Santa Clara University

Patti M. Simone
Ph.D., Experimental Psychology 
University of California,
San Diego (1993) 

Department: Psychology

Title:
Associate Professor/
Director, Gerontology Program

Office Phone:
408-554-4577

Email: psimone@scu.edu

Mail Address:
Santa Clara University
Department of Psychology
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053-0333

Gerontology is a multi-disciplinary field involved in the study of aging and elderly adults. Students from any major at SCU may enhance their credentials by participating in the Gerontology program at SCU. For more information, contact me or visit our web site.

• General Psychology 1
• Human Neuropsychology
• Psychopharmacology
• Advanced Topics in Neuroscience
• Psychology of Aging
• Gerontology Practicum

Cognitive Neuropsychology of Aging: Development of selective attention abilities in children, young adults, and older adults. The role of distractor processing in selective attention. Behavioral and neural mechanisms of cognitive inhibition.

Positive aging: Effect of environmental factors, such as continuing education, on cognition in later life.

Journal Articles

Simone, P.M., & Baylis, G.C. (1997). Selective attention in a reaching task: Effect of normal aging and Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23(3), 595-608.

Simone, P.M., & Baylis, G.C. (1997). The role of attention in a spatial memory task in Alzheimer disease patients. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders, 11 (3) 140-152.

Simone, P.M., Carlisle, E.A.,. & McCormick, E.B. (1998). Effect of defining features on inhibition in a spatial localization task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24(3), 993-1005.

Simone, P.M., & McCormick, E.B. (1999). Effect of defining feature on negative priming across the life span. Visual Cognition, 6(5), 587-606.

Stout, J.C., Wylie, S.A., Simone, P.M., Siemers, E.R. (2001) Influence of competing distractors on response selection in Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 18(7), 643-653.

Simone, P.M., Ahrens, K., Foerde, K. E. G., Spinetta, M. (2006) Influence of attended repetition trials on negative priming in younger and older adults. Memory & Cognition, 34(1) 187-195.

Simone, P.M. and Scuilli, M. Cognitive Benefits of Participation in Lifelong Learning Institutes, LLI Review, LLI Review, 1(1) 44-51..

Book Chapters

Kahan, Tracey L., & Simone, Patricia M., (2005) Where Neurocognition Meets the Master: Attention and Metacognition in Zen. In K. Bulkeley (Ed.) Soul, Psyche, & Brain. Palgrave McMillan, pp. 113-137.

Book Review

The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer’s Disease. Religious Studies Review, 28 (1), 2002.