Laura A. Carlson
Department of Psychology
University of Notre Dame
United States of America
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
Publications
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Carlson-Radvansky LA, Covey ES, Lattanzi KM. “What†effects on “whereâ€: Functional influences on spatial relations. Psychological Science. 1999 Nov;10(6):516-21.
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Pecher D, Zwaan RA, editors. Grounding cognition: The role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking. Cambridge University Press; 2005 Jan 10.
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Carlson-Radvansky LA, Logan GD. The influence of reference frame selection on spatial template construction. Journal of memory and language. 1997 Oct 31;37(3):411-37.