Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow

Activities & Honors

• Spitze-Mather Faculty Award for Excellence, College of Education, 2012-
• Associate Editor, Psychology and Aging, American Psychological Association, 2010-2014
• R. Steward Jones Award for Outstanding Teacher in Educational Psychology, Department of Educational Psychology, 2007-
• Distinguished College Senior Scholar, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005-2006
• Fellow, Division 20, American Psychological Association, 1999-
• Fellow, Gerontological Society of America, 1992-

Research Statement

Cognition shows patterns of both loss and gain through adulthood. While "mental mechanics" (i.e., working memory capacity, computational speed, executive control of attention) may decline, crystallized abilities (i.e., verbal ability, knowledge, acculturation) show continued capacity for growth in many life-span contexts. Our research program has been focused on understanding the implications of these changes in basic capacities for continued learning, how strategic regulation of attention enables compensation, and how habitual engagement in learning engenders cognitive vitality.

Publications

• Payne, B. R., Jackson, J. J., Hill, P. L., Gao, X., Roberts, B. W., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2012). Memory self-efficacy predicts responsiveness to inductive reasoning training in older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 67B, 27-35.
• Jackson, J. J., Hill, P. L., Payne, B. R., Roberts, B. R., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2012). Can an old dog learn (and want to experience) new tricks? Cognitive training increases openness to experience in older adults. Psychology and Aging, 27, 286-292.
• Gao, X., Levinthal, B. R., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2012). The effects of aging and visual noise on conceptual integration during reading. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 65, 1833-1847.
• Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., & Chui, H. (2012). Cognitive resilience in adulthood. In J. B. Hayslip & G. C. Smith (Eds.), Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Vol 32, pp. 93-114). New York: Springer.
• Payne, B. R., Gao, X., Noh, S. R., Anderson, C. J., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2012). The effects of print exposure on sentence processing and memory in older adults Evidence for efficiency and reserve. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 19, 122-149.
• Payne, B. R., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2012). Aging, parafoveal preview, and semantic integration in sentence processing: Testing the cognitive workload of wrap-up. Psychology and Aging, 27, 638-649.
• Stites, M. C., Federmeier, K. D., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (in press). Cross-age comparisons reveal multiple strategies for lexical ambiguity resolution during natural reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
• Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., & Basak, C. (2011). Cognitive interventions. In K. W. Schaie & S. L. Willis (Eds.), Handbook of the Psychology of Aging (7th ed., pp. 153-170). New York: Elsevier.
• Gao, X., Noh, S. R., Eskew, R. T., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2011). Visual noise disrupts conceptual integration in reading. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 18, 83-88.
• Payne, B. R., Jackson, S. A., Noh, S. R., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2011). In the zone: Flow state and cognition in older adults. Psychology and Aging, 26, 738-743.
• Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Shake, M. C., Miles, J. R., Lee, K., & McConkie, G. (2010). Pay now or pay later: Aging and the role of boundary salience in self-regulation of conceptual integration in sentence processing. Psychology and Aging, 25, 168-176.
• Noh, S. R., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2009). Age differences in tracking characters during narrative comprehension. Memory & Cognition, 37, 769-778.
• Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., & Miller, L. M. S. (2009). Aging, self-regulation, and learning from text. In B. H. Ross (Ed.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation (Vol. 51, pp. 255-296). New York: Elsevier Publishers.
• Parisi, J. M., Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Noh, S., & Morrow, D. G. (2009). Predispositional engagement, activity engagement, and cognition among older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 16, 485-504.
• Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Parisi, J. M., Morrow, D. G., & Park, D. C. (2008). The effects of an engaged lifestyle on cognitive vitality: A field experiment. Psychology and Aging, 23, 778-786.
• Shake, M. C., Noh, S. R, & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2008). Age differences in learning from text: Evidence for functionally distinct text processing systems. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22, 1-18. (online publication date)
• Noh, S. R., Shake, M. C., Parisi, J., Joncich, A., Morrow, D. G., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2007). Age differences in learning from text: The effects of content pre-exposure on reading. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 31, 133-148.
• Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Noh, S. R., & Shake, M. C. (2006). Memory for discourse. In R. Schulz (Ed.), Encyclopedia on aging (4th ed.). New York: Springer.
• Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Miller, L. M. S., & Hertzog, C. (2006). Aging and self-regulated language processing. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 582-606.
• Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Shake, M. C., Miles, J. R., & Noh, S. R. (2006). Adult age differences in the effects of goals on self-regulated sentence processing. Psychology and Aging, 21, 790-803.
• Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Gagne, D. D., Morrow, D. G., & DeWall, B. (2004). Age differences in re-reading. Memory and Cognition, 32, 696-710.
• Morrow, D. G., Ridolfo, H., Menard, W. E., Sanborn, A., Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Teller, T., & Bryant, D. (2003). Environmental support promotes expertise-based mitigation of age differences on pilot communication tasks. Psychology and Aging, 18(2), 268-284.
• Smiler, A. P., Gagne, D. D., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2003). Aging, memory load, and resource allocation during reading. Psychology and Aging, 18(2), 203-209.
• Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Morrow, D. G., & Leno, R., III. (2002). Aging and the representation of spatial situations in narrative understanding. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 57B, 91-97.
• Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., & Gagne, D. D. (2001). Discourse memory. In G. Maddox (Ed.), Encyclopedia on aging (3rd ed.). New York: Springer.

Links

• The Adult Learning Lab
• Senior Odyssey