Graduate Students
M. Windy McNerney
Program: Cognitive
Research Interests
My research interests include cognitive neuroscience and how it relates to memory and aging. I am also interested in working toward developing new methodologies for studying the mind and brain.
Recent publications and presentations:
McNerney, M. W., & West, R. L. (2007). An imperfect functional relationship
between prospective memory and the prospective interference effect. Memory and Cognition, 35, 275-282.
West, R. L., McNerney, M. W., & Travers, S. (2007). Gone but not forgotten: The effects of cancelled intentions in the neural correlates of prospective memory. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 64, 215-225.
West, R. L., McNerney, M. W., & Krauss, I. (in press). Impaired Strategic
Monitoring as the Locus of a Focal Prospective Memory Deficit. Neurocase.
McNerney, M. & West, R. (2005, April). The cost of task switching on prospective memory. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.
West, R., McNerney, M., & Krauss, I. (2005, July). Exploring the locus of a
focal prospective memory deficit: A case study. Poster presented at the Fifth International Conference on Prospective Memory, Zeifield, Switzerland.
McNerney, M. W., West R., & Travers, S. (2006, April). What can cancelled
intentions reveal about the neural correlates of prospective memory? Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
Krauss, I., West, R. & McNerney, W., (April, 2006). Prospective memory deficits in the absence of global memory deficits: a case study. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Davis