Dr. Rebekah E. Smith Assistant Professor
Quick Facts

Contact:	Office: HSS 4.05.14 Phone: (210) 458-7301 E-Mail: Rebekah.Smith@utsa.edu lab web page: www.utsa.edu/mind/smithlab.htm
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   Selected Funding Awards: 2006             Aging and Memory                       Support for Grant Development                       UTSA Institute for Aging Research                       UTSA Office of Research Development                       Role: Principle Investigator 2004-2006   False Memories Following Visual or Auditory Learning           Grant Number: R15 MH067582 (AREA grant)                       NIH, National Institute on Mental health                       Role: Consultant 2001-2003   Aging and Prospective Memory:                        A Formal Modeling Approach.                        Grant Number: F32 AG20021                        NIH, National Institute on Aging                        Individual National Research Service Award                        Role: Principal investigator
Academic and  Professional Activities:	Affiliations Association for Psychological Science American Psychological Association Psychonomic Society Ad-hoc reviewing Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition American Journal of Psychology Applied Cognitive Psychology Brain and Cognition Canadian Journal on Aging Ergonomics European Journal of Cognitive Psychology Experimental Psychology Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences Journal of Memory and Language Memory Memory and Cognition Neuropsychology Psychological Science Psychology and Aging Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Current Research:	Continued development and application of theory (Smith, 2003, 2008) of successful  prospective memory performance. Prospective Memory in young and older adults, including the application of a multinomial model (Smith & Bayen, 2004) to investigate the effects of age, techniques for improving prospective memory, and other factors on the cognitive processes underlying prospective memory. The effects of feedback on learning in young and older adults. Investigating the role of distinctive processing on memory performance in young and older adults. Investigating potential boundary conditions for the modality effect in false memory (Smith & Hunt, 1998).
Selected  Publications:	Smith, R. E., Hunt, R. R., & Gallagher, M. P. (in press). The effect of study modality on false recognition. Memory & Cognition. 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. (2006). Adult age differences in episodic memory: Item-specific, relational, and distinctive processing. In R. R. Hunt & J. Worthen, (Eds.), Distinctiveness and Memory (pp. 259-287). New York: Oxford University Press. 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. (2005). The effects of working memory resource availability on prospective memory: A formal modeling approach. Experimental Psychology, 52, 243-256. 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: Sept. 4, 2008