Portrait of Dr. Carmen E Westerberg

Dr. Carmen E Westerberg

  • Professor at Psychology, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2024

  • Westerberg, C. E., Fickle, S. E., Troupe, C. E., Madden-Rusnak, A., & Deason, R. G. (2024). An afternoon nap facilitates analogical transfer in creative problem solving. Journal of Sleep Research, e14419. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.14419
  • Westerberg, C. E., Price, M., Niziurski, J., & Howard, K. (2024). Prolonged changes in the perception of dreaming behaviors resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Dreaming, 34(2), 107–121. https://doi.org/10.1037/drm0000269
  • Gonsalez, D., Kinfe, Y., Biggs-Rodriguez, O., Kowe, F., & Westerberg, C. E. (2024). Test format influences the effectiveness of wakeful rest for memory consolidation. Sleep, 47, A37–A38. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsae067.0077
  • Price, M. A., Haque, Z., Garza, L., & Westerberg, C. E. (2024). Dream bizarreness is related to specific aspects of metacognition that are influenced by personality. Sleep, 47, A34. https://doi.org/0.1093/sleep/zsae067.0085
  • Kuo, M., Farnsworth, J. L., Westerberg, C. E., Deason, R. G., & Fraser, M. A. (2024). Factor structure of the baseline standard assessment of concussion (SAC) in collegiate student-athletes. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 58(Supplement 1), A10. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2023-concussion.27

2023

  • Price, M. A., Chavez, R., Perrotte, J. K., & Westerberg, C. E. (2023). Dreams and personality influence creativity. Sleep, 46, A31.

2022

  • Wofford, N., Ceballos, N., Westerberg, C. E., & Elkins, G. (2022). A brief nap during an acute stressor improves negative affect. Journal of Sleep Research, e13701. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.13701
  • Ceballos, N. A., Westerberg, C. E., Graham, R., Shattuck, E., & Perrotte, J. K. (2022). Blackouts and hangover experiences among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White college students. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 16, 100466. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2022.100466
  • Ceballos, N., Perrotte, J., Westerberg, C. E., Shattuck, E., & Graham, R. (2022). The roles of shame and resilience in hangover experiences among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic white college students. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

2021

  • Wofford, N., Westerberg, C. E., Ceballos, N., & Elkins, G. (2021). The effects of a brief nap on stress, affect, and working memory. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.

2020

  • Westerberg, C. E., Wofford, N., Menssor, S., Reininger, B. P., & Deason, R. G. (2020). Face category differentially influences face memories after a delay. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 32(7), 587–597. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2020.1809432

2019

  • Johnson, M. L., Marshall, S. G., Kelemen, W. L., & Westerberg, C. E. (2019). The effects of a single night of continuous positive airway pressure on memory in patients with obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep, 42(A33).

2018

  • Westerberg, C., Hawkins, C. A., & Rendon, L. C. (2018). Sleep-dependent reductions in reality-monitoring errors arise from more conservative decision criteria. Learning & Memory, 25(2), 105–108. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.046342.118

2017

  • Batterink, L., Westerberg, C. E., & Paller, K. A. (2017). Vocabulary learning benefits from REM after slow-wave sleep. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 144, 102–113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2017.07.001

2015

  • Westerberg, C., Florczak, S. M., Weintraub, S., Mesulam, M.-M., Marshall, L., Zee, P. C., & Paller, K. A. (2015). Memory improvement via slow-oscillatory stimulation during sleep in older adults. Neurobiology of Aging, 36(9), 2577–2586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2015.05.014

2014

  • Migo, E., & Westerberg, C. E. (2014). Reconsidering claims of familiarity disruptions in mild cognitive impairment. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 21, 432–436. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2013.831806

2013

  • Westerberg, C. E., Mayes, A., Florczak, S. M., Chen, Y., Creery, J., Parrish, T., … Paller, K. A. (2013). Distinct medial temporal contributions to different forms of recognition in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropsychologia, 51, 2450–2461.

2012

  • Westerberg, C. E., Mander, B. A., Florczak, S. M., Weintraub, S., Mesulam, M.-M., Zee, P. C., & Paller, K. A. (2012). Concurrent impairments in sleep and memory in amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 18, 490–5003.
  • Westerberg, C. E., Voss, J. L., Reber, P. J., & Paller, K. A. (2012). Medial temporal contributions to face-name learning. Human Brain Mapping, 33, 1717–1726.

2011

  • Westerberg, C. E., Reber, P. J., Miller, B. B., Parrish, T. B., Cohen, N. J., & Paller, K. A. (2011). Neural correlates of contextual cueing are modulated by explicit learning. Neuropsychologia, 49(12), 3439–3447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.08.019

2010

  • Westerberg, C. E., Lundgren, E. L., Florczak, S. M., Weintraub, S., Mesulam, M.-M., Zee, P. C., & Paller, K. A. (2010). Sleep influences the severity of memory disruption in mild cognitive impairment: Results from sleep self-assessment and continuous activity monitoring. Alzheimer’s Disease and Associated Disorders, 24, 325–333.
  • Westerberg, C. E., Lundgren, E. M., Florczak, S. M., Mesulam, M.-M., Weintraub, S., Zee, P. C., & Paller, K. A. (2010). Sleep Influences the Severity of Memory Disruption in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, 24(4), 325–333. https://doi.org/10.1097/wad.0b013e3181e30846

2009

  • Rudoy, J. D., Voss, J. L., Westerberg, C. E., & Paller, K. A. (2009). Strengthening individual memories by reactivating them during sleep. Science, 326, 326–1079.
  • Paller, K. A., Voss, J. L., & Westerberg, C. E. (2009). Investigating the awareness of remembering. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 4, 185–199.
  • Paller, K. A., Voss, J. L., & Westerberg, C. (2009). Memory and the awareness of remembering. In R. H. Kluwe, C. Ranganath, B. Rder, & F. Rsler (Eds.), Neuroimaging of Human Memory: Linking Cognitive Process to Neural Systems. Oxford University Press.

2008

  • Westerberg, C., Steele, V. R., & Maroslek, C. J. (2008). Reversing presentation order of semantically related words reverses memory. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 20, 69–90.
  • Chen, J. W., Li, W., Westerberg, C., & Tzeng, O.-L. (2008). Test-item sequence affects false memory formation: An event-related potential study. Neuroscience Letters, 431, 51–56.

2006

  • Westerberg, C., & Marsolek, C. J. (2006). Do instructional warnings reduce false recognition? Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 97–114.
  • Westerberg, C. E., Paller, K. A., Weintraub, S., Mesulam, M.-M., Holdstock, J. S., Mayes, A. R., & Reber, P. J. (2006). When memory does not fail: Familiarity-based recognition in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropsychology, 20, 193–205.

2003

  • Westerberg, C., & Marsolek, C. J. (2003). Hemispheric asymmetries in memory processes as measured in a false recognition paradigm. Cortex, 39, 627–642.
  • Westerberg, C., & Marsolek, C. J. (2003). Sensitivity reductions in false recognition: A measure of false memories with stronger theoretical implications. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 29, 747–759.

1999

  • Westerberg, C., & Marsolek, C. J. (1999). Questioning explicit properties of implicit individuals in knowledge representation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 788–789.