Paul S. Merritt, Ph.D.

Phone: (864) 656-3930
Office: 319-C Brackett Hall
E-mail: pmerrit@clemson.edu

Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Cognitive Psychopharmacology (George Washington University, 2004)
PhD: Cognitive Psychology (Colorado State University, 2002)
MS: Cognitive Psychology (Colorado State University, 1999)
BS: Psychology (Colorado State University, 1996)

Merritt, P., Hirshman, E., Wharton, W., Stangl, B., Devlin, J., & Lenz, A. (2007). Evidence for gender differences in visual selective attention. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 597-609.
Merritt, P., DeLosh, E. L., & McDaniel, M. A. (2006). Effects of word frequency on individual-item and serial-order retention: Tests of the order-encoding view. Memory & Cognition, 34, 1615-1627.
Merritt, P., Hirshman, E., Zamani, S., Hsu, J., & Berrigan, M. (2006). Episodic representations support early semantic learning: Evidence from midazolam induced amnesia. Brain & Cognition, 61, 219-223.
Merritt, P., Hirshman, E., Hsu, J., & Berrigan, M. (2005) Metamemory without the memory: Are people aware of midazolam induced amnesia? Psychopharmacology, 177, 336-343.
Hirshman, E., Merritt, P., Wang, C., Wierman, M., Kohrt, W., Budescu, D. V., Templin, J., & Bhasin, S. (2004). Androgens and estrogens influence the effects of dehydropepiandrosterone (DHEA) on cognition in post-menopausal women. Hormones and Behavior, 144-155.
Hirshman, E., Rhodes, D., Zinser, M., & Merritt, P. (2004). The effect of smoking cessation on recognition memory, digit span recall and attentional vigilance. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 12, 76-83.

Department of Psychology
Clemson University