Karin M. Butler

Assistant Professor
Email: kmbutler@unm.edu
Office: Logan 137
Phone: 505-277-2558

Degree Received
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2001

Research Interests
My research focus is on understanding basic cognitive control abilities and how those abilities may change as we develop into old age. The ability to control cognition by keeping relevant information active in working memory, elaborating on that information in relevant ways, and isolating it from interfering thoughts can be measured within the range of cognitive domains. My research has examined these control abilities in an eye movement task, in memory using a false memory task and in prospective memory.

Selected Recent Publications

• McDaniel, M. A., Butler, K. M., & Dornburg, C. C. (in press). Binding of source and content: new directions revealed by neuropsychological and age-related effects. In (Eds.) Binding in Human Memory. Oxford University Press
• Butler, K. M., McDaniel, M. A., Dornburg, C. C., Roediger, H. L., III, & Price, A. L. (in press). Age differences in veridical and false recall are not inevitable: The role of frontal lobe function. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
• Nigg, J. T., Butler, K. M., Huang-Pollock, C. L., & Henderson, J. M. (2002). Inhibitory processes in adults with persistent childhood onset ADHD. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 70, 153-157.
• Butler, K. M., Williams, C. C., Zacks, R. T., & Maki, R. H. (2001) A limit on retrieval-induced forgetting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 27, 1314-1319.
• Butler, K. M., Zacks, R. T., & Henderson, J. M. (1999). Suppression of reflexive saccades in younger and older adults: Age comparisons on an antisaccade task. Memory & Cognition, 27, 584-591.