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Emily M. Elliott is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she has held faculty positions since 2002, progressing from Assistant Professor (2002-2008) to Associate Professor (2008-2014) and full Professor (2014-present). Prior to her tenure at LSU, she completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 2001 to 2002. Elliott received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2001, her M.A. in Psychology from the same institution in 1998, and her B.S. in Psychology from LSU in 1996, graduating cum laude from the Honors College and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Elliott's research centers on short-term memory and working memory, the interaction between attention and memory performance, the effects of irrelevant sounds on retention, and the development of memory and attention in children. Directing the Elliott Attention Recall and Sounds (EARS) Lab, she explores auditory attention, cognitive control, the influence of musical training on memory, and metacognitive awareness of memory strategies, with applications to real-world scenarios such as student attention and distraction. She has earned multiple teaching honors, including the 2016 University College Tiger Athletic Foundation Teaching Award, the 2015 Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the 2012 Tiger Athletic Foundation President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and Fellowship in APA Division 3 (2010). Her funded projects include grants from the Louisiana Board of Regents, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and LSU Council on Research. Notable publications encompass Morey et al. (2024), "Is Verbal Rehearsal Strategic? An Investigation into Overt Rehearsal of Nameable Pictures in 5- to 10-Year-Old Children," Journal of Cognition and Development; Jimenez & Elliott (2024), "Musical Training as a Continuum: Relationships of Short-Term Memory and Musical Aptitudes," Auditory Perception & Cognition; Cowan & Elliott (2023), "Deconfounding serial recall: Response timing and the overarching role of grouping," Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition; and Elliott et al. (2021), "Multilab Direct Replication of Flavell, Beach, and Chinsky (1966)," Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. Her scholarship has notably advanced insights into auditory distraction and developmental cognitive processes.