Profile

Stephen Madigan


Associate Professor of Psychology

Contact Information
Office: SGM 721
Phone: (213) 740-2268
E-mail: smadigan@usc.edu

LINKS
Curriculum Vitae
Faculty Profile on Departmental Website
 

Education

  • B.A. , University of Western Ontario
  • M.A. , University of Western Ontario
  • Ph.D. Psychology, University of Toronto, 11/1968

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Tenure Track Appointments
  • Associate Professor, University of Southern California, 09/01/1976-  
  • Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, 1971-1972   
Visiting and Temporary Appointments
  • Vistiting Associate Professor, Department of Psychology University of Toronto, 1977-1978   

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Human learning and memory; intelligence and problem solving; research design.
Research Keywords
Memory Intelligence Problem Solving

Funded Research

Contracts and Grants Awarded
  • Interactive computing for statistics instruction (NSF), Norman Cliff, Stephen Madigan, $12,000, 1979-1980   
  • Studies of short-term memory (National Science Foundation), Stephen Madigan, $10,500, 1971-1972   
USC Funding
  • Faculty Development Award. Course development: Intelligence and Problem Solving: Development of a new undergraduate course on intelligence, problem solving, and creativity. , $2,500, 2004-2005   
  • USC ADRC pilot study grant. Sensory memory and its attentional gating to short-term memory control in normal and Alzheimer's patients: Comparison of visual short-term memory funtions in normal controls and patients with CDR-based memory impairment. With Zhoing-Lin Lu, PI, $30,000, 2000-2001   

Conferences and Other Presentations

Conference Presentations
  • "Retrieval latency predicts retention in cued recall", WPA-RMPA Albuquerque NM, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed Paper, Spring 1998   
Other Presentations
  • "Children's hypermnesia in free recall. ", 3rd International Conference on Memory, Spring 2001   

Publications

Book
  • Thompson, R. F., Madigan, S. A. (2005). Memory: The Key to Consciousness. Princeton New Jersy: Joseph Henry Press.
Journal Article
  • Madigan, S. A., Neuse, J. (2005). Word Length and False Recognition: Reanalysis of Roediget et al. and some new data. Psychonomic Bulletin& Review. Vol. 11, pp. 567-573.
  • Lu, Z., Neuse, J. L., Madigan, S., Dosher, B. A. (2005). Decay of iconic memory in observers with mild cognitive impairment. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. pp. p. 1797-1802.

New Courses Developed

  • Psy 434 Intelligence, Problem Solving and Creativity, Psychology, A 400-level course dealing with individual difference and experimental approaches to intelligence, reasoning and problem solving, and creativity., 2007-2008   

Service to the University

Administrative Appointments
  • Departmental area head: Brain & Cognitive Science, 2009-2010   
  • Vice Chair UPC IRB, 2005-2006   
  • Acting Chair, UPC IRB, Spring 2006   

Service to the Profession

Professional Offices
  • member, The Psychonomic Society, 2008-2009   
Professional Memberships
  • AAAS member, 2008-2009   
Reviewer for Publication
  • Brain and Cognition, Elsevier, manuscript review, 2008-2009   
  • Jornal of Experimental Psychology, APA, manuscpript review, 2008-2009   
  • Brain & Cognition, Elsevier, Manuscript review and recommendation, 2007-2008