Current Projects:
Coming soon! Stay tuned :)
Selected Publications:
Rizzella, M. L., Sonia, A. N., & Creer, S. D. (2025). How preference formation for character outcomes is influenced by perspective-taking. Discourse Processes, 1-20.
Sonia, A. N., Crossley, S. A., & Allen L. K. (2023). Writing and reading connections in the digital world. In Z. Philippakos & S. Graham (Eds), Writing and reading connections: Bridging research and practice. Guilford Press (pp. 163-177).
Sonia, A. N., Magliano, J. P., McCarthy, K. S., Creer, S. D., McNamara, D. S., Allen, L. K. (2022). Integration in multiple-document comprehension: A natural language processing approach. Discourse Processing, 59(5-6).
McCarthy, K. S., Yan, E. F., Allen, L. K., Sonia, A. N., Magliano, J. P., McNamara, D. S. (2022). On the basis of source: Impacts of individual differences on multiple-document integrated reading and writing tasks. Learning and Instruction, 79(4).
Allen, L. K., Magliano, J. P., McCarthy, K. S., Sonia, A. N., Creer, S. D., McNamara, D. S. (2021). Coherence-building in multiple document comprehension. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of The Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI’21). Virtual.
Sonia, A. N., O’Brien, E. J. (2021). Text-based manipulation of the coherence threshold. Discourse Processes, 58(5-6), 549-568.
Selected Presentations:
Young, H., Flynn, L. E., Allen, L. K., & Sonia, A. N. (2025, March). Students’ use of Chat GPT as a writing tool [Conference Presentation]. Southwestern Psychological Association Annual Convention 2025, Little Rock, AR.
Wright, T., Sonia, A. N. (2024, March). Exploratory investigation of neopronoun exposure and gendered perceptions of common names [Conference Presentation]. Southwestern Psychological Association Annual Convention 2024, San Antonio, TX.
Sonia, A. N. (2024, February). Cognitive Hacks for Studying Smarter, not Harder [Guest Seminar]. Morrow Academic Center Student Success Seminar Series, Lyon College, Batesville, AR.
Sonia, A. N. (2023, October). The Psychology of Fake News [Guest Lecture]. Honors Fellows Program, Lyon College, Batesville, AR.
Norton, B. J., Allen, L. K., Sonia, A. N. (2022, November). Argue or describe perspectives from multiple documents: Using natural language processing tools for analysis and prediction [Conference Presentation]. 52nd Annual conference of the Society of Computation in Psychology, Boston, MA.
Sonia, A. N., O’Brien, E. J., Creer, S. D, & Allen, L. K. (2022, July). A memory-based approach to multiple document comprehension [Conference presentation]. Annual Meeting of The Society of Text and Discourse, Virtual.
Sonia, A. N., Magliano, J. P., McCarthy, K. S., Creer, S. D., McNamara, D. S., Allen, L. K. (2021, August). Cohesion and coherence-building in multiple document comprehension [Conference presentation]. Annual Meeting of The Society of Text and Discourse, Virtual.
Sonia, A. N., Creer, S. D., Rizzella, M. L. (2021, August). The impact of perspective taking and preference formation on narrative comprehension [Conference Presentation]. Annual Meeting of The Society of Text and Discourse, Virtual.
Allen, L. K., Magliano, J. P., McCarthy, K. S., Sonia, A. N., Creer, S. D., McNamara, D. S. (2021, July). Coherence-building in multiple document comprehension [Conference Presentation]. Annual Meeting of The Cognitive Science Society, Virtual.
Öncel, P., Flynn, L. E., Sonia, A. N., Barker, K. E., Lindsay, G. C., McClure, C. M., McNamara, D. S., & Allen, L. K. (2021, April). Automatic student writing evaluation: Investigating the impact of individual differences on source-based writing [Conference Presentation]. The 11th International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference, Virtual.
Sonia, A. N., Creer, S. D., McCarthy, K. S., Allen, L. K. (2020, November). The role of reader knowledge on comprehension [Poster session]. 61st Annual Meeting of The Psychonomic Society, Virtual.
Sonia, A. N., McCarthy, K. S., Magliano, J. P., McNamara, D. S., Allen, L. K. (2020, November). Natural language processing as a tool for examining task and learner effects in source-based writing [Conference presentation]. 50th Annual Conference of The Society of Computation in Psychology, Virtual.