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Oct 22, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
By Nikolai Kachuyevski '21 Arcadia Psychology students Jill Brennan ’22, Michael McCoy ’22, Jassika Riad ’22, and Najae Jaylen Owens-Boone ’21 took home silver in a social engineering competition hosted by Temple University, held virtually from Oct. 2 to 5. “There were only six teams...
Jun 13, 2019 • Caitlin Burns
Psychology major Kayla Sansevere ’20 is the first Arcadia University student to be named a Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation scholarship recipient. This prestigious award is given to less than 10 percent of applicants each year, who are sophomore and junior...
Apr 15, 2019 • Caitlin Burns
Have you ever heard your cell phone go off while you were driving and taken your eyes off the road to look for it? Through her internship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia this summer, Psychology major Kayla Sansevere ’20 is researching why teens experience distracted driving, which the...
Nov 20, 2018 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Katherine Moore, assistant professor of Psychology, Pinar Oguz ’18, and Jim Meyer, of Elmhurst College, published “Superior Fluid Cognition in Trained Musicians” in Sage Journals on Nov. 9. Their research explores the relationship between trained musicians and fluid intelligence, or the ability...
Oct 2, 2018 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Katherine Moore, assistant professor of Psychology, Jessica Avanzato ’18, Korissa Belville ’18, Jaimie Jasina ’18, Aziza Ransome ’18, and Ariel Kershner ’19, along with Purdue University graduate student Liz Wiemers, published their research project “Using Rapid Serial Visual Presentation to...
Aug 2, 2018 • Jen Retter
Dr. Katherine Moore, assistant professor of Psychology, published research on the limitations of multitasking in the April 2018 issue of Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. “Practice reduces set-specific capture costs only superficially” is part of Dr. Moore’s growing body of research on...
Jun 15, 2016 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Katherine Moore, assistant professor of Psychology and head of the Attention, Memory, and Cognition laboratory, was featured in the Bangor Daily News “Life Simplified” a news column and radio show for her work concerning the limits of attention. During her interview, Dr. Moored focused on...
Mar 14, 2016 • Caitlin Burns
On March 13, Dr. Katherine Moore, assistant professor of Psychology and head of the Attention, Memory and Cognition lab, presented at the South by Southwest Music, Film, and Interactive conference (SXSW) in Austin, Texas. Dr. Moore discussed her ongoing research on attention, perception, and...
Feb 16, 2016 • Caitlin Burns
Drs. Katherine Moore and Christina Swanson have been selected to receive Arcadia University’s 2016 Research Support Fellowship, which covers expenses to attend the Council for Undergraduate Research (CUR) Dialogues from Feb. 18 to 21 in Washington, D.C. . Dr. Moore, assistant...
Nov 18, 2015 • Christopher Sarachilli
Assistant Professor of Psychology Dr. Katherine Moore is one of 270 researchers published in a Science Magazine article for her work with the Reproducibility Project: Psychology (RPP), which replicates previously published studies and compares the results to the original findings. The study was...
Dr. Moore has been at Arcadia since 2015. She teaches Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology of Music, Sensation & Perception, Cross-Cultural Psychology, and Senior Seminar. As head of the Attention, Memory, and Cognition laboratory, Dr. Moore's research projects explore the limits of attention, the relationship among attention, perception and memory, and how expertise or context affect these processes. Most of her work is in the visual domain, but she also studies music cognition and synesthesia.
Dr. Moore earned her B.A. in Cognitive Science in 2003 at nearby University of Pennsylvania, and her Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Michigan in 2010. Prior to coming to Arcadia, Dr. Moore was an Assistant Professor at Elmhurst College, and was a postdoctoral associate at Yale University.
cognitive psychology, attention, perception, memory, music cognition, synesthesia
University of Michigan 2010
Ph.D., Psychology
University of Pennsylvania 2003
Bachelor of Arts, Major in Cognitive Science
Minor in Music Theory
Lead Author • 2018
Research Paper, Journal of Visualized Experiments
Co-Authored with EA Wiemers, A Kershner, K Belville, J Jasina, A Ransome, J Avanzato
Lead Author • 2018
Research Paper, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Co-Authored with EA Wiemers
Co-Author • 2016
Article, Science
Co-Author • 2015
Research Paper, Science
Co-Authored with Open Science Collaboration
Lead Author • 2014
Research Paper, Plos One
Co-Authored with DH Weissman
Lead Author • 2013
Research Paper, Journal of cognitive neuroscience
Co-Authored with DJ Yi, MM Chun
Co-Author • 2012
Article, Perspectives on Psychological Science
Co-Authored with Open Science Collaboration
Lead Author • 2011
Research Paper, Visual cognition
Co-Authored with DH Weissman
Lead Author • 2010
Research Paper, Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
Co-Authored with DH Weissman
Lead Author • 2009
Research Paper, NeuroImage
Co-Authored with CB Porter, DH Weissman
Co-Author • 2009
Contribution to book, Handbook of neuroscience for the behavioral sciences
Co-Authored with C Lustig, MG Berman, DE Nee, RL Lewis, J Jonides
Co-Author • 2008
Research Paper, Memory & cognition
Co-Authored with IR Olson, DB Drowos
Co-Author • 2008
Research Paper, Psychology of Music
Co-Authored with MS Franklin, CY Yip, J Jonides, K Rattray, J Moher
Co-Author • 2008
Article, Current directions in psychological science
Co-Authored with DE Nee, MG Berman, J Jonides
Co-Author • 2008
Article, Annual Review of Psychology
Co-Authored with J Jonides, RL Lewis, DE Nee, CA Lustig, MG Berman
Co-Author • 2006
Research Paper, Journal of cognitive neuroscience
Co-Authored with IR Olson, M Stark, A Chatterjee
Co-author • 2006
Research Paper, Brain and cognition
Co-Authored with IR Olson, H Rao, JJ Wang, JA Detre, GK Aguirre
Co-Author • 2006
Research Paper, Journal of Neuroscience
Co-Authored with IR Olson, K Page, A Chatterjee, M Verfaellie
Co-Author • 2005
Research Paper, Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance
Co-Authored with IR Olson, Y Jiang
I generally study the intersection among attention, perception, and memory. In one line of work I've been investigating the limits of visual attention under conditions of multitasking and distracting. In my lab, we have found that people are capable of looking for more than one item at a time, but that distraction throws us off track, and the costs are far greater during multitasking than when looking for a single item. We've looked into how training and strategy play a role, as well as how the attentional system manages different stimulus types in multitasking situations. We've also found that the number of concurrently maintained goals has an effect on the magnitude of distraction costs. Also in studying visual search, my students have explored questions such as multisensory contributions to search as well as the effect of perceived lighting.
In other lines of work, my students and I have studied topics such as specialized attention to emotional stimuli, the effect of cell phone interruptions while driving, the relationship between musical training and fluid cognition, synesthesia, visual memory, musical illusions, and perceptual afterimages. Finally, my interest in open science has led me to contribute to the large-scale reproducibility project, a 200+ scientist collaboration to systematically replicate numerous studies in the field, with the hope of inspiring improved scientific and ethical practices in our field as well as others in science.
In my laboratory we use both behavioral and eye-tracking methods. Undergraduates lead or collaborate on all aspects of projects.