Maya M . Khanna, PhD

Department

Psychological Science

Position

Professor

Books

• Zumbach Joerg, etal International Handbook of Psychology Learning and Teaching 2023
• International Handbook of Psychology Learning and Teaching
  Khanna Maya M., etal Topics, Methods, and Research-Based Strategies for Teaching Cognition [Book Chapter] 2022
• Reference Module in Social Sciences
  Cortese Michael J., etal A Conditional Reading Aloud Megastudy [Book Chapter] 2022
• Reference Module in Social Sciences
  Cortese Michael J., etal The English Lexicon Project – A How to Guide for Researchers and Instructors [Book Chapter] 2022
• Promoting Student Engagement
  Khanna Maya M., Adolescent and adult development: Designing a retirement and care plan for older adults [Book Chapter] 2011
• Promoting Student Engagement
  Khanna Maya M., Community service engagement: How our students benefit from this service and how to encourage them to pursue community service. [Book Chapter] 2011
• Developing, Promoting, and Sustaining the Undergraduate Research Experience in Psychology
  Khanna Maya M., Engaging Students in Community-Based Research [Book Chapter] 2008

Publications

• Brain sciences
  Khanna Maya M., etal Vigorous Exercise Enhances Verbal Fluency Performance in Healthy Young Adults
  15:1, p. 96 - 2025
• Discover psychology
  Khormaei Farhad, etal Development and validation of the academic hope scale (AcHS) for students
  4:1, p. 187 2024
• Human arenas: an Interdisciplinary journal of psychology, culture, and meaning
  Cameron E. Leslie, etal Myths and Misconceptions About Human Behavior and Mental Processes Held by Introductory Psychology Students: A BISTOPS Collaborative Research Project 2023
• Scholarship of teaching and learning in psychology
  Bernstein Douglas A, etal Misconceptions about psychology after taking introductory psychology 2023
• Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
  Khanna Maya M., etal Spelling monosyllabic English words, p. 17470218231178507 - 17470218231178507 2023
• Frontiers in communication
  Citron Francesca M. M., etal Editorial: How emotion relates to language, memory, and cognition
  8 2023
• Memory
  Cortese Michael J., etal Relating emotional variables to recognition memory performance
  30:7, p. 915 - 922 2022
• International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship
  Flott Elizabeth, etal Supporting the transition to practice
  19:1 2022
• Teaching of psychology
  Budesheim Thomas L., etal The Long-Term Impact of Undergraduate Internships and Research Experiences in Psychology: An Alumni Survey Study, p. 9862832110410 2021
• Memory
  Khanna Maya M., etal How well imageability, concreteness, perceptual strength, and action strength predict recognition memory, lexical decision, and reading aloud performance
  29:5, p. 622 - 636 2021
• Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma
  Mills Mackenzie S., etal Traumatic Events Are Associated with Diverse Psychological Symptoms in Typically-Developing Children
  13:4, p. 381 - 388 2020
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  Cortese Michael J., etal AoA effects in reading aloud and lexical decision
  73:11, p. 2036 - 2044 2020
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  Cortese Michael J., etal Word length negatively predicts recognition memory performance
  73:10, p. 1675 - 1683 2020
• Cognition and Emotion
  Klanecky Earl Alicia K., etal Attention bias variability and posttraumatic stress symptoms
  34:6, p. 1300 - 1307 2020
• Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
  Badura-Brack Amy S., etal Hippocampal and parahippocampal volumes vary by sex and traumatic life events in children
  45:4, p. 288 - 297 2020
• Memory
  Cortese Michael J., etal Incidental memory for colour word associates processed in colour naming and reading aloud tasks
  27:7, p. 924 - 930 2019
• Journal of Nursing Education
  Minnich Margo, etal Writing across the curriculum
  57:6, p. 366 - 370 2018
• Biological Psychology
  Badura-Brack Amy, etal Veterans with PTSD demonstrate amygdala hyperactivity while viewing threatening faces
  132, p. 228 - 232 2018
• Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging
  Badura-Brack Amy, etal Attention training modulates resting-state neurophysiological abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder
  271, p. 135 - 141 2018
• Psychological Medicine
  Khanna Maya M., etal Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Exhibit Altered Emotional Processing and Attentional Control during an Emotional Stroop Task
  47:11, p. 2017 - 2027 2017
• Memory and Cognition
  Cortese M. J., etal Participants Shift Response Deadlines Based on List Difficulty during Reading-Aloud Megastudies
  45:4, p. 589 - 599 2017
• Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  Badura-Brack Amy, etal Resting-State Neurophysiological Abnormalities in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Magnetoencephalography Study
  11, p. - 2017
• Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience
  McDermott Timothy J., etal Attention Training Improves Aberrant Neural Dynamics during Working Memory Processing in Veterans with PTSD
  16:6, p. 1140 - 1149 2016
• Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience
  McDermott Timothy J., etal Male Veterans with PTSD Exhibit Aberrant Neural Dynamics during Working Memory Processing: An MEG Study
  41:4, p. 251 - 260 2016
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology
  Khanna Maya M., etal The Benefits of Quizzing in Content-Focused Versus Skills-Focused Courses
  2:1, p. 87 - 97 2016
• Cognition and Emotion
  Khanna Maya M., etal Attention Training Normalises Combat-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Effects on Emotional Stroop Performance using Lexically Matched Word Lists
  30:8, p. 1521 - 1528 2016
• American Journal of Psychiatry
  Badura Brack Amy, etal Effect of Attention Training on Attention Bias Variability and PTSD Symptoms: Randomized Controlled Trials in Israeli and U.S. Combat Veterans
  172:12, p. 1233 - 1241 2015
• Teaching of Psychology
  Khanna Maya M., Ungraded pop quizzes: Test-enhanced learning without all the anxiety
  42:2, p. 174 - 178 2015
• Journal of environmental health
  Khanna Maya M., Boys, not girls, are negatively affected on cognitive tasks by lead exposure
  77:6, p. 72 - 77 2015
• Teaching of Psychology
  Khanna Maya M., etal Short- and Long-Term Effects of Cumulative Finals on Student Learning
  40:3, p. 175 - 182 2013
• Behavior Research Methods
  Schock Jocelyn, etal Age of acquisition estimates for 3,000 disyllabic words
  44:4, p. 971 - 977 2012
• Behavior Research Methods
  Schock Jocelyn, etal Age of acquisition estimates for 3,000 disyllabic words
  44:4, p. 971 - 977 2012
• Behavior Research Methods
  Schock Jocelyn, etal Imageability estimates for 3,000 disyllabic words
  44:2, p. 374 - 379 2012
• Behavior Research Methods
  Schock Jocelyn, etal Imageability estimates for 3,000 disyllabic words
  44:2, p. 374 - 379 2012
• Behavior Research Methods
  Khanna Maya M., etal Age of acquisition estimates for 1,208 ambiguous and polysemous words
  43:1, p. 89 - 96 2011
• Scientific Studies of Reading
  Khanna Maya M., etal Learning New Words Affects Nonword Pronunciation in Children
  14:5, p. 407 - 439 2010
• Memory
  Cortese Michael J., etal Recognition memory for 2,578 monosyllabic words
  18:6, p. 595 - 609 2010
• Memory
  Cortese Michael J., etal Recognition memory for 2,578 monosyllabic words
  18:6, p. 595 - 609 2010
• Scientific Studies of Reading
  Khanna Maya M., etal Learning new words affects nonword pronunciation in children
  14:5, p. 407 - 439 2010
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  Khanna Maya M., etal Children's use of language context in lexical ambiguity resolution
  63:1, p. 160 - 193 2010
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  Khanna Maya M., etal The development of context-use for lexical ambiguity resolution.
  63, p. 160 - 193 2010
• Applied Cognitive Psychology
  Khanna Maya M., etal Children and adults are differentially affected by presentation modality in the DRM paradigm
  23:6, p. 859 - 877 2009
• Behavior Research Methods
  Cortese Michael J., etal Age of acquisition ratings for 3,000 monosyllabic words
  40:3, p. 791 - 794 2008
• Journal of Memory and Language
  Cortese Michael J., etal The activation and monitoring of memories produced by words and pseudohomophones
  58:2, p. 393 - 414 2008
• Journal of Memory and Language
  Cortese Michael J., etal The activation and monitoring of memories produced by words and pseudohomophones
  58:2, p. 393 - 414 2008
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  Cortese Michael J., etal Age of acquisition predicts naming and lexical-decision performance above and beyond 22 other predictor variables
  60:8, p. 1072 - 1082 2007
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  Cortese Michael J., etal Age of acquisition predicts naming and lexical-decision performance above and beyond 22 other predictor variables: An analysis of 2,342 words
  60:8, p. 1072 - 1082 2007
• Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
  Cortese Michael J., etal Revisiting distinctive processes in memory
  13:3, p. 446 - 451 2006
• Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
  Bleckley M. Kathryn, etal Individual differences in working memory capacity predict visual attention allocation
  10:4, p. 884 - 889 2003
• Psychology Learning and Teaching
  Bernstein Douglas A., etal Harnessing the Power of Introductory Psychology to Combat Misconceptions About Psychology, p. - -0001

Presentations

• Internships Boost Retrospective Ratings of Education Satisfaction, Especially for Those Entering the Workforce (poster 8) -0001

Grants

• Misconceptions about Psychology/Sponsor: Creighton University Center for Faculty Excellence/CFE

• What to do with this Gap? Examining how students use gap-years, and where to go from there/Sponsor: Creighton University Center for Faculty Excellence/CFE

Awards

• Recipient of the University Distinguished Educator in Teaching as Scholarship award
  Creighton University