(University of Pittsburgh). Language and text processing, discourse psychology, learning from multimedia materials, redesign of learning environments (curriculum, instruction, and assessment), teacher learning, instructional technology.
 

(University of Illinois at Chicago). Affective and cognitive bases of belief revision, knowledge acquisition, and conceptual change.  Metacomprehension and learning from text. 
 

(Georgetown University, 2007). Neurocognition of second language processing and acquisition; effects of explicit and implicit training and practice on second language acquisition; verbal protocols; event-related brain potentials.
 

(University of Stockholm, 1980). Cognitive Psychology; special focus on the acquisition of complex knowledge; computer simulation; protocol analysis; educational and technological applications.
 

(University of Colorado). Cognitive Division Chairperson. Aptitude and intelligence assessment; application of cognitive theory to the analysis, redesign and utilization of standardized test instruments; inductive reasoning and spatial ability; technology and instructional design.
 

(University of Florida, 1990). Psychology Department Chairperson. Language processing and reading, organization of memory, bilingualism, metacognition, attention, eye movements and event-related brain potentials. 
 

(UCLA, 2008) Human memory, orgetting of unwanted and competing information; the interplay of memory and other cognitive processes (e.g., vision, metacognition, learning, judgment & decision making). 

(University of Pittsburgh, 1996) Text comprehension and problem solving; the application of cognitive principles to educational contexts.