Alice Healy is College Professor of Distinction Emeritus in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder. Healy received an A.B. in Psychology in 1968 from Vassar College and a Ph.D. in psychology from The Rockefeller University in 1973 under the supervision of William K. Estes. Her research focuses on memory and cognitive processes, especially training, long-term retention, reading, short-term memory, psycholinguistics, and decision-making. She served as President of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association (1994-1995), as Chair of the Psychology Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1995-1996), as President of American Psychological Association Division 3 (2004-2005), and as Chair of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (2008-2009). She also served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (1981-1984), as Editor of Memory & Cognition (1986-1989), and as a member of the Governing Board (1987-1992) and Publications Committee (1989-1994) of the Psychonomic Society. Healy's work was celebrated on June 7-8, 2014 in a Festschrift in her honor on the University of Colorado campus. A Festschrift volume in her honor was published as a special issue of the American Journal of Psychology (Volume 128, Number 2, Summer, 2015).  Healy is currently a Visiting Scholar in the laboratory of Professor Michael Kahana in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Alice F. Healy

College Professor of Distinction Emeritus

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

University of Colorado Boulder

1901 Walnut Street, Apt 16A

Philadelphia, PA 19103

Phone: 303-579-0576

Email: alice.healy@colorado.edu