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Degrees:
B.S., Mary Washington College, 1997
M.S., University of New Mexico, 2000
Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2004
Research interests:
Dr. Price teaches General Psychology, Introduction to Neuroscience, Psychology of Women, Neuropsychology, and Research in Memory & Thinking. She specializes in cognition and cognitive neuroscience, with an emphasis on learning and memory ability. Her primary interests lie in the study of problem solving and decision making. She works with healthy young and old adults as well as people with Parkinson’s disease in an effort to better understand the biology of these processes. Recently, Dr. Price and her students have begun examining the impact of environmental stressors and motivational influences on problem solving performance.
Sample citations:
Price, A., Filoteo, V. & Maddox, T. (2009) Explicit Category Learning in Parkinson’s Disease: A Review. Neuropsychologia, 27, 1213-1227.
Price, A. (2009). Distinguishing the Contributions of Implicit and Explicit Processes to Performance of the “Weather Prediction Task”. Memory & Cognition,37, 210-222.
Price, A., Shin, J. (2009). The Impact of Parkinson's Disease on Sequence Learning: Perceptual Pattern Learning and Executive Function. Brain & Cognition, 69, 252-261
Price, A. (2006). Explicit category learning in Parkinson's disease: Deficits related to impaired rule generation and selection processes. Neuropsychology, 20, 249-257.
Courses:
111 Introduction to Neuroscience
237 Psychology of Women
311 Neuropsychology
414 Research in Memory and Thinking
Office:
260F Esbenshade
Department of Psychology
Elizabethtown College
One Alpha Drive
Elizabethtown, PA 17022
(717) 361-1267
(717) 361-1176 (fax)
pricea@etown.edu
