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Sharon Eaves, Ph.D.

About

Sharon Eaves studies the development of memory and attention in school-aged children. She is especially interested in working memory, a type of short-term memory dependent on attention which has been found to be predictive of academic performance. She is currently completing her dissertation in Fall 2010 at Louisiana State University. She has been teaching college courses since Summer 2006 and enjoys sharing her passion for understanding the way the human brain changes and interacts with the world around it. Sharon is originally from Fort Worth, Texas and enjoys reading, hiking, and baking.

Education

  • Louisiana State University

    Ph.D. in Specialty: Cognitive Developmental Psychology, 2010

    Baton Rouge, Louisiana

  • Louisiana State University

    M.A. in Cognitive Developmental Psychology, 2006

    Baton Rouge, Louisiana

  • University of Texas at Arlington

    B.A. in Psychology, 2004

    Arlington, Texas

Primary Courses

  • PSYC 1101 - Introduction to Psychology
  • PSYC 2120 - Quantitative Methods in Psychology
  • PSYC 2130 - Child and Adolescent Psychology
  • PSYC 3112 - Educational Psychology

Activities and Research

  • Shelton, J. T., Elliott, E. M., Eaves, S. D., & Exner, A. L. (available online, 2009). The distracting effects of a ringing cell phone: An investigation of the laboratory and the classroom setting. Journal of Environmental Psychology, doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2009.03.001
  • Eaves, S. D., Elliott, E. M., Shelton, J. T., & Morey, C. C. (2009). Individual differences in interference from auditory distracters: The role of working memory capacity. Symposium presented by Eaves, S. D. at the Annual Armadillo Conference, Houston, TX.
  • Elliott, E. M., Bhagat, S. P., & Lynn, S. D. (2007). Can children with (central) auditory processing disorders ignore irrelevant sounds? Research in Developmental Disabilities, 28, 506-517.
  • Lynn, S. D. & Hicks, J. L. (2007). Font reinstatement encourages, and sometimes discourages false recognition. Poster presented at Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, California.