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Deborah K. Eakin
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Magruder Hall , Room 214
Office Phone: 662-325-7949
E-mail: deakin@psychology.msstate.edu
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Education
- B.S., Columbus State University, 1996
- M.A., University of Kansas, Lawrence, 2000
- Ph.D., University of Kansas, Lawrence, 2003
Current Research
Memory
- Metamemory
- Memory Illusions
- Retrieval Processes
- Interference/Inhibition
- Eyewitness Memory
Cognitive Aging
- Metamemory
- Retrieval Processes
- Interference/Inhibition
- Eyewitness Memory
Cognitive Neuroscience (e.g.,fMRI)
- Aging
- Memory and Metamemory
Integration of Cognitive Processes
Computational models of memory
Consciousness and cognition
Current Publications
- Eakin, D. K. & Hertzog, C. (in press). Release from implicit interference in memory and metamemory: Older adults know that they can't let go. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.
- Eakin, D. K. (2005). Illusions of knowing: Metamemory and memory under conditions of retroactive interference. Journal of Memory and Language, Special Issue, 52, 526-534.
- Eakin, D. K., Schreiber, T.A., & Sergent-Marshall, S. (2003). Misinformation effects in eyewitness memory: The presence and absence of memory impairment as a function of warning and misinformation accessibility. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 813-825.
- Wade, T., Eakin, D. K., Webb, R., Agah, A., Brown, F., Jongman, A., Gauch, J., Schreiber, T.A., & Sereno, J (2002). Modeling recognition of speech sounds with MINERVA. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Denver, CO.
