Dr. Rebekah E. Smith Associate Professor
Quick Facts

Contact:	Office: MH 4.02.18 Phone: (210) 458-7301 E-Mail: Rebekah.Smith@utsa.edu Lab web page: www.utsa.edu/mind
Degrees:	BS, Mathematics   Tulane University MA, Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology   The University of North Carolina at Greensboro  Post-doctoral training, Cognitive Aging   Georgia Institute of Technology   The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Specialization:	Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Aging
Research Interests:	Memory in young and older adults; Prospective Memory, False Memory, Memory correction and improvement; Multinomial Modeling
Courses:	Developmental Psychology Psychology of Adulthood and Aging Cognitive Psychology Memory
Honors and Awards:	Selected Honors: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2003 Gordon H. DeFriese Career Development in Aging Research Award for Junior Faculty/Staff   National Institute on Aging and the Brookdale Foundation 2000 Selected to participate in the Summer Institute on Aging Research American Psychological Foundation and the Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology 1998  Graduate Research Scholarship The University of North Carolina at Greensboro                              1998  Dr. John W. Lindsey Memorial Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Research   Recent Funding Awards: 2009-2014   Aging, Improving Prospective Memory,                       and a Formal Model                       Grant Number: SC1 AG034965                       NIH, National Institute on Aging                       Role: Principal Investigator 2009-2011  Aging, Improving Prospective Memory,                       and a Formal Model                       ARRA Administrative Supplement                       Grant Number: SC1 AG034965-01S1                       NIH, National Institute on Aging                       Role: Principal Investigator
Academic and  Professional Activities:	Affiliations Association for Psychological Science American Psychological Association Psychonomic Society Midwestern Psychological Association Southwestern Psychological Association   Associate Editor Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012-present   Guest Editor Zeitschrift für Psychologie/Journal of Psychology - 2011 special issue on prospective memory   Consulting Editor Experimental Psychology, 2009-2010 Memory and Cognition, 2009-present Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010-2011
Current Research:	Continued development and application of theory (Smith, 2003, 2008, 2010) of successful  prospective memory performance. Prospective Memory in young and older adults, including the application of a multinomial model (Smith & Bayen, 2004; Smith et al., in press, 2010) to investigate the effects of age, techniques for improving prospective memory, and other factors on the cognitive processes underlying prospective memory. Investigating the role of distinctive processing on memory performance in young and older adults. (Smith et al. 2005; Smith, 2011) Investigating potential boundary conditions for the modality effect in false memory (Smith & Engle, 2011; Smith & Hunt, 1998; Smith et al., 2008).
Selected  Publications:	Smith, R. E., Horn, S. S., & Bayen, U. J. (in press). Prospective memory in young and older adults: The effects of ongoing task load. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition. Pavawalla, S. P., Schmitter-Edgecombe, M., & Smith, R. E. (2012). Prospective memory following moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury: A Multinomial modeling approach. Neuropsychology, 26, 91-101. Smith, R. E. (2011). Providing support for distinctive processing: The isolation effect in young and older adults. Psychology and Aging, 26, 744-751. Smith, R. E., Persyn, D., & Butler, P. (2011). Prospective memory, personality, and working memory: A formal modeling approach. Zeitschrift für Psychologie/Journal of Psychology, 219, 108-116. Loft, S., Smith, R. E., & Bhaskara, A. (2011). Prospective memory in an air traffic control simulation: External aids that signal when to act. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 17, 60-70. Smith, R. E., & Engle, R. W. (2011). Study modality and false recall: The influence of resource availability. Experimental Psychology, 58, 117-124. Smith, R. E. (2010). What costs do reveal and moving beyond the cost debate: Reply to Einstein and McDaniel (2010). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 1089-1095. Smith, R. E., Bayen, U. J., & Martin, C. (2010). The cognitive processes underlying event-based prospective memory in school age children and young adults: A formal model-based study. Developmental Psychology, 46, 230-244. Smith, R. E., Hunt, R. R., & Gallagher, M. P. (2008). The effect of study modality on false recognition. Memory & Cognition, 36, 1439-1449. Smith, R. E. (2008). Connecting the past and the future: Attention, memory, and delayed intentions. In M. Kliegel, M. A. McDaniel, & G. O. Einstein (Eds.), Prospective memory: Cognitive, neuroscience, developmental, and applied perspectives (pp. 27-50). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Smith, R. E., Hunt, R. R., McVay, J.C., & McConnell, M. D. (2007). The cost of event-based prospective memory: Salient target events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 734-746. Smith, R. E., & Bayen, U. J. (2006). The source of adult age differences in event-based prospective memory: A multinomial modeling approach. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32, 623-635. Smith, R. E., Lozito, J., & Bayen, U. J. (2005). Adult age differences in distinctive processing: The modality effect in false recall. Psychology & Aging, 20, 486-492. Smith, R. E., & Bayen, U. J. (2004). A multinomial model of event-based prospective memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 756-777. Smith, R. E. (2003). The cost of remembering to remember in event-based prospective memory: Investigating the capacity demands of delayed intention performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 347-361.

 Last update: March 2, 2012