Dr. Katherine Moen

Assistant Professor

Phone: (308) 865-8236 | Email: moenk@unk.edu

Courses Regularly Taught

General Psychology
Research Methods I
Research Methods II
Sensation and Perception
Memory and Cognition

Research Interests

Mechanisms of Purposeful Forgetting
Factors that bias attention and impact memory
Social media use and attention restoration
Strategies to optimize studying and note taking

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Selected Publications

Moen, K. C., Beck, M. R., Saltzmann, S. M., Cowan, T. M., Burleigh, L. M., Butler, L. G., Ramanujam, J., Cohen, A. S., & Greening, S. G. (2020). Strengthening spatial reasoning: Elucidating the attentional and neural mechanisms associated with mental rotation skill development, Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5(20). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00211-y

Moen, K. C., Pinto, J. D. G., Papesh, M. H., & Beck, M. R. (2019). Not all information in visual working memory is forgotten equally. Consciousness & Cognition, 74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2019.102782

Moen, K. C., Lloyd, M. E., Miller, J. (2017). Selective attention meets spontaneous recognition memory: Evidence for effects at retrieval. Consciousness & Cognition, 49, 181-189. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2017.02.003