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2011 - Present

  1. MacKay, D.G. & Goldstein, R. (2016). Creativity, comprehension, conversation and the hippocampal region: New Data and theory. AIMS Neuroscience, 3 (1): 105-142. DOI: 10.3934/Neuroscience.2016.1.105. Available at http://www.aimspress.com/journal/neuroscience.

  2. MacKay, D.G., Johnson, L.W., Graham, E.R. & Burke, D.M. (2015). Aging, emotion, attention, and binding in the taboo Stroop task: Data and theories.

  3. Supplementary materials for MacKay, D.G., Johnson, L.W., Graham, E.R. & Burke, D.M. (2015). Aging, emotion, attention, and binding in the taboo Stroop task: Data and theories. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 12(10), 12803-12833; doi:10.3390/ijerph121012803. Available at http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/12/10/12803.

  4. MacKay, D.G. with Kimmey, S. (2014). Don MacKay: A pioneer at the intersection of language and memory. Point Reyes Light, 67, 11, 1-11.

  5. MacKay, D.G. (2014). The engine of memory: Even after his death, the famous amnesic H.M. is revolutionizing our understanding of how memory works and how we maintain it as we age. Scientific American Mind, 25(3), 30-38.

  6. Theories of error detection and correction: Supplementary materials for MacKay, D. G., & Johnson, L.W. (2013). Errors, error detection, error correction and hippocampal-region damage: Data and theories. Neuropsychologia, 2633-2650. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.08.009

  7. MacKay, D. G., & Johnson, L.W. (2013). Errors, error detection, error correction and hippocampal-region damage: Data and theories. Neuropsychologia, 2633-2650. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.08.009

  8. Johnson, L.W. & MacKay, D.G. (2013). Aging and skill learning in the “refresh” task: New data and theory. Under review.

  9. MacKay, D.G., Johnson, L.W., Fazel, V. & James, L.E. (2013). Compensating for language deficits in amnesia I: H.M.’s spared retrieval categories. Brain Sciences, 3(1), 262-293; doi:10.3390/brainsci 3010262.

  10. MacKay, D.G., Johnson, L.W. & Hadley, C. (2013). Compensating for language deficits in amnesia II: H.M.’s spared versus impaired encoding categories. Brain Sciences, 3(2), 415-459; doi:10.3390/brainsci3020415.

  11. MacKay DG, James LE, Hadley C, and Fogler KA. (2011). Speech errors of amnesic H.M.: Unlike everyday slips-of-the-tongue. Cortex, 47: 377-408.

  12. Janschewitz, K. and MacKay, D.G. (2011). Emotion and language. In P. C. Hogan (Ed.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences (pp 278-281). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

  13. MacKay, D.G. (2011). The hippocampal-language link. In P. C. Hogan (Ed.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences (pp 357-359). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

  14. MacKay, D.G. (2011). The semantics-phonology interface. In P. C. Hogan (Ed.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences (pp 757-758). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.


2001 - 2010

  1. Shafto, M.A. & MacKay, D.G. (2010). Miscomprehension, meaning and phonology: The unknown and phonological Armstrong illusions. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 22.4, 529-568.

  2. MacKay, D.G. & Hadley, C. (2009). Supra-normal age-linked retrograde amnesia: Lessons from an older amnesic (H.M.). Hippocampus, 19, 424-45.

  3. MacKay, D.G., & James, L.E. (2009). Visual cognition in amnesic H.M.: Selective deficits on the What’s-wrong-here and Hidden-figure tasks. Journal of Experimental and Clinical Neuropsychology, 31, 769-789.

  4. MacKay, D. G., James, L.E., & Hadley, C. (2008). Amnesic H.M., language production, and memory: Selective deficits on the Test of Language Competence. Journal of Experimental and Clinical Neuropsychology, 30, 280-300.

  5. Hadley, C.B. & MacKay, D.G. (2007). Supplemental Information for "The Core Assumptions of Age-Linked Resource-capacity Theories"

  6. James, L.E., & MacKay, D.G. (2007). New age-linked asymmetries: Aging and the processing of familiar versus novel language on the input versus output side. Psychology and Aging, 22, 94-103.

  7. MacKay, D.G., James, L.E., Taylor, J. K. & Marian, D.E. (2007). Amnesic H.M. exhibits parallel deficits and sparing in language and memory: Systems versus binding theory accounts. Language and Cognitive Processes, 22, 377-452.

  8. Hadley, C.B. & MacKay, D.G. (2006). Does Emotion Help or Hinder Immediate Memory? Arousal versus Priority-binding Mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32, 79-88.

  9. MacKay, D.G. (2006). Aging, memory, and language in amnesic H.M. Hippocampus, 16, 491-494.

  10. MacKay, D.G., & Ahmetzanov , M, V. (2005). Emotion, memory, and attention in the taboo Stroop paradigm: An experimental analog of flashbulb memories. Psychological Science, 16, 25-32.

  11. MacKay, D.G., Hadley, C.B., & Schwartz, J.H. (2005) Relations between emotion, illusory word perception, and orthographic repetition blindness: Tests of binding theory. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58A, 1514-1533.

  12. MacKay, D. G. & James, L.E. (2004). Sequencing, speech production, and selective effects of aging on phonological and morphological speech errors. Psychology and Aging, 19, 93-110.

  13. MacKay, D.G., Shafto, M., Taylor, J. K., Marian, D.E., Abrams, L., & Dyer, J. (2004). Relations between emotion, memory and attention: Evidence from taboo Stroop, lexical decision, and immediate memory tasks. Memory & Cognition, 32, 474-488.

  14. Taylor, J.K. & MacKay, D.G. (2003). Tip-of-the-tongue phenomena: Gold mine or can of worms? Review of Tip-of-the-tongue states: Phenomenology, mechanism, and lexical retrieval, by Bennett L. Schwartz. American Journal of Psychology, 116, 291-298.

  15. MacKay, D.G., & James, L.E. (2002). Aging, retrograde amnesia, and the binding problem for phonology and orthography: A longitudinal study of "hippocampal amnesic" H.M. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 9, 298-333.

  16. MacKay, D.G., James, L.E. & Abrams, L. (2002). Cross-language facilitation, repetition blindness, and the relation between language and memory: Replications of Altarriba and Soltano (1996) and support for a new theory (pp.89-109). In R. Heredia & J. Altaririba (Eds.), Bilingual Sentence Processing. Elsevier Science Publishers.

  17. James, L.E. & MacKay, D.G. (2001). H.M., Word knowledge and aging: Support for a new theory of long-term retrograde amnesia. Psychological Science, 12, 485-492.

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  18. MacKay, D.G. (2001). A tale of two paradigms or metatheoretical approaches to cognitive neuropsychology: Did Schmolck, Stefanacci, and Squire (2000) show that hippocampal lesions only impair memory, whereas adjacent (extrahippocampal) lesions impair detection and explanation of sentence ambiguity? Brain and Language, 78, 265-272.

  19. MacKay, D.G. and James, L.E. (2001). The binding problem for syntax, semantics, and prosody: H.M.'s selective sentence-reading deficits under the theoretical-syndrome approach. Language and Cognitive Processes, 16: 4, 419 - 460.


1996 - 2000

  1. Shafto, M. & MacKay, D.G. (2000). The Moses, Mega-Moses and Armstrong illusions: Integrating language comprehension and semantic memory. Psychological Science, 11, 372-378.

  2. Burke, D.M., MacKay, D.G., & James, L.E. (2000). New theoretical approaches to language and aging. In T. Perfect & E. Maylor (Eds.), Theoretical debates in cognitive aging (pp 204-237). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  3. Santiago, J., MacKay, D.G., Palma, A., & Rho, C. (2000). Picture naming latencies vary with sequential activation processes in hierarchic syllable and word structures. Language and Cognitive Processes, 15, 1-44.

  4. MacKay, D.G., Abrams, L., & Pedroza, M.J. (1999). Aging on the input versus output side: Age-linked asymmetries between detecting versus retrieving orthographic information. Psychology and Aging, 14, 3-17.

  5. MacKay, D.G. (1999). Gender in English, German, and other languages: Problems with the old theory, opportunities for the new. In U. Pasero & F. Braun (Eds.), Perceiving and Performing Gender: Herstellung und Wahrnehmung von Geschlecht (pp 73-87). Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag.

  6. MacKay, D.G. (1998). Stage theories refuted. In W. Bechtel and G. Graham (Eds.) A Companion to Cognitive Science (pp. 671-678). Oxford: Blackwell.

  7. MacKay, D.G., & Abrams, L. (1998). Age-linked declines in retrieving orthographic knowledge: Empirical, practical, and theoretical implications. Psychology and Aging, 13, 647-662.

  8. MacKay, D.G., Stewart, R., & Burke, D.M. (1998). H.M.'s language production deficits: Implications for relations between memory, semantic binding, and the hippocampal system. Journal of Memory and Language, 38, 28-69.

  9. MacKay, D.G., Burke, D.M., & Stewart, R. (1998). H.M. revisited: Relations between language comprehension, memory, and the hippocampal system. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10, 377-394.

  10. Burke, D.M., & MacKay, D.G. (1997). Memory, language, and ageing. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences, 352, 1845-1856.

  11. MacKay, D.G., Abrams, L., Pedroza, M.J., & Miller, M.D (1996). Cross-language facilitation, semantic blindness, and the relation between language and memory: A reply to Altaribba and Soltano. Memory and Cognition, 24, 712-718.

  12. Abrams, L., Dyer, J., & MacKay, D.G. (1996). Repetition Blindness Interacts With Syntactic Grouping in Rapidly Presented Sentences. Psychological Science, Vol. 7, No. 2 (pp 100-104).

  13. MacKay, D.G. (1996). Ambiguity, language, and cognition: Retrospect and prospect. In W.J.M. Levelt (Ed.), Advanced Psycholinguistics (pp 110-117). Nijmegen, Holland: Max Planck Institute.

  14. MacKay, D.G., & Abrams, L. (1996). Language, memory, and aging: Distributed deficits and the structure of new versus old connections. In J.E. Birren & W.K. Schaie (Eds.). Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Fourth Edition. San Diego: Academic Press. pp: 251-265.


1991 - 1995

  1. MacKay, D.G., Miller, M.D., & Schuster, S.P. (1994). Repetition blindness and aging: Evidence for a binding deficit involving a single theoretically-specified connection. Psychology and Aging, 9, 251-258.

  2. MacKay, D.G., & Miller, M.D. (1994). Semantic blindness: Repeated concepts are difficult to encode and recall under time pressure. Psychological Science, 5, 52-55.

  3. Miller, M.D., & MacKay, D.G. (1994). Repetition deafness: Repeated words in computer-compressed speech are difficult to encode and recall. Psychological Science, 5, 47-51.

  4. MacKay, D.G., Wulf, G., Yin, C., & Abrams, L. (1993). Relations between word perception and production: New theory and data on the verbal transformation effect. Journal of Memory and Language, 32, 624-646.

  5. MacKay, D.G. (1993). The theoretical epistemology: A new perspective on some long-standing methodological issues in psychology. In G. Keren & C. Lewis (Eds.), Methodological and quantitative issues in the analysis of psychological data (pp. 229-255). Hillsdale, N.J: Erlbaum.

  6. MacKay, D.G. (1993). Slips of the pen, tongue, and typewriter: A contrastive analysis. In G. Blanken, J Dittmann, H. Grimm, J.C. Marshall, & C.W. Wallesch (Eds.), Linguistic disorders and pathologies: An international handbook. (pp.66-72). New York: de Gruyter & Co.

  7. MacKay, D.G. (1992). Constraints on theories of inner speech. In D. Reisberg. (Ed.), Auditory imagery (pp. 121-149). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

  8. MacKay, D.G. (1992). Errors, ambiguity, and awareness in language perception and production. In B. Baars (Ed.), Experimental slips and human error: Exploring the architecture of volition (pp.39-69). New York: Plenum.

  9. MacKay, D.G. (1992). Awareness and error detection: New theories and paradigms. Consciousness and Cognition, 1, 199-225.

  10. MacKay, D.G. (1992). Problems with Popper: The initial goal is to develop viable theories, not disconfirm them. Consciousness and Cognition, 1, 231-240.

  11. Burke, D.M., MacKay, D.G., Worthley, J.S., & Wade, E. (1991). On the tip of the tongue: What causes word finding failures in young and older adults? Journal of Memory and Language, 30, 542-579.


1986 - 1990

  1. MacKay, D.G. (1990). Why facts neither speak for themselves nor resolve the psi controversy: The view from the rational epistemology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13(2), 385-386.

  2. MacKay, D.G. (1990). Cognitive skills: Clarification or quagmire? Review of Acquisition and performance of cognitive skills, by Colley & J.R. Beech (Eds.). Contemporary Psychology, 35(12), 1139-1140.

  3. MacKay, D.G. (1990). Perception, action, and awareness: A three-body problem. In O. Neumann & W. Prinz (Eds.), Relationships between Perception and Action (pp. 269-303). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

  4. MacKay, D.G. & Burke, D.M. (1990). Cognition and aging: A theory of new learning and the use of old connections. In T. Hess (Ed.), Aging and cognition: Knowledge organization and utilization (pp. 213-263).

  5. MacKay, D.G. (1988). Under what conditions can theoretical psychology survive and prosper?: Integrating the rational and empirical epistemologies. Psychological Review, 95(4), 559-565.

  6. MacKay, D.G. (1988). Practical applications and theories of memory: A new epistemology to supplement the old. In M.M. Gruneberg, P.E. Morris, & R.N. Sykes (Eds.), Practical aspects of memory: Volume II (pp. 441-446). Chichester, England: Wiley.

  7. MacKay, D.G. (1987). Sequencing and timing in language perception and production. In A. Allport, D.G. MacKay, W. Prinz, & E. Scheerer (Eds.), Language perception and production: Relationships among listening, speaking, reading and writing (pp. 407-429). London: Academic Press.

  8. MacKay, D.G., Allport, A., Prinz, W., & Scheerer. (1987). Introduction to A. Allport, D.G. MacKay, W. Prinz, E. Scheerer (Eds.) Language perception and production: Relationships among listening, speaking reading and writing (pp. vi-vii). London: Academic Press.

  9. MacKay, D.G., Allport, A, Prinz, W., & Scheerer. (1987). Preface to A. Allport, D.G. MacKay, W. Prinz, E. Scheerer (Eds.) Language perception and production: Relationships among listening, speaking reading and writing (pp. vi-vii). London: Academic Press.

  10. MacKay, D.G., Allport, A., Prinz, W., & Scheerer, E. (1987). Relationships and modules within language perception-production. In A. Allport, D.G. MacKay, W. Prinz, & E. Scheerer (Eds.), Language perception and production: Relationships among listening, speaking, reading and writing (pp. 1-15). London: Academic Press.

  11. MacKay, D.G. (1987). Asymmetries in the relationship between speech perception and production. In H. Heuer and A. Sanders (Eds.), Perspectives on perception and action (pp. 301-333). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

  12. Preface (pp. vii-ix), introduction (xiii-xxii), references (194-200), and epilogue (200-215). In MacKay, D.G. (1987). The organization of perception and action: A theory for language and other cognitive skills (1-254). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

  13. Theoretical Antecedents to a theory for language and other cognitive skills. Ch 1 (pp. 1-13) in MacKay, D.G. (1987). The organization of perception and action: A theory for language and other cognitive skills (1-254). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

  14. The structure of perception and action. Ch 2 (pp. 14-38) in MacKay, D.G. (1987). The organization of perception and action: A theory for language and other cognitive skills (1-254). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

  15. The sequencing of action. Ch 3 (pp. 39-61) in MacKay, D.G. (1987). The organization of perception and action: A theory for language and other cognitive skills (1-254). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

  16. Perceptual sequencing and higher level activation. Ch 4 (pp. 62-89) in MacKay, D.G. (1987). The organization of perception and action: A theory for language and other cognitive skills (1-254). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

  17. The temporal organization of perceptual and action. Ch 5 (pp. 90-110) in MacKay, D.G. (1987). The organization of perception and action: A theory for language and other cognitive skills (1-254). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

  18. Asymmetries between perception and action. Ch 6 (pp. 111-125) in MacKay, D.G. (1987). The organization of perception and action: A theory for language and other cognitive skills (1-254). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

  19. The functions of mental nodes and mirror neurons. Ch 7 (pp. 126-140) in MacKay, D.G. (1987). The organization of perception and action: A theory for language and other cognitive skills (1-254). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

  20. Self-inhibition, perceptual feedback and error detection. Ch 8-10 (pp. 141-193) in MacKay, D.G. (1987). The organization of perception and action: A theory for language and other cognitive skills (1-254). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

  21. MacKay, D.G. (1986). Prototypicality among metaphors: The relative frequency of personification and spatial metaphors in literature written for children versus adults. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 1(2), 87-107.

  22. MacKay, D.G. (1986). Self-inhibition and the disruptive effects of internal and external feedback in skilled behavior. In H. Heuer and C. Fromm (Eds.), Generation and modulation of action patterns. (pp. 174-186). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.


1981 - 1985

  1. MacKay, D.G. (1985). A theory of the representation, organization and timing of action with implications for sequencing disorders. In E.A. Roy (Ed.), Neuropsychological studies of apraxia and related disorders (pp. 267-308). New York: North-Holland.

  2. MacKay, D.G., & Kempler, D. (1984). Review of Slips of the tongue and language production. Edited by A. Cutler. Language, 60(2), 436-441.

  3. MacKay, D.G., & MacDonald, M.C. (1984). Stuttering as a sequencing and timing disorder within the muscle movement system. In W.H. Perkins and R.F. Curlee (Eds.), The Nature and treatment of stuttering: New questions (pp. 261-282). San Diego: College-Hill Press.

  4. MacKay, D.G. (1983). A theory of the representation and enactment of intentions with applications to the problems of creativity, motor equivalence, errors and automaticity in skilled behavior. In R. Magill (Ed.), Memory and control of action. (pp.217-230). Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing.


Pre-1980

  1. MacKay, D.G. (1980). Language, thought and social attitudes. In H. Giles (Ed.), Language: Social Psychological Perspectives. (pp.89-96). New York: Pergamon Press.

  2. MacKay, D.G. (1980). On the goals, principles and procedures for prescriptive grammar. Language in Society, 9, 349-367.

  3. MacKay, D.G., & Konishi, T. (1980). Personification and the pronoun problem. In C. Kramarae (Ed.), The voices and words of women and men. London: Pergamon Press.

  4. MacKay, D.G. (1980). Psychology, prescriptive grammar and the pronoun problem. American Psychologist, 35(5), 444-449.

  5. MacKay, D.G. (1980). Speech errors: Retrospect and prospect. In V. Fromkin (Ed.), Errors of Linguistic Performance: Slips of the Tongue, Ear, Pen, and Hand. (pp.319-332). New York: Academic Press.

  6. MacKay, D.G. (1979). Lexical Insertion, inflection and derivation: Creative processes in word production. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 8, 477-498.

  7. MacKay, D.G., & Fulkerson, D.C. (1979). On the comprehension and production of pronouns. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 18, 661-673.

  8. MacKay, D.G. (1978). Derivational rules and the internal lexicon. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 17, 61-71.

  9. MacKay, D.G. (1978). Speech errors inside the syllable. In A. Bell and J. Hooper (Eds.), Syllables and Segments, (pp. 201-212). New York: North Holland.

  10. MacKay, D.G. (1976). Serial order revisted: A reply to R.D. Kent. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1976, 28.

  11. Baars, B.J., Motley, M.Y., & MacKay, D.G. (1975). Output editing for lexical status in artificially elicited slips of the tongue. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 14, 382-391.

  12. MacKay, D.G. (1974). Aspects of the syntax of behavior: syllable structure and speech rate. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 26, 642-657.

  13. MacKay, D.G. (1973). Complexity in output systems: Evidence from behavioral hybrids. American Journal of Psychology, 86, 785-806.

  14. MacKay, D.G. (1973). Aspects of the Theory of Comprehension, Memory, and Attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 25, 22-40.

  15. MacKay, D.G. (1972). The structure of words and syllables: Evidence from errors in speech.Cognitive Psychology, 3, 210-227.

  16. MacKay, D.G. (1972). Input testing in the detection of misspellings. American Journal of Psychology, 85, 121-128. .

  17. MacKay, D.G., & Soderberg, G.A. (1971). Homologous intrusions: Analogue of linguistic blends. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 32, 645-646.

  18. MacKay, D.G. (1971). Stress pre-entry in motor systems. American Journal of Psychology, 84, 35-51.

  19. MacKay, D.G. (1970). Phoneme repetition in the structure of languages. Language and Speech, 13(3) 199-213.

  20. MacKay, D.G. (1970). Context dependent stuttering. Kybernetik, 7, 1-9.

  21. Reference: Marslen-Wilson, W. (1970). Biographical interviews with H.M. M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass.: Unpublished transcript (pp. 1-144).

  22. MacKay, D.G. (1970). Spoonerisms: The structure of errors in the serial order of speech. Neuropsychologia, 8, 323-350.

  23. MacKay, D.G. (1970). Spoonerisms of children. Neuropsychologia, 8, 350-358.

  24. MacKay, D.G. (1969). Effects of ambiguity on stuttering: Towards a model of speech production at the semantic level. Kybernetik, 5, 195-208.

  25. MacKay, D.G. (1969). Forward and backward masking in speech production. Kybernetik, 6, 57-64.

  26. MacKay, D.G. (1968). Metamorphosis of a critical interval: Age-linked changes in the delay in auditory feedback producing maximal interference with speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 43(4), 811-821.

  27. MacKay, D.G. (1976). On the retrieval and lexical structure of verbs. Journal of Verbal Learning Behavior, 15, 169-182.

  28. MacKay, D.G., & Bever, T.G. (1967). In search of ambiguity. Perception and Psychophysics, 2, 193-200.


  29. MacKay, D.G. (1966). To end ambiguous sentences. Perception and Psychophysics, 1, 426-436.



Undownloadable References

 

1996-2000


  1. MacKay, D.G., & Miller, M.D. (1996). Neoconnectionism and information-processing stages: Do they connect? Review of “The Structure of Long-Term Memory: A Connectivity Model of Semantic Processing." By Wolfgang Klimesch. American Journal of Psychology, 109, 162-171.



1990-1995


  1. MacKay, D.G. & Konishi, T. (1995). The selection of pronouns in spoken language production: an illusion of reference. In Burwick, F. & Pape, W. (Eds.). Reflecting sense: Perception and appearances in literature, culture, and the arts. Walter & De Gruyter, Berlin: pp.279-300.

  2. MacKay, D.G. (1995). An invited reply to Andre Kukla, "Empirical hypotheses versus theoretical analysis: A much needed distinction in psychology." New Ideas in Psychology, 13(3), 235-299.

  3. Burke, D.M. & MacKay, D.G. (1994). Cognitive aging comes of age: A review of F.I.M. Craik & T.A. Salthouse (Eds.), The Handbook of Aging and Cognition (pp. 1-586). Contemporary Psychology, 39, 263-264.

  4. MacKay, D.G. (1989). Is Paradigm a new and general paradigm for psychological inquiry? Read my lips. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12(4), 770-772.



1981-1985


  1. MacKay, D.G. (1983). A reply to Pateman on singular they. Language in Society, 12, 75-76.

  2. MacKay, D.G., & MacDonald, M.C. (1982). Review of Studies in the Perception of Language, by W.J.M. Levelt and G.B. Flores d'Arcais (Eds.). Language, 58(3), 735-737.

  3. MacKay, D.G., & Meister, J. (1982). Review of The Organization of Language, by Janice Moulton and George M. Robinson. Language, 58(3), 715-718.

  4. MacKay, D.G. (1981). The problem of rehearsal or mental practice. Journal of Motor Behavior, 13, 274-285.

  5. MacKay, D.G., & Dwyer, J. (1981). Review of Psycholinguistic Research: Implications and applications, by Doris Aaronson and Robert W. Rieber (Eds.). Language, 57(1), 150-1.

  6. MacKay, D.G., & Konishi, T. (1981). Review of Perspectives in Experimental Linguistics, by Gary D. Prideaux (Ed.). Language, 57(3), 751-753.

  7. MacKay, D.G. (1981). Behavioral plasticity and the motor program. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 4(4), 630-631.



Pre-1980


  1. MacKay, D.G. (1979). Review of Psycholinguistics: An introduction to the psychology of language, by Donald J. Foss and David T. Hakes. Language, 55(2), 491-492.

  2. MacKay, D.G. & Konishi, T. (1980). Review of Metaphor and thought by Andrew Ortony (Ed.). Language, 56(4), 916-917.

  3. MacKay, D.G., & Bowman, R. (1969).  On producing the meaning in sentences. American Journal of Psychology, 82(1), 23-39.

  4. MacKay, D.G. (1969). To speak with an accent: Effects of nasal distortion on stuttering under delayed auditory feed- back. Perception and Psychophysics, 5(3) 183-188.

  5. MacKay, D.G. (1970). Mental Diplopia: Towards a model of speech perception at the semantic level. In G.B. Flores d'Arcais and W.J.M. Levelt (Eds.) Recent Advances in Psycholinguistics, (pp.76-100). Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing.

  6. MacKay, D.G. (1970). How does language familiarity influence stuttering under delayed auditory feedback? Perceptual and Motor Skills, 30, 655-660.

  7. Soderberg, G.A., & MacKay, D.G. (1972). The function relating stuttering to phoneme frequency and transition probability. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 11(1), 83-91.


Selected Bibliography Organized by Topic
Dr. Donald G. MacKay, Ph.D. MIT 1967
UCLA, Department of Psychology



Memory and Language


  1. MacKay, D.G. (1981). The problem of rehearsal or mental practice. Journal of Motor Behavior, 13, 274-285.

  2. MacKay, D.G. (1982). The problem of flexibility, fluency and speed-accuracy trade-off in skilled behavior. Psychological Review, 89, 483-506.

  3. MacKay, D.G. (1992). Constraints on theories of inner speech. In D. Reisberg. (Ed.), Auditory imagery (pp. 121-149). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

  4. Miller, M.D., & MacKay, D.G. (1994). Repetition deafness: Repeated words in computer-compressed speech are difficult to encode and recall. Psychological Science, 5, 47-51.

  5. MacKay, D.G., & Miller, M.D. (1994). Semantic blindness: Repeated concepts are difficult to encode and recall under time pressure. Psychological Science, 5, 52-55.

  6. MacKay, D.G., & Abrams, L. (1996). Language, memory, and aging: Distributed deficits and the structure of new versus old connections. Invited chapter for J.E. Birren & W.K. Schaie (Eds.). Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Fourth Edition. San Diego: Academic Press.

  7. Miller, M.D., & MacKay, D.G. (1996). Relations between language and memory: The case of repetition deafness. Psychological Science, 7, 347-351.

  8. Abrams, L., Dyer, J.R., & MacKay, D.G. (1996). Repetition deficits interact with syntactic grouping in RSVP sentences. Psychological Science, 7, 100-104.

  9. MacKay, D.G., Abrams, L., Pedroza, M.J., & Miller, M.D (1997). Cross-language facilitation, semantic blindness, and the relation between language and memory: A reply to Altaribba and Soltano. Memory and Cognition, 24, 712-718.

  10. MacKay, D.G., Stewart, R., & Burke, D.M. (1998). H.M.'s language production deficits: Implications for relations between memory, semantic binding, and the hippocampal system. Journal of Memory and Language, 38, 28-69.

  11. MacKay, D.G., Burke, D.M., & Stewart, R. (1998). H.M. revisited: Relations between language comprehension, memory, and the hippocampal system. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10, 377-394.

  12. Shafto, M. & MacKay, D.G. (2000). The Moses, Mega-Moses and Armstrong illusions: Integrating language comprehension and semantic memory. Psychological Science, 11, 372-378.

  13. MacKay, D.G., and James, L.E. (2001). The binding problem for syntax, semantics, and prosody: H.M.'s selective sentence-reading deficits under the theoretical-syndrome approach. Language and Cognitive Processes, 16, 419-460.

  14. James, L.E. & MacKay, D.G. (2001). H.M., Word knowledge and aging: Support for a new theory of long-term retrograde amnesia. Psychological Science, 12, 485-492.

  15. MacKay, D.G., James, L.E., & Abrams, L. (2002). Cross-language facilitation, repetition blindness, and the relation between language and memory: Replications of Altarriba and Soltano (1996) and support for a new theory (pp. 89-109). In R. Heredia & J. Altaririba (Eds.), Bilingual sentence processing. Elsevier Science Publishers.

  16. Taylor, J.K. & MacKay, D.G. (2002). Tip-of-the-tongue phenomena: Gold mine or can of worms? Review of Tip-of-the-tongue states: Phenomenology, mechanism, and lexical retrieval, by Bennett L. Schwartz. American Journal of Psychology, in press.

  17. MacKay, D.G., and James, L.E. (2002). Aging, retrograde amnesia, and the binding problem for phonology and orthography: A longitudinal study of "hippocampal amnesic" H.M. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, in press.

  18. MacKay, D.G., Shafto, M., Jennifer K. Taylor, Diane E. Marion, Abrams, L., & Dyer, J. (2002). New Dimensions for Theories of Emotion, Memory and Attention: The Taboo Stroop and Related Effects. Manuscript under review.

  19. MacKay, D. G. & James, L.E. (2002). Selective Effects of Aging on Morphological and Phonological Speech Errors: Support for the Transmission Deficit hypothesis. Manuscript submitted for publication.


Language Comprehension: Syntax and Semantics


  1. MacKay, D.G. (1966). To end ambiguous sentences. Perception and Psychophysics, 1, 426-436.

  2. MacKay, D.G., & Bever, T.G. (1967). In search of ambiguity. Perception and Psychophysics, 2, 193-200.

  3. MacKay, D.G. (1969). Effects of ambiguity on stuttering: Towards a model of speech production at the sematic level. Kybernetik, 5, 195-208.

  4. Olson, J.N., & MacKay, D.G. (1974). Completion and verification of ambiguous sentences. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 13, 457-470.

  5. MacKay, D.G. (1999). Gender in English, German, and other languages: Problems with the old theory, opportunities for the new. In U. Pasero & F. Braun (Eds.), Perceiving and Performing Gender: Herstellung und Wahrnehmung von Geschlecht (pp. 73-87). Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag.

  6. Shafto, M. & MacKay, D.G. (2000). The Moses, Mega-Moses and Armstrong illusions: Integrating language comprehension and semantic memory. Psychological Science, 11, 372-378.

  7. James, L.E., & MacKay, D.G. (2000). Why H.M. Miscomprehends Low Frequency Words: Relations between Memory, Comprehension, Aging, and Hippocampal System Binding. Manuscript in preparation.


Cognitive Skills


  1. MacKay, D.G. (1976). Serial order revisted: A reply to R.D. Kent. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1976, 28.

  2. MacKay, D.G. (1981). Behavioral plasticity and the motor program. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 4, 630-631.

  3. MacKay, D.G. (1983). A theory of the representation and enactment of intentions with applications to the problems of creativity, motor equivalence, errors and automaticity in skilled behavior. In R. Magill (Ed.), Memory and control of action. (pp. 217-230). Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing.

  4. MacKay, D.G. (1985). A theory of the representation, organization and timing of action with implications for sequencing of disorders. In E.A. Roy (Ed.), Neuropsychological studies of apraxia and related disorders (pp. 267-308). New York: North-Holland.

  5. MacKay, D.G. (1987). The organization of perception and action: A theory for language and other cognitive skills. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

  6. MacKay, D.G. (1990). Cognitive skills: Clarification or quagmire? Review of Acquisition and performance of cognitive skills, by Colley & J.R. Beech (Eds.). Contemporary Psychology, 35, 1139-1140.


Language Production


  1. MacKay, D.G. (1970). Spoonerisms: The structure of errors in the serial order of speech. Neuropsychologia, 8, 323-350.

  2. MacKay, D.G. (1971). Stress pre-entry in motor systems. American Journal of Psychology, 84, 35-51.

  3. MacKay, D.G., & Soderberg, G.A. (1971). Homologous instrusions: Analogue of linguistic blends. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 32, 645-646.

  4. MacKay, D.G. (1972). The structure of words and syllables: Evidence from errors in speech. Cognitive Psychology, 3, 210-227.

  5. MacKay, D.G. (1973). Complexity in output systems: Evidence from behavioral hybrids. American Journal of Psychology, 86, 785-806.

  6. MacKay, D.G. (1974). Aspects of the syntax of behavior: syllable structure and speech rate. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 26, 642-657.

  7. Baars, B.J., Motley, M.Y., & MacKay, D.G. (1975). Output editing for lexical status in artificially elicited slips of the tongue. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 14, 382-391.

  8. MacKay, D.G. (1976). On the retrieval and lexical structure of verbs. Journal of Verbal Learning Behavior, 15, 169-182.

  9. MacKay, D.G. (1976). Serial order revisted: A reply to R.D. Kent. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1976, 28.

  10. Baars, B.J., & MacKay, D.G. (1978). Experimentally eliciting phonetic and sentential speech errors: Methods, implications, and work in progress. Language in Society, 7, 105-109.

  11. MacKay, D.G. (1978). Derivational rules and the internal lexicon. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 17, 61-71.

  12. MacKay, D.G. (1978). Speech errors inside the syllable. In A.Bell and J. Hooper (Eds.), Syllables and segments (pp. 201-212). New York: North Holland.

  13. MacKay, D.G. (1979). Lexical insertion, inflection and derivation: Creative process in word production. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 8, 477-498.

  14. MacKay, D.G. (1980). Speech errors: Retrospect and prospect. In V. Fromkin (Ed.), Errors of Linguistic Performance: Slips of the Tongue, Ear, Pen and Hand. (pp. 319-332). New York: Academic Press.

  15. MacKay, D.G. (1981). Behavioral plasticity and the motor program. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 4, 630-631.

  16. MacKay, D.G., & MacDonald, M.C. (1984). Stuttering as a sequencing and timing disorder within the muscle movement system. In W.H. Perkins and R.F. Curlee (Eds.), The Nature and treatment of stuttering: New questions (pp. 261-282). San Diego: College-Hill Press.

  17. MacKay, D.G. (1993). Slips of the pen, tongue, and typewriter: A contrastive analysis. In G. Blanken, J. Dittmann, H. Grimm, J.C. Marshall & C.W. Wallesch (Eds.), Linguistic Disorders and Pathologies: An international handbook. (pp. 66-72). New York: de Gruyter & Co.

  18. Santiago, J., MacKay, D.G., Palma, A., & Rho, C. (1999). Picture naming latencies vary with sequential activation processes in hierarchic syllable and word structures. Language and Cognitive Processes, 15, 1-44.

  19. Santiago, J., & MacKay, D.G. (1999). Constraining production theories: Principled motivation, consistency, homunculi, underspecification, failed predictions, and contrary data. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 55-56.

  20. MacKay, D. G. & James, L.E. (2002). Selective Effects of Aging on Morphological and Phonological Speech Errors: Support for the Transmission Deficit hypothesis. Manuscript submitted for publication.


Philosophy of Science


  1. MacKay, D.G. (1988). Under what conditions can theoretical psychology survive and prosper?: Integrating the rational and empirical epistemologies. Psychological Review, 95, 559-565.

  2. MacKay, D.G. (1988). Practical applications and theories of memory: A new epistemology to supplement the old. In M.M. Gruneberg, P.E. Morris, & R.N. Sykes (Eds.), Practical aspects of memory: Volume II (pp. 441-446). Chichester, England: Wiley.

  3. MacKay, D.G. (1989). Is Paradigm a new and general paradigm for psychological inquiry? Read my lips. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 770-772.

  4. MacKay, D.G. (1990). Why facts neither speak for themselves nor resolve the psi controversy: The view from the rational epistemology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13, 385-386.

  5. MacKay, D.G. (1993). The theoretical epistemology: A new perspective on some long-standing methodological issues in psychology. In G. Keren & C. Lewis (Eds.), Methodological and quantitative issues in the analysis of psychological data (pp. 229-255). Hillsdale, N.J: Erlbaum.

  6. MacKay, D.G. (1995). An invited reply to Andre Kukla, "Empirical hypotheses versus theoretical analysis: A much needed distinction in psychology: A response to Kukla." New Ideas in Psychology, 13, 235-229.

  7. MacKay, D.G., & Miller, M.D. (1996). Is connectionism the final stage of information processing? A review of "The Structure of Long-Term Memory: A Connectivity Model of Semantic Processing." By Wolfgang Klimesch. American Journal of Psychology, 109, 162-171.

  8. MacKay, D.G. (1998). Stage theories refuted. In W. Bechtel and G. Graham (Eds.) A Companion to Cognitive Science (pp. 671-678). Oxford: Blackwell.

  9. MacKay, D.G., and Hadley, C..H. (2002). Theories and epistemologies in cognitive aging research: A case study in paradoxical popularity. Manuscript submitted for publication.


Language Perception


  1. MacKay, D.G. (1968). Phonetic factors in the perception and recall of spelling errors. Neuropsychologia, 6, 321-325.

  2. MacKay, D.G. (1970). Mental Diplopia: Towards a model of speech perception at the semantic level. In G.B. Flores d'Arcais anD W.J.M. Levelt (Eds.) Recent Advances in Psycholinguistics, (pp. 76-100). Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing.

  3. MacKay, D.G. (1972). Input testing in the detection of misspellings. American Journal of Psychology, 85, 121-128.

  4. MacKay, D.G., Wulf, G., Yin, C., & Abrams, L. (1993). Relations between word perception and production: New theory and data on the verbal transformation effect. Journal of Memory and Language, 32, 624-646.

  5. MacKay, D.G., Abrams, L., & Pedroza, M.J. (1999). Aging on the input versus output side: Age-linked asymmetries between detecting versus retrieving orthographic information. Psychology and Aging, 14, 3-17.


Cognitive Aging


  1. MacKay, D.G. & Burke, D.M. (1990). Cognition and aging: A theory of new learning and the use of old connections. In T. Hess (Ed.), Aging and cognition: Knowledge organization and utilization (pp. 213-263). Amsterdam: North Holland.

  2. Burke, D.M., MacKay, D.G., Worthley, J.S., & Wade, E. (1991). On the tip of the tongue: What causes word finding failures in young and older adults? Journal of Memory and Language, 30, 542-579.

  3. Burke, D.M. & MacKay, D.G. (1994). Cognitive aging comes of age: A review of F.I.M. Craik & T.A. Salthouse (Eds.), The Handbook of Aging and Cognition (pp. 1-586). Contemporary Psychology, 39, 263-264.

  4. MacKay, D.G., Miller, M.D., & Schuster, S.P. (1994). Repetition blindness and aging: Evidence for a binding deficit involving a single theoretically-specified connection. Psychology and Aging, 9, 251-258.

  5. MacKay, D.G., & Abrams, L. (1996). Language, memory, and aging: Distributed deficits and the structure of new versus old connections. Invited chapter for J.E. Birren & W.K. Schaie (Eds.). Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Fourth Edition. San Diego: Academic Press.

  6. MacKay, D.G. & Miller, M. (1996). Can cognitive aging contribute to fundamental psychological theory? Repetition deafness as a test case. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 3, 1-18.

  7. Burke, D.M., & MacKay, D.G. (1997). Memory, language, and ageing. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences, 352, 1845-1856.

  8. MacKay, D.G., & Abrams, L. (1998). Age-linked declines in retrieving orthographic knowledge: Empirical, practical, and theoretical implications. Psychology and Aging, 13, 647-662.

  9. MacKay, D.G., Abrams, L., & Pedroza, M.J. (1999). Aging on the input versus output side: Age-linked asymmetries between detecting versus retrieving orthographic information. Psychology and Aging, 14, 3-17.

  10. Burke, D.M., MacKay, D.G., & James, L.E. (2000). New theoretical approaches to language and aging. In T. Perfect & E. Maylor (Eds.), Theoretical debates in cognitive aging (pp 204-237). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  11. MacKay, D.G., & James, L.E. (2001). Is cognitive aging all downhill? Current theory versus reality. Essay Review of The Handbook of Aging and Cognition (2nd Edition) by Fergus I.M. Craik & Timothy A. Salthouse (Eds.). Human Development, 44, 288-295.

  12. MacKay, D. G. & James, L.E. (2001). Selective Effects of Aging on Phonological Speech Errors: Support for the Transmission Deficit hypothesis. Manuscript submitted for publication.

  13. James, L.E. & MacKay, D.G. (2001). H.M., Word knowledge and aging: Support for a new theory of long-term retrograde amnesia. Psychological Science, 12, 485-492.


Relations between Language Perception and Production


  1. MacKay, D.G. (1968). Metamorphosis of a critical interval: Age-linked changes in the delay in auditory feedback producing maximal interference with speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 43, 811-821.

  2. Baars, B.J., Motley, M.Y., & MacKay, D.G. (1975). Output editing for lexical status in artificially elicited slips of the tongue. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 14, 382-391.

  3. MacKay, D.G. (1986). Self-inhibition and the disruptive effects of internal and external feedback in skilled behavior. In H. Heuer and C. Fromm (Eds.), Generation and modulation of action patterns. (pp. 174-186). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

  4. MacKay, D.G. (1987). Asymmetries in the relationship between speech perception and production. In H. Heuer and A. Sanders (Eds.), Perspectives on perception and action (pp. 301-333). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

  5. MacKay, D.G. (1987). The organization of perception and action: A theory for language and other cognitive skills. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

  6. Allport, A., MacKay, D.G., Prinz, W., & Scheerer, E. (1987). Language perception and production: Relationships between in listening, speaking, reading and writing. (pp. 1-530). London: Academic Press.

  7. MacKay, D.G. (1987). Constraints on theories of sequencing and timing in language perception and production. In A. Allport, D.G. MacKay, W. Prinz, & E. Scheerer (Eds.), Language perception and production: Relationships between listening, speaking, reading and writing (pp. 407-429). London: Academic Press.

  8. MacKay, D.G. (1987). Constraints and asymmetries between language perception and production. In A. Allport, D.G. MacKay, W. Prinz, & E. Scheerer (Eds.), Language perception and production: Relationships between listening, speaking, reading and writing (pp. 18-21). London: Academic Press.

  9. MacKay, D.G., Allport, A., Prinz, W., & Scheerer, E. (1987). Relationships and modules within language perception-production. In A. Allport, D.G. MacKay, W. Prinz, & E. Scheerer (Eds.), Language perception and production: Relationships between listening, speaking, reading and writing (pp. 1-15). London: Academic Press.

  10. MacKay, D.G., Allport, A., Prinz, W., & Scheerer. (1987). Preface to A. Allport, D.G. MacKay, W. Prinz, E. Scheerer (Eds.) Language perception and production: Relationships among listening, speaking reading and writing (pp. vi-vii). London: Academic Press.

  11. MacKay, D.G. (1987). Sequencing and timing in language perception and production. In A. Allport, D.G. MacKay, W. Prinz, & E. Scheerer (Eds.), Language perception and production: Relationships between listening, speaking, reading and writing (pp. 402-405). London: Academic Press.

  12. MacKay, D.G. (1990). Perception, action, and awareness: A three-body problem. In O. Neumann & W. Prinz (Eds.), Relationships between perception and action (pp. 269-303). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

  13. MacKay, D.G. (1992). Awareness and error detection: New theories and paradigms. Consciousness and Cognition, 1, 199-225.

  14. MacKay, D.G. (1992). Errors, ambiguity, and awareness in language perception and production. In B. Baars (Ed.), Experimental slips and human error: Exploring the architecture of volition (pp. 39-69). New York: Plenum.

  15. MacKay, D.G., Wulf, G., Yin, C., & Abrams, L. (1993). Relations between word perception and production: New theory and data on the verbal transformation effect. Journal of Memory and Language, 32, 624-646.

  16. MacKay, D.G., Abrams, L., & Pedroza, M.J. (1999). Aging on the input versus output side: Age-linked asymmetries between detecting versus retrieving orthographic information. Psychology and Aging, 14, 3-17.


Language and Other Cognitive Processes: Thought, Metaphor, Emotion, and Visual Cognition


  1. MacKay, D.G. (1980). On the goals, principles and procedures for prescriptive grammar. Language in Society, 9, 349-367.

  2. MacKay, D.G. (1980). Language, thought and social attitudes. In H. Giles (Ed.), Language: Social Psychological Perspectives (pp. 89-96). New York: Pergamon Press.

  3. MacKay, D.G. & Konishi, T. (1980). Personification and the pronoun problem. Women's Studies International Quarterly, 3, 149-164.

  4. MacKay, D.G. & Konishi, T. (1980). Review of Metaphor and thought by Andrew Ortony (Ed.), Language, 56, 916-917.

  5. MacKay, D.G. (1980). Prescriptive grammar and the pronoun problem. In B. Thorne, C. Kramarae, and N. Henley (Eds.), Language, gender and society. (pp. 38-53). London: Newbury House.

  6. MacKay, D.G. (1986). Prototypicality among metaphors: The relative frequency of personification and spatial metaphors in literature written for children versus adults. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 1, 87-107.

  7. MacKay, D.G., & Konishi, T. (1994). Contraconscious internal theories influence lexical choice during sentence completion. Consciousness and Cognition, 3, 196-222.

  8. MacKay, D.G. & Konishi, T. (1995). The selection of pronouns in spoken language production: an illusion of reference. In Burwick, F. & Pape, W. (Eds.), Reflecting sense: Perception and appearance in literature, culture, and the arts. Walter & De Gruyter, Berlin: pp. 279-300.

  9. MacKay, D.G. (1999). Gender in English, German, and other languages: Problems with the old theory, opportunities for the new. In U. Pasero & F. Braun (Eds.), Perceiving and performing gender: Herstellung und wahrnehmung von geschlecht. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag.

  10. MacKay, D.G., and James, L.E. (2000). Binding processes for visual cognition: Hippocampal amnesic H.M. exhibits selective deficits in detecting hidden figures and errors in visual scenes. Manuscript in preparation.

  11. MacKay, D.G., Shafto, M., Dyer, J. & Abrams, L. (2000). Disruptive effects of emotion on memory and cognition: The taboo Stroop and word-after effects. Manuscript in preparation.

  12. Shafto, M. & MacKay, D.G. (2000). The Moses, Mega-Moses and Armstrong illusions: Integrating language comprehension and semantic memory. Psychological Science, 11, 372-378.