Lisa M. Soderberg Miller

Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of New Hampshire
M.A., University of New Hampshire
M.A., Teacher's College, Columbia University

At UCD since: 2005

Interests: Cognitive, Social-Emotional, Family

Life Phases: Adulthood, Aging

E-mail: lmsmiller@ucdavis.edu

Research Interests:

Effects of age and knowledge on cognitive processes, changes in language processing in late life, effects of motivation on cognition; age-related changes in control beliefs. The Adult Development Lab is where she conducts her research, exploring the ways in which knowledge impacts how individuals use prior information to learn and solve problems and whether there are changes in these cognitive processes across the adult lifespan.

Courses Taught:

Adult Development and Aging

Cognitive Aspects of Aging

Midlife Development

Recent Publications:

Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Miller, L. M. S., & Hertzog, C. (in press). Aging and self-regulation in language understanding, Psychological Bulletin.

Miller, L. M. S., Cohen, J. A., & Wingfield, A. (in press). Knowledge reduces demands on working memory during reading, Memory & Cognition.

Miller, L. M. S., & Gagne, D. D. (2005). Age differences in the effects of control beliefs on reading strategies. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 12, 129-148.

Miller, L. M. S., Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Kirkorian, H., & Conroy, M. (2004). Adult age differences in knowledge-driven reading. Journal of Educational Psychology, 96, 811-821.

Miller, L. M. S. (2003). The effects of age and domain knowledge on text processing. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 58B, P217-P223.

Related Links:

http://adl.ucdavis.edu

http://humandevelopment.ucdavis.edu