Papers and Presentations relevant to Women's Cognitive Health

Wright, V.B. & Spiers, M. V. (2011, March). Professional Ratings Of The Scientific Grounding And Usefulness Of Self-Help Books For Coping With Infertility. Presented at the  Annual Meeting of the Association for Women in Psychology. Philadelphia, PA.

Geller, P.A., Spiers, M. V. and Kloss, J.K.  (2011, March). Generating Solutions: The Voice of Psychology in Shaping Conversations about Women's Health in the Next Decade.  Symposium presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Women in Psychology. Philadelphia, PA. 
 
Lake, T., Jicha, C., Valisetty, L. & Spiers, M. V. (2011, February). Estrogenic Influence on Risk-taking and Reward Dependent Behaviors. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychology Society, Boston, MA.

Douglas, K.R., McGhee, R.A., Sakamoto, M., & Spiers, M.V. (2009, November). Effects of Age, Gender, and Kanji Education on the
Rey-Osterreith Complex Figure Test Performance. Paper presented at the 29th annual meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, New Orleans, LA.

Sakamoto, M., Spiers, M. V. & Libon, D. J. (2009, November). Differentiation between Alzheimer’s Disease and Vascular Dementia among Japanese Elders by Using Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test . Paper presented at the 29th annual meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, New Orleans, LA.

Spiers, M. V. ( 2009, March). Are all Women from Venus?  Individual Differences in Women’s Spatial Performance.  Keynote address presented at the Fawl Memorial Lecture. Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE.

Mohn, K. R., Sakamoto, M. Gillis, M. M., Kounios J., & Spiers, M. V.  (2009, February). Cortical activation and cognition in long-term oral contraceptive users.  Journal of the International Neuropsychology Society, 14 (S1), p. i-319. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychology Society, Waikoloa, HI

Spiers, M. V. ( 2009, February). Memory Change in the Post-Reproductive Woman.  Invited address.  Drexel University Sex and Gender Forum, Philadelphia, PA.

Spiers, M.V, Sakamoto, M., Elliott, R. & Baumann, S. (2008). Sex Differences in Spatial Object Location Memory in a Virtual Grocery Store.  CyberPsychology and Behavior. 11(4) 471-473. 

Sakamoto M. & Spiers, M.V. (2007).  Impact of Japanese written language on spatial performance: A comparison between Japanese and Americans. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 22(7), 856. Paper presented at the 27th annual conference of the National Academy of Neuropsychology. Scottsdale, AZ. 

Sakamoto, M. & Spiers, M.V. (2007, March). Sex and Cultural Differences in Spatial Location Memory: A Comparison between 2-D and 3-D Tests. Paper presented at the 9th Annual Rehabilitation Psychology mid-year conference. Charlotte, NC.

Friedman, K. & Spiers, M. V. (2006, November)  A comparison of emotion recognition in women with and without symptoms of post-partum depression. Paper presented at the 26th annual meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology.:  Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 21 (6), 562.

Sakamoto, M., Spiers, M.V., Elliott, J.R., & Baumann, S. (2006, May). Sex Differences in Spatial Location Memory in a Virtual Reality Environment. Paper presented at the 18th annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY

Sakamoto, M., Spiers, M.V., & Elliott, J.R. (2006). Spatial Ability among Japanese and Americans: Sex and Cultural Differences. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 21(6), 563. Paper presented at the 26th annual meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, San Antonio, TX

D’Andrea, E. A. & Spiers, M. V. (2005). The Effect of Familial Sinistrality and Academic Experience on Cognition in Right-handed Women.  Neuropsychology, 19,657-663. 

D'Andrea, E.A. & Spiers, M.V. (2005, October).  Hormones, Cognitive Performance, and Individual Differences.  Paper presented at the Graylyn Conference on Women's Cognitive Health.

Mohn, R.K., Spiers, M.V., & Sakamoto, M. (2005). Oral Contraceptive Use and Cognitive Functioning in Young Women. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 20(7), 846. Paper presented at the 25th Annual meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology. Tampa, FL.

Tweedy, K., & Spiers, M. V. (2003, October).  Hormones and Emotional Memory in Women and Men.  Presented at the Graylyn Conference on Women’s Cognitive Health.

Tweedy, K., & Spiers, M. V. (2003, April). Sex differences in Emotional Memory. Presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association.

Spiers, M. V. (2003, January) Cognitive Variation in Young Adult Women: Effects of Brain Organization and Hormones  Presented at the Drexel Research Advancement Day, Philadelphia, PA.

Spiers, M.V. & Tweedy, K.  (2000, January).  Olfactory memory accross the menstual cycle.   Paper presented at the  MCPHU conference on Sex and Gender Science. Philadelphia, PA.

D'Andrea, E.A. & Spiers, M.V. (1998, August). Visuospatial and verbal ability in subgroups of right-handed women.  Presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco. Abstract: The Clinical Neuropsychologist.