Marilyn Turner, Ph.D.

Email address: marilyn.turner@wichita.edu
 
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Cognitive Research  Lab

Title:
Professor of Psychology

Education:
University of North Carolina, B.A., 1981
University of South Carolina, M.A., 1985
University of South Carolina, Ph.D., 1987

Current Instructor:
Psychology of Learning
Cognitive Foundations

Research Interests:
Memory (verbal and spatial).
Memory in special populations (adult/lifespan).
Effects of sound on cognitive capacity
(Music loudness/content effects on memory).

My long term research goal is to define the role of working memory in higher level cognitive abilities, spatial and verbal abilities, such as comprehension of what we read and hear, solving problems, logical reasoning and making decisions, as well as making visual and spatial judgments.

Currently, my research (in the Cognitive Lab) has focused on age-related deficits, and specifically whether these deficits can be, as least partially understood, by close examination of the components of working memory. The measures of memory and cognitive ability we now use are both computer-administered and pencil and paper tests. Also, we are just beginning to gather longitudinal data, observing changes across time in each individual's memory.