Edward Merrill

Associate Professor

Primary Concentration:
  Secondary Concentration:
Developmental Science   Cognitive Psychology
     
Contact Information:
  Courses:
Office: GP 195

Fall 2006

PY 211

PY 491

Phone: phone
FAX: (205)  348-8648  
E-Mail: emerrill@bama.ua.edu 
  Website: website  

Research Interests: Age- and Intelligence-Related Variations in Attention and Learning
 
Research Affiliations: Society for Research in Child Development
  Gatlinburg Society for Reseach in Mental Retardation
 
Recent Publications:

O’Dekirk, M., & Merrill, E.C.  (2006).  Inhibition of return and negative priming of persons with and without mental retardation.  American Journal on Mental Retardation.

 

Merrill, E.C.  (2006).  Interference and inhibition in tasks of selective attention by persons with and without mental retardation.  American Journal on Mental Retardation, 111, 216-226.

 

Merrill, E.C. (2005). Preattentive orienting in adolescents with mental retardation.
American Journal on Mental Retardation, 110, 28-35.

  Merrill, E.C. (2004). Consistent Mapping and Automatic Visual Search: Comparing
Persons With and Without Intellectual Disability. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 48, 746-753.
  Merrill, E.C., & Lookadoo, R.L. (2004). Selective search for conjunctively targets by children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 89, 172-190.