| | Staff Scientists and Clinicians
| Leslie J. Caplan, Ph.D. |
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Dr. Caplan is a Staff Scientist in the Section
on Socio-Environmental Studies (SSES). She earned
her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University
of Iowa in 1980. She began her professional career as
a faculty member at Cornell College in Iowa, followed
by five years at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
She joined the SSES (then the Laboratory of Socio-environmental
Studies) as a Staff Fellow in 1986, and became a staff
scientist in 1993. |
| Research Interests |
| Dr.
Caplan’s research interests have included work in
cognitive processes across the lifespan, particularly
knowledge representation and analogy-based learning. She
has contributed to the section’s experimental psychological
work on cognitive concomitants of schizophrenia and aging.
More recently, she has focused on two of the SSES’s
longitudinal research projects: 1) a study investigating
the socio-environmental determinants of psychological
functioning and AIDS in Mali, West Africa, and 2) a 30-year
longitudinal study of a U.S. sample, investigating the
effects of environmental complexity and earlier psychological
characteristics on later psychological functioning. She
also participates in a collaborative study with the Cognitive
Neuroscience Section, NINDS, on how brain damage suffered
during combat in Vietnam affects the potentially reciprocal
relationships between injured veterans’ cognitive
and social environments and their psychological functioning.
This project, as well as the two longitudinal SSES studies,
require the use of advanced statistical techniques, particularly
structural equation modeling, for the analyses of very
complex data sets. |
| Representative Selected Recent Publications: |
- Rosen, V. M., Caplan, L., Sheesley, L., Rodriguez, R., & Grafman, J.: An examination of daily activities and their scripts across the lifepsan. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, in press.
- Herrmann, D. J., Schooler, C., Caplan, L. J., Lipman, P.D., Grafman, J., Schoenbach, C., Schwab, K., & Johnson, M. L.: The latent structure of memory: A confirmatory factor-analytic study of memory distinctions. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 36, 29-51, 2001.
- Caplan, L. J., & Schooler, C. : On the use of analogy in text-based memory and comprehension: The interaction between complexity of within-domain encoding and between-domain processing. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 8, 41-70, 1999.
- Schooler, C., Diakite, C., Vogel, J., Mounkoro, P., & Caplan, L.: Conducting a complex sociological survey in rural Mali: Three points of view. American Behavioral Scientist, 42, 276-284, 1998.
- Schooler, C., Neumann, E., Caplan, L. J., & Roberts, B. R.: Continued inhibitory capacity of the elderly: Conceptual negative priming in younger and older adults. Psychology and Aging, 12, 667-674, 1997.
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Intramural
Research Programs
National Institute of Mental Health
Building 10, Room 4n222 (MSC 1381)
Bethesda, MD. 20892-1381 |
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