Carolyn Rovee-Collier

Title: Professor II
Areas: Behavioral Neuroscience/Cognitive Psychology
Phone: 732-445-3364/4819
Email: crovee@earthlink.net or rovee@rci.rutgers.edu
Campus: Busch
Building: Psych 315/317/323

Carolyn Rovee-Collier received her Ph.D. from Brown University and is Professor II of Psychology. Her research focuses on learning and memory in preverbal infants. Currently, her lab is using operant and deferred imitation procedures to study latent learning, how new information is integrated with old, and how memory retrieval affects future retention.

Dr. Rovee-Collier has authored 200 articles and chapters and a 2001 book (with Hayne and Colombo), The development of implicit and explicit memory (John Benjamins, Amsterdam/ Herndon, VA). She has received a James McKeen Cattell Fellowship, a Distinguished Achievement Medal from the Graduate School of Brown University, a 10-year NIMH MERIT award (given to <1% of the researchers in the country), two consecutive Research Scientist Awards from NIMH, the 2001 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for Research in Child Psychology (SRCD), and the coveted 2003 Howard Crosby Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists (for the most distinguished research in experimental psychology in this country or Canada in the preceding five years). Dr. Rovee-Collier is a 2007 William James Distinguished Lecturer for the Association of Psychological Science (APS) and is included in the SRCD National Archives, Oral Histories Project (“Major Figures in Child Development”). She has served as President of the International Society for Infant Studies (ISIS), the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), and the Eastern Psychological Association; as Editor-in-Chief of Infant Behavior and Development (1981-1998); and Co-editor (with Lewis. P. Lipsitt) of Advances in Infancy Research (vols. 3-12).

Dr. Rovee-Collier is proudest of the many undergraduate and graduate students, past and present, who have contributed to her research program. Some have received national recognition for their research: National Psi Chi Undergraduate Research Awards (1st place: 1993, 1994, 2003; 3rd place: 2001; ISIS dissertation award: 1996, 2002; ISDP dissertation award, 1990, 2002).