The Laboratory on Learning, Cognition and Development is directed by Assistant Professor Christopher A. Was. The Laboratory features four IBM PC compatible data collection computers, as well as office space for research assistants. Reaction time experiments are programmed using the E-Prime experimental authoring system.
Research conducted in the Laboratory on Learning, Cognition, and Development has involved models of working memory, executive function, and long-term semantic priming processes in comprehension.
Recent Research From the Laboratory on rLearning, Cognition and Development
Was, C. A., Bilman-Paternite, J. S., & Wooley, R. (2008) Increased Availability of Arithmetic Facts Following Working Memory Processing. In B. Love, K. McRae, & V. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1480-1485).Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Was, C. A. (2007). Further Evidence that Not All Executive Functions are Equal. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 3(3), 399-407.
Was, C. A., & Woltz, D. J. (2006, July). Partially unique variance in reading accounted for by working memory and semantic priming. Poster presented at the 28th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Van Cover, British Columbia, Canada. Published in R. Sun (Ed.), The Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 2628).
