Alice F. Healy

Department of Psychology, UCB 345
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0345

email: Alice.Healy@Colorado.edu

phone: 303-492-5032 FAX: 303-492-8895

office: Muenzinger E228


Professor Healy received her Ph.D. in psychology from The Rockefeller University in 1973. She was Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University from 1973 to 1981. She joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 198l as Associate Professor, was promoted to Professor in 1984, and was named College Professor of Distinction in 2007. During her career she has served as a member of the Basic Behavioral Processes Research Review Committee of the National Institute of Mental Health (1979-1981), as a member of the Governing Board (1987-1992) and Publications Committee (1989-1994) of the Psychonomic Society, and as a member of the Executive Committee (1989-1992 and 2001-2004) of Division 3 (Experimental Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA). She served as Chair of the Psychology Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1995-1996), as President of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association (1994-1995), as President of APA Division 3 (2004-2005), and as Chair of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (2008-2009). She also served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (1981-1984) and as Editor of Memory & Cognition (1986-1989). She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (1984, Divisions 1 and 3), the American Psychological Society (1989), the AAAS (1989), and the Society of Experimental Psychologists (1997). She has received grants or contracts from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Spencer Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United States Air Force, the United States Navy, and the United States Army. In addition, she received a James McKeen Cattell Fund Sabbatical Award, faculty fellowships from Yale University and the University of Colorado, and a college scholar award from the University of Colorado. She is currently Principal Investigator of grants from the Army Research Office, NASA, and the American Literacy Council. Dr. Healy has published 200 articles and chapters in professional journals and books and is a co-author of the textbook Cognitive Processes (2nd ed., 1986). Healy is also a co-editor of the two-volume series Essays in Honor of William K. Estes (1992), of Learning and Memory of Knowledge and Skills (1995), of Foreign Language Learning: Psycholinguistic Studies on Training and Retention (1995), and the Experimental Psychology volume of the Handbook of Psychology (2003). She is also editor of the volume Experimental Cognitive Psychology and its Applications (2005). Healy is currently the Director of the Center for Research on Training, which is affiliated with the Institute of Cognitive Science and the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado. Her research interests include memory and cognitive processes, especially training, long-term retention, reading, short-term memory, psycholinguistics, and political decision-making.

 

Academic Particulars:

Professor
Ph.D. 1973, The Rockefeller University.

Professional Career:

Current curriculum vitae is available by FTP (pdf format).

Research interests:

Memory and cognitive processes, especially training, long-term retention, reading, short-term memory, psycholinguistics, and political decision-making.

Representative Publications:

Healy, A.F. (1994). Letter detection: A window to unitization and other cognitive processes. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1, 333-344.

Healy, A.F., & Bourne, L.E., Jr. (Eds.) (1995). Learning and memory of knowledge and skills: Durablity and specificity. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Healy, A.F., & McNamara, D.S. (1996). Verbal Learning and memory: Does the modal model still work? Annual Review of Psychology, 47, 143-172.

Healy, A.F., & Bourne, L.E., Jr. (Eds.) (1998). Foreign language learning: Psycholinguistic studies on training and retention. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Healy, A. F., Havas, D. A., & Parker, J. T. (2000). Comparing serial position effects in semantic and episodic memory using reconstruction of order tasks. Journal of Memory and Language, 42, 147-167.

Barshi, I., & Healy, A. F. (2002). The effects of mental representation on performance in a navigation task. Memory & Cognition, 30, 1189-1203.

Healy, A. F., Buck-Gengler, C. J., Barshi, I., Parker, J. T., Schneider, V. I., Raymond, W. D., LaVoie, N. N., Bowles, A. R., Pauli, P., Fisher, J. A., & Bourne, L. E., Jr. (2002). Optimizing the durability and generalizability of knowledge and skills. In S. P. Shohov (Ed.), Advances in psychology research (Vol. 8, pp. 103-174). Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers. Also reprinted in S. P. Shohov (Ed.), Trends in cognitive psychology (2002, pp.123-192). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Healy, A. F., Hoffman, J. M., Beer, F. A., & Bourne, L. E., Jr. (2002). Terrorists and democrats: Individual reactions to international attacks. Political Psychology, 23, 439-467.

Healy, A. F., & Proctor, R. W. (Eds.) (2003). Experimental Psychology. Volume 4 of the Handbook of Psychology, Editor-in-Chief: I. B. Weiner. New York: Wiley.

Healy, A. F., & Cunningham, T. F. (2004).  Reading units that include interword spaces:  Filling spaces around a letter can facilitate letter detection.  Memory & Cognition, 32, 560-569.

Healy, A. F., Kole, J. A., Buck-Gengler, C. J., & Bourne, L. E., Jr. (2004). Effects of prolonged work on data entry speed and accuracy.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 10, 188-199.

Healy, A. F. (Ed.). (2005).  Experimental cognitive psychology and its applications.  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Healy, A. F., Wohldmann, E. L., Parker, J. T., & Bourne, L. E., Jr. (2005).  Skill training, retention, and transfer: The effects of a concurrent secondary task.  Memory & Cognition, 33, 1457-1471.

Healy, A. F., Wohldmann, E. L., Sutton, E. M., & Bourne, L. E., Jr. (2006). Specificity effects in training and transfer of speeded responses. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32, 534-546.

Kole, J. A., & Healy, A. F. (2007).  Using prior knowledge to minimize interference when learning large amounts of information.  Memory & Cognition, 35, 124-137.

Wohldmann, E. L., Healy, A. F., & Bourne, L. E., Jr. (2007).  Pushing the limits of imagination: Mental practice for learning sequences.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 254-261.

Healy, A. F., Shea, K. M., Kole, J. A., & Cunningham, T. F. (2008). Position distinctiveness, item familiarity, and presentation frequency affect reconstruction of order in immediate episodic memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 746-764.

Kole, J. A., Healy, A. F., & Bourne, L. E., Jr. (2008). Cognitive complications moderate the speed-accuracy tradeoff in data entry: A cognitive antidote to inhibition. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22, 917-937.

Wohldmann, E. L., Healy, A. F., & Bourne, L. E., Jr. (2008). A mental practice superiority effect: Less retroactive interference and more transfer than physical practice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 823-833.

Raymond, W. D., Healy, A. F., McDonnel, S., & Healy, C. A. (2009). Acquisition of morphological variation: The case of the English definite article. Language and Cognitive Processes, 24, 89-119.

Kole, J. A., Healy, A. F., Fierman, D. M., & Bourne, L. E., Jr. (2010). Contextual memory and skill transfer in category search. Memory & Cognition, 38, 67-82.


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