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Patricia Tun, Ph.D. Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology Ph: 781-736-3276 Email: tun@brandeis.edu |
Education
- 1986, Ph.D., Experimental Psychology ,Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
- 1970, B.A., Psychology , Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Research Interests
Dr. Patricia Tun serves as Associate Director of the Memory and Cognition Laboratory at Brandeis University. She has a long-standing interest in cognitive aging, and has carried out extensive NIH-funded research that investigates changes in memory and language across the lifespan. Her work has focused primarily on adult age-related changes in processing spoken language, such as sentences and meaningful discourse, and the role of attention and memory in processing spoken materials. She has published numerous chapters and journal articles on these topics. Dr. Tun has a particular interest in teasing apart the relative contributions of hearing ability and cognitive abilities to the individual differences found in memory for speech in adulthood. As a MIDUS investigator, her focus is on biopsychosocial influences on cognition in midlife and old age, and factors that contribute to successful cognitive aging. Her professional memberships include American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, Gerontological Society of America, and Psychonomic Society.
Selected Publications:
Tun, P. A., Wingfield, A., Rosen, M. J., & Blanchard, L. (1998). Response latencies for false memories; Gist-based processes in normal aging. Psychology and Aging, 13, 230–241.
Tun, P. A. (1998). Fast noisy speech: Age differences in processing rapid speech with background noise. Psychology and Aging, 13, 424-434.
Tun, P.A., & Wingfield, A. (1999). One voice too many: Adult age differences in language processing with different types of distracting sounds. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 54B.
Tun, P. A., & Wingfield, A. (2000). Slow but sure in an age of 'Make it quick'. Cerebrum: The Dana Forum on Brain Science, 2, 31-43.
Wingfield, A., & Tun, P.A. (2001). Spoken language comprehension in older adults: Interactions between sensory and cognitive change in normal aging. Seminars in Hearing, 22, 287–301.
Tun, P.A., O'Kane, G., & Wingfield, A. (2002). Distraction by competing speech in younger and older listeners. Psychology and Aging, 17, 453-467.
Lahar, C.J., Wingfield, A., & Tun, P.A. (2004). Sentence-final word completion norms for young, middle-aged, and older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Science, 59B, P7-10.
Tun, P.A., & Lachman, M.E.L. (2004). Test of Adult Cognition by Telephone (TACT). Technical Report, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
McCoy, S.L., Tun, P.A., Cox, L.C., Colangelo, M., Stewart, R.A., & Wingfield, A. (2005). Hearing loss and perceptual effort: Downstream effects on older adults’ memory for speech. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58A, 22-33.
Wingfield, A., Tun, Patricia A., O’Kane, G., & Peelle, J.E. (2005). Language comprehension in complex environments: Distraction by competing speech in young and older adult listeners. In S.P. Shohov, (Ed.), Advances in Psychology Research, Vol.33. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
Wingfield, A., Tun, P.A., & McCoy, S.L. (2005). Hearing loss in adulthood: What it is and how it interacts with cognitive performance. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 144-148.
McCoy, S.L., Tun, P.A., Cox, L.C., & Wingfield, A. (2005). Aging in a fast-paced world: rapid speech and its effect on understanding memory disorders in baby boomers. ASHA Leader, 12(3).
Wingfield, A., Tun, P.A., McCoy, S.L., Stewart, R.A., & Cox, L.C. Sensory and cognitive constraints in comprehension of spoken language in adult aging. Seminars in Hearing. In press.