Publications

Kersten, A.W., Earles, J.L., Vernon, L.L., McRostie, N., & Riso, A. (in press). Negative emotion increases false memory for person/action conjunctions. Cognition & Emotion . doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.1891024

Kersten, A.W., Earles, J.L., Aucello, K., Tautiva, E., McRostie, N., Brydon, C., & Adaryukov, J. (2018). Influences of executive and memory functioning on memory for the sources of actions. Psychology and Aging, 33, 1115-1133. doi.org/10.1037/pag0000312

Kersten, A.W., Earles, J.L., & Negri, L. (2018). Who was that masked man? Conjoint representations of intrinsic motions with actor appearance. Memory, 26, 1117-1127. doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2017.1419492

Earles, J.L., & Kersten, A.W. (2017). Why are verbs so hard to remember? Effects of semantic context on memory for verbs and nouns. Cognitive Science, 41, 780-807. doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12374

Kersten, A.W., & Earles, J.L. (2017). Feelings of familiarity and false memory for specific associations resulting from mugshot exposure. Memory & Cognition, 45, 93-104.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-016-0642-7  

Earles, J.L., Kersten, A.W., Vernon, L.L., & Starkings, R. (2016). Memory for positive, negative, and neutral events in younger and older adults: Does emotion influence binding in event memory? Cognition & Emotion, 30, 378-388. doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2014.996530

Kersten, A.W., Earles, J.L., & Berger, J.D. (2015). Recollection and unitization in associating actors with extrinsic and intrinsic motions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 274-298. doi.org/10.1037/a0038809

Kersten, A.W., Earles, J.L., & Upshaw, C. (2013). False recollection of the role played by an actor in an event. Memory & Cognition, 41, 1144-1158. doi.org/10.3758/s13421-013-0334-5

Kersten, A.W., Meissner, C.A., Lechuga, J., Schwartz, B.L., Albrechtsen, J.S., & Iglesias, A. (2010). English speakers attend more strongly than Spanish speakers to manner of motion when classifying novel objects and events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 139, 638-653. doi.org/10.1037/a0020507

Kersten, A.W., & Earles, J.L. (2010). Effects of aging, distraction, and response pressure on the binding of actors and actions. Psychology and Aging, 25, 620-630. doi.org/10.1037/a0019131

Earles, J.L., Kersten, A.W., Curtayne, E.S., & Perle, J.G. (2008). That’s the man who did it, or was it a woman? Actor similarity and binding errors in event memory. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15, 1185-1189. doi.org/10.3758/PBR.15.6.1185

Kersten, A.W., Earles, J.L., Curtayne, E.S., & Lane, J.C. (2008). Adult age differences in binding actors and actions in memory for events. Memory & Cognition, 36, 119-131. doi.org/10.3758/MC.36.1.119

Kersten, A.W. (2006). Bridging the gap between perception and cognition. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 275-277. doi.org/10.1002/acp.1193

Kersten, A.W., Smith, L.B., & Yoshida, H. (2006). Influences of object knowledge on the acquisition of verbs in Japanese and English-speaking children. In K. Hirsh-Pasek and R. Golinkoff (Eds.), Action meets word: How children learn verbs (pp. 499-524). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195170009.003.0020

Earles, J.L., Kersten, A.W., Más, B.B., & Miccio, D.M. (2004). Aging and memory for self-performed tasks: Effects of task difficulty and time pressure. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 59, P285-P293. doi.org/10.1093/geronb/59.6.P285

Kersten, A.W., & Earles, J.L. (2004). Semantic context influences memory for verbs more than memory for nouns. Memory & Cognition, 32, 198-211. doi.org/10.3758/BF03196852

Kersten, A.W. (2003). Verbs and nouns convey different types of motion in event descriptions. Linguistics, 41, 917-945. doi.org/10.1515/ling.2003.030

Earles, J.L., & Kersten, A.W. (2002). Directed forgetting of actions by younger and older adults. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 383-388. doi.org/10.3758/BF03196297

Kersten, A.W., & Smith, L.B. (2002). Attention to novel objects during verb learning. Child Development, 73, 93-109. doi.org/10.1111/1467-8624.00394

Kersten, A.W., & Earles, J.L. (2001). Less really is more for adults learning a miniature artificial language. Journal of Memory and Language, 44, 250-273. doi.org/10.1006/jmla.2000.2751

Earles, J.L., & Kersten, A.W. (2000). Adult age differences in memory for verbs and nouns. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 7, 130-139. doi.org/10.1076/1382-5585(200006)7:2;1-U;FT130

Earles, J.L., & Kersten, A.W. (1999). Processing speed and adult age differences in activity memory. Experimental Aging Research, 25, 243-253. doi.org/10.1080/036107399244011

Earles, J.L., Kersten, A.W., Turner, J.M., & McMullen, J. (1999). Influences of age, performance, and item relatedness on verbatim and gist recall of verb-noun pairs. Journal of General Psychology, 126, 97-110. doi.org/10.1080/00221309909595354

Kersten, A.W., Goldstone, R.L., & Schaffert, A. (1998). Two competing attentional mechanisms in category learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 1437-1458. doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.24.6.1437

Kersten, A.W. (1998). An examination of the distinction between nouns and verbs: Associations with two different kinds of motion. Memory & Cognition, 26, 1214-1232. doi.org/10.3758/BF03201196

Earles, J.L., & Kersten, A.W. (1998). Influences of age and perceived activity difficulty on activity recall. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 53B, P324-P328. doi.org/10.1093/geronb/53B.5.P324

Kersten, A.W. (1998). A division of labor between nouns and verbs in the representation of motion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 127, 34-54. doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.127.1.34

Kersten, A.W., & Billman, D.O. (1997). Event category learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 23,.638-658. doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.23.3.638

Salthouse, T.A., & Kersten, A.W. (1993). Decomposing adult age differences in symbol arithmetic. Memory and Cognition, 21, 699-710. doi.org/10.3758/BF03197200