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:
2003 Gordon H. DeFriese Career Development in Aging Research Award
2000 Selected to participate in the Summer Institute on Aging Research
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
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
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:
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