James H. Howard, Jr.

Professor of Psychology and Father Mathew Scholar

My primary research interests are in the cognitive neuroscience of aging. My group is interested in understanding how our ability to learn and remember changes in the course of healthy aging and in understanding the brain basis of these changes. We also investigate the factors that contribute to successful cognitive aging--why do some healthy people maintain high function well into old age whereas others do not? To investigate these issues, my colleagues and I carry out cognitive studies of contextual learning in young and elderly adults as well as in various neuropsychological populations.

I am also an Adjunct Professor of Neurology in the Georgetown University Medical Center and affiliated faculty in the Department of Psychology at GU.

This work is supported by the National Institute on Aging.

Office

308 O'Boyle Hall

Department of Psychology

The Catholic University of America

Washington, D.C. 20064

Telephone: 202-319-4791

Fax: 202-319-6263

email:howard@cua.edu

Education

Ph.D. (1974) Experimental Psychology, Brown University