Publications
Sara B. Festini, Ph.D.: Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Rodriguez, A. M.*, & Festini, S. B. (in press). Face Masks Degrade our Ability to Remember Face-Name Associations More Than Predicted by Judgments of Learning. Memory. *Undergraduate author
https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2299361
Festini, S. B. (2022). Busyness, Mental Engagement, and Stress: Relationships to Neurocognitive Aging and Behavior. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 14:980599. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2022.980599
Orban, S. A., Festini, S. B., Yuen, E. K. & Friedman, L. M. (2022). Verbal Memory Interference in
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Meta-Analytic Review. Journal of Attention Disorders, 26, 1549-1562. https://doi.org/10.1177/10870547221085515
Festini, S. B., & Katz, B. (2021). A Frontal Account of False Alarms. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33, 1657-1678. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01683
Jantz, T. K., Festini, S. B., Reuter-Lorenz, P. A. (2021). Failing to forget? Evidence for both Impaired and preserved working memory control in older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology, & Cognition, 28, 884-906. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2020.1839012
Festini, S. B. (2020). Directed forgetting instructions decrease proactive interference within working memory below that of a baseline encode-only condition. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 32(8), 734-746. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2020.1822850
McDonough, I. M., Festini, S. B., & Wood, M. M. (2020). Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease: A review of long-term episodic memory encoding and retrieval fMRI studies. Ageing Research Reviews, 62, 101133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2020.101133
Festini, S. B., Hertzog, C., McDonough, I. M., Park, D. C. (2019). What makes us busy? Predictors of perceived busyness across the adult lifespan. The Journal of General Psychology, 146, 111-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.2018.1540396
Farrell, M. E., Kennedy, K. M., Rodrigue, K. M., Wig, G., Bischof, G. N., Rieck, J. R., Chen, X., Festini, S. B., Devous, M. D., & Park, D. C. (2017). Association of longitudinal cognitive decline with amyloid burden middle-aged and older adults: Evidence for a dose-response relationship. JAMA Neurology, 74, 830-838. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2017.0892
Festini, S. B., & Reuter-Lorenz, P. A. (2017). Rehearsal of to-be-remembered items is unnecessary to perform directed forgetting within working memory: Support for an active control mechanism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43, 94-108. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000308
Park, D. C., & Festini, S. B. (2017). Theories of memory and aging: A look at the past and a glimpse of the future. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbw066
Hartley, A. A., Maquestiaux, F., Festini, S. B., Frazier, K., & Krimmer, P. (2016). Backward compatibility effects in younger and older adults. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 78, 1337-1350. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-016-1113-8
Festini, S. B., McDonough, I. M., Park, D. C. (2016). The busier the better: Greater busyness is associated with better cognition. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 8:98. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2016.00098
Festini, S. B., Preston, S. D., Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., & Seidler, R. D. (2016). Emotion and reward are dissociable from error during motor learning. Experimental Brain Research, 234, 1385-1394. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-015-4542-z
Festini, S. B., Bernard, J. A., Kwak, Y., Peltier, S., Bohnen, N. I., Muller, M. L. T. M., Dayalu, P., & Seidler, R. D. (2015). Altered cerebellar connectivity in Parkinson’s patients ON and OFF L-DOPA medication. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9:214. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00214
Festini, S. B., & Reuter-Lorenz, P. A. (2014). Cognitive control of familiarity: Directed forgetting reduces proactive interference in working memory. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 14, 78-89. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-013-0231-1
Festini, S. B., & Reuter-Lorenz, P. A. (2013). The short- and long-term consequences of directed forgetting in a working memory task. Memory, 21, 763-777. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2012.754900
Festini, S. B., Hartley, A. A., Tauber, S. K., & Rhodes, M. G. (2013). Assigned value improves memory of proper names. Memory, 21, 657-667. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2012.747613
Hartley, A. A., Maquestiaux, F., Brooks, R. D., Festini, S. B., & Frazier, K. (2012). Electrodermal responses to sources of dual-task interference. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, 543-556. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-012-0094-x
Peer-Reviewed Publications in Undergraduate Journals
Mryczko, D.*, Brown, T., & Festini, S. B. (2022). Busyness & Cognition in Undergraduate Students:
End-of-Semester Versus Beginning-of-Semester Cognitive Performance. Acta Spartae, 6, 15-18. *Undergraduate author
https://www.ut.edu/uploadedFiles/Academics/Acta_Spartae/AS_0601p15Mryczko.pdf
Rodriguez, A. M.*, & Festini, S. B. (2022). Working memory deficits in Alzheimer’s Disease. Acta
Spartae, 6, 19-22. *Undergraduate author
https://www.ut.edu/uploadedFiles/Academics/Acta_Spartae/AS_0601p19Rodriguez.pdf
Colaianni, A.*, & Festini, S. B. (2021). Exploring the potential shared pathology of eating disorders and addiction: A behavioral neuroscience approach. Acta Spartae, 5, 1-5. *Undergraduate author
https://www.ut.edu/uploadedFiles/Academics/Acta_Spartae/AS_0501p1Colaianni.pdf
Ramsdell, K.*, & Festini, S. B. (2021). Effects of academic and social engagement on episodic memory in young adults. Acta Spartae, 5, 20-27. *Undergraduate author
https://www.ut.edu/uploadedFiles/Academics/Acta_Spartae/AS_0501p20Ramsdell.pdf
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Festini, S. B., Kegler, G.*, & Reuter-Lorenz, P. A. (in press). Hemispheric Organization of the Brain and its Prevailing Impact on the Neuropsychology of Aging. In Handbook of Clinical Neurology. Elsevier B. V. *Undergraduate author
Festini, S. B., Zahodne, L., & Reuter-Lorenz, P. A. (2018). Theoretical perspectives on age differences in brain activation: HAROLD, PASA, CRUNCH—How do they STAC up? In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.400
Park, D. C., & Festini, S. B. (2018). Cognitive Health. In Marc H. Bornstein (Ed.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. Los Angeles: SAGE. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781506307633.n146
Park, D. C., & Festini, S. B. (2017). The middle-aged brain: A cognitive neuroscience perspective. In Roberto Cabeza, Lars Nyberg, and Denise C. Park (Eds.), The Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging: Linking Cognitive and Cerebral Aging, 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199372935.003.0015
Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., Festini, S. B., & Jantz, T. (2016). Executive functions and neurocognitive aging. In K. Warner Schaie & Sherry L. Willis (Eds.) Handbook of the Psychology of Aging (8th edition). New York: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-411469-2.00013-3
Festini, S. B., & Reuter-Lorenz, P. A. (2015). Dysexecutive amnesia. In James D. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 6. (pp. 718-724.) Oxford: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.51029-0