Ongoing Research
The information below details select projects and publications from the lab. Enjoy!
Grant Funding
National Institute on Aging (R03): Prospective memory in everyday life: Lapses and decline in relation to inflammatory and neurodegenerative biomarkers in older adults
This project is funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and leverages data from the longitudinal Einstein Aging Study (EAS) to examine associations between gender, inflammatory and neurodegenerative biomarkers, and subjective prospective memory lapses as potential risk factors for cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease.
Select publications
Harrington, E. E., Gamaldo, A. A., Felt, J. M., Witzel, D. D., Sliwinski, M. J., Murdock, K. W., Engeland, C. G., & Graham-Engeland, J. E. (accepted). Racial differences in links between perceived discrimination, depressive symptoms, and ambulatory working memory. Aging & Mental Health.
Witzel, D. D., Van Bogart, K., Harrington, E. E., Turner, S. G., & Almeida, D. (2024). Loneliness dynamics and physical health symptomology among midlife adults in daily life. Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001377
Harrington, E. E., Graham-Engeland, J. E., Sliwinski, M. J., Van Bogart, K., Mogle, J. A., Katz, M. J., Lipton, R. B., & Engeland, C. G. (2023). Older adults’ self-reported prospective memory lapses in everyday life: Connections to inflammation and gender. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 174, 111489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2023.111489
Turner, R. L., Reese-Melancon, C., Harrington, E. E., & Andreo, M. (2023). Caregiving during the COVID-19 pandemic: Factors associated with caregiver preparedness. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 42(10), 2089-2099. https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648231182242
Harrington. E. E., Reese-Melancon, C., & Bock, J. E. (2023). Sometimes they show, sometimes they don’t: Appointment attendance as a naturalistic prospective memory task. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37, 590-599. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4066
Harrington, E. E., & Reese-Melancon, C. (2022). Who is Responsible for Remembering? Everyday Prospective Memory Demands in Parenthood. Sex Roles, 86, 189-207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-021-01264-z
Harrington, E. E., Bishop, A. J., Do, H. M., & Sheng, W. (2021). Perceptions of socially assistive robots: A pilot study exploring older adults’ concerns. Current Psychology, 42, 2145–2156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01627-5
Reese-Melancon, C., Cherry, K., & Harrington, E. E. (2021). The Knowledge and Memory Aging Questionnaire: Factor structure and correlates in a lifespan sample. In Assessments, Treatments, and Modeling in Aging and Neurological Disease (pp. 329-339). Academic Press.
Do, H. M., Sheng, W., Harrington, E. E., & Bishop, A. (2020). Clinical screening interview using a social robot for geriatric care. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASE.2020.2999203
Reese-Melancon, C., Harrington, E. E., & Kytola, K. (2019). How did I remember to do that? Self-reported strategy use for laboratory prospective memory tasks. Memory, 27, 1224-1235. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2019.1645180