I am a social scientist with over 15 years of training in all aspects of conducting
research, including experimental design, protocol development and implementation,
statistical analysis and publication, and grant proposal preparation. As a cognitive
psychologist, my specialty is cognitive development and I have published research on
populations ranging from preschool age to older adulthood (60 years+). My research
investigates cognition, aging and decision making, with applications to prospective
memory, spatial and symbolic reasoning and medical adherence. As a postdoctoral fellow, I
conceptualized and executed a study that improved adherence to blood glucose monitoring
by more than 50% in a sample of older adults using a social-behavioral intervention. I am
also a co-editor and chapter author for a book titled Social and Cognitive Perspectives
in Medical Adherence. Currently, my career focus is primarily in research administration.

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The Malleability of Spatial Skills: A Meta-analysis of Training Studies (with David H. Uttal PhD, Nathaniel G. Meadow, Elizabeth Tipton PhD, Alison R. Alden, Christopher Warren, and Nora S. Newcombe PhD), Psychological Bulletin (2012)
 

It works both ways: Transfer difficulties between manipulatives and written subtraction solutions (with D H. Uttal, M Amaya, M Rosario Maita, K D. O'Doherty, J S. DeLoache, and C Cohen), Submitted. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology (2011)
 

The Malleability of Spatial Skills: A Meta-analysis of Training Studies (with D H. Uttal, N G. Meadow, E Tipton, A R. Alden, C Warren, and N S. Newcombe), Submitted. Psychological Bulletin (2011)
 

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Learning fine-grained and category information in navigable real-world space (with D H. Uttal PhD, A Friedman PhD, and C Warren), Memory and Cognition (2010)
 

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Dual representation and the linking of concrete and symbolic representations (with D H. Uttal, K D. O'Doherty, R Newland, and J S. DeLoache), Child Development Perspectives (2009)
 

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