Kinney

Faculty

Colleen M. Parks, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Program:

Experimental

Lab:

http://faculty.unlv.edu/cparks/

Email:

Colleen.Parks@unlv.edu

Phone:

(702) 895-0139

Accepting Graduate Students 2010-2011: YES

Research Interests

Colleen Parks' research examines the component processes of memory with the goal of enhancing theoretical understanding of these processes--that is, what those processes are, how they work, how they should be measured, and how they change with age. Her current research focuses on encoding and retrieval processes underlying different types of recognition memory performance, theoretical models of recognition memory, the nature of recollection and familiarity, and memory differences between young and older adults. Her research examines questions such as "what’s the nature of recollection and how does it work?", "what is the relationship between fluency, implicit memory, and familiarity?", and "which components of memory decline with age and why?" She examines these issues using a variety of methods including implicit and explicit tests, the process dissociation procedure, the remember-know procedure, and ROC modeling.

Dr. Parks' 2004 Ph.D. is in Experimental Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Selected Publications

Elfman, K. W., Parks, C. M., & Yonelinas, A. P. (2008). Testing a neurocomputational model of recollection, familiarity, and source recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 752-768.

Parks, C. M. (2007). The role of noncriterial recollection in estimating recollection and familiarity. Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 81-100.

Parks, C. M., & Yonelinas, A. P. (2007). Moving Beyond Pure Signal-Detection Models: Comment on Wixted (2007). Psychological Review, 114, 188-201.

Yonelinas, A. P., & Parks, C. M. (2007). Receiver operating characteristics (ROCs) in recognition memory: A review. Psychological Bulletin, 133, 800-832.

Toth, J. P., & Parks, C. M. (2006). Effects of age on estimated familiarity in the process dissociation procedure: The role of noncriterial recollection. Memory & Cognition, 34, 527-537.