Marigold Linton, PhD

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Dr. Linton, a cognitive psychologist, is the director of American Indian outreach at the University of Kansas. She was the first Native American to earn a doctorate in psychology. She is one of the founding members of both the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science and the National Indian Education Association, and has held numerous national appointments.

Dr. Linton’s research focuses on long-term memory, and in particular, how people forget specific details of real events over time. She examines how long information is retained over time, and if more studying helps people remember longer.

Linton, M. (1982). Transformations of memory in everyday life. In U. Neisser (Ed.), Memory Observed: Remembering in Natural Contexts. W. H. Freeman and Company.

Linton, M. (1986). Ways of searching and the contents of memory. In D. C. Rubin (Ed.), Autobiographical Memory (pp. 50-67). Cambridge University Press.

Linton, M., Gallo, P. S., & Logan, C. A. (1975). The practical statistician: simplified handbook of statistics. Brooks; Cole Publishing Company.

Cognition, Memory

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