People

People

Dr. Elizabeth L. Glisky is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona.

Research Staff

Carolyn Langlois has been working as Lab Manager for the Amnesia and Cognition Unit in the Psychology Department at the University of Arizona since August of 2005. She received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Arizona in May of 2005 and is currently applying to Clinical Psychology graduate programs in the hopes of pursuing a career in psychophysiology and its application.

Kristina Irwin has worked in the field of Learning and Memory since she graduated in 1992 from the University of Arizona. She started out working as a Research Technician in a lab at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. She remained at this job for 13 years, gradually getting more responsibility, until she was promoted to lab supervisor. In August of 2005, Kristina moved back to Tucson and was hired by Dr. Glisky and Dr. Ryan as a Research Specialist to work on the AD Risk project.

Alicia started working in February 2007 as a Research Technician for the AD Risk project at the University of Arizona. She received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Arizona in December 2006. Alicia is working towards becoming a Registered Dietitian.

Graduate Students

Emily Connally completed her B.A. in psychology at Harvard University. She is currently a first year student pursuing a Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a neuropsychology specialization at the University of Arizona. Her research interests are normal aging and memory with a focus on age-related decline. Her other interests include streamlining neuropsychological evaluation, assessing everyday function in normal aging and neurological disease, and gender differences in spatial and verbal memory function across the lifespan.

María Marquine is a 5th year clinical neuropsychology student at the Department of Psychology. She is originally from Uruguay, and received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Eckerd College (Florida) in 2000, and her Master’s degree in Psychology from the University of Arizona in 2005. Broadly, she is interested in developing assessment and intervention methods for individuals with neurological impairment. Her research focuses on self-referential processing in memory disorders, particularly memory problems that arise as a result of acquired brain injury and dementias. Specifically, one focus of her research has been to explore whether individuals who become impaired in their ability to incorporate and integrate new life experiences into their existing knowledge structure know who they are. Another focus has been to explore whether individuals with memory impairment can improve their memory performance as a result of self-referential processing.

Craig P. McFarland received his B.A. in psychology at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a third year student pursuing a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Arizona. Craig’s research interests include memory and aging, and the identification of age-related memory decline. More specifically, his interests include source memory, memory and emotion, prospective memory, and memory rehabilitation.

Emily C. Recknor completed her B.S. in psychology at the University of Iowa. She is currently a second year graduate student at the University of Arizona, pursuing her Ph.D. in clinical psychology with an emphasis in neuropsychology. She is also an extern at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. Emily works in the Amnesia and Cognition Unit under the supervision of Betty Glisky, Ph.D., and the Neuropsychology, Emotion, and Memory Lab under the supervision of Al Kaszniak, Ph.D. She also collaborates with Steve Rapcsak, M.D. at the VA Medical Center. Broadly, her research interests include frontal functioning, facial recognition, memory and aging, decision-making, awareness of deficit, and traumatic brain injury.

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Katrin Walther is working as a Research Associate on the AD Risk project. She studied Psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany and graduated with a Master’s of Science in Psychology in 2000. After this, she worked as a Research Associate at the Day Clinic of Cognitive Neurology at the University of Leipzig while working on her PhD. Her research focused on the development of rehabilitation techniques for impairments in prospective memory, but she was also interested in discourse comprehension and the cognitive outcome in traumatic brain injured patients. In 2005, Katrin visited the University of Arizona and Dr. Glisky’s lab as a visiting scholar. She finished her dissertation in Germany and came back to Arizona as a Postdoc in August 2006.

Undergraduate Assistants