Amy Lynne Shelton is a U.S.

cognitive psychology Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of human mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, whi ...

professor and academic administrator serving as the director of the

Center for Talented Youth The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) is a gifted education program for school-age children founded in 1979 by psychologist Julian Stanley at Johns Hopkins University. It was established as a research study into how academically ad ...

since 2022. She is a professor at the

Johns Hopkins School of Education The Johns Hopkins School of Education is the school of education of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Established as a separate school in 2007, its origins can be traced back to the 190 ...

Life

Shelton earned a B.S. in psychology from the

Illinois State University Illinois State University (ISU) is a public research university in Normal, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1857 as Illinois State Normal University and is the oldest public university in Illinois. The university emphasizes teachin ...

. She completed a master's degree (1996) and Ph.D. (1999) in cognitive psychology at

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private university, private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provide ...

. Her dissertation was titled, ''The Role of Egocentric Orientation in Human Spatial Memory''. Timothy P. McNamara was Shelton's doctoral advisor. From 2002 to 2013, Shelton worked in the department of psychological and brain sciences at the

. Her research focuses on

spatial cognition In cognitive psychology, spatial cognition is the acquisition, organization, utilization, and revision of knowledge about spatial environments. It is most about how animals, including humans, behave within space and the knowledge they built aroun ...

, learning and memory, spatial skill development, and

neurodevelopmental disorder Neurodevelopmental disorders are a group of mental conditions negatively affecting the development of the nervous system, which includes the brain and spinal cord. According to the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manu ...

s. She then took a joint position in the school of education and the

(CTY) as its director of research. From January 2019 to July 2020, she was the interim CTY director, succeeding Elaine Tuttle Hansen. In 2022, she became director of CTY. She is also a professor and a former associate dean for research in the school of education. Shelton holds joint appointments in the

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) is the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Established in 1893 following the construction of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, th ...

and the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. She is on the editorial board of '' Spatial Cognition and Computation'' and is a past editor of the ''

Journal of Experimental Psychology The ''Journal of Experimental Psychology'' was a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by American Psychological Association. Established in 1916, it became the association's largest and most prestigious journal by the mid-1970s, when ...

''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shelton, Amy Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Illinois State University alumni Vanderbilt University alumni Johns Hopkins University faculty 21st-century American psychologists American women psychologists 21st-century American women scientists American cognitive psychologists Women cognitive scientists Johns Hopkins University administrators American academic administrators American women academic administrators