Katherine K.
White, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor, Psychology, College of Charleston
Phone: (843) 953-5517
Email: WhiteK@cofc.edu
Education
- University of Florida, fifth year
in Ph.D. program, Cognitive and Sensory Processes
Certificate of Gerontology, anticipated May 2002
- University of Florida, M.S. in
Psychology, 1999
- Rhodes College, B.A., cum laude
in Psychology (Honors), 1997
Research Interests
Memory, language,
and aging
Phonological priming in young and older adults
Retrieval processes in young and older adults
Retrieval of pre-existing connections and formation of new connections
Currently conducting research with
Dr. Lise Abrams that examines the relationship among aging, memory, and
language processes. General research topics include word retrieval
processes in young and older adults, and asymmetries in accessing
preexisting knowledge versus learning new information. Specifically, my
current research includes (1) a series of experiments examining the
role of aging and homophones in the retrieval of old and new
associations, (2) four experiments examining the nature of phonological
priming and aging in tip-of-the-tongue resolution, and (3) three
experiments investigating spelling detection and retrieval processes in
young and older adults.
Graduate Profile
Katherine White
entered the Ph.D. program in Cognitive Psychology in the Fall of 1997,
after completing a bachelor or arts degree in Psychology at Rhodes
College. She completed her Master of Science degree in May of 1999.
Katherine finished her Ph.D. degree in 2002, before beginning a
research position at the Educational Testing Service, in Princeton, NJ.
In 2004, she began an Assistant Professorship at the College of
Charleston.
Katherine has received a variety
of awards for her graduate research in cognitive aging. Her master's
research was funded through an award for her master's proposal
supported by the American Psychological Association Division 20 and the
Retirement Research Foundation; this finished project was later awarded
the Leighton Cluff Annual Graduate Scholarship Award for research by
UF's Institute on Aging. Further, she was awarded a grant-in-aid of
research by Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society for a project she is
currently conducting with her mentor, Dr. Lise Abrams. Finally, to
support her dissertation studies, she received an individual
predoctoral fellowship (NRSA) from the National Institute of Mental
Health and a dissertation proposal award from APA Division 20 and the
Retirement Research Foundation.
Katherine is currently writing and
submitting her research to journals such as Psychology and Aging,
Memory and Cognition, and the Journal of Gerontology.
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