHAK, M. (2009). Language and psychology 1950-present: A brief overview. Cambridge History of Linguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
AKHTAR, N., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2008). On privileging the role of gaze in infant social cognition. Child Development Perspectives, 2, 60-66.
DAWSON, M., MOTTRON, L., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2008). Learning in autism. In H. L Roediger, III (Ed.), Cognitive psychology of memory, Vol. 2, Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference (pp. 759-772). Oxford: Elsevier.
FOERTSCH, J., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2008). When the medium illuminates the content: Exploiting the unique features of online communication. Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 4, 3.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2008). Autism without borders. Nature (Medicine), 14, 241.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., SAUER, E. A., GEYE, H. M., SCHWEIGERT, E. K., & GOLDSMITH, H. H. (2008). Infant and toddler oral- and manual-motor skills predict later speech fluency in autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49, 43-50.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., STEVENSON, J. L., KHANDAKAR, S., & GOLDSMITH, H. H. (2008). Autistics’ atypical joint attention: Policy implications and empirical nuance. Child Development Perspectives, 2, 49-52.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., STEVENSON, J. L., KHANDAKAR, S., & GOLDSMITH, H. H. (2008). Why does joint attention look atypical in autism? Child Development Perspectives, 2, 38-45.
ROOS, E. M., MCDUFFIE, A. S., ELLIS WEISMER, S., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2008). A comparison of contexts for assessing joint attention in toddlers on the autism spectrum. Autism, 12, 275-291.
AKHTAR, N., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2007). Joint attention and vocabulary development: A critical look. Language and Linguistic Compass, 1/3, 195-207.12
DAWSON, M., SOULIÈRES, I., GERNSBACHER, M. A., & MOTTRON, L. (2007). The level and nature of autistic intelligence. Psychological Science, 18, 657-662.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2007). The eye of the beholder. Observer, 20, 5, 44.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2007). On not being human. Observer, 20, 5, 32.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2007). Neural diversity. Observer, 20, 5, 15.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2007). The true meaning of research participation. Observer, 20(1), 5, 13.
HALPERN, D., BENBOW, C., GEARY, D., GUR, R., HYDE, J. S., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2007). Sex, math and scientific achievement. Scientific American, 44-52.
HALPERN, D., BENBOW, C., GEARY, D., GUR, R., HYDE, J. S., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2007). The science of sex differences in science and mathematics. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 8, 1-51.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2006). Toward a behavior of reciprocity. Journal of Developmental Processes, 1, 139-152.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., DAWSON, M., & MOTTRON, L. (2006). Autism: Common, heritable, but not harmful. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 113-114.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & LEVINSON, R., & BROOKHART, S. (2006). American Psychological Society. In N. Salkind (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics. New York: Sage.
GOLDSMITH, H. H., VAN HULLE, C. A., ARNESON, C. L., SCHREIBER, J. E., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2006). A population-based twin study of parentally reported tactile and auditory defensiveness in young children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 34, 378-392.
DALTON, K. M., NACEWICZ, B. M., JOHNSTONE, T., SCHAEFER, H. S., GERNSBACHER, M. A., GOLDSMITH, H. H., ALEXANDER, A. L., & DAVIDSON, R. J. (2005). Gaze-fixation and the neural circuitry of face processing in autism. Nature Neuroscience, 8, 519-526.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., DAWSON, M., & GOLDSMITH, H. H. (2005). Three reasons not to believe in an autism epidemic. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 55-58.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., DISSANAYAKE, C., GOLDSMITH, H. H., MUNDY, P. G., ROGERS, S. J., & SIGMAN, M. (2005). Autism and deficits in attachment behavior. Science, 307, 1201-1203.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & FRYMIARE, J. (2005). Does the autistic brain lack core modules? Journal of Developmental and Learning Disorders, 9, 3-16.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., GEYE, H. M., & ELLIS WEISMER, S. (2005). The role of language and communication impairments within autism. In P. Fletcher & J. C. Miller (Eds.), Language disorders and developmental theory (pp. 73-93). Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & KASCHAK, M. (2005). Discourse processes. In K. Brown (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, Vol. 3 (pp. 654-659). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
AMAN, M. G., NOVOTNY, S., SAMANGO-SPROUSE, C., LECAVALIER, L., LEONARD, E., GADOW, K. D., KING, B. H., PEARSON, D. A., GERNSBACHER, M. A., & CHEZ, M. (2004). Outcome measures for clinical drug trials in autism. CNS Spectrums, 9, 36-47.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2004). Language is more than speech: A case study. Journal of Developmental and Learning Disorders, 8, 81-98.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2004). On our mind: Salience, context, and figurative language. Metaphor and Symbol, 19, 165-168.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & ROBERTSON, D. A. (2004). Watching the brain comprehend discourse. In A. Healy (Ed.), Experimental cognitive psychology and its applications (pp. 157-168). Washington, DC: APA Publications.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., ROBERTSON, R. R. W., PALLADINO, P., & WERNER, N. K. (2004). Managing mental representations during narrative comprehension. Discourse Processes, 37, 145–164.
KIM, S., LEE, J., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2004). The advantage of first mention in Korean: The temporal contributions of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 33, 475-491.
LINDERHOLM, T., GERNSBACHER, M. A., VAN DEN BROEK, P., NENIDE, L., ROBERTSON, R. R. W., & SUNDERMEIR, B. (2004). Suppression of story character goals during reading. Discourse Processes, 37, 67-78.
SANDERS, T. J. M., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2004). Accessibility in text and discourse. Discourse Processes, 37, 79-90.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2003). Is one style of autism early intervention “scientifically proven?” Journal of Developmental and Learning Disorders, 7, 19-25.
GOLDSMITH, H. H., GERNSBACHER, M. A., CRABBE, J., DAWSON, G., GOTTESMAN, I. I., HEWITT, J., MCGUE, M., PEDERSON, N., PLOMIN, R., ROSE, R., & SWANSON, J. (2003). Research psychologists’ roles in the genetic revolution. American Psychologist, 58, 318-319.
ROBERTSON, D. A., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2003). Neuroimaging and language: Evolving stories from the brain. In T. Givón (Ed.), The evolution of language. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2002). Language is more than speech. The Association of the Severely Handicapped, 28, 26-27.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & KASCHAK, M. (2002). Neuroimaging studies of language production and comprehension. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 91-114.
KASCHAK, M., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2002). Psycholinguistics. In L. Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences. London, UK: Nature Publishing Group.
KASCHAK, M., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2002). Language comprehension. In L. Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences. London, UK: Nature Publishing Group.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & ROBERTSON, R. R. W. (2001). The definite article as a cue to map thematic information. In M. M. Louwerse & W. Van Peer (Eds), Thematics: Interdisciplinary studies. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
DICK, F., BATES, E., WULFECK, B., UTMAN, J. A., DRONKERS, N., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2001). Language deficits, localization, and grammar: Evidence for a distributive model of language breakdown in aphasic patients and neurologically intact individuals. Psychological Review, 108, 757-788.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., KEYSAR, B., ROBERTSON, R. R. W., & WERNER, N. K. (2001). The role of suppression and enhancement in understanding metaphors. Journal of Memory and Language, 45, 433-450.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., ROBERTSON, R. R. W., & WERNER, N. K. (2000). The costs and benefits of meaning. In D. Gorfein (Ed.), On the consequences of meaning selection (pp. 119-137). Washington, DC: APA Publications.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & ST. JOHN, M. F. (2000). Modeling suppression in lexical access. In D. Gorfein (Ed.), On the consequences of meaning. Washington, DC: APA Publications.
ROBERTSON, D. A., GERNSBACHER, M. A., GUIDOTTI, S. J., ROBERTSON, R. W. R., IRWIN, W., MOCK, B. J., & CAMPANA, M. E. (2000). Functional neuroanatomy of the cognitive process of mapping during discourse comprehension. Psychological Science, 11, 255-260. [PMID: 11273413]
BEEMAN, M. J., BOWDEN, E. M., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (2000). Right and left hemisphere cooperation for drawing predictive and coherence inferences during normal story comprehension. Brain and Language, 71, 310-336.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & FOERTSCH, J. (1999). Three models of discourse comprehension. In S. Garrod & M. J. Pickering (Eds.), Human language processing (pp. 283-299). East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & MCKINNEY, V. M. (1999). Review of “Comprehension: A Paradigm for Cognition,” American Scientist, 87, 568.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & ROBERTSON, R. R. W. (1999). The role of suppression in figurative language comprehension. Journal of Pragmatics, 31, 1616-1630.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., TALLENT, K. A., & BOLLIGER, C. M. (1999). Disordered discourse in schizophrenia as described by the Structure Building Framework. Discourse Studies, 1, 355-372.14
GERNSBACHER, M. A., HALLADA, B. M., & ROBERTSON, R. R. W. (1998). How automatically do readers infer fictional characters’ emotional states? Scientific Studies of Reading, 2, 271-300.
GREENO, J. G., CLANCEY, W. J., LEWIS, C., SEIDENBERG, M., DERRY, S., GERNSBACHER, M. A., LANGLEY, P., SHAFTO, M., GENTNER, D., LESGOLD, A., & SEIFERT, C. M. (1998). Efforts to encourage multidisciplinarity in the Cognitive Science Society (commentary). Cognitive Science, 22, 131-132.
ST. JOHN, M. F., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (1998). Learning and losing syntax: Practice makes perfect and frequency builds fortitude. In A. F. Healy & L. E. Bourne, Jr. (Eds.), Foreign language learning: Psycholinguistic experiments on training and retention (pp. 231-255). Mawah, NJ: Erlbaum.
FAUST, M. E., BALOTA, D. A., DUCHEK, J. M., GERNSBACHER, M. A., & SMITH, S. (1997). Inhibitory control during sentence processing in individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer type. Brain and Language, 57, 225-253.
FOERTSCH, J., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (1997). In search of gender neutrality: Is singular they a cognitively efficient substitute for generic he? Psychological Science, 8, 106-111.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (1997). Attenuating interference during comprehension: The role of suppression. In D. L. Medin (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation (pp. 85-104). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (1997). First mention drives how people read and comprehend language. In Writing and reading today: An interdisciplinary discussion. Reston, VA: American Society of Newspaper Editors.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (1997). Generic pronominal anaphora: The case of the English singular they. Verbum, 19, 67-84.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (1997). Group differences in suppression skill. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 4, 175-184.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (1997). Two decades of structure building. Discourse Processes, 23, 265-304.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & SHLESINGER, M. (1997). The proposed role of suppression in simultaneous interpretation. Interpreting, 2, 119-140.
GRAESSER, A. C., GERNSBACHER, M. A., & GOLDMAN, S. R. (1997). Cognition. In T. A. van Dijk (Ed.), Discourse: A multidisciplinary introduction (pp. 292-319). London: Sage.
FAUST, M. E., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (1996). Cerebral mechanisms for suppression of inappropriate information during sentence comprehension. Brain and Language, 53, 234-259.
GARNHAM, A., TRAXLER, M. J., OAKHILL, J., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (1996). The locus of implicit causality effects in comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 517-543.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (1996). Coherence cues mapping during comprehension. In J. Costermans & M. Fayol (Eds.), Processing interclausal relationships in the production and comprehension of text (pp. 3-21). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
CARREIRAS, M., GERNSBACHER, M. A., & VILLA, V. (1995). The advantage of first mention in Spanish. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2, 124-129.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (1995). The Structure Building Framework: What it is, what it might also be, and why. In B. K. Britton, & A. C. Graesser, (Eds.), Models of text understanding (pp. 289-311). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & FAUST, M. (1995). Skilled suppression. In F. N. Dempster & C. N. Brainerd (Eds.), Interference and inhibition in cognition (pp. 295-327). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & JESCHENIAK, J. (1995). Cataphoric devices in spoken discourse. Cognitive Psychology, 29, 24-58.
GERNSBACHER, M. A., & ROBERTSON, R. R. W. (1995). Reading skill and suppression revisited. Psychological Science, 6, 165-169.15
HAENGGI, D., KINTSCH, W., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (1995). Spatial situation models and text comprehension. Discourse Processes, 19, 173-199.
TRAXLER, M. J., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (1995). Improving coherence in written communication. In M. A. Gernsbacher & T. Givón (Eds.), Coherence in spontaneous text (pp. 216-237). Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.
FOERTSCH, J., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (1994). In search of complete comprehension: Getting “minimalists” to work. Discourse Processes, 18, 271-296.
GERNSBACHER, M. A. (1994). Activating knowledge of fictional characters’ emotional states. In C. A. Weaver, S. Mannes, & C. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Discourse comprehension: Essays in honor of Walter Kintsch (pp. 141-155). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
TOMLIN, R. S., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (1994). (Eds.) Special issue of Studies in Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
TOMLIN, R. S., & GERNSBACHER, M. A. (1994). Cognitive foundations of second language acquisition. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 16, 129-132.
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