Kate Arrington, Assistant Professor
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Academic History
Furman University, B.A./B.S. 1994 Psychology/Chemistry
Wake Forest University, M.A. 1996 Psychology
Michigan State University, Ph.D. 2002 Psychology

Research Interests
My research interests include cognitive control and attentional processes, and involve two primary lines of investigation: 1) executive control in multitask environments, and 2) goal-directed and stimulus-driven orienting of visual attention. I would characterize my research approach as analytical cognitive neuroscience in which behavioral and neural data are used in conjunction with modeling to address theories of cognitive function.

Teaching Interests
Cognitive Psychology
Attention and Cognitive Control
Cognitive Neuroscience
Research Methods and Statistics

Selected Publications

Arrington, C. M. (In press). The effect of stimulus availability on task choice in voluntary task switching. Memory & Cognition.

Arrington, C. M., Logan, G. D., & Schneider, D. W. (2007). Separating cue encoding from target processing
in the explicit task-cuing procedure: Are there “true” task switch effects? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 484-502.

Arrington, C. M., & Logan, G. D. (2005). Voluntary task switching: Chasing the elusive homunculus.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 683-702.

Arrington, C. M., & Logan, G. D. (2004-b). Episodic and semantic components of the compound-stimulus
strategy in the explicit-task cuing procedure. Memory & Cognition, 32, 965-976.

Arrington, C. M., & Logan, G. D. (2004-a). The cost of a voluntary task switch. Psychological Science, 15, 610-615.

Arrington, C. M., Altmann, E. M., & Carr, T. H. (2003). Tasks of a feather flock together: Similarity effects in task switching. Memory & Cognition, 31, 781-789.

Arrington, C. M., & Carr, T. H. (2003). Attention. In B. S. Fogel, R. B. Schiffer, & S. M. Rao (Eds.), Neuropsychiatry, (2nd ed.) pp. 404-425. Philadelphia, PA: Lipincott, Williams, & Wilkins.

Arrington, C. M., Carr, T. H., Mayer, A. R., & Rao, S. M. (2000). Neural mechanisms of visual attention: Object-based selection of a region in space. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12 (Suppl. 2), 106-117.