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Memory and Cognition Laboratory |
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Rice University, Houston, TX |
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Vita of Jessica M. Logan |
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EDUCATION Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Washington University in Saint Louis, 2004 Dissertation Title: Spaced and expanded retrieval effects in younger and older adults Committee Chair: David A. Balota M.A., Experimental Psychology, Washington University in Saint Louis, 2001 Thesis Title: Conscious and unconscious lexical retrieval blocking in younger and older adults Committee Chair: David A. Balota B.A., Psychology, B.A., Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, 1998 Summa Cum Laude Thesis Title: Integrating temporal information in judgments of causality Committee Chair: Barbara A. Spellman
POSITIONS HELD Rice University, Houston, Texas Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, August 2006-present Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri Research Associate, Department of Psychology, May 2004-July 2006 Advisors: Kathleen B. McDermott and Henry L. Roediger, III. National Institute on Aging Research Trainee, 2003-2004 Advisor: David A. Balota National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, 1998-2001 Advisor: David A. Balota
RESEARCH INTERESTS • Cognitive and neural changes associated with healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease • Functional neuroimaging (fMRI) of human memory • Cognitive rehabilitation of learning and memory in healthy aging and dementia • Applied cognitive research in educational environments to improve learning and retention
GRANTS Social Sciences Undergraduate Research Enterprise, $1,250, with Andrew Thompson How Should Students Organize Their Study Time?: The Role of Distributed Practice and Self-Testing in Learning Foreign Language Vocabulary
Social Sciences Research Institute, Rice University, $12,000 Re-Defining Gold Standards of Wisdom in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging
Teagle Foundation Awards for Collegia on Student Learning - $150,000 for 3 years Translating Cognitive Research on Learning and Retention into College Classrooms: Collegium of Rice University and the University of Texas Medical School, Houston PI: Jessica Logan Co-PIs: Janice Bordeaux (Rice University), Richard Grandy (Rice University), David Marshak (University of Texas Medical School, Houston)
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Conway, M.A., Turk, D.J., Miller, S.L., Logan, J., Nebes, R.D., Meltzer. C.C., Becker, J.T. (1999). A Positron Emission Tomography (PET) study of autobiographical memory retrieval. Memory, 7, 679-702. Buckner, R.L. and Logan, J.M. (2001) Functional neuroimaging methods: PET and fMRI. In Cabeza, R. and Kingstone, A. (Eds) Handbook of Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition. Cambridge: MIT Press. Buckner, R.L., Logan, J.M., Donaldson, D.I., and Wheeler, M.E. (2001). Cognitive neuroscience of episodic memory encoding. Acta Psychologica, 105, 127-139. Spellman, B.A., Price, C.M., and Logan, J.M. (2001). How two causes are different from one: The use of (un)conditional information in Simpson’s Paradox. Memory & Cognition, 29, 193-208. Logan, J.M., Sanders, A.L., Snyder, A.Z., Morris, J.C., & Buckner, R.L. (2002). Under-recruitment and non-selective recruitment: Dissociable neural mechanisms associated with aging. Neuron, 33, 827-840. Buckner, R.L., and Logan, J.M. (2002). Frontal contributions to episodic memory encoding in the young and elderly. In Parker, AE, Wilding, EL, and Bussey, T (Eds.), The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Encoding and Retrieval. Psychology Press:Philadelphia. Duchek, J.M., & Logan, J.M. (2003). Tip of the tongue phenomenon. In JH Byrne (Ed.), Learning and Memory (2nd edition), pp.650-651; Farmington Hills, MI:Macmillan Reference/The Gale Group. Logan, J.M., and Balota, D.A. (2003). Conscious and unconscious retrieval blocking in younger and older adults. Psychology and Aging, 18, 537-550. Balota, D.A., Duchek, J.M., & Logan, J.M. (2006). Is expanded retrieval practice a superior form of spaced retrieval? A critical review of the extant literature. In J. Nairne (Ed.), Foundation of Remembering: Essays in Honor of Henry L. Roediger, III. Castel, A.D., Balota, D.A., Hutchison, K.A., & Logan, J.M. (2007). Control of spatial attention in healthy older adults and in early stage Alzheimer’s Disease: Evidence for disproportionate selection breakdowns in the Simon task. Neuropsychology. Logan J.M., & Balota, D.A. (2008). Expanded versus equal interval spaced retrieval practice: Exploring different schedules of spacing and retention interval in younger and older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 15, 257-280. Lyle, K.B., Logan, J.M., and Roediger, H.L., III. (2008). Eye Movements Enhance Memory for Individuals Who Are Strongly Right-handed and Harm It for Individuals Who Are Not. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
RESEARCH MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION Logan, J.M., & Balota, D.A. The role of retention interval and feedback in spaced retrieval of faces and names. Logan, J. M., Roediger, H.L., & McDermott, K.B. Spaced retrieval and the effects of inter-item difficulty on learning foreign language vocabulary. Castel, A.D., & Logan, J.M. Learning about the Spacing Effect: The Role of Experience and Feedback.
HIGHER EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS Logan, J. (2000, October 12). Honoring outstanding mentors. In Science's Next Wave [On-line]. Available: nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2000/10/12/2. Logan, J. (2002, March 29). Integrating technology training into graduate education. In Science's Next Wave [On-line]. Available: http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2002/03/27/2 Logan, J.M. (2002). A Graduate Student Perspective: Exploitation or Opportunity. In the Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools: Ethical Challenges for Graduate Education, pp. 51-56.
INVITED TALKS Scientia Institute, Rice University, October 2007 “Brain and Behavior: How We Create and Maintain Memory in Early Adulthood and Advanced Age” Department of Neurobiology & Neuroanatomy, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, October 2007 “Teaching The Mind New Tricks: How Strategy Use Impacts Learning and Retention in Early Adulthood to Advanced Age”
PRESENTATIONS AT NATIONAL CONFERENCES Logan, J.M., Kelley, W.M. and Buckner, R.L. (2000, April). Inferior and dorsal frontal cortex play distinct roles in episodic memory formation. Poster presentation, Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Logan, J.M., and Balota, D. A. (2000, April). Blocking word retrieval in younger and older adults. Poster presentation, Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA. Logan, J.M. (2000, October). Honoring outstanding mentors. Seminar presented at the National Association of Graduate and Professional Students National Conference, Nashville, TN. Logan, J.M., and Buckner, R.L. (2001, March). Age-related changes in the neural correlates of encoding. Poster presentation, Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY. Logan, J.M., and Balota, D.A. (2004, April). Spaced and expanded retrieval effects in younger and older adults. Poster presented, Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA. Logan, J.M., Balota, D.A., Duchek, J.M., and Sergent-Marshall, S. (2004, November). Memory Conjunction Errors In Healthy Aging And Alzheimer's Disease. Poster presented, Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN. Balota, D.A., Duchek, J.M., & Logan, J.M. (2005, March). Is expanded retrieval practice a superior form of spaced retrieval? Invited talk, Roddyfest Conference, Purdue University. Logan, J.M., and Balota, D. A. (2006, April). Using Spaced Retrieval Practice to Learn Faces and Names. Plenary talk, Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. Lyle, K.B., Logan, J.M., and Roediger, H.L., III. (2006, November). Does Moving Your Eyes Before a Memory Test Enhance Performance? Poster presented, Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX. Logan, J.M., Roediger, H.L., III, and McDermott, K.B. (2006, November). Using Spaced Retrieval Practice to Learn Foreign Language Vocabulary. Paper presented, Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX. Castel, A.D., and Logan, J.M. (2007, November). Learning about the Spacing Effect: The Role of Experience and Feedback. Poster presented, Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA. Meyer, A.N., and Logan, J.M. (2007, November). Subject-Controlled Feedback in a Verbal Learning Task. Poster presented, Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Graduate Courses Rice University – Department of Psychology, Assistant Professor Memory and Aging, 2006 Memory, 2008 Undergraduate Courses Washington University in St. Louis – Department of Psychology, Teaching Assistant Cognitive Psychology (with Dr. David Balota and Dr. Larry Jacoby) 2001, 2002 Washington University in St. Louis – Department of Psychology, Instructor Seminar: Introduction to Psychology, 2004, 2005, 2006 University of Missouri, St. Louis – Department of Gerontology, Instructor Aging in America, 2004, 2005 Adult Development and Aging, 2006 Rice University – Department of Psychology, Assistant Professor Research Methods, 2006, 2007, 2008 Advanced Cognitive Topics: Memory and Aging, 2006 Neuropsychology of Memory and Language, 2008
TEACHING INTERESTS Cognition Memory Language Gerontology Cognitive aging Cognitive neuroscience Neuropsychology Neural bases of language Developmental psychology Research methods
ACADEMIC HONORS National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Student Award, for scholarly excellence and leadership potential, Association of Women Faculty, Washington University Chapter, 2000 Julia Gehm Scholarship for Outstanding Student Leadership, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2000-2001 Roma Schaefer Nooter Scholar in Psychology, for research in cognitive aging, Washington University, 2001 Richard and Mildred Poletsky Education Award, for future promise in aging and dementia research, Washington University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, 2001 First Place, Social Sciences Division, Graduate Student Senate Research Symposium, 2002 Graduate Student Senate Leadership Award, for founding Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards, Washington University, 2004 Student Marshal, Commencement, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Washington University, 2004
ACADEMIC SERVICE National Board of Directors, National Association of Graduate and Professional Students, 2000-2001 Campus Representative, Science’s NextWave, 2001-2004 Graduate Student Representative, NSF/NIH Fellowship Stipend Steering Committee, Washington D.C., 2002-2003 Departmental/University President, Graduate Student Senate, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Washington University, 1999-2000 Graduate Student Representative, Board of Trustees, Washington University, 2000-2001 Graduate Student Senate, Chair, Peer Mentoring Committee, 2000-2002 Psi Chi Advisor, Rice University, Fall 2007, Fall 2008 Undergraduate Advising Committee, Department of Psychology, Rice University, 2007-present Resident Faculty Associate, Baker College, Rice University, 2008-present
REVIEWING FOR PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS Brain and Cognition; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Journal of Neuroscience; Neuropsychology; Psychonomic Bulletin and Review; Psychology and Aging
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Psychonomic Society American Psychological Association Society for Psychological Science Cognitive Neuroscience Society
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