Dr. Katherine Moen

Assistant Professor

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

Dr. Katherine Moen

Courses Regularly Taught

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

Research Interests

  • Can we forget information on purpose?
  • What helps us pay attention and remember?
  • How does your imagination impact what you remember?

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Honors and Awards

UNK CAS Faculty Mentoring of Student Research Award, 2024


Selected Publications

Saltzmann, S., Eich, B. J., Moen, K. C., & Beck, M. R. (2024). Hybrid visual search: Effects on target memory search and distractor memory. Memory and Cognition.https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01556-1

Moen, K. C. (2021). The Impact of Multi-media Presentation Format: Student Perceptions and Learning Outcomes. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 7(4), 278–287. https://doi.org/10.1037/stl0000265

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