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Kimberly Newberry serves as Assistant Dean for External Relations and Associate Professor of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Shenandoah University, with her office located in HHH 117. She can be contacted at knewberr@su.edu and uses she/her pronouns.
Her educational credentials include:
- B.A. from The College of New Jersey
- M.S. from Kansas State University
- Ph.D. from Kansas State University
Dr. Newberry's research centers on cognitive psychology with emphasis on event cognition, memory processes, and aging. She investigates how semantic and domain knowledge influence event segmentation, perception, and episodic memory across age groups, particularly examining everyday activities through controlled experiments. Her work bridges theoretical cognitive models with real-world applications in understanding age-related cognitive changes.
Analysis of her 2018-2023 publications reveals consistent focus on knowledge structures' role in cognitive processing, with increasing attention to aging populations. Key trends include semantic knowledge's protective effect against age-related memory decline, domain expertise's impact on event comprehension, and temporal organization principles in memory formation.
Dr. Newberry actively pursues research funding and mentorship opportunities. Her current grant activity includes:
- VIVA Grant Award ID 358S24M: "A perfectly imperfect mind: Using cognitive psychology to explain human experience" (Open Educational Resource project in preparation)
