Maya Khanna, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Phone # (402) 280-3452
E-mail: mayakhanna@creighton.edu

Teaches Courses in:

Infant and Child Development; Adolescence and Adult Development; Cognitive Psychology; Introductory Psychology and Research Methods & Statistics

Research interests:

Her research focuses on cognition and cognitive development, specifically, the development of reading and cognitive skills and understanding memory processing.

Representative Publications:     

Schock, J., Cortese, M.J., & Khanna, M.M., & Toppi, S. (in press). Age of acquisition ratings for 3,000 disyllabic words. Behavior Research Methods.

Schock, J., Cortese, M. J., & Khanna, M. M. (2012). Imageability estimates for 3,000 disyllabic words. Behavior Research Methods. 44, 374 – 379.

Khanna, M. M., & Cortese, M. J. (2011). Age of acquisition ratings for 1,208 ambiguous and polysemous words. Behavior Research Methods. 43(1), 89 – 96.

Khanna, M. M. (2011). Community Service Engagement: How our students benefit from this service and how to encourage them to pursue community service. In R. Miller & R. Rycek (Eds.), Promoting Student Engagement. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Khanna, M. M. (2011). Adolescent and Adult Development: Designing a Retirement and Care Plan for Older Adults. In R. Miller & R. Rycek (Eds.), Promoting Student Engagement. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Cortese, M. J., Khanna, M. M., & Hacker, S. (2010). Recognition memory for 2578 monosyllabic words. Memory. 18, 595 – 609.

Khanna, M. M., Cortese, M. J., & Birchwood, K. S. (2010). Learning new words affects nonword pronunciation in children. Scientific Studies of Reading,14, 407 – 439.
Khanna, M. M & Boland, J. E. (2010) The development of context-use for lexical ambiguity resolution. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 160 – 193.