Alexandra Morrison M.A.

 

Email: Amorrison@temple.edu

Lab Webpage: http://www.temple.edu/tunl/

Bio: Alexandra is a member of Dr. Chein’s Neurocognition Lab. Her research interests involve working memory, its role and cognition, and how it may differ from other types of memory (short term, long term). Additionally (and more specifically), she focuses on factors that may impact the size and use and of working memory capacity, such as, strategy, cognitive training, and experience.

Peer Review Publications: 

Richmond, L., Morrison, A., Chein, J., & Olson, I. (2011). Working Memory Training and Transfer in Older Adults. Psychology and Aging. In press. 

Morrison, A, & Chein,J. (2011). Does working memory training work? The promise and challenges of enhancing cognition by training working memory in the following paginated issue of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18(1), 46-60, DOI: 10.3758/s13423-010-0034-0.

Chein, J. & Morrison, A. (2010). Expanding the mind's workspace: Training and transfer effects with a complex working memory span task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17(2), 193-199. doi: 10.3758/PBR.17.2.193