The Cognitive Aging Lab

                                   

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rebekah E. Smith, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology

Director, The Cognitive Aging Lab of UTSA

Chair, UTSA Faculty Senate

 

 

Education:

    B. S. cum laude, Mathematics

            Tulane University

    M.A., Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology

            The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

    Postdoctoral Training, Cognitive Aging and Mathematical Modeling

            Georgia Institute of Technology

            The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Awards and Honors:

 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    2003    Gordon H. DeFriese Career Development in Aging Research Award

                            2002    Nominated by the University for a Brookdale National Fellowship

 

National Institute on Aging and the Brookdale Foundation

    2000    Selected to participate in the Summer Institute on Aging Research

 

American Psychological Foundation/Council of Graduate Departs. of Psychology

   1998    Graduate Research Scholarship (1 of 8 recipients nationally across all areas

                of psychology)

 

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro                             

    1998    The Dr. John W. Lindsey Memorial Award for Excellence in Scholarship and

                 Research (1st recipient in 10 years, not awarded again for four years)

    1992    Excellence Foundation Fellowship

    1991, 1992, 1993        Greensboro Graduate Scholarship

 

Tulane University

    1988    Kappa Kappa Gamma prize Outstanding Graduate in Mathematics      

    1988    The Martha Gilmore Robinson Scholarship

    1986    The Francis Adelaide Willcox Scholarship

    1984    The Wetmore Scholarship

 

Research Grants:

 

2009-2011    Aging, Improving Prospective Memory, and a Formal Model

                        ARRA Supplement

                        NIH, National institute on Aging

                        Role: Principal Investigator

 

2009-2014    Aging, Improving Prospective Memory, and a Formal Model

                        SC1 AG034965

                        NIH, National Institute on Aging

                        Role: Principal Investigator

 

2006                Aging and Memory

                         Support for grant development.

                         UTSA Institute for Aging Research

                         UTSA Office of Research Development

                         Role: Principal Investigator.

 

2004-2006     False Memories Following Visual or Auditory Learning

                        Grant Number: R15 MH067582 (AREA grant)

                        National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Mental Health

                        Role: Consultant.

 

2003-2006    Adult Age Differences in Recognition Memory.

                       Grant Number: R01 AG17456 

                       National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging

                       Role: Co-Investigator

 

2001-2004     Aging and Prospective Memory: A Formal Modeling Approach.

                        Grant Number: F32 AG20021

                        National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging

                        Individual National Research Service Award

                        Role: Principal investigator

 

1998               Age-Associated Memory Impairment.

                        The University of North Carolina Institute on Aging

                        Exploratory Project Grant

                         Role: Principal investigator

 

Selected Publications:

Smith, R. E., Horn, S. S., & Bayen, U.J. (2012). Prospective memory in young and older adults: The effects of ongoing task load. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition,19, 495-514.

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.

Hunt, R. R., Smith, R. E., & Dunlap, K. R. (2011). How does distinctive processing reduce false recall? Journal of Memory and Language, 65, 378-389.

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.

Smith, R. E. (2011). Providing support for distinctive processing: The isolation effect in young and older adults. Psychology and Aging, 26, 744-751.

Horn, S. S., Bayen, U. J., Smith, R. E., & Boywitt, C. D. (2011). The multinomial model of prospective memory: Validity of ongoing-task parameters. Experimental Psychology, 58, 247-255.

Horn, S. S., Bayen, U. J., & Smith, R. E. (2011). What can the diffusion model tell us about prospective memory? Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 69-75.

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. (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.

Smith, R. E., & Hunt, R. R. (2000). The influence of distinctive processing on retrieval-induced forgetting. Memory & Cognition, 28, 503-508.

Smith, R. E., & Hunt, R. R. (1998). Presentation modality affects false memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 5, 710-715.

 

Recent presentations:

Smith, R. E., & Murray, A. E. (2012, November). Prospective memory: Effects of a familiar context on cost to the ongoing task. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Minneapolis, MN.

 DeForrest, R. L. & Smith, R. E. (2012, October). Metacognition in prospective memory. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Memory, Attention, Decission-Making, Imagert, Language, Learning and Organized Perception (ARMADILLO). Laredo, TX.

Arnold, N. R., Bayen, U. J., & Smith, R. E. (2012, April). A hierarchical MPT modeling approach to investigating the relationship between prospective memory and working memory. In C. Stahl (Chair), Formal models of memory processes. Symposium conducted at the 54th Meeting of Experimental Psychology [Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen]. Mannheim, Germany.

Smith, R. E., & Hunt, R. R. (2012, April). Prospective Memory: Adult Age, Ongoing Task Difficulty, and Task Importance. Poster presented at the biannual Cognitive Aging Conference. Atlanta, GA.

Arnold, N. R., Bayen, U. J., & Smith, R. E. (2012, April). Prospective memory and working memory: A hierarchical modeling approach. Poster presented at the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Berlin, Germany.

Smith, R. E. (2011, July). Age and event-based prospective memory: The role of resource availability. In J. Hicks and J. Ellis (Chairs) Invited symposium – Prospective Memory. Symposium to be conducted at the International Conference on Memory, York, UK.

Smith, R. E., & Dunlap, K. R. (2011, July). False recall in young and older adults: Differential effects of study modality. In R. E. Smith (Chair) Invited symposium – False Memory Reduction: The Role of Retrieval Expectation, Monitoring, and Distinctive Processing. Symposium to be conducted at the International Conference on Memory, York, UK.

Hunt, R. R., Smith, R. E., & Dunlap, K. R. (2011, July). How distinctive processing reduces false recall. In R. E. Smith (Chair) Invited symposium – False Memory Reduction: The Role of Retrieval Expectation, Monitoring, and Distinctive Processing. Symposium to be conducted at the International Conference on Memory, York, UK.

Smith, R. E. (2011, April). How to Publish. Panel presentation sponsored by the American Psychological Association to be presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, San Antonio, TX.

Hunt, R. R., Smith, R. E., & Rogers, M. D. M. (2011, June). When does feedback affect correct responses and why? Poster to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, New York, NY.

Dunlap, K. D., & Smith, R. E. (2011, April). False recall in young and older adults: The effect of study modality. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, San Antonio, TX.

Horn, S. S., Bayen, U. J., & Smith, R. E. (2010, October). Prospective memory and aging: Formal model-based approaches. Poster presented at the International Conference on Aging & Cognition, Dortmund, Germany.

Horn, S., Bayen, U. J., & Smith, R. E. (2010, August). What can the diffusion model tell us about prospective memory? Poster presented at the annual 43rd annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology. Portland, OR.

Horn, S., Bayen, U. J., & Smith, R. E. (2010, July). A diffusion model analysis of cost effects in prospective memory. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Prospective Memory. Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Smith, R.E. (2010, April). The isolation effect in young and older adults. Poster presented at the biannual Cognitive Aging Conference. Atlanta, GA.

 

Professional Affiliations and Activities:

American Psychological Association

Association for Psychological Science

Member of the Psychonomic Society

Midwestern Psychological Association

Southwestern Psychological Association

 

Associate Editor:

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

 

Guest Editor:

Special issue of Zeitschrift für Psychologie/ Journal of Psychology

 

Consulting Editor:

Experimental Psychology, 2009, 2010

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 2010, 2011

Memory & Cognition, 2009, 2010, 2011

 

Ad Hoc Reviewing:

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

American Journal of Psychology

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Brain and Cognition

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

Canadian Journal on Aging

Developmental Psychology

Ergonomics

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Experimental Psychology

International Journal of Behavioral Development

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

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

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Psychological Bulletin

Psychological Science

Psychology and Aging

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

 

Grant Reviewing:

National Science Foundation

Swiss National Science Foundation

 

Contact Information:

Department of Psychology

The University of Texas at San Antonio

One UTSA Circle

San Antonio, TX 78249

 

office phone: 210-458-7301

fax: 210-458-5728

 

rebekah.smith@utsa.edu

 

 

 

Last update: Sept 11, 2012