Jessica Nowinski, Ph.D.

Research Psychologist -- NASA

Academic Background

Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, Stanford University, 1999
A.B. in Psychology, Barnard College, Columbia University, 1992

Research and Applied Work

Jessica Nowinksi is a Research Psychologist in the Human-Computer Interaction Group at NASA Ames Research Center. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Barnard College at Columbia University (1992). She earned her Ph.D. (2004) in Cognitive Psychology at Stanford University (1999). While at Stanford Dr. Nowinski worked with Gordon Bower on issues of bias and interference in memory, and conducted her dissertation research on possible inhibition mechanisms related to forgetting. In 1999 she came to NASA Ames as an NRC post-doc to work with Key Dismukes researching theoretical and practical aspects of prospective memory (memory for intentions), especially as they relate to cockpit and ATC operations. She is currently a contributor to the software design and requirements development efforts in the HCI Group.

Recent Papers

R. K. Dismukes, & J. L. Nowinski (2006) Prospective Memory, concurrent task management, and pilot error, In A. Kramer, D. Wiegmann, & A. Kirlik (Eds.) Attention: From Theory to Practice. New York: Oxford University Press.

R. K. Dismukes, & J. L. Nowinski (2005) Effects of ongoing task context and target typicality on prospective memory performance: The importance of associative cueing, Memory, 13(6), 649-657.

J. L. Nowinski, J. B. Holbrook, & R. K. Dismukes (2003) Human memory and cockpit operations: An ASRS study, In Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology (pp. 888-893). Dayton, OH: The Wright State University.