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Dr. Gail McKoon

Dr. Gail McKoon

Dr. Gail McKoon

Research Professor, Cognitive Psychology

mckoon.1@osu.edu

(614) 292-7888

291A Psychology Building
1835 Neil Ave.
Columbus, OH
43210

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Education

  • PhD, University of Colorado, 1975
  • MSc, University of California, San Diego, 1970
  • BS, University of Iowa, 1969

Awards, Honors and Recognition

2013: Huber Award, The Ohio State University
2002: Elected to Society for Experimental Psychologists
2000: Designated a Fellow of the Society of Text and Discourse
1985 – 1990: Designated by the Social Science Citation Indices as one of the 50 "Highest Impact Authors" across all research areas of psychology
1969: Phi Beta Kappa, University of Iowa
1968 – 1969: NSF Summer Research Fellowships, University of Iowa
1965 – 1966: National Merit Scholar

Selected Publications 

McKoon, G. & Ratcliff, R. (2003). Meaning through syntax: Language comprehension and the reduced relative clause construction. Psychological Review, 110, 490-525.

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