Joan M. McDowd, Ph.D.

Publications

Liu CJ, McDowd J, Lin KC. Visuospatial inattention and daily life performance in people with Alzheimer’s disease. Am J Occup Ther. 2004 Mar-Apr;58(2):202-10.

McDowd JM, Filion DL, Pohl PS, Richards LG, Stiers W. Attentional abilities and functional outcomes following stroke. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2003 Jan;58(1):P45-53.

Kemper, S., McDowd, J., Pohl, P., Herman, R., & Jackson, S.  (in press).  Revealing language deficits following stroke:  the cost of doing two things at once.  Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition.

McDowd, J.M.  (2001).  Levels of processing in selective attention and inhibition:  age differences and Similarities.  In  M. Naveh-Benjamin, M. Moscovitch, & H.L. Roediger, III (eds) Perspectives on Human Memory and Cognitive Aging (pp. 135-147).  New York:  Psychology Press.

Pohl, P., McDowd, J., Filion, D., Richards, L., & Stiers, W.  (2001).  Procedural sequence learning after stroke:  practice and retention.  Physical Therapy. 81, 1780-1789.

McDowd, J.M., & Shaw, R.J. (2000).  Aging and attention:  a functional perspective (pp. 221-292).  In F.I.M. Craik & T.A. Salthouse, (eds), Handbook of Aging and Cognition, 2nd edition.

McDowd, J. M., & Shaw, R. J. (2000).  Aging and attention:  A functional prespective.  In F. I. M. Craik & T. A. Salthouse (Eds.), Handbook of Aging and Cognition (2nd ed., pp. 221-292). 

Brink, J. M., & McDowd, J. M. (1999).  Aging and selective attention:  An issue of complexity or multiple mechanisms?  Journal of Gerontology Psychological Sciences, 54B, 30-33.

Murphy, D. R., McDowd, J. M., & Wilcox, K. (1999).  The influence of auditory selective attention on speech processing in young and old adults.  Psychology and Aging, 14, 44-59.

McDowd, J. M. (1997).  Inhibition in attention and aging.  Journal of Gerontology Psychological Sciences, 52B, 265-273.

McDowd, J. M. (1996).  Inhibition.  The Encylopedia of Gerontology and Geriatrics.  San Diego:  Academic Press.

Cherry, B., Hellige, J. B., & McDowd, J. M. (1995).  Age differences and similarities in patterns of cerebral hemisphere asymmetry.  Psychology and Aging, 10, 191-203.

McDowd, J. M., & Filion, D. L. (1995).  Aging and negative priming in a location suppression task:  The long and the short of it.  Psychology and Aging, 10, 34-47.

McDowd, J. M., Osease-Kreger, D. M., & Filion, D. L. (1995).  Inhibitory processes in selective attention and aging.  In F. Dempster & C. Brainerd (Eds.), New Perspectives on Interference and Inhibition in Cognition.  New York:  Academic Press.