Maura Pilotti
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Contact information: E-mail
phone number (631) 244-5012
fax number (631)244-1085

EDUCATION
February 1997 Ph.D. in Psychology Graduate Center of the City University of New York

May 1993 Certificate in Teaching in Urban Colleges Center for Advanced Study in Education, FIPSE Project, New York

July 1985 Laurea in Psychology Universita' degli Studi di Padova, Italy

ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
1998 to April 2001: National Research Service Post-Doctoral Fellowship National Institutes of Health
Title: "Age differences in speech perception"

1997-1998 Missouri's Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Grant
Title: "Perceptual processes in spoken word identification in Alzheimer's disease."

1997 Barmack Award for Outstanding Dissertation

1996-1997 Developmental Neuroscience and Developmental Disabilities Fellowship
Institute of Basic Research/CUNY Research Foundation.

1995 American Psychological Association's Dissertation Research Award

1992 Student Competition of the New York State Psychological Association Meritorious Award
Title: "Semantic satiation: A perceptual or a semantic phenomenon?"

PUBLICATIONS
Deacon, D., Pilotti, M., & Tinsley, C. (1995). Is the pre-attentive comparison of auditory stimuli effected on the basis of featural or gestalt representations? In G. Karmos, M. Molnar, V. Csepe, I. Czigler, & J.E. Desmedt (Eds.), Perspective of Event-Related Potentials Research. Supplement of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology,44, (pp. 190-196).Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Meehan, E. F., & Pilotti, M. (1996). Auditory priming in an implicit memory task emphasizing surface processing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3, 495-498

Pilotti, M., Antrobus, J. S., & Duff M. (1997). The effect of presemantic acoustic adaptation on semantic satiation. Memory & Cognition, 25, 305-312.

Deacon, D., Nousak, J., Pilotti, M., Ritter, W., Yang, C. (1998). Automatic change detection: Does the auditory system use representations of individual stimulus features or gestalt? Psychophysiology, 35, 413-419.

Pilotti, M., Balota, D. A., Sommers, M., Khurshid, A. (2000). Auditory habituation in young and older adults: the verbal transformation effect. Psychology & Aging, 15, 313-322.

Pilotti, M., Bergman, E. T., Gallo, D. A., Roediger, H. L. (2000). Direct comparison of auditory implicit memory tests. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 7, 347-353.

Pilotti, M., Gallo, D. A., & Roediger, H. L. (2000). Effects of hearing words, imaging hearing words, and reading on auditory implicit and explicit memory tests. Memory & Cognition, 28, 1406-1418.

Pilotti, M., Beyer, T., & Yasunami, M. (2001). Encoding tasks and the processing of perceptual information in young and older adults. Journal of Gerontology, Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences, 56B, 119-124.

Balota, D. A., Pilotti, M., & Cortese, M. J. (2001). Subjective frequency estimates for 2,983 monosyllabic words. Memory & Cognition, 29, 639-647.

Pilotti, M. & Beyer, T. (2002). Perceptual and lexical components of auditory priming in young and older adults. Memory & Cognition, 30, 226-236.

Pilotti, M., Beyer, T., & Yasunami, M. (2002). The Suffix effect in young and older adults. Memory & Cognition, 30, 89-96.

Ragin, D. F., Pilotti, M., Madry, L., Sage, R. E., Bingham, L. E., & Primm, B. J. (2002). Intergenerational substance abuse and domestic violence as familial risk factors for lifetime attempted suicide among battered women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 17, 1027-1045.

Pilotti, M., Gallo, D. A., & Mead. M. (2003). Implicit and explicit measures of memory for perceptual information in young adults and healthy or DAT older adults. Experimental Aging Research, 29, 15-32.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., & Tan J. (2004). Asymmetric interference in implicit memory: Effects of awareness and stimulus order. American Journal of Psychology, 117, 43-64.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., & Thornton, K. C. (2004). Error detection in text: Do feedback and familiarity help? Journal of General Psychology, 131, 242-267.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., & Thornton, K. C. (2004). Asymmetric interference in fragment completion: The consequences of recognition failures and successes. American Journal of Psychology, 117, 565-578.

Pilotti, M., & Khurshid, A. (2004). Semantic satiation effect in young and older adults. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 98, 999-1016.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., Silverman, N., & Thornton, K. (2004). Priming and the predictability of contextual information. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 99, 1075-1086.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., & Thornton, K. (2005). Effects of familiarity and type of encoding on proofreading of text. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 18, 325-341.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., & Maxwell, K. (2006). Does the effect of familiarity change with encoding task and time? The Journal of General Psychology, 133, 287-299.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., & Vlasova, O. (in press). Interference Effects and the Consequences of Recognition Failures and Successes. American Journal of Psychology.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Pilotti, M., & Antrobus, J. (1994). Is the satiation in semantic satiation only semantic? The role of pre-semantic adaptation. Poster presented at the Sixth Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society.

Pilotti, M., Carman, B., & Meehan, E. F. (1995). The structural specificity of auditory priming: The contribution of acoustic repetition in a phoneme monitoring task. Poster presented at the Seventh Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society.

Pilotti, M., Gigante, A., Antrobus, J., & Meehan, E. F. (1996). Implicit memory and speaker variability: Does voice predictability help? Poster presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

Pilotti, M., Meehan, E. F. & Antrobus, J. (1996). Auditory priming: A presemantic phenomenon. Poster presented at the Eight Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society.

Pilotti, M., Meehan. E. F., & Kuell, K. (1997). Does implicit memory extend to novel stimuli? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., Meehan, E. F., & Fasano, D. (1997). Implicit memory without a word-level response. Poster presented at the Ninth Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., Sommers, M.S., & Antrobus, J. (1997). Episodic-specific lexical traces are disrupted by study-to-test and word-to-word font changes. Poster presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

Pilotti, M., & Sommers, M.S. (1998). Auditory habituation in young and older adults. Poster presented at the Seventh Cognitive Aging Conference.

Pilotti, M., & Sommers, M.S. (1998). Voice familiarity and speech perception. Poster presented at the Tenth Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society.

Pilotti, M., Bergman, E. T., Roediger, H. L., Sommers, M. S., Gallo, D. A. (1998). Auditory implicit and explicit tests: Voice and modality effects. Poster presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

Pilotti,M., Khurshid, A., & Balota, D. (1999). Auditory satiation in young and older adults. Poster presented at the Seventh-First Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association.

Pilotti, M., Bergman, E. T., Roediger, H. L., Sommers, M. S., Gallo, D. A. (1999). The effects of hearing and imaging the sound of words on auditory implicit and explicit tests. Poster presented at the Eleventh Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society.

Pilotti, M. (1999). Age differences in the suffix effect. Poster presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

Balota, D. A., Cortese, M. J., & Pilotti, M. (1999). Item-level analyses of lexical decision performance: Results from a mega-study). Poster presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

Pilotti, M., Beyer, T, & Yasunami, M. (2000). Auditory priming in young and older adults. Poster presented at the Twelfth Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society.

Gallo, D. A., Pilotti, M., and Meade, M. L. (2000). Effects of aging and DAT on auditory implicit and explicit memory tests. Poster presented at the Twelfth Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society.

Chodorow, M., Pilotti, M., Atencio, J., & Graham, R. (2002). Interference in implicit memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., Tan J., & Meiron, O. (2003). Proactive and retroactive interference in implicit memory: Does awareness matter? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., Barnard, D., & Thornton, K. C. (2003). Proofreading by college students: Do familiarity and feedback matter? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., Barnard, D., & Thornton, K. C. (2003). Generation effect in proofreading. Paper presented at the 111th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.

Pilotti, M. (2003). The past in the present: the ethical dilemmas posed by the reconstructive nature of recollection. Paper presented at the 2003 Humanities and Technology Association Conference.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., Curtin, G., & Chetta, M. (2004). Generation effect in proofreading: Where? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., & Curtin, G. (2004). Familiarity effect in proofreading: Recent or long-term? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association.

Thornton, K. C., & Pilotti, M. (2004). The effect of rater’s self-esteem on judgment of attractiveness of others. Poster presented at the 3rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on the Social Sciences.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., Silverman, N., & Curtin, G. (2004). Interference effects in explicit fragment completion: The consequences of recognition failures and successes. Poster presented at the 112th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.

Alkire, K., Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., & Giachetti, C. (2005). Implicit and explicit contributions to interference in memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association.

Giachetti, C., Pilotti, M., Maxwell, K., Alkire, K., & Chodorow, M. (2005).  Practice test with or without knowledge of results vs. review: Does it matter?  Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., & Maxwell, K. (2005). Does the effect of familiarity on proofreading change with encoding task and time? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., & Vlasova, O. (2005). Level of Processing and Interference Effects in Memory. Poster presented at the 9th Annual N.E.U.R.O.N. Conference.

Pilotti, M., Maxwell, K., & Chodorow, M. (2005). Influence of Type of Prior Exposure on Test Performance. Poster presented at the 112th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., Petrov, R., & Tan, J. (2006). The effects of practice and domain familiarity on test performance and assessment accuracy. Poster presented at the 10th Annual N.E.U.R.O.N. Conference.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., Petrov, R., & Tan, J. (2006). Costs and benefits of prior exposure and phenomenological awareness. Poster presented at the 10th Annual N.E.U.R.O.N. Conference.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., Tan, J., & Dausch, G. (2006). The costs and benefits of prior exposure as a function of stimulus recognition. Poster presented at the Eighteenth Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science.

Pilotti, M., Tan, J., Chodorow, M., & Petrov, R. (2006). Consequences of active and passive practice on self-assessment of test performance. Poster presented at the 114th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.

Lettieri, E. K., Pilotti, M., & Chodorow, M. (2007). The effects of prior exposure on remember, know, familiar and guess answers. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association.

Chodorow, M., Pilotti, M., & Molinari, B. (2007). Practice and self-assessment of test performance. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association.

Pilotti, M., Suong, L., & Chodorow, M. (2007). The effects of study effort versus distinctiveness on recall. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association.

Leonardo, T., Pilotti, M., & Chodorow, M. (2007). The cost of knowing too much. Poster presented at the 11th Annual N.E.U.R.O.N. Conference.

Leonardo, T., Pilotti, M., & Chodorow, M. (2007). The recollection of true and false memories: Does study effort or distinctiveness matter? Poster presented at the 11th Annual N.E.U.R.O.N. Conference.

Pilotti, M., Lettieri, E. K., & Chodorow, M. (2007). The recollection of introductory psychology materials following practice. Poster presented at the 11th Annual N.E.U.R.O.N. Conference.

Pilotti, M., Chodorow, M., Tan, J., & Petrov R. (2007). The Effects of Practice on Test Performance as Measured by Memory-Awareness Categories. Poster presented at the nineteenth Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, Eastern Psychological Association, Psychonomic Society, and International Reading Association, Sigma XI

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Memory (implicit and explicit), linguistic processing, and habituation phenomena: characteristics/properties, underlying mechanisms, changes as a function of aging and neurological insult, assessment and instructional techniques to compensate for age- or insult-related declines.

COURSES TAUGHT
Introductory Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Research Methods, Statistics, Developmental Psychology, Group Dynamics, Social Psychology, and Construct of Personal Identity.

ADDITIONAL LINKS
Professional Organizations:
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Society
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Eastern Psychological Association
International Reading Association
Psychonomic Society
Society for Neuroscience
Sigma XI