Colby Psychology | Memory and Language Laboratory

Jennifer Coane

Lab Director
Assistant Professor

I received my B.A. (2001) and M.S. (2004) degrees in psychology from Illinois State University, and will be completing my PhD in Cognitive Psychology at Washington University in Saint Louis in the summer of 2008. I look forward to joining the faculty at Colby College in the Fall of 2008, and will be teaching Cognitive Psychology and a Collaborative Research Seminar on Human Memory (PSY 341 & 342).

My research interests lie primarily in the intersecting areas of memory and language. I am interested in how stimuli to which we are exposed and the context in which we experience events modulate the type of information that is retrieved and how quickly or efficiently we can retrieve that information. In addition, I am interested in the relative influence of attentional and controlled processes on retrieval of information from an individual’s long-term memory.
Some lines of work I am currently pursuing include an examination of the role of semantic, phonological, and orthographic processes involved in the recognition of visually presented words; how these same lexical variables influence memory accuracy; and how the acquisition of new concepts or the formation of new relations among pre-existing contexts occurs in young and older adults.

In my research, I use a variety of tasks and paradigms, ranging from visual word recognition tasks to memory paradigms. I use both verbal materials as well as more complex pictorial stimuli. If you have any questions, or would like to get involved in my research, please feel free to write to me at jhcoane@artsci.wustl.edu.

Publications

Balota, D. A., & Coane, J. H. (2008). Semantic memory. To appear in J. H. Byrne, H.     Eichenbaum, R. Menzel, H. L. Roediger III, & D. Sweatt (Eds.), Handbook of
    learning and memory: A comprehensive reference. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Coane, J. H., & McBride, D. M. (2006). The role of test structure in creating false
     memories. Memory & Cognition, 34, 1026–1036.

Coane, J. H., McBride, D. M., Raulerson, B. A. III, & Jordan, J. S. (2007). False
     memory in a short term memory task. Experimental Psychology, 54, 62–70.

McBride, D. M., Coane, J. H., & Raulerson, B. A. III (2006). An investigation of false
      memory in perceptual implicit tasks. Acta Psychologica, 123, 240–260.

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Jennifer Coane Lab Director Assistant Professor I received my B.A. (2001) and M.S. (2004) degrees in psychology from Illinois State University, and will be completing my PhD in Cognitive Psychology at Washington University in Saint Louis in the summer of 2008. I look forward to joining the faculty at Colby College in the Fall of 2008, and will be teaching Cognitive Psychology and a Collaborative Research Seminar on Human Memory (PSY 341 & 342). My research interests lie primarily in the intersecting areas of memory and language. I am interested in how stimuli to which we are exposed and the context in which we experience events modulate the type of information that is retrieved and how quickly or efficiently we can retrieve that information. In addition, I am interested in the relative influence of attentional and controlled processes on retrieval of information from an individual’s long-term memory. Some lines of work I am currently pursuing include an examination of the role of semantic, phonological, and orthographic processes involved in the recognition of visually presented words; how these same lexical variables influence memory accuracy; and how the acquisition of new concepts or the formation of new relations among pre-existing contexts occurs in young and older adults. In my research, I use a variety of tasks and paradigms, ranging from visual word recognition tasks to memory paradigms. I use both verbal materials as well as more complex pictorial stimuli. If you have any questions, or would like to get involved in my research, please feel free to write to me at jhcoane@artsci.wustl.edu. Publications Balota, D. A., & Coane, J. H. (2008). Semantic memory. To appear in J. H. Byrne, H. Eichenbaum, R. Menzel, H. L. Roediger III, & D. Sweatt (Eds.), Handbook of learning and memory: A comprehensive reference. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Coane, J. H., & McBride, D. M. (2006). The role of test structure in creating false memories. Memory & Cognition, 34, 1026–1036. Coane, J. H., McBride, D. M., Raulerson, B. A. III, & Jordan, J. S. (2007). False memory in a short term memory task. Experimental Psychology, 54, 62–70. McBride, D. M., Coane, J. H., & Raulerson, B. A. III (2006). An investigation of false memory in perceptual implicit tasks. Acta Psychologica, 123, 240–260. Colby College \| Psychology Department \|\| Mayflower Hill Drive Waterville, Maine 04901 phone: 207-859-5550 fax: 207-859-5555

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Jennifer Coane