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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

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