Jonathan King

Biography

Jonathan W. King is currently working as the Program Director for Cognitive Aging and Human Factors in the Division of Behavioral and Social Research (BSR) at the NIA. Jonathan W. King received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. His post-doctoral work in cognitive neuroscience at the Department of Cognitive Science at UCSD focused on language processing and working memory in both younger and older adults. Dr. King later joined the faculty in the Department of Psychological Sciences and the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He joined the Biobehavioral and Behavioral Processes IRG at the Center for Scientific Review at NIH in 2006. While at BSR, he has coordinated new initiatives in cognitive interventions to remediate age-related cognitive decline and the use of behavioral economic approaches both to promote health behavior change in older adults and to increase the uptake of comparative effectiveness research. Dr. King is also the Roadmap Coordinator for the NIH Science of Behavior Change Roadmap Project effort.

Research Interest

Cognitive aging and cognitive interventions, Science of Behavior Change, Genetics of social behavior