Laura A. Carlson

Biography

Dr. Laura Carlson is Vice President, Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School and a Professor of Psychology Department. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1994, and has been at Notre Dame ever since.

Research Interest

Her research focuses on how we represent environments, examining how they are learned, which landmarks are remembered, how routes through these environments are described, and why we might get lost in these environments. She is the author or co-author of over 70 articles and chapters, co-editor of a book and has been funded by NSF and NIH. She has served as an Associate Editor for three journals: Cognitive Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, and Memory & Cognition. She is on the governing board of the Psychonomic Society, and served previously on the Governing Board for the Cognitive Science Society, and is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. She received the Edmund P. Joyce Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2008, the Kaneb Center Teaching Award in 2001 and 2005, and was named a fellow of the Kaneb Center in 2002