Dr. Amy Underwood Barton

Associate Professor

Education

• Ph.D. Psychology, specialty in Cognition and Neuroscience; University of Missouri-Columbia (Columbia, MO)
• M.A. Psychology, specialty in Cognition and Neuroscience; University of Missouri-Columbia (Columbia, MO)
• B.A. Psychology; University of West Florida (Pensacola, FL)

Courses Taught

• Biological Psychology
• Experimental Psychology
• Advanced Biological Psychology
• Drugs, Brain and Behavior
• Cognitive Psychology

Academic Interests

• Visual Working Memory
• Unconscious Visual Perception
• The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Scholarly Activity

• Co-advisor, Cognitive and Educational Psychology Laboratory

Selected Publications

• Beversdorf, D. Q.,  Ferguson, B., Hunter, S., Hirst, K., Lolli, B., Bellesheim, K. R., Barton, A. U.,Muckerman, J., Takahashi, N., Selders, K., Holem, R.,  Sohl, K.,  Dyke, P.,  Stichter, J.,  Mazurek, M., & Kanne, S. (in press). Randomized controlled trial of propranolol on social communication and anxiety in children and youth with autism spectrum disorder.
• Barton, A. U., Valle-Inclán, F., Cowan, N., & Hackley, S. A. (2022). Unconsciously registered items reduce working memory capacity. Consciousness and Cognition, 105, 103399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2022.103399

• Underwood, A. L., & Bauer, L. M. (2018). Challenges and solutions to integrating writing in the classroom: Perspectives from a graduate student instructor. In T. L. Kuther (Ed.), Integrating writing into the college classroom: Practical strategies for promoting student skills. Retrieved from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology web site: https://teachpsych.org/ebooks/integratingwriting
• Hackley, S. A., Ren, X., Underwood, A., & Valle-Inclan, F. (2017) Prepulse inhibition and facilitation of the postauricular reflex, a vestigial remnant of pinna startle. Psychophysiology, 54(4), 566-577. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12819

Selected Presentations

*Indicates student presenters

• *McMahill, E. Valle-Inclan, F. *Castelblanco-Riveros, C., & Barton, A. U. (2023). The impact of unconsciously perceived items on conscious recall in visual working memory. Poster presentation at the Midwestern Psychological Association Conference. Chicago, IL
• Barton, A. U., Valle-Inclan, F., Cowan, N., & Hackley, S. A. (2020). Unconsciously perceived information in visual working memory. Poster presentation at the Society for Psychophysiological Research Conference. Web-based
• Underwood, A., Valle-Inclan, F., Cowan, N., & Hackley, S. A. (2017). Does unconscious information take up space in visual working memory? Poster presentation at the Society for Psychophysiological Research Conference. Vienna, Austria
• Underwood, A., Valle-Inclan, F., Cowan, N., & Hackley, S. A. (2016). Unconscious information processing in working memory. Poster presentation at the Psychonomics Society Conference. Boston, MA
• Underwood, A., Valle-Inclan, F., & Hackley, S. A. (2015). Does the PAR habituate at all? An investigation of the fastest exteroceptive reflex. Poster presentation at the Society for Psychophysiological Research Conference. Seattle, WA
• Underwood, A., Valle-Inclan, F., & Hackley, S. A. (2014). Cross-modal suppression of the postauricular reflex: Prepulse inhibition or orienting? Poster presentation at the Society for Psychophysiological Research Conference. Atlanta, GA 

Student Group Advisement

• Co-advisor, Behavioral Sciences Association