Phil A. Allen
Ph.D. Ohio State University

Professor: Applied Cognitive Aging , Industrial/Gerontological Specialty

Contact Information

Office: Arts and Science Building, room 364
Phone: (330) 972-8374
E-mail: paallen@uakron.edu

Phil A. Allen, PhD. received his Ph.D. in Life-span Developmental/Experimental from Ohio State University in 1987. He completed a 2-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Center for Aging and Human development, Duke Medical Center. Research interests include age differences in human performance, visual word recognition, attention, perception, memory, and event-related potentials. Courses taught include cognitive processes, perception, engineering psychology, and research in cognitive aging. His publications have appeared in Psychology and Aging, Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, Experimental Aging Research, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Memory and Cognition, and Perception & Psychophysics.

Recent Publications

Lien, M.C., Ruthruff, E., Cornett, L., Goodin, Z., & Allen, P. (in press). On the non-automaticity of word processing: Electrophysiological evidence that word processing requires central attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Allen, P.A., Wallace, B., Grabbe, J., McCarthy, A., & Bush, A.H. (in press). The early bird does not get the worm: Time-of-day effects on college students’ basic cognitive processing. American Journal of Psychology.

Ruthruff, E., Allen P., Lien, M-C., Grabbe, J. (in press). Visual word recognition without central attention: Evidence for greater automaticity for greater reading ability. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.

Arnaud, L., Lemaire, P., Allen, P., Bernard, F.M. (in press). Strategic aspects of young, healthy older adults, and Alzheimer’s patients’ arithmetic performance. Cortex.

Bush, A.H., Allen, P.A., Kaut, K.P, & Ogrocki, P.K. (2007). Influence of mild cognitive impairment on visual word recognition. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 14, 329-352.

Lien, M.-C., Allen, P.A., Ruthruff, E., Grabbe, J., McCann, R.S., & Remington, R.W. (2006). Visual word recognition without central attention: Evidence for greater automaticity with advancing age. Psychology and Aging, 21, 431-447.

Dr. Allen's Vita



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