Cur
Department of Psychology
phone (561) 297-0017
fax (561) 297-2160
akersten@fau.edu
http://www.psy.fau.edu/akersten
December, 1989 - Received Bachelor of Science degree in
Psychology from the
March, 1993 - Received M.S. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology
July, 1995 - Attended summer school on cognitive modeling in
ACT-R at
September, 1995 - Received Ph.D. degree with minor in Linguistics from the Georgia Institute of Technology
September 1995 to June 1998 - Postdoctoral research
associate at
September 1997 to December 1997 - Adjunct professor at
August 1998 to May 2004 - Assistant professor at
May 2004 to Present – Associate professor at
1999 APA Division of Experimental Psychology New Investigator Award in Experimental Psychology: General
Earles, J.L., Kersten, A.W., Más, B.B., & Miccio, D.M. (in press). Influences of activity difficulty and time pressure on age differences in activity recall. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.
Kersten, A.W., & Earles, J.L. (2004). Semantic context
influences memory for verbs more than memory for nouns.
Kersten, A.W. (2003). Verbs and nouns convey different types of motion in event descriptions. Linguistics, 41, 917-945.
Goldstone, R.L., & Kersten, A.W. (2003). Concepts and categorization. In A. F. Healy & R. W.
Proctor (Eds.), Experimental Psychology (pp. 599-621). Volume 4 in I. B. Weiner (Editor-in-Chief) Handbook of
psychology.
Earles, J.L., & Kersten, A.W. (2002). Directed forgetting of actions by younger and older adults. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 383-388.
Kersten, A.W., & Smith, L.B. (2002). Attention to novel objects during verb learning. Child Development, 73, 93-109.
Kersten, A.W., & Earles, J.L. (2001). Less really is more for adults learning a miniature artificial language. Journal of Memory and Language, 44, 250-273
Earles, J.L., & Kersten, A.W. (2000). Adult age differences in memory for verbs and nouns. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 7, 130-139.
Goldstone, R. L., Steyvers, M., Spencer-Smith, J., & Kersten,
A. (2000). Interactions between perceptual and
conceptual learning. In E. Diett
Earles, J.L., & Kersten, A.W. (1999). Processing speed and adult age differences in activity memory. Experimental Aging Research, 25, 243-253.
Earles, J.L., Kersten, A.W., Turner, J.M., & McMullen, J. (1999). Influences of age, performance, and context on verbatim and gist recall of verb-noun pairs. Journal of General Psychology, 126, 97-110.
Kersten, A.W., Goldstone, R.L., & Schaffert, A. (1998). Two competing attentional mechanisms in category learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 1437-1458.
Kersten, A.W.
(1998). An examination of the distinction between nouns and verbs: Associations
with two different kinds of motion.
Earles, J.L., & Kersten, A.W. (1998). Influences of age and perceived activity difficulty on activity recall. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 53B, P324-P328.
Kersten, A.W. (1998). A division of labor between nouns and verbs in the representation of motion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 127, 34-54.
Kersten, A.W., & Billman, D.O. (1997). Event category learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 23,.638-658.
Kersten, A.W., & Billman, D.O. (1995). The roles of motion and moving parts in noun and verb meanings. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale: Erlbaum.
Salthouse, T.A., & Kersten, A.W. (1993). Decomposing adult age differences in symbol
Kersten, A.W., & Billman, D.O. (1992). The role of correlational structure in learning event categories. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale: Erlbaum.
Kersten, A.W. (2000). A division of labor between nouns and verbs in the representation of motion. Experimental Psychology Bulletin, 4, 4-5.
Kersten, A.W., Smith, L.B., & Yoshida, H. Attention to novel objects during verb learning in Japanese and English-speaking children.
Kersten, A.W., Smith, L.B., & Yoshida, H. Influences of object knowledge on the acquisition of verbs in Japanese and English-speaking children.
Earles, J.L., Kersten, A.W., Stadtlander, L.M., & Welsh, D. The contribution of haptic cues to memory for actions.
Kersten, A.W.
Differential hemisphe
Kersten, A.W., Earles, J.L., Curtayne, E.S., & Lane, J.C. Adult age differences in binding actors and actions in eyewitness memory.
Kersten, A.W.,
Project Title: Adult Age Differences in Binding Actors and Actions
Submission Date: 5/2003
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Principal Investigator:
Award Amount: $206,700
Project Title: Adult Age Differences in Event Memory
Submission Date: 4/2003
Funding Agency:
Principal Investigator:
Award Amount: $14,900
Project Title: Verb Learning in English and Spanish Speakers
Submission Date: 3/2000
Funding Agency:
Principal Investigator:
Award Amount: $5000
Kersten, A.W., & Earles, J.L. (2004, November). Effects of semantic context on memory for nouns and verbs. Paper to be presented at the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Kersten, A.W., Earles, J.L., Curtayne, E.S., & Pacific, J.B.
(2004, April). Effects of famili
Curtayne, E.S.,
Kersten, A.W., Earles, J.L., & Murphy, S. (2004, March). Effects
of actor simil
Pacific, J.B.,
Kersten, A.W., & Earles, J.L. (2004, March). Effects of distraction on
correctly binding actors with performed actions. Poster presented at the
Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association,
Kersten, A.W., Earles, J.L., Curtayne, E.S., & Lane, J.C.
(2003, November). Adult age differences in binding
actors and actions in eyewitness memory. Poster presented at the Meeting
of the Psychonomic Society,
Earles, J.L., Kersten, A.W.,
Klein, E., & Phelan, A. (2003, November) Event memory in and out of
context. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Kersten, A.W.,
Kersten, A.W., Earles, J.L., &
Curtayne, E. (2002, November). Binding actors and
actions in eyewitness memory. Paper presented at the Meeting of the
Earles, J.L., Kersten, A.W., & Curtayne, E. (2002, November).
Effects of distraction on unconscious transference in
eyewitness memory. Poster presented at the Meeting of the
Earles, J.L., Kersten, A.W.,
Curtayne, E.,
Kersten, A., & Earles, J. (2002, March). Binding actors and their actions:
Implications for eyewitness testimony. Poster presented at the Meeting of the
Southeastern Psychological Association,
Kersten, A.W., & Rivera, M.L. (2001, November). English
and Spanish speakers attend differently to attributes of novel events. Paper
presented at the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Earles, J.L., & Kersten, A.W. (2001, November). Older
adults have difficulty remembering difficult activities. Poster presented at
the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Kersten, A.W.
(2001, April). Attention to novel objects during verb learning in different
languages. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Society for Research in Child
Development,
Kersten, A.W., & Earles, J.L. (2000). A
role for the motions of whole objects in object representations. Paper
presented at the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Earles, J.L., & Kersten, A.W. (2000). Effects
of semantic context on memory for nouns and verbs. Poster presented at
the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Kersten, A.W.,
Earles, J.L., Diet
Kersten, A.W.
(2000, February). The different types of motion conveyed by
verbs and nouns in event descriptions. Paper presented at the Workshop
on Conceptualization,
Kersten, A.W., & Earles, J.L. (1999, November). Is less
really more? Learning a miniature artificial language in
adulthood. Paper presented at the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Kersten, A.W.
(1999, April). Children attend to objects as well as motions when learning
verbs. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child
Development,
Kersten, A.W.
(1998, November). Object-based and part-based attention
during categorization of a complex object. Poster presented at the
Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Earles, J.L., & Kersten, A.W. (1998, November). Influences of age and perceived activity difficulty on activity
recall. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Earles, J.L., Kersten, A.W., Turner, J.M., & McMullen, J.
(1998, April). Influences of age, performance, and context on verbatim
and gist recall of verb-noun pairs. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging
Conference,
Kersten, A.W.
(1997, November). The development of noun and verb learning biases. Poster
presented at the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Earles, J.L., Kersten, A.W., & Downie, N. (1997, November).
Directed forgetting of performed actions. Poster
presented at the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Kersten, A.W., Fancher, C.,
Kersten, A.W., Goldstone, R.L., & Schaffert, A. (1996,
November). The segmentation of events into features
during category learning. Poster presented at the Meeting of the
Psychonomic Society,
Earles, J.L., Kersten, A.W., Hadden, J., & Zola, R. (1996,
November). Age differences in memory for nouns and
verbs. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Kersten, A.W., & Billman, D.O. (1995, July). The roles of motion and moving parts in noun and verb meanings.
Poster presented at the Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
Kersten, A.W., & Billman, D.O. (1994, November). Dynamic properties and frames of reference in object and event
category learning. Paper presented at the Meeting of the Psychonomic
Society,
Kersten, A.W., & Billman, D.O. (1992, August). The role of correlational structure in learning event categories.
Paper presented at the Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
Billman, D.O., & Kersten, A.W. (1991, November). Learning event categories: Effects of correlational structure.
Paper presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Language Development
Categorization
Memory and Aging
Event Perception and Memory
Object Recognition
Biological Bases of Perception and Memory
Psychology of Human Development
Cognition
Language Acquisition
Human Learning and Memory
Research in Thinking and Language
May 2004 to Present – Associate Professor,
August 1998 to May 2004 - Assistant Professor,
September 1997 to December 1997 - Visiting Assistant
Professor in
Spring 1995 - Instructor of Statistics lab at Georgia Tech
Summer 1994 - Lecturer in Introductory Psychology class at Georgia Tech
Winter 1992, 1993, and 1994 - Instructor of Cognition lab at Georgia Tech
Fall 1991 to Spring 1995 - Teaching assistant at Georgia Tech
Journal reviews
Ad-hoc reviewer for Child Development, Cognitive Science, Developmental Review, the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, the Journal of Memory and Language, Memory and Cognition, the Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, and the Conference of the Society for Research in Child Development.
David Bjorklund
Department of Psychology
(561) 297-3367
Robert Goldstone
Department of Psychology
(812) 855-2012
rgoldsto@indiana.edu
Linda Smith
Department of Psychology
(812) 855-2012
smith4@indiana.edu