Positions and Honors.

Professional Positions:

1982 - 1986   Research Assistant, Memory & Cognition Laboratory, VA Outpatient Clinic, Boston, MA

1992-2004          Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Brandeis University

2004-present      Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Brandeis University

1992 - present     Associate Director, Memory and Cognition Laboratory, Brandeis University

Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order).

Tun, P. A. (1989). Age differences in processing expository and narrative text. Journal of Gerontology, Psychological Sciences, 44, 9-15.

Tun, P. A., Nathan, D. M., & Perlmuter, L. C. (1991). Cognitive and affective disorders in elderly diabetics. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 6, 731-746.

Tun, P. A., Wingfield, A., & Stine, E. A. L. (1991). Speech-processing capacity in young and older adults: A dual-task study. Psychology and Aging, 6, 3-9.

Tun, P. A., Wingfield, A., Stine, E. A. L., & Mecsas, C. (1992). Rapid speech processing and divided attention: Processing rate versus processing resources as an explanation of age effects. Psychology and Aging, 7. 546-550.

Tun, P. A., & Wingfield, A. (1993). Is speech special?: Perception and recall of spoken language in  complex environments. In J. Cerella, W. Hoyer, J. Rybash, & M. L. Commons (Eds.), Adult information processing: Limits on loss. (pp. 425- 457). Orlando, Fla.: Academic Press.

Tun, P.A., & Wingfield, A. (1994). Speech recall under heavy load conditions: Age, predictability, and limits on dual-task interference. Aging and Cognition, 1, 29-44.

Tun, P.A., & Wingfield, A. (1995). Does dividing attention become harder with age? Findings from the Divided Attention Questionnaire. Aging and Cognition, 2, 39-66.

Tun, P. A., & Wingfield, A. (1997). Language and communication: Fundamentals of speech communication and language processing in old age. In A. D. Fisk & W. R. Rogers (Eds.), Handbook of human factors and the older adult (pp. 125- 150). New York: Academic Press.

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.

Wingfield, A., Waters, G., & Tun, P. A. (1998). Does working memory work in language comprehension? Evidence from behavioral neuroscience. In N. Raz (Ed.), Development, exceptionality, and pathology of the brain as sources of models in cognitive neuroscience. New York: Elsevier.

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, P317-P327.

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.

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).

Tun, P.A., & Lachman, M.E.L. A Brief Test of Adult Cognition by Telephone (BTACT).( Under review). 

Wingfield, A., McCoy, S.L., Peelle, J.E., Tun, P.A., & Cox, L.C. Effects of adult aging and hearing loss on comprehension of rapid speech varying in syntactic complexity. (Under review)

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.