Applied Cognitive Aging
Faculty

Phillip Allen (paallen@uakron.edu), Ph.D., The Ohio State University. Research focuses on how increased adult age affects attention, visual word recognition, perception, memory, and ERPs. Other interests are in basic models of visual word recognition and human factors.

Kevin Kaut (kpk@uakron.edu), Ph.D., Kent State University. Research deals with the neurobiology of learning and memory in animal models, head trauma (including human applications), factors influencing post-injury recovery of function, and age effects on cognitive/behavioral responses to injury.

Martin Murphy (mmurphy@uakron.edu), Program Chair, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana. Research interests involve adult age differences in strategies, organization, and knowledge; memory monitoring and metamemory; and mental processes underlying psychometric test performance.

Harvey Sterns (hsterns@uakron.edu), Ph.D., West Virginia University. Current research includes training of adult and older adult workers, personality factors, and retirement adjustment and satisfaction, as well as personality factors in housing choices in retirement. Other research involved life planning for older adults with mental retardation.

Cameron Camp, Adjunct, (ccamp@myersi.com), Ph.D., University of Houston. Research focuses on improving memory and life functioning in those with Alzheimer’s Disease, on applied development and aging, and on ties between personality and cognition