Karin M. Butler
Assistant
Professor
Email: kmbutler@unm.edu
Office: Logan 137
Phone: 505-277-2558
Degree
Received
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2001
Research
Interests
My research focus is on understanding basic
cognitive control abilities and how those abilities may change
as we develop into old age. The ability to control cognition by
keeping relevant information active in working memory, elaborating
on that information in relevant ways, and isolating it from interfering
thoughts can be measured within the range of cognitive domains.
My research has examined these control abilities in an eye movement
task, in memory using a false memory task and in prospective memory.
Selected Recent Publications
- Butler,
K.M., Arrington, C.M., & Weywadt, C. (2011). Working memory
capacity modulates task performance but has little influence on task
choice. Memory & Cognition, 39, 708-724.
doi:10.3758/s13421-010-0055-y
- Butler, K.M.,
McDaniel, M.A., McCabe, D.P., & Dornburg, C.C. (2010). The
influence of distinctive processing manipulations on older adults'
false memory. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 17(2), 129-159.
- McDaniel,
M.A., Howard, D., & Butler, K.M. (2008). Implementation intentions
facilitate prospective memory under high attention demands. Memory & Cognition, 36, 716-724.
- McDaniel,
M. A., Butler, K. M., & Dornburg, C. C. (2006). Binding
of source and content: new directions revealed by neuropsychological
and age-related effects. In (Eds.) Binding in Human Memory (pp. 657-676).
Oxford University Press.
- Butler,
K. M. & Zacks, R. T. (2006). Age deficits in the control of
prepotent responses: Support for an inhibitory decline. Psychology and Aging, 21, 638-643.
- Butler,
K. M., McDaniel, M. A., Dornburg, C. C., Roediger, H. L., III,
& Price, A. L. (in press). Age differences in veridical and
false recall are not inevitable: The role of frontal lobe function. Psychonomic
Bulletin & Review.
- Nigg,
J. T., Butler, K. M., Huang-Pollock, C. L., & Henderson,
J. M. (2002). Inhibitory processes in adults with persistent
childhood onset ADHD. Journal of Consulting & Clinical
Psychology,
70, 153-157.
- Butler,
K. M., Williams, C. C., Zacks, R. T., & Maki, R. H. (2001)
A limit on retrieval-induced forgetting. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 27,
1314-1319.
- Butler,
K. M., Zacks, R. T., & Henderson, J. M. (1999). Suppression
of reflexive saccades in younger and older adults: Age comparisons
on an antisaccade task. Memory & Cognition, 27,
584-591.
Current Graduate Lab Members
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Student/Research Interests |
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Christina Weywadt
Cognitive control and the neural networks that enable volitional
control over behavior; social stress and how individual differences in
cognitive control interact with the social environment to guide
behavior.
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Elizabeth Browning
False memory, illusory recollection, and choice-supported memory. |
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