CATHERINE CRAVER LEMLEY, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Department Chair
Advisor for transfer students,
minors and double-majors
Degrees:
B.S., Columbus State University, 1983 Summa Cum Laude
M.A., Northeastern University, 1985
Ph.D., Northeastern University, 1988
Interests:
Dr. Lemley teaches General Psychology, Introduction to Neuroscience, Sensation and Perception, Human Cognition, and Research in Perception. She also teaches honors sections of General Psychology and Introduction to Neuroscience. Her area of expertise is in visual perception.
Dr. Lemley’s research focuses on the relation between visual mental imagery and visual perception with an emphasis on how what you imagine can interfere with what you actually perceive.
Most recently, she and her students have been investigating the way in which cognitive processes, namely mental imagery, can moderate the mere exposure effect, which occurs when very brief exposures to stimuli increase the degree to which a person likes such stimuli. Recently, Dr. Lemley was awarded National Sciences Foundation Award to further study "Mental Imagery and the Mere Exposure Effect." NSF funding is extremely competitive with only a small percentage of applicants receiving an award.
Dr. Lemley was also awarded funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Education for two projects she is conducting with students, faculty and staff in the biology and occupational therapy departments and Center for Student Success at Etown. These projects also involve faculty at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center and the Kessler Medical Rehabilitation center in New Jersey.
Dr. Lemley has mentored a number of students who have won regional and national awards for their research projects. In the past nine years, she has collaborated with 60 students on at least 40 different professional research presentations.
Sample Citations:
Jones, K., Craver-Lemley, C., & Barrett, A. M. (2008) Asymmetrical visual-spatial attention in college students diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology.
Barrett, A.
M. & Craver-Lemley, C. (2008). Is it what you see, or how you say
it? Spatial bias in young and aged
subjects. The Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society,
Craver-Lemley, C. & Bornstein, R. F. (2006). Self-generated visual imagery alters the mere exposure effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13 (6), 1056-1060.
Arterberry, M.E., Craver-Lemley, C., & Reeves, A. (2002). Visual imagery is not always like visual perception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Craver-Lemley, C., & Arterberry, M.E. (2001). Imagery-induced interference for adetection task. Spatial Vision, 14(2), 101-119.
Courses:
105 General Psychology
111 Neuroscience
241 Sensory Psychology
341 Human Cognition
413 Research in Perception
Office:
260D Esbenshade
Department of Psychology
Elizabethtown College
One Alpha Drive
Elizabethtown, PA 17022
(717) 361-1330
(717) 361-1176 (fax)
lemleyce@etown.edu
