Participating Faculty
Paul Whitney

Professor & Associate Dean
Department of Psychology
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-4820

Ph.D., 1984
University of Kansas

Phone: 509-335-2635
Fax: 509-335-5043
Email: pwhitney@wsu.edu

 

Research Interests:
Working Memory & Executive Function, Individual Differences in Cognition.

Research Summary:
My research centers on working memory processes in language comprehension and decision making.  Much of this work takes an individual differences approach in which we examine how working memory deficits impact other cognitive processes.  I am engaged in collaborative work with clinical psychologists and neurologists in order to examine working memory processes in older adults, people with Parkinson's disease, and people with schizophrenia. 

Representative Publications:

Whitney, P., Arnett, P., Driver, A., & Budd, D. (2001). Measuring central executive function: What's in a reading span? Brain and Cognition, 45, 1-14. 

Hinson, J.M., Jameson,T.J., & Whitney, P. (2002). Somatic markers, working memory, and decision making.  Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 2, 341-353.

Hinson, J.M., Jameson, T.J., & Whitney, P. (2003). Impulsive decision making and working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 298-306.