Michael Cortese
Contact Info
Arts & Sciences Hall, 347 ‘D’
(402) 554-2587
mcortese@mail.unomaha.edu
Current Position
Assistant Professor of Psychology - University of Nebraska at Omaha
Education
University of Nebraska at Omaha (1991) B.A. (Psychology)
University of Kansas (1994) M.A. (Psychology)
University of Kansas (1997) Ph.D. (Cognitive Psychology)
Teaching
Cognitive Psychology, Methods of Psychological Inquiry
Courses Taught
Cognitive Psychology, Laboratory in Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology of Language, Introductory Psychology, Psychological Methods, Experimental Design and Analysis, Statistics
Research
Word processing, memory, attention, and language throughout the life span and in those with distinct neuropsychological profiles.
Publications
Balota, D.A., Yap, M.J., Cortese, M.J., Hutchison, K.A., Kessler, B. , Loftus, B., Neely, J. H., Nelson, D. L., Simpson, G.B., & Treiman, R. (in press). The English Lexicon Project: A Users Guide. Behavior Methods and Research, Instrumentation, & Computers.
Yap , M.J., Balota, D.A., Cortese, M.J., & Watson, J.M. (in press). Single versus Dual Process Models of Lexical Decision Performance: Insights from RT Distributional Analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Cortese, M.J., Balota, D.A., Sergent-Marshall , S.D. Buckner, R.L., & Gold, B.T. (in press). Consistency and regularity in past tense verb generation in healthy aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and semantic dementia. Cognitive Neuropsychology.
Cortese, M.J., Watson, J.M., Khanna., M.M., & McCallion, M. (in press). Revisiting distinctive processes in memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review .
Balota, D.A., Yap, M.J., & Cortese, M.J. (2006). Visual word recognition: The journey from features to meaning (A travel update). To appear in M. Traxler & M. Gernsbacher (Eds.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics (2nd Edition) , Elsevier.
Cortese, M.J., Balota, D.A. (2006). Visual word recognition in skilled adult readers. To appear in M. Joanisse & K. McRae (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics.
Gold, B.T., Balota, D.A., Cortese, M.J., Sergent-Marshall,S.D., Snyder, A.Z., Salat, D.H., Fischl, B., Dale, A.M., Morris, J.C. & Buckner, R.L. (2005). Differing neuropsychological and neuroanatomical correlates of abnormal reading in early-stage semantic dementia and dementia of the Alzheimer type. Neuropsychologia, 43, 833-846.
Cortese, M.J., Watson, J.M., Fugett, A., & Wang, J. (2004). Relating distinctive orthographic and phonological processes to episodic memory performance, Memory & Cognition, 32, 632-639.
Balota, D.A., Cortese, M.J., Sergent Marshall, S.D., Spieler, D. H., & Yap, M.J. (2004). Visual word recognition for single syllable words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133, 283-316.
Cortese, M.J., Balota, D.A., Sergent-Marshall, S.D., & Buckner, R.L. (2003). Sublexical, lexical, and semantic influences in spelling: Exploring the effects of age, Alzheimer’s disease and primary semantic impairment. Neuropsychologia, 41, 952-967.
Balota, D.A., Cortese, M.J., & Wenke, D. (2002). Ambiguity Resolution Across Tasks and Across Groups of Individuals: An Attentional Selection Framework. In D. Gorfein (Ed.) On the Consequences of Meaning Selection. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Balota, D.A., Burgess, G., Cortese, M.J., & Adams, D.A. (2002). Memory for the infrequent in young, old, and early stage Alzheimer's disease: Evidence for two processes in episodic recognition performance. Journal of Memory and Language, 46, 199-226.
Balota, D.A., Pilotti, M., & Cortese, M.J. (2001) Subjective frequency estimates for 2,906 words. Memory & Cognition, 29, 639-647.
Cortese, M.J., & Simpson G.B. (2000). Regularity effects in word naming: What are they? Memory & Cognition, 28, 1269-1276.
Cortese, M.J., & Sergent-Marshall, S. (2000). Experimental Psychology by Kantowitz, Roediger & Elmes:Instructors Manual (7 th edition). Stanford, CT: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.
Cortese, M.J., & Sergent-Marshall, S. (2000). Experimental Psychology by Kantowitz, Roediger & Elmes: Study Guide (7 th edition). Stanford, CT: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.
Balota, D.A., & Cortese, M.J. (2000). Theories in cognitive psychology. In A. Kazdin (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Psychology. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Balota, D.A., Cortese, M.J., Duchek, J.M., Adams, D.A., Roediger, H.L., McDermott, K.B., & Yerys, B.E., (1999). Veridical and false memories in healthy older adults and in dementia of the Alzheimer’s type. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 361-384.
Cortese, M.J. (1998). Revisiting serial position effects in reading. Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 652-665.
Cortese, M.J., Simpson, G.B., & Woolsey, S. (1997). The effects of association and imageability on phonological mapping. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 4, 226-231.
Grant
2002 – Recall, Recognition, and Semantic Memory Project (PI). National Science Foundation - Kentucky EPSCoR Grant, $24,998.
Presentations
Fugett, A., Cortese, M.J., & Simpson, G.B. (2006). The Influence of Verb Usage on Preposition Placement. Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.
Cortese, M.J., Veljkovic, I., & Khanna, M.M. (2005). False memory for words and pseudohomophones. In Proceedings of the 46 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Toronto, CA: Psychonomic Society.
Khanna, M.M., Cortese, M.J., Shaffer, L.M.I. & Balota D.A. (2005). Hough Doo Sekund, Therd, & Forth Graiders Rede Gnew Wirds, Midwestern Conference on Culture, Language, and Cognition. Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
Fugett, A., Cortese, M.J., & Simpson, G.B. (2005). Should the English grammar rule be, "Feel free to end your sentence in a preposition?" Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.
Cortese, M.J., Balota, D.A., Sergent-Marshall, S.D., Gold, B.T., & Buckner, R.L. (2003). Past tense verb generation in semantic dementia. In Proceedings of the 44 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Vancover, CA: Psychonomic Society.
Balota, D.A., Hutchison, K.A., Yap, M.J., Cortese, M.J., Neely, J. H., Nelson, D. L., Simpson, G.B., & Treiman, R. (2003). The English Lexicon Project: A web-based repository for 40,481 English words and nonwords. In Proceedings of the 44 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Vancover, CA: Psychonomic Society.
Gold, B.T., Balota, D.A., Sergent-Marshall, S.D., Cortese, M.J., Morris, J.C. &
Buckner, R.L. (2003). Early Neuropsychological and Neuroanatomical Markers Differentiating Semantic Dementia from Dementia of the Alzheimer type, 4th Leonard Berg Symposium: Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease: Structural, Functional & Molecular Neuroimaging. St. Louis, MO.
Cortese, M.J., Balota, D.A., & Sergent-Marshall, S.D. (2002). Past tense verb generation in aging and dementia of the Alzheimer’s type. In Proceedings of the 43 rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Kansas City, MO: Psychonomic Society.
Fugett, A., Cortese, M.J., & Zevin J.D. (2002). Lexicality effects in reading aloud: Where in the word are they? Kentucky Academy of Science. Highland Heights, KY.
Cortese, M.J. , & Wang, J. (2002). Revisiting Distinctive Perceptual Processes and Memory. Show-Me Mental State Conference. St. Louis, MO.
Cortese, M.J. , Balota, D.I., Buckner, R., & Sergent-Marshall, S. (2001) Sublexical, lexical, and semantic influences in spelling: Exploring the effects of age, Alzheimer's disease, and primary semantic impairment. In Proceedings of the42 nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
Cortese, M.J., Shaffer, L.M.I., Balota, D.A., & Sergent-Marshall, S.D. (2000). Hough doo sekund graiders rede gnew wirds? In Proceedings of the 41 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. New Orleans, LA: Psychonomic Society.
Balota, D.A., Burgess, G.C., Cortese, M.J., & Adams D.R. (2000). Recognition memory for the infrequent in young, old, and early stage Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence for two types of familiarity. In Proceedings of the 41 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. New Orleans, LA: Psychonomic Society.
Cortese, M.J. (2000). Effects of aging and dementia on the ability to spell short words. Cognitive Aging Conference. Atlanta, GA.
Cortese, M.J., & Simpson, G.B. (2000). Regularity effects in word naming: What are they? Show-Me Mental State Conference. St. Louis, MO.
Balota, D.A., Cortese, M.J., & Wenke, D. (2000). Ambiguity Resolution Across Tasks and Across Groups of Individuals: An Attentional Selection Framework. Presented at On the Consequences of Meaning Selection: A Conference Sponsored by the American Psychological Association and the Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Arlington.
Cortese, M.J., & Balota, D.A., & Watson, J.M. (1999). The interaction between semantic and phonological processes in reading aloud. In Proceedings of the 40 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Los Angeles, CA: Psychonomic Society.
Balota, D.A., Cortese, M.J., & Pilotti, M. (1999). Item-level analyses of lexical decision performance: Results from a mega-study. In Proceedings of the 40 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Los Angeles, CA: Psychonomic Society.
Cortese, M.J. , & Zevin J.D. (1998). Lexicality effects in naming: Where in the word are they? In Proceedings of the 39 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Dallas, TX: Psychonomic Society.
Balota, D.A., Cortese, M.J., Watson, J.M., & Spieler, D.H. (1998). Chronometric studies of word recognition: Beyond measures of central tendency. In Proceedings of the 39 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Dallas, TX: Psychonomic Society.
Cortese, M.J. , & Zevin, J.D. (1998). Lexicality effects in naming: Where in the word are they? Show-Me Mental State Conference. St. Louis, MO.
Cortese, M.J. (1998). The effects of positional regularity and plosivity of initial phoneme on word naming and lexical decision. Presented at the 70 th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, IL.
Cortese, M.J., & Simpson, G.B. (1996). The relationship between spelling-to-sound regularity and word-body consistency in word naming. In Proceedings of the 37 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Chicago, IL: Psychonomic Society.
Hilliard, J., Cortese, M.J., & Simpson, G.B. (1995). Distinguishing between episodic and morphemic effects which contribute to word recognition. Presented at the Kansas Speech, Language, Hearing Association. Overland Park, Kansas.
Cortese, M.J., Simpson, G.B., & Woolsey, S. (1994). Association, imageability, and phonology in visual word recognition. Presented at the35th Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Los Angeles, CA.
Cortese, M.J., Simpson, G.B., & Woolsey, S. (1994). Association, imageability, and phonology in visual word recognition. Presented at the Show-Me Mental State Conference. Columbia, MO.
Simpson, G.B., & Cortese, M.J. (1993). The activation and inhibition of phonological processes in word naming. Poster presented at the 34 th Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Washington, D.C.