Leah L Light

Biographic Data

ID1660247
NAMELeah L Light
GIVEN NAMESLeah L
FAMILY NAMELight
SIGNATURELIGHT L L
AFFILIATIONSPitzer College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS30
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4

  • Ethical challenges in the use of digital technologies in psychological science

    Leah L Light, Sangeeta Panicker et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2024

    Digital technologies are pervasive in every aspect of our daily lives. The proliferation of such technologies has also influenced the conduct of biomedical, behavioral, and social research. The articles in this special issue provide illustrative examples of the range of applications of digital technologies in psychological science research across a variety of populations. They highlight ethical, legal, and social issues that emerge when digital t…

  • Age, Criterion Flexibility, and Associative Recognition

    Regina Pendergrass, Darlene Olfman et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2011References: 1

    These results suggest that older adults have preserved metacognitive abilities with regard to assessing the consequences for accuracy of maintaining a lenient criterion when discrimination between experienced and new information becomes more difficult and further suggests that they can take appropriate action to control error rates under these conditions

  • The Occurrence of Causal Bridging and Predictive Inferences in Young and Older Adults

    Debra L Valencia-Laver, Debra Valencia-Laver et al.ARTICLEDiscourse Processes2000Cited by: 5References: 54

    Four experiments used an indirect measure of memory, perceptual identification, to examine possible differences in the generation of causal bridging and predictive inferences by young and older adults. In Experiments 1 and 2, young and older adults read paragraphs in which material necessary for understanding causal connections was either explicitly stated or merely implied. Identification of target words related to the causal connection, whether…

  • Guessing Strategies, Aging, and Bias Effects in Perceptual Identification

    Open AccessLeah L Light, Robert F KennisonARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition1996

  • Guessing Strategies in Perceptual Identification

    Open AccessLeah L Light, Robert F KennisonARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition1996

  • Comprehension and use of anaphoric devices in young and older adults

    Leah L Light, Janet L Capps et al.ARTICLEDiscourse Processes1994Cited by: 2References: 31

    In telling and retelling stories older adults produce more instances of ambiguous reference than young adults. The four experiments reported here suggest that this increase in ambiguous reference is not caused by age‐ or cohort‐related differences in (a) knowledge structures needed to determine coreference based on plausibility, (b) availability or weighting of strategies for using anaphoric devices, or (c) assumptions about the degree of specifi…

  • Comprehension of pronouns in young and older adults

    Leah L Light, Janet L CappsARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology1986Cited by: 10

  • Adult age differences in memory for prose

    Elizabeth M Zelinski, Leah L Light et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology1984Cited by: 4

  • Memory for spatial information in young and old adults

    Leah L Light, Elizabeth M ZelinskiARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology1983Cited by: 5References: 2

  • Memory and aging

    Deborah M Burke, Leah L LightARTICLEPsychological Bulletin1981Cited by: 4

  • Availability Growth and Latent Verbal Learning

    Leonard M Horowitz, Ruth S Day et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of General Psychology1968