Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Brigham Young University 1022 SWKT Provo, Utah 84602 (801)422-6481 m_allen@byu.edu
Education
BS, University of Utah, 1993
MA, University of Utah, 1995
MA, John Hopkins University,1999
PhD, John Hopkins University, 2000
Publications
Allen, M., Bigler, E., Larsen, J., Goodrich-Hunsaker, N., Hopkins, R. (2007). Functional neuroimaging evidence for high cognitive effort on the Word Memory Test in the absence of external incentives. Brain Injury, 21, 1425-1428.
Osterhout, L., Wright, R., Allen, M. (2007). The psychology of linguistic form. In P. Hogan (Ed) Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge University Press
Allen, M. (2005). The preservation of verb subcategory knowledge in a spoken language comprehension deficit. Brain and Language, 95, 255-264.
Fong-Ichimura, A.K., Allen, M., Owens, T., Hall, A., Hyde, D., Robison, T., and Olsen, J. (2004). Cortical sources of the N400 and “the N400 effect.” The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 18, 149-203.
Allen, M., Badecker, W., & Osterhout, L. (2003). Morphological analysis in sentence processing: an ERP study. Language and Cognitive Processes, 18,405-430.
McKinnon, R., Allen, M., & Osterhout, L. (2003). Morphological decomposition during lexical processing: evidence from event-related potentials. NeuroReport, 14, 883-886.
Osterhout, L., Allen, M., McLaughlin, J., & Inoue, K. (2003). Brain responses to linguistic anomalies in connected discourse. Memory and Cognition, 30,1304-1312.
Allen, M., & Badecker, W. (2002). Inflectional regularity: Probing the nature of lexical representation in a cross-modal priming task. Journal of Memory and Language46, 705-722.
Allen, M., & Badecker, W. (2002). Stem-homography, lemma competition, and conscious word perception. Brain and Language81, 79-88.
Badecker, W., & Allen, M. (2002). Morphological parsing and the perception of lexical identity: a masked priming study of stem-homographs. Journal of Memory and Language47, 125-144.
Osterhout, L., Allen, M., & McLaughlin, J. (2002). Words in the brain: lexical determinants of word-induced brain activity. Journal of Neurolinguistics15, 171-187.
Allen, M., & Badecker, W. (2000). Morphology: The internal structure of words. In B. Rapp (Ed.) What Deficits Reveal about the Human Mind/Brain: Handbook of Cognitive Neuropsychology. (pp. 211-232). Psychology Press.
Allen, M., & Badecker, W. (1999). Stem homograph inhibition and stem allomorphy: Representing and processing inflected forms in a multilevel lexical system. Journal of Memory and Language 41, 105-123.