Research Profile:
Keeping older adults living independently longer through various types of activity (targeting cognitive activity). Investigating attention & working memory changes with age.
Selected Publications:
- McLaughlin Paula M., Anderson, Nicole D. Rich, Jill B., Chertkow, Howard, Murtha, Susan J. E. (2014) Visual Selective Attention in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 69 (6), 881-891.
- Presentation: Murtha, S., Francis, K., (2015) How the experiential narratives of patients with dementia inform our understanding of health care institutions. International Academy of Law and Mental Health 34th Annual Congress, Vienna, Austria.
- Curtis, A. F., Park, N. W., Turner, G. R., & Murtha, S. J. E. Improving spatial working memory in younger and older adults: Effects of crossmodal cues. 2016 Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
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