Tom

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Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Psychology
654 Cherry Street
Atlanta, GA 30332-0170

Phone: 404.385.2365

My research interests focus on individual differences in working memory and cognitive control. My recent work, including my dissertation, has focused on the idea that individual differences in working memory are related to active maintaining and updating of information, and that individuals low in working memory are less likely to proactively engage in these behaviors. I plan to further investigate how and why these processes are predictive of intelligent behavior, as measured by academic performance and traditional reasoning tests.

Recent Publications

Unsworth, N., Redick, T. S., Heitz, R. P., Broadway, J. M., & Engle, R. W. (2009). Complex working memory span tasks and higher-order cognition: A latent-variable analysis of the relationship between processing and storage. Memory, 17, 635 - 654.

Barch, D. M., Berman, M. G., Engle, R. W., Jones, J. H., Jonides, J., MacDonald, A. III, Nee, D. E., Redick, T. S., Sponheim, S. R., (2009). CNTRICS final task selection: Working memory. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 35, 136-152.

Redick, T. S., Heitz, R. P., & Engle, R. W. (2007). Working memory capacity and inhibition: Cognitive and social consequences. In D. S. Gorfein, & C. M. MacLeod (Eds.), Inhibition in cognition (pp. 125-1420). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Heitz, R.P., Redick, T.S., Hambrick, D.Z., Kane, M.J., Conway, A.R.A., & Engle, R.W. (2006). Working memory, executive function, and general fluid intelligence are not the same. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 135-136.