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Kate Arrington is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Lehigh University, internationally recognized for her research on cognitive control and multitasking. She earned her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Michigan State University in 2002 and completed an NRSA-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University before joining Lehigh in 2005.
- Role: Chair of the Department of Psychology
- Contact: 610.758.4230 | cma205@lehigh.edu | Chandler-Ullmann room 130
Research Interests: Cognitive psychology, cognitive control mechanisms, human multitasking, and applied cognition. She investigates interactions between stimulus-driven and goal-directed processes in task selection and performance, exploring individual and situational variability in cognitive control.
- Developed the voluntary task switching paradigm for lab-based studies
- Applied research in intelligent tutoring systems and multimodal learning interfaces
Scientific Awards & Leadership:
- NIH and NSF grant funding for multitasking and cognitive control research
- Rotating Program Officer, NSF Perception, Action, and Cognition program (2015-17)
- Chair, Women in Cognitive Science (from 2021)
- Director, Lehigh’s Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems, and Computation
Teaching: Cognitive Psychology, Cognition in Practice and Policy, Research Methods and Statistics.
