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Elizabeth A L Stine-Morrow

Professor Emerita

Primary Affiliation

Cognition, Lifespan Engagement, Aging, and Resilience

Affiliations

Status Full-time Faculty

Home Department of Educational Psychology

Phone 244-2167

Email eals@illinois.edu

Address 2021 Beckman Institute, 405 North Mathews Avenue

  • Biography

    Liz Stine-Morrow was on the faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire prior to coming to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2002. She is currently a Professor Emerita and research professor of educational psychology with appointments in psychology and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. She leads The Adult Learning Lab.

    Education

    • Ph.D., general/experimental psychology, Georgia Tech University, 1983

    • Postdoctoral researcher, Duke University, 1983-1984

    • Research scientist, Brandeis University, 1984-1990

  • Research

    Research Interests:

    Professor Stine-Morrow's research is focused on the conditions and strategies that augment cognitive health and make us effective learners into later adulthood. Research topics include:

    • Investigating how age-related change in cognition impacts language and text comprehension and how shifts in strategy with age can contribute to maintaining text memory.

    • Mechanisms underlying individual variation in literacy skill among adults.

    • Interventions that promote cognitive resilience into late life.

    Professor Stine-Morrow’s research is broadly concerned with the multifaceted nature of adult development and aging; in particular, how cognition and intellectual capacities are optimized over the adult life span. She has examined how self-regulated adaptations (e.g., selective allocation of attentional resources, reliance on knowledge-based processes, activity engagement, etc.) engender positive development in adulthood. Much of this research has focused on the important role of literacy and the processes through which effective reading is maintained into late life.

    Professor Stine-Morrow's research has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the National Science Foundation, and the Institute for Educational Sciences. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Gerontological Society of America. Awards include the College of Education Spitze-Mather Award for Faculty Excellence and the Department of Educational Psychology Jones Teaching Award. Professor Stine-Morrow has served as president of Division 20 of the American Psychological Association, as associate editor for The Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences and Memory & Cognition, and as a member of the National Research Council’s Committee on Adolescent and Adult Literacy (2009-2011). She currently serves as associate editor for Psychology and Aging.

  • 2022

    • Hill, P. L., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2022). Introduction to the Special Issue on Transparency, Replicability, and Discovery in the Psychological Science of Adult Development and Aging. Psychology and aging, 37(1), 6-9.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2022). Research Practices for a Robust Psychological Science of Adult Development and Aging. Psychology and aging, 37(1), 1-5.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2022). Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Worm, T. W., Barbey, A. K., & Morrow, D. G. (2022). The potential for socially integrated and engaged lifestyles to support cognitive health with aging: Precursor and pathways. In G. Sedek, D. Touron, & T. M. Hess (Eds.), Multiple pathways of cognitive aging: Motivational and contextual influences (pp. 276-304). Oxford University Press.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., & McCall, G. S. (2022). Reading comprehension is both incremental and segmental—and the balance may shift with aging. In K. D. Federmeier, & B. R. Payne (Eds.), Cognitive Aging (pp. 263-290). (Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory; Vol. 77). Academic Press Inc..
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., McCall, G. S., Manavbasi, I., Ng, S., Llano, D. A., & Barbey, A. K. (2022). The Effects of Sustained Literacy Engagement on Cognition and Sentence Processing Among Older Adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, [923795]. link >

    2021

    • Bailey, P. E., Ebner, N. C., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2021). Introduction to the special issue on prosociality in adult development and aging: Advancing theory within a multilevel framework. Psychology and aging, 36(1), 1-9. link >
    • Liu, X., Mikels, J. A., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2021). The psycholinguistic and affective processing of framed health messages among younger and older adults. Journal of experimental psychology. Applied, 27(2), 201-212.
    • Mikels, J. A., Young, N. A., Liu, X., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2021). Getting to the Heart of the Matter in Later Life: The Central Role of Affect in Health Message Framing. Gerontologist, 61(5), 756-762.
    • Rodrigues, M. A., Yoon, S. O., Clancy, K. B. H., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2021). What are friends for? The impact of friendship on communicative efficiency and cortisol response during collaborative problem solving among younger and older women. Journal of Women and Aging, 33(4), 411-427. link >
    • Shishegar, N., Boubekri, M., Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., & Rogers, W. A. (2021). Tuning environmental lighting improves objective and subjective sleep quality in older adults. Building and Environment, 204, [108096].
    • Worm, T., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2021). May the Flow be with You: Age Differences in the Influence of Social Motives and Context on the Experience of Activity Engagement. Journal of Adult Development, 28(4), 265-275.

    2020

    • Jackson, J. J., Hill, P. L., Payne, B. R., Parisi, J. M., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2020). Linking openness to cognitive ability in older adulthood: The role of activity diversity. Aging and Mental Health, 24(7), 1079-1087.
    • Katsumi, Y., Dolcos, S., Dixon, R. A., Fabiani, M., Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., & Dolcos, F. (2020). Immediate and long-term effects of emotional suppression in aging: A functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation. Psychology and aging, 35(5), 676-696.
    • Ng, S., Payne, B. R., Liu, X., Anderson, C. J., Federmeier, K. D., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2020). Execution of Lexical and Conceptual Processes in Sentence Comprehension among Adult Readers as a Function of Literacy Skill. Scientific Studies of Reading, 24(4), 338-355.
    • Payne, B. R., Federmeier, K. D., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2020). Literacy skill and intra-individual variability in eye-fixation durations during reading: Evidence from a diverse community-based adult sample. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(11), 1841-1861.

    2019

    • Bollaert, R. E., Sandroff, B. M., Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Sutton, B. P., & Motl, R. W. (2019). The Intersection of Physical Function, Cognitive Performance, Aging, and Multiple Sclerosis: A Cross-sectional Comparative Study. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 32(1), 1-10.
    • Chaparro, G. N., Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., & Hernandez, M. E. (2019). Effects of aerobic fitness on cognitive performance as a function of dual-task demands in older adults. Experimental Gerontology, 118, 99-105.
    • Liu, X., Shuster, M. M., Mikels, J. A., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2019). Doing What Makes You Happy: Health Message Framing for Younger and Older Adults. Experimental Aging Research, 45(4), 293-305.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2019). Editorial. Psychology and aging, 34(1), 1-3.
    • Yoon, S. O., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2019). Evidence of preserved audience design with aging in interactive conversation. Psychology and aging, 34(4), 613-623.

    2018

    • Ng, S., Payne, B. R., Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., & Federmeier, K. D. (2018). How struggling adult readers use contextual information when comprehending speech: Evidence from event-related potentials. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 125, 1-9.

    2017

    • Chin, J., Madison, A., Gao, X., Graumlich, J. F., Conner-Garcia, T., Murray, M. D., Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Morrow, D. G., & Pruchno, R. (2017). Cognition and health literacy in older adults' recall of self-care information. Gerontologist, 57(2), 261-268.
    • Ng, S., Payne, B. R., Steen, A. A., Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., & Federmeier, K. D. (2017). Use of Contextual Information and Prediction by Struggling Adult Readers: Evidence From Reading Times and Event-Related Potentials. Scientific Studies of Reading, 21(5), 359-375.
    • Payne, B. R., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2017). The effects of home-based cognitive training on verbal working memory and language comprehension in older adulthood. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 9(AUG), [256].
    • Payne, B. R., Gross, A. L., Hill, P. L., Parisi, J. M., Rebok, G. W., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2017). Decomposing the relationship between cognitive functioning and self-referent memory beliefs in older adulthood: what’s memory got to do with it? Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 24(4), 345-362.
    • Steen-Baker, A. A., Ng, S., Payne, B. R., Anderson, C. J., Federmeier, K. D., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2017). The effects of context on processing words during sentence reading among adults varying in age and literacy skill. Psychology and aging, 32(5), 460-472.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., & Radvansky, G. A. (2017). Discourse processing and development through the adult lifespan. In M. F. Schober, D. N. Rapp, & A. Britt (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Processes, Second Edition (2 ed., pp. 247-268). Taylor and Francis.

    2016

    • Liu, X.; Chin, J.; Payne, B. R.; Fu, W.-T.; Morrow, D. G.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Adult Age Differences in Information Foraging in an Interactive Reading Environment. Psychology and Aging 2016, 31, 211-223.
    • Liu, X.; Giffin, L. B.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Language Comprehension, In The Encyclopedia of Adult Development and Aging. Whitbourne, S. K., Ed.; John-Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.
    • Motl, R. W.; Sebastião, E.; Klaren, R. E.; McAuley, E.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Roberts, B. W., Physical Activity and Healthy Aging with Multiple Sclerosis: Literature Review and Research Directions. US Neurology 2016, 12, 29-33.
    • Payne, B. R.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Risk for Mild Cognitive Impairment Is Associated with Semantic Integration Deficits in Sentence Processing and Memory. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences 2016, 17, 243-253.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Giffin, L. B.; Liu, X., Discourse Processing and Memory, In The Encyclopedia of Adult Development and Aging. Whitbourne, S. K., Ed.; John-Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Payne, B. R., Age Differences in Language Segmentation. Experimental Aging Research 2016, 42, (1), 107-125.

    2015

    • Chin, J., Payne, B., Fu, W-T., Morrow, D. G., Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Information foraging across the life span: Search and switch in unknown patches. Topics in Cognitive Science, 2015, in press.
    • Chin, J., Payne, B., Fu, W-T., Morrow, D. G., Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Information foraging across the life span: Search and switch in unknown patches. Topics in Cognitive Science, 2015, in press.
    • Chin, J.; Payne, B.; Gao, X. F.; Conner-Garcia, T.; Graumlich, J. F.; Murray, M. D.; Morrow, D. G.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Memory and Comprehension for Health Information among Older Adults: Distinguishing the Effects of Domain-General and Domain-Specific Knowledge. Memory 2015, 23, (4), 577-589.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Hussey, E. K.; Ng, S., The Potential for Literacy to Shape Lifelong Cognitive Health. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2015, 2, 92-100, DOI:10.1177/2372732215600889.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Payne, B. R., Education and Learning: Lifespan Perspectives, In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 2nd ed.; Wright, J. D., Ed. 2015; Vol. 7, 137-143.

    2014

    • Chin, J., Payne, B.R., Fu, W-T., Morrow, D., Stine-Morrow, E.A.L., Information foraging across the life span: Search and switch in unknown patches. Cognitive Aging Conference 2014,Atlanta, GA.
    • Chin, J.; Payne, B. R.; Gao, X.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Morrow, D. G.; Conner-Garcia, T.; Graumlich, J. F.; Murray, M. D., Knowledge Influences Comprehension and Memory for Health Information among Older Adults: Distinguishing the Effects of Domain-General and Domain-Specific Knowledge. Memory 2014, DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2014.912331.
    • Payne, B. R.; Grison, S.; Gao, X. F.; Christianson, K.; Morrow, D. G.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Aging and Individual Differences in Binding During Sentence Understanding: Evidence from Temporary and Global Syntactic Attachment Ambiguities. Cognition 2014, 130, (2), 157-173, DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.10.005.
    • Payne, B. R.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Adult Age Differences in Conceptual Integration Processes in Sentence Processing: Evidence from Ex-Gaussian Distributional Analyses of Reading Time. Psychology and Aging 2014, 29, (2), 213-228.

    2013

    • Jerome, G. J.; McAuley, E., Enrollment and Participation in a Pilot Walking Programme: The Role of Self-Efficacy. Journal of Health Psychology 2013, 18, (2), 236-244.
    • Payne, B. R.; Gross, A. L.; Parisi, J. M.; Sisco, S. M.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Marsiske, M.; Rebok, G. W., Modeling Longitudinal Changes in Older Adults’ Memory for Spoken Discourse: Findings from the Active Cohort. Memory 2013, 1-12, DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2013.861916.
    • Stites, M. C.; Federmeier, K. D.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Cross-Age Comparisons Reveal Multiple Strategies for Lexical Ambiguity Resolution During Natural Reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition 2013, 39, (6), 1823-1841, DOI: 10.1037/a0032860.

    2012

    • Gao, X. F.; Levinthal, B. R.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., The Effects of Ageing and Visual Noise on Conceptual Integration During Sentence Reading. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 2012, 65, (9), 1833-1847.
    • Jackson, J. J.; Hill, P. L.; Payne, B. R.; Roberts, B. W.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Can an Old Dog Learn (and Want to Experience) New Tricks? Cognitive Training Increases Openness to Experience in Older Adults. Psychology and Aging 2012, 27, (2), 286-292.
    • Morrow, D.; D'Andrea, L.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Shake, M.; Bertel, S.; Chin, J.; Kopren, K.; Gao, X. F.; Conner-Garcia, T.; Graumlich, J.; Murray, M., Comprehension of Multimedia Health Information among Older Adults with Chronic Illness. Visual Communication 2012, 11, (3), 347-362.
    • Payne, B. R.; Gao, X. F.; Noh, S. R.; Anderson, C. J.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., The Effects of Print Exposure on Sentence Processing and Memory in Older Adults: Evidence for Efficiency and Reserve. Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition 2012, 19, (1-2), 122-149.
    • Payne, B. R.; Jackson, J. J.; Hill, P. L.; Gao, X. F.; Roberts, B. W.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Memory Self-Efficacy Predicts Responsiveness to Inductive Reasoning Training in Older Adults. Journals of Gerontology Series B-Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 2012, 67, (1), 27-35.
    • Payne, B. R.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Aging, Parafoveal Preview, and Semantic Integration in Sentence Processing: Testing the Cognitive Workload of Wrap-Up. Psychology and Aging 2012, 27, (3), 638-649.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Chui, H., Cognitive Resilience in Adulthood., In Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriartrics. Hayslip, J. B., Smith, G. C., Eds.; Springer, New York, 2012; Vol. 32, 93-114.

    2011

    • Chin, J.; Morrow, D. G.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Conner-Garcia, T.; Graumlich, J. F.; Murray, M. D., The Process-Knowledge Model of Health Literacy: Evidence from a Componential Analysis of Two Commonly Used Measures. Journal of Health Communication 2011, 16, 222-241.
    • Gao, X. F.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Noh, S. R.; Eskew, R. T., Visual Noise Disrupts Conceptual Integration in Reading. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2011, 18, (1), 83-88.
    • Payne, B. R.; Jackson, J. J.; Hill, P. L.; Gao, X.; Roberts, B. W.; Stine-Morrow, E., Memory Self-Efficacy Predicts Responsiveness to Inductive Reasoning Training in Older Adults. Gerontologist 2011, 51, 279-279.
    • Payne, B. R.; Jackson, J. J.; Noh, S. R.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., In the Zone: Flow State and Cognition in Older Adults. Psychology and Aging 2011, 26, (3), 738-743.
    • Shake, M. C.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Age Differences in Resolving Anaphoric Expressions During Reading. Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition 2011, 18, (6), 678-707.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Parisi, J. M. A Practical Guide to Senior Odyssey, 2011, 155-168.

    2010

    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Noh, S. R.; Shake, M. C., Age differences in the effects of conceptual integration training on resource allocation in reading. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 2010.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Shake, M. C.; Miles, J. R.; Lee, K.; McConkie, G., Pay now or pay later: Aging and the role of boundary salience in self-regulation of conceptual integration in sentence processing. Psychology and Aging 2010,25, 168-176.
    • D'Andrea, L.; Kopren, K.; Chin, J.; Shake, M.; Morrow, D. G.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Bertel, S.; Conner-Garcia, T.; Graumlich, J.; Murray, M. D. Impact of Health Knowledge on Older Adults' Comprehension of Multimedia Health Information, Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 54th Annual Meeting, Human Factors & Ergonomics Society: Santa Monica, 2010; pp 180-184.
    • Gao, X.; Payne, B.; Stine-Morrow, E., Memory Self-Efficacy Predicts Longitudinal Changes in Resource Allocation and Text Memory in Sentence Reading. Gerontologist 2010, 50, 149-149.
    • Payne, B. R.; Gao, X.; Stine-Morrow, E., Measures of Reading Skill Dissociate Online Reading Processes among Older Adults. Gerontologist 2010, 50, 148-148.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Noh, S. R.; Shake, M. C., Age differences in the effects of conceptual integration training on resource allocation in sentence processing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 2010, 63, (7), 1430-1455.
    • Stites, M. C.; Lee, C. L.; Federmeier, K. D.; Gao, X. F.; Stine-Morrow, E. A., Linking the Eyes and the Brain: Erp and Eyetracking Effects of on-Line Ambiguity Resolution of Noun/Verb Homographs. Psychophysiology 2010, 47, S37-S37.

    2009

    • Stine-Morrow, E.; Noh, S.; Gao, X., Senior Odyssey: the Effects of Intellectual and Social Engagement on Cognitive Vitality. Gerontologist 2009, 49, 229-229.
    • Noh, S. R.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Age differences in tracking characters during narrative comprehension. Memory & Cognition 2009, 37, (6), 769-778.
    • Noh, S.; Gao, X.; Stine-Morrow, E., The Effects of Resource Allocation and Fluid Ability on Text Memory Change through Later Adulthood. Gerontologist 2009, 49, 349-350.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Miller, L. M. S., Aging, Self-Regulation, and Learning from Text. In Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory, Vol 51, Elsevier Academic Press Inc: San Diego, 2009; Vol. 51, pp 255-296.
    • Morrow, D. G.; Miller, L. M. S.; Ridolfo, H. E.; Magnor, C.; Fischer, U. M.; Kokayeff, N. K.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Expertise and age differences in pilot decision making. Aging, Cognition, & Neuropsychology 2009, 16, 33-35.
    • Parisi, J. M.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Noh, S. R.; Morrow, D. G., Predispositional engagement, activity engagement and cognition in older adults. Aging, Cognition, & Neuropsychology 2009, 16, 485-504.
    • Shake, M. C.; Noh, S. R.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Age Differences in Learning from Text: Evidence for Functionally Distinct Text Processing Systems. Applied Cognitive Psychology 2009, 23, (4), 561-578.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Shake, M. C., Language in aged persons. In New encyclopedia of neuroscience Squire, L., Ed. Elsevier: New York, 2009; pp 337-342.

    2008

    • Parisi, J.; Stine-Morrow, E.; Janke, M.; Morrow, D.; Payne, L., Determinants and Effects of Engagement in Adulthood. Gerontologist 2008, 48, 224-224.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Gagne, D. D.; Miller, L. M. S.; Hertzog, C., Self-regulated reading in adulthood. Psychology and Aging 2008, 23 (1), 131-153.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Parisi, J. M.; Morrow, D. G.; Park, D. C., The Effects of an Engaged Lifestyle on Cognitive Vitality: A Field Experiment. Psychology and Aging 2008, 23, (4), 778-786.

    2007

    • Brookes, D. T.; Mestre, J.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. Reading Time as Evidence for Mental Models inUnderstanding Physics, In Proceedings of the 2007 Physics Education Research Conference, Hsu, L.; Henderson, C.; McCullough, L., Eds. American Institute of Physics: Melville, NY, 2007; pp 65-68.
    • Noh, S. R.; Shake, M. C.; Parisi, J. M.; Joncich, A. D.; Morrow, D. G.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Age differences in learning from text: The effects of content preexposure on reading. International Journal of Behavioral Development 2007, 31, (2), 133-148.
    • Park, D. C.; Gutchess, A. H.; Meade, M. L.; Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Improving cognitive function in older adults: Nontraditional approaches. Journals of Gerontology Series a-Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 2007, 62, 45-52.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., HMM-based concept learning for a mobile robot. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 2007, 16 (6), 295-299.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Parisi, J. M.; Morrow, D. G.; Greene, J.; Park, D.C., An engagement model of cognitive optimization through adulthood. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences 2007, 62B, 62-69.

    2006

    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Miller, L. M. S.; Hertzog, C., Aging and self-regulated language processing. Psychological Bulletin 2006, 132, (4), 582-606.
    • Stine-Morrow, E. A. L.; Shake, M. C.; Miles, J. R.; Noh, S. R., Adult age differences in the effects of goals on self-regulated sentence processing. Psychology and Aging 2006, 21, (4), 790-803.