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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

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