Starla M. Weaver
Graduate Student
smw206@lehigh.edu

Academic History
Master of Science in Psychology, 2009
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

Bachelor of Science in Psychology, 2005
Utah State University, Logan, UT

Research Interests
My research interests are broadly based within cognitive psychology. I am interested in attention, particularly executive attention, and working memory. My research involves exploring the aspects of attention that allow for the selection and execution of actions and how these aspects of attention relate to working memory processes.
I am currently working in Dr. Kate Arrington’s Attention & Cognitive Control Lab where we are using the voluntary task-switching paradigm to examine attentional influences on task choice within multitasking environments.

Publications
Weaver, S.M. & Arrington, C.M. (In Press). What's on your mind: The effect of
    the contents of working memory on choice. Quarterly Journal of
    Experimental Psychology.

Myles-Worsley, M., Weaver, S., & Blailes, F. (2007). Comorbid depressive
    symptoms in the development course of adolescent-onset psychosis.
     Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 1, 183-190.

Myles-Worsley, M., Blailes, F., Ord, L.M., Weaver, S., Dever, G. & Faraone,
    S.V. (2006). The Palau Early Psychosis Study: Distribution of cases by
    level of generic risk. Ame J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet.

Myles-Worsley, M., Ord, L.M., Nigralmau, H., Weaver, S., Blailes, F. &
    Faraone, S.V. (2006). The Paulau Early Psychosis Study: Neurocognitive
    functioning in high risk adolescents. Schizophr Res.

Paper & Poster Presentations
Weaver, S.M. & Arrington, C.M. (March, 2009). What’s on your mind: The effect of the contents of working memory on choice. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburg, PA

Weaver, S.M. & Arrington, C.M. (March, 2009). What’s on your mind: The effect of the contents of working memory on choice. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburg, PA.

Arrington, C.M., Stuart, J.A., & Weaver, S.M. (March, 2009). Mind wandering and multitasking. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburg, PA

Weaver, S.M., & Arrington, C.M. (March, 2008). How high working memory loads affect task choice: The influence of the availability heuristic in voluntary task switching. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Weaver, S.M., & Arrington, C.M. (November, 2007). The effect of working memory load on task choice in voluntary task switching. Poster presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA

Myles-Worsley, M., Ord, L.M., Nigralmau, H., Balies, F, Weaver, S., Faranoe, S.V. & Dever, G. (Oct. 2005). Early Psychosis in a High Risk Population Isolate. Poster presented at the World Conference of Psychiatric Genetics XIII; Boston, MA.

Weaver, S. & Miller, M. (May, 2005). Victims’ perceptions of responsibility and perpetrators’ guilty feelings: The eye of the beholders. Paper presented at Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Conference; Phoenix, AZ.

Awards & Honors
2009    Donald T. Campbell Social Science Research Prize, Lehigh University
2005    Outstanding Student Research Award, Rocky Mountain Psychological Association.
2005    “A” Pin Award, Utah State University.
2005    Summa Cum Laude Graduate, Utah State University.

Professional Memberships
Women in Cognitive Science
Eastern Psychological Association
Rocky Mountain Psychological Association
Psi Chi, The National Honor Society in Psychology
Lambda Pi Eta, The National Communication Honor Society