Mark R. Klinger

Associate Professor
Director of Experimental Training
Director of Psychology Honors Program

Primary Concentration:
  Secondary Concentration:
Cognitive Psychology  

Social Psychology
Developmental Psychology

     
Contact Information:
  Courses:
Office: 185 Gordon Palmer

PY378/379 Junior Honors Seminar
PY478/479 Senior Honors Seminar
PY491 Senior Seminar
PY650 Cognition & Learning

Phone: (205) 348-0607
FAX: (205)  348-8648  
E-Mail: mklinger@bama.ua.edu 
  Website: website  

Research Interests: I am a Cognitive Psychologist who specializes in studying Unconscious Cognition.  My research studies a mixture of persons with typical development (i.e., college students) and with atypical development (e.g., autism and dyslexia).
 
Research Affiliations: Developmental Disabilities
  Autism Spectrum Disorder Research Group
  Unconscious Cognition Research Group
Recent Publications:

Renner, P., Klinger, L.G., & Klinger, M.R. (in press). Exogenous and endogenous    attention orienting in autism spectrum disorders.  Child Neuropsychology.

 

Klinger, L.G., Klinger, M.R., & Pohlig, R.L. (2006). Implicit learning impairments in autism spectrum disorders: Implications for treatment. In Juan Martos, Pedro M. Gonzalez, Maria LLorente & Carmen Nieto (Eds.), New research in autism: The future is today. Kingsley Press: London

 

Kuhajda, M.C., Thorn, B.E., Klinger, M.R., & Rubin, N. (2002).  The effect of headache pain on memory and attention.  Pain, 97, 213-221.

  Abrams, R.L., Klinger, M.R., & Greenwald, A.G. (2002).  Subliminal words activate semantic categories (not automated motor responses).  Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 100-106.
 

Klinger, M.R., Burton, P.C., & Pitts, G.S.  (2000).   Mechanisms of unconscious priming I:  Response competition, not spreading activation.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 441-455.