Anderson D. Smith

	Anderson D. Smith	(404) 894-8904
	Cognitive Aging
	Ph.D. (1970) Experimental Psychology University of Virginia Regents Professor of Psychology and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies and Academic Affairs

Professor of Psychology

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My research interests focus on adult age differences in memory. I want to know what about memory changes as we grow older and what are the causes for those changes. Recently, I have been interested in how context helps, or hurts, younger and older adults with episodic recall. Our research is showing that context can be either facilitative or distracting, and seems to affect memory regardless of age. Older people, however, are not as influenced by contextual factors when the context is not well-integrated with the to-be-remembered information. Other research is examining how cognitive mechanisms may be responsible for much of the age-related variance in memory performance across a variety of tasks.  I am also interested in non-human primate models of memory aging.

Affiliations
American Psychological Association (Fellow)
American Psychological Society (Charter Member and Fellow)
Gerontological Society (Fellow)
Psychonomic Society

Selected Publications

• Smith, A.D. (1996). Memory. In J.E. Birren & K.W. Schaie (Eds.) Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Fourth Edition. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, Inc..
• McCabe, D. P., Robertson, C. L., & Smith, A.D.  (2005).  Age differences in Stroop interference in working memory,  Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology,  27,  633-644.
• Anderson, U. S., Stoinski, T.S., Bloomsmith, M. A., Marr, M. J., Smith, A. D., & Maple, T. L. (2005).  Relative numerousness judgment and summation in young and old western lowland gorillas.  Journal of Comparative Psychology, 119, 285-295.  
• McCabe, D. P., Presmanes, A. G., Robertson, C. L., & Smith, A. D.  (2005)  Item-specific processing reduces false memories.  Psychological Bulletin and Review, 11, 1074-1079
• Smith, A. D. (2006).  Memory and aging.  In J. E. Birren (Ed.).  Encyclopedia of Gerontology.  Oxford:  Elsevier.
• Smith, A. D. (In press).  Memory and Memory Theory. In R. Schulz (Ed.).  Encyclopedia of Aging.  New  York:  Springer.

Frequently Taught Courses
PSY 3303 General Psychology
PSY 7700 Professional Problems
Seminar: Memory and Aging
PSY 4025  Psychology of Aging

Contact Information

Dr. Anderson D. Smith School of Psychology Georgia Institute of Technology 654 Cherry Street Atlanta, GA 30332-0170

Telephone: (404) 894-8904 Fax: (404) 894-8905 E-mail: Office Location: 130 J.S. Coon Bldg. Lab Information: GT Memory Lab