College of Liberal Arts

Department of Psychology

Paul Whitney

Professor

Associate Dean for Research, College of Liberal Arts

Ph.D. University of Kansas, 1984

 

Contact Information:
Email: pwhitney@wsu.edu
Office: Johnson Tower 339 & Thompson Hall 309
Phone: (509) 358-8386

 

Websites:

Personal Web Page

Classes Taught:

Psychology 311: Elementary Statistics
Psychology 492: Psychology of Language
Psychology 511: Experimental Design and Analysis of Variance
Psychology 592: Cognition

Research Interests:

Working Memory & Executive Function
Text Comprehension
Individual Differences in Cognition

My research centers on working memory processes in language comprehension and decision making.  Much of this work takes an individual differences approach in which we examine how working memory deficits impact other cognitive processes.  I am engaged in collaborative work with clinical psychologists and neurologists in order to examine working memory processes in older adults, people with Parkinson's disease, and people with schizophrenia. 

Selected Publications :

Hinson, J.M., Jameson,T.J., & Whitney, P. (2002). Somatic markers, working memory, and decision making.  Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 2, 341-353.

Hinson, J.M., Jameson, T.J., & Whitney, P. (2003). Impulsive decision making and working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 298-306.

Whitney, P., Jameson, T.L., & Hinson, J.M. (2004). Impulsiveness and executive control of working memory. Personality and Individual Differences, 37, 417-428.

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