Cowan Working-Memory Laboratory, Dept. of Psychological Sciences, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia

Welcome! Our research focuses on memory and attention and their roles in human cognition. Our participants include elementary school-age children, their parents, as well as young adults (college freshmen).
Lab Members			Contact Us We are located in the McAlester Annex (Southeast corner of 6th and Elm Streets). Map Directions and parking information Mailing Address Department of Psychological Sciences 210 McAlester Hall University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, Missouri 65211-2500 USA Laboratory Phone: 573-882-7417 Fax: 573-882-7710 Research interests Publications photo of Nelson Cowan and previous lab members
Dr. Nelson Cowan Email: CowanN@missouri.edu

Dr. Scott Saults Email: SaultsS@missouri.edu
Timothy J. Ricker Email: tjr899@mail.missouri.edu
Kyle Hardman Email: kh832@mail.missouri.edu
Sara Bernal Email: sara.e.bernal@gmail.com
Dawei Li Email: dlmgf@mail.missouri.edu
Former Graduate Students
2012 Angela Aubuchon, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University Email: amaubuch@indiana.edu
2011 Amanda L. Gilchrist, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology Email: amanda.gilchrist@psych.gatech.edu Graduate Student Excellence Awards from the Department of Psychological Sciences and from Life Sciences. In 2011, winner of award for best dissertation on campus.
2009 Zhijian (David) Chen, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto Email: davidzj.chen@utoronto.ca
2008 Christopher Zwilling Doctoral Student, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Email: zwillin1@illinois.edu
2007 Candice C. Morey, Ph.D. Assistant Professor & Rosalind Franklin Fellow, University of Groningen, Netherlands Email: c.c.morey@rug.nl Sponsored predoctoral NRSA; In 2008, one of 2 winners of the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award at the University of Missouri.
2006 Anna Hismjatullina, Ph.D. Department Chair, Department of Applied Behavior Analysis, Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis Email: u_r_grand@hotmail.com
2001 Emily M. Elliott, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University Email: eelliott@lsu.edu
1996 Noelle Wood, Ph.D. Project Manager, Rhode Island Department of Mental Health
1995 Linda S. Day, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Research Associate Professor Emeritus, Communication Science & Disorders, University of Missouri Email: DayL@health.missouri.edu
1994 Timothy Keller, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate with expertise in fMRI, Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging, Carnegie Mellon University Email: tk37@andrew.cmu.edu
Former Post-Doc Students 2007-2009 Tina Miyake, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor, Experimental Psychology, Idaho State University Email: miyatin2@isu.edu
2003-2005 Michael Bunting, Ph.D. Area Director, Cognitive Psychology, Center for the Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Email: miyatin2@isu.edu Winner of APA’s 2006 Young Investigator Award for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

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