Contact:
Santa Clara University
Department of Psychology
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053-0333
Phone: 408-554-4577
Email: psimone@scu.edu
Director, Gerontology Certificate Program
Educational Background
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego Experimental Psychology
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.
Courses Taught
PSYC 1: General Psychology I PSYC 166: Human Neuropsychology PSYC 167: Psychopharmacology PSYC 168: Advanced Topics in Neuroscience PSYC 196: Psychology of Aging Gerontology Practicum
Research
Cognitive 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. Factors that influence memory performance in later life.
Representative Publications
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.
Simone, P.M. and Haas, A. (2007) The influence of lifelong learning on mood, LLI Review, 2, 36-42.
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.
