Dr. Hannon received her Masters in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Toronto, where she became interested in the possibility of examining individual differences in higher cognitive processes such as inferential processing. Under the guidance of Meredyth Daneman, she completed her Masters thesis on facilitating knowledge-based inferences in less-skilled readers, which was published in 1998 (see Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications below). This manuscript paved the way for her doctoral research on individual differences in the component processes of reading comprehension ability, culminating with a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Toronto in 2001.