VITA JANET M. DUCHEK Address: Department of Psychology Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130 Phone: 314-935-7445 (office) 314-935-7588 (FAX) Email: jduchek@artsci.wustl.edu Education 1972-1976 B.A. in Psychology, University of Missouri at St. Louis 1. M.A. in Experimental Psychology, University of South Carolina 1979-1982 Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, University of South Carolina Honors 2003 Graduation speaker, Program in Occupational Therapy 2002. Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Division 3 2000 Graduation speaker, Program in Occupational Therapy 1999 Graduation speaker, Program in Occupational Therapy 1995 Graduation speaker, Program in Occupational Therapy 1993 Honorary member of Pi Theta Epsilon 1992 Graduation speaker, Program in Occupational Therapy 1977 Awarded University Summer Research Fellowship 1976 Graduated Summa Cum Laude Professional and Teaching Experience 1982-1983 Conducted Cognitive Research at the University of Massachusetts 1984. Adjunct faculty, University of Kentucky
1985. Visiting Assistant Professor, Iowa State University 1987. Adjunct faculty, University of Missouri at St. Louis 1985-1987 Project Coordinator, Memory and Aging Program Project: A longitudinal study comparing healthy aging with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type. Funded by National Institute of Aging 1987. Research Instructor, Departments of Neurology/Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 1990. Instructor, Program in Occupational Therapy, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 1990-1998 Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy and Neurology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 1998-present Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 2003-present Associate Professor, Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO Journal Publications Duchek, J.M. (1984). Encoding and retrieval differences between young and old: The impact of attentional capacity usage. Developmental Psychology, 20, 1173-1180. Balota, D.A., & Duchek, J.M. (1986). The influence of voice similarity on the 20-second delayed suffix effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 12, 336-345. Burke, W.J., Miller, J.P., Rubin, E.H., Morris, J.C., Coben, L.A., Duchek, J.M., Wittels, I., & Berg, L. (1988). Reliability of the Washington University Clinical Dementia Rating. Archives of Neurology, 45, 31-32. Berg, L., Miller, J.P., Storandt, M., Duchek, J.M., Morris, J.C., Rubin, E.H., Burke, W.J., & Coben, L.A. (1988). Mild senile dementia of the Alzheimer type: 2. Longitudinal Assessment. Annals of Neurology, 23, 477-484. Balota, D.A., & Duchek, J.M. (1988). Age related differences in lexical access, automatic spreading activation, and simple pronunciation. Psychology & Aging, 3, 84-93.
McCulla, M.M., Coats, M., VanFleet, N., Duchek, J., Grant, E., & Morris, J.C. (1989). Reliability of clinical nurse specialists in the staging of dementia. Archives of Neurology, 46, 1210-1211. Balota, D.A., Duchek, J.M., & Paullin, R. (1989). Age related differences in the spacing of repetitions and retention interval. Psychology & Aging, 4, 3-9. Duchek, J.M., & Neely, J.H. (1989). A dissociative word-frequency x levels-of-processing interaction in episodic recognition and lexical decision tasks. Memory & Cognition, 17, 148-162. Balota, D.A., & Duchek, J.M. (1990). Spared activation in episodic memory: Further evidence for age independence. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 41A, 849-876. Wippold, F.J., Gado, M.H., Morris, J.C., Duchek, J.M., & Grant, E (1991). Senile dementia and healthy aging: A longitudinal CT study. Radiology, 179, 215-219. Duchek, J.M., Cheney, M., Ferraro, F.R., & Storandt, M. (1991). Paired associate learning in senile dementia of the Alzheimer type. Archives of Neurology, 48, 1038-1040. Balota, D.A. & Duchek, J.M. (1991). Semantic priming effects, lexical repetition effects, and contextual disambiguation effects in healthy aged individuals and individuals with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type. Brain & Language, 40, 181-201. Duchek, J.M., Balota, D.A., & Ferraro, F.R. (1994). Component analysis of a rhythmic finger tapping task in individuals with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type and in Parkinson s Disease individuals. Neuropsychology, 8, 218-226. Duchek, J.M., Balota, D.A., Faust, M.E., & Ferraro, F.R. (1995). Inhibitory processes in young and older adults in a picture word task. Aging & Cognition, 2, 156-167. Duchek, J.M., & Thessing, V. (1996). Is the use of life history and narrative in clinical practice fundable as research? American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 50, 393-396. Faust, M.E., Balota, D.A., Duchek, J.M., Gernsbacher, M.A., & Smith, S (1997). Inhibitory control during sentence comprehension in individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer type. Brain & Language, 57, 225-253. Hunt, L.A., Murphy, C.F., Carr, D., Duchek, J.M., Buckles, V., & Morris, J.C. (1997). A road test for drivers with dementia of the Alzheimer type and how visual environmental cueing may affect performance. Alzheimer s Disease and Related Disorders, 11, 13-16. Hunt, L.A., Murphy, C.F., Carr, D., Duchek, J.M., Buckles, V., & Morris, J.C. (1997). Reliability of the Washington University Road Test: A performance-based assessment for drivers with dementia of the Alzheimer type. Archives of Neurology, 54, 707-712. Duchek, J.M., Hunt, L., Buckles, V., Ball, K., & Morris, J.C. (1997). The role of selective attention in driving and dementia of the Alzheimer type. Alzheimer s Disease and Associated Disorders, 11, 48-56. Duchek, J.M., Hunt, L., Buckles, V., Ball, K., & Morris, J.C. (1998). Attention and driving performance in Alzheimer s disease. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences; 53, 130-141. Duchek, J.M., Balota, D.A., & Thessing, V.C. (1998). Inhibition of visual and conceptual information during reading in healthy aging and Alzheimer s disease. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cog-
nition, 5, 169-181. Balota, D.A., Cortese, M., Duchek, J.M., Adams, D., Roediger, H.L., McDermott, K., & Yerys, B. (1999). Veridical and false memories in healthy older adults and in dementia of the Alzheimer type. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 15, 361-384. Balota, D.A., Watson, J.M., Duchek, J.M., & Ferraro, F.R. (1999). Cross-modal priming with ambiguous and unambiguous words in aging and in Alzheimer s disease. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 5, 626-640. Carr, D.B., Duchek, J., & Morris, J.C. (2000). Characteristics of motor vehicle crashes of drivers with dementia of the Alzheimer type. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 48, 18-22. Duchek, J.M., Carr, D., Hunt, L.A., Roe, C.M., Xiong, C., Shah, K., & Morris, J.C. (2003). Longitudinal driving performance in early stage dementia of the Alzheimer type. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 51, 1342-1347. Duchek, J.M., & Balota, D.A. (2005). Failure to control prepotent pathways in early stage dementia of the Alzheimer type: Evidence from dichotic listening. Neuropsychology, 19, 687-695. Carr, D.B., Duchek, J., & Morris, J.C. The cognitively impaired older driver. American Family Physician. In press. Balota, D.A., Duchek, J.M., Sergent-Marshall S., Roediger, H.L. Does expanded retrieval produce benefits over equal interval spacing? Explorations of spacing in healthy aging and early stage Alzheimer s disease. Psychology & Aging, in press. Chapters Duchek, J.M. (1991). Assessing cognition. In CH Christiansen and CM Baum (Eds.), Occupational Therapy: Overcoming human performance deficits (pp.523-538). Slack, Thorofare, N.J. Duchek, J.M. (1991). Cognitive dimensions of performance. In CH Christiansen and CM Baum (Eds.), Occupational Therapy: Overcoming human performance deficits (pp. 285-304).Slack, Thorofare, N.J. Balota, D.A., & Duchek, J.M. (1992). Age-related changes and spreading activation: Implications for connectionist models of cognitive aging. In JE Morley, RM Coe, R Strong and GT Grossberg (Eds.), Memory function and aging-related disorders (pp.75-96). Springer Publishing Co. :New York. Duchek, JM., & Balota, D.A. (1993). The impact of normal aging on memory functioning. In J Morley (Ed.), Cowdry s Geriatrics (pp. ) Manning Co., St. Louis, MO. Duchek, J.M., & Balota, D.A. (1993). Sparing of activation processes in older adults. In J Cerella, W Hoyer, J Rybash, M Commons (Eds.), Adult Information Processing: Limits on loss (pp. 384-403). Academic Press: New York. Duchek, J.M., Abreu, B.C. (1997). Meeting the challenges of cognitive disabilities. In C Christiansen & C Baum (Eds.), Occupational Therapy: Achieving human performance needs in daily living (pp 339-356), Slack: Thorofare, NJ.
Balota, D.A., Dolan, P.O. & Duchek, J.M. (2000). Memory changes in healthy older adults. In E Tulving & FIM Craik (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of memory (pp. 395-410). Oxford University Press: New York. Duchek, J.M., & Logan, J.M. (2002). Tip of the tongue phenomenon. In JH Byrne (Ed.), Learning and Memory (2nd edition) (pp. 650-651), Macmillan Reference/The Gale Group: Farmington Hills, MI. Balota, D.A., Duchek, J.M., & Logan, J.M. Is expanded retrieval practice a superior form of spaced retrieval? A critical review of the extant literature. In J. Nairne (Ed.), Essays in Honor of Roddy Roediger (final title to be announced). In press. Invited Lectures Colloquium presentation, University of South Dakota. (1985) Colloquium presentation, Drake University. (1985) Colloquium presentation, University of Leiden, The Netherlands. (1987) Colloquium presentation, Rowan College, Glassboro, NJ. (1994) International Symposium on Alzheimer s Disease and Driving, St. Louis, MO. (1996) Colloquium presentation, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. (1996) Annual Psi Chi Lecture, University of Missouri-St. Louis (2000) Annual Psi Chi Lecture, Lindenwood College, St. Louis (2001) Workshop for State of Missouri Department of Motor Vehicles, St. Louis (2001) Grants 1987. Co-Investigator, Automatic and Attentional Processing in Healthy Aging. National Institute on Aging. 1991. Principal Investigator, Impact of Cognitive Load on Processing Peripheral Information in SDAT. Missouri Alzheimer s Disease and Related Disorders Association. 1998. Co-principal Investigator, Inhibitory Control in Healthy Aging and SDAT. National Institute on Aging. 1997. Investigator, Attention, Cognition and Driving Performance in SDAT. National Institute on Aging 2003. Co-Investigator, Frontal Control Systems and Memory
in Aging and DAT. National Institute on Aging. 2002. Co-Investigator, Training Recollective Memory in Early Stage DAT. (Pilot Project), National Institute on Aging. 2008. Co-Investigator, Attention Profiles in Healthy Aging and Early Stage DAT. National Institute on Aging. 2010. Co-Investigator, Attention Profiles as an Early Marker for DAT. National Institute on Aging. Areas of Interest Aging and Cognition; Cognitive Changes in Alzheimer s Disease; Driving and Attention in Older Adults Courses Taught Introductory Psychology, Washington University Experimental Psychology, Washington University Developmental Psychology, Washington University Introduction to the Study of Mind-Brain, Washington University Introduction to Neuroscience for OT Students, Washington University Psychology of Aging, University of Missouri-St. Louis Seminar in Cognitive Aging, University of Leiden, Netherlands Professional Activities 2003-2005 Editorial Board, Journal of General Psychology 1995. Editorial Board, American Journal of Occupational Therapy Ad Hoc Reviewer: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition Psychology & Aging Aging and Cognition Journal of Gerontology: Psychological & Social Sciences
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Alzheimer s Disease & Related Disorders McDonnell Foundation CSEP Program Alzheimer s Disease & Related Disorders Program for Missouri Membership American Psychological Association (Fellow) American Psychological Society Psychonomic Society