Timothy Odegard
Associate Professor of Psychology

Room 517, Life Sciences Bldg.
Phone: (817) 272-3315
Email: odegard@uta.edu

Reading and Memory Lab

Description of Research

The specifics topics I research vary, but at their core, they all pertain to cognition and cognitive and neurocognitive development. For example, I investigate developmental differences in memory mechanisms used by children, younger adults and older adults. I apply knowledge of memory and memory development to atypical patterns of development observed in both children and adults. Additionally, I apply my basic training in cognitive and neurocognitive development to the study of developmental dyslexia. A nontrivial number of children fail to respond to these interventions. In an attempt to better understand why, I conduct neuroimaging research of response to intervention in children in with Dyslexia that is built upon the basic principles of neurocognitive development across the lifespan.

Representative Publications

Reading and Dyslexia

Farris, E.A., Odegard T.N., Gomez, H., Ring, J., Allen, G., & Black, J. (in press). Functional connectivity between the left and right inferior frontal lobes in a small sample of children with and without reading difficulties. Neurocase.

Odegard, T.N., Farris, E., Ring, J, McColl, R., & Black, J. (2009). Brain connectivity in non-reading impaired readers and children diagnosed with developmental dyslexia. Neuropsychologia, 47, 1972-1977.

Odegard, T.N., Ring, J., Smith, S.R., Biggan, J., & Black, J. (2008). Differentiating the neural response to intervention in children with developmental dyslexia. Annals of Dyslexia, 58,1-14.

Odegard, T.N., & Ring, J. (2008). The reading brain: Initial answers to really big questions Part 2. Academic Language Therapy Association Bulletin, Spring 2008.

Odegard, T.N., & Ring, J. (2007). The reading brain: Initial answers to really big questions Part 1. Academic Language Therapy Association Bulletin, Fall 2007.

Memory Development

Cooper, C.M., & Odegard, T.N. (in press). New Knowledge Acquired at Study Influences Younger and Older Adults' Source Memory. Psychology and Aging.

Lampinen, J.M., Leding, J.K., Reed, K.B., & Odegard, T.N. (2006). Global gist extraction in children and adults. Memory, 14, 952-964.

Odegard, T.N., & Toglia, M.P. (in press). Children as eyewitnesses: Historical background, and factors affecting children’s eyewitness testimony. In R.E., Hollliday & T. Marche (Eds.) Child Forensic Psychology, New York NY, Palgrave MacMillian.

Odegard, T.N., Cooper, C.M., Holiday, R.E., & Ceci, S.J. (2010). Interviewing Child Victims: Advances in the Scientific Understanding of Child Eyewitness Memory. In J.M. Lampinen, & K. Sexton-Radek (Eds.), Protecting children from violence: Evidence based interventions (pp. 105-127). New York: Psychology Press.

Odegard, T.N., Jenkins, K.M., & Koen, J.D. (2010). Developmental differences in the use of recognition memory rejection mechanisms. Developmental Psychology, 46, 691-698.

Odegard, T.N., Cooper, C.M., Lampinen, J.M., Reyna, V.F., & Brainerd, C.J. (2009). Children’s eyewitness memory for multiple real life events. Child Development, 80, 1877-1890.

Odegard, T.N., Holiday, R.E., Brainerd, C.J., & Reyna, V.F. (2008). Attention to global gist processing eliminates age effects in false memories. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 99, 96-113.

False Memory and Memory Editing Mechanisms

Odegard, T.N., Lampinen, J.M., & Farris, E.A., (2009). Illusory Memories and Perceptions: The Tie that Binds. In Salvati, G. & Rabuano, V. (Eds.) Cognitive Psychology Perspectives. Hauppauge NY: Nova Science.

Odegard T.N., Koen, J., & Gama, J. (2008). Processing demands of rejection processes of memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 34,1296-1304.

Odegard, T.N., & Koen, J.D. (2007). “None of the above” as a correct and incorrect alternative on a multiple-choice test: Implications for the testing effect. Memory, 15, 873-885.

Leding, J.K., Lampinen, J.M., Edwards, N.W., & Odegard, T.N. (2007). The memory conjunction error paradigm: Normative data for the conjunction triplets. Behavior Research Methods, 39, 920-925.

Lampinen, J.M., & Odegard, T.N. (2006). Memory editing mechanisms. Memory, 14, 649- 654.

Lampinen, J.M., Watkins, K., & Odegard, T.N. (2006). Phantom ROC: Recollection rejection in a hybrid conjoint recognition signal detection model. Memory, 14, 655-671.

Odegard, T.N., & Lampinen, J.M. (2006). Memory editing: Knowledge, criteria, and alignment. Memory, 14, 677-687.

Lampinen, J.M., Odegard, T.N., Blackshear, & Toglia, M.P. (2005). Phantom ROC. In D.T. Rosen (Ed.), Trends in Experimental Psychology Research. Hauppauge NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Odegard, T.N., & Lampinen, J.M. (2005). Recollection rejection: Gist cuing of verbatim memory. Memory and Cognition, 33, 1422-1430.

Odegard, T.N., Lampinen, J.M., & Toglia, M.P. (2005). Meaning’s moderating effect on recollection rejection. Journal of Memory and Language, 53, 416-429.

Lampinen, J.M., Odegard, T.N., & Neuschatz, J.S. (2004). Robust recollection rejection in the memory conjunction paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 30, 332-342.

Odegard, T.N., & Lampinen, J.M. (2004). Memory conjunction errors for autobiographical events: More than just familiarity. Memory, 12, 288-301.

Odegard, T.N., & Lampinen, J.M., & Wirth-Beaumont, E.T. (2004). Encoding and retrieval: The generation of event memory clusters. Memory, 12, 685-695.

Lampinen, J.M., Odegard, T.N., & Bullington, J.L. (2003). Memory illusions and consciousness: Imagination inflation for action events. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 881-893.