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:
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.
