Meet our research team!

We will be accepting graduate student applications for the Fall of 2018.

Rebekah E. Smith, Ph.D. University of North Carolina-Greensboro – Professor and Department Chair Dr. Smith is a cognitive psychologist whose research focuses on memory in young and older adults with a primary emphasis on prospective memory, or remembering to perform an intention in the future. She also investigates false memory, memory improvement, and the influence of distinctive processing on retrospective memory performance.

Download Vitae: Smith Vitae 2017-

 

 

Reed Hunt, Ph.D. University of New Mexico – Adjunct Research Professor –  Dr. Hunt’s general area of interest is cognitive processes with a special research focus on human memory. Much of his work is devoted to developing a theory of distinctive processing to account for memory accuracy, both in terms of enhancement of correct responding and reduction of false memory. He has collaborated on research on basic processes of prospective memory as well as explored the role of memory processes in clinical depression and specific reading disability.

Download Vitae: Hunt Vitae

 Graduate Students:

Donald Skinner, M.A. University of Alabama in Huntsville – Donald is a graduate student in the Experimental Psychology program at the University of Mississippi. He actively conducted cognitive aging research while completing both his B.A. from North Carolina State University and his M.A. from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Donald plans to continue this line of research while working on his Ph.D. at Ole Miss.

Download Vitae: Skinner Vitae 2017-