Lauren Richmond, Ph.D.
Temple University (2013) Associate Professor Cognitive Science
Dr. Lauren Richmond will not be reviewing graduate student applications for the 2025-2026 academic year.
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Contact: lauren.richmond@stonybrook.edu Office: Psychology B-342 Phone: (631) 632-7832 |
Research Interests:
Everyday cognition, cognitive aging, individual differences, working memory, aging, intervention.
Current Research:
Dr. Richmond’s research broadly examines everyday cognition and individual differences in the ability to successfully navigate the cognitive challenges encountered in everyday life. Dr. Richmond looks at both individual differences within samples of healthy younger adults as well as how the ability to solve everyday challenges might change with age One major goal of this work is to develop interventions and/or identify cognitive strategies that could help people better remember events from their everyday lives and perform everyday activities. This is a particularly salient issue in aging populations, as older adults who exhibit difficulties in carrying out activities of daily living often require some level of caregiving, either by a family member or by moving to an assisted living center. Many older adults would prefer to continue living independently as long as they are able, so interventions and/or strategies that improve their ability to carry out everyday activities of daily living may serve to prolong independence in old age.
Representative Publications:
Italics represent student authors
Burnett, L. K., & Richmond, L. L. (2024). Age-related advantage for recall of complex naturalistic information following cognitive offloading. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Richmond, L. L., Kearley, J., Schwartz, S. T., & Hargis, M. B. (2023). Take a load off: Examining partial and complete cognitive offloading of medication information. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 8(1), 1-19.
Burnett, L. K., & Richmond, L. L. (2023). Just write it down: Similarity in the benefit from cognitive offloading in older and young adults. Memory and Cognition, 51(7), 1580-1592.
Richmond, L. L., Sargent, J. Q., & Zacks, J. M. (2022). Virtual navigation in healthy aging: Activation during learning and deactivation during retrieval predicts successful memory for spatial locations. Neuropsychologia, 173, 108298.
Richmond, L. L., Brackins, T., & Rajaram, S. (2022). Episodic memory performance modifies the strength of the age-brain structure relationship. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(7), 4364.
Richmond, L. L., Burnett, L. K., Morrison, A. B., & Ball, B. H. (2022). Performance on the processing portion of complex working memory span tasks is related to working memory capacity estimates. Behavior Research Methods, 54(2), 780–794.
Morrison, A. B. & Richmond, L. L. (2020). Offloading items from memory: Individual differences in cognitive offloading in a short-term memory task. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5(1), 1-13.
Richmond, L. L., & Zacks, J. M. (2017). Constructing experience: Event models from perception to action. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21(12), 962-980.
Richmond, L. L., Redick, T. S., & Braver, T. S. (2015). Remembering to prepare: The benefits (and costs) of high working memory capacity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 41(6), 1764-1777.
Richmond, L. L., Morrison, A., Chein, J., & Olson, I. R. (2011). Working memory training & transfer in older adults. Psychology and Aging, 26(4), 813-822.