Carolyn Rovee-Collier

Who is Carolyn Rovee-Collier?

Carolyn Rovee-Collier was a Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, she was a pioneer and an internationally-renowned expert in cognitive development. She was also recognized as the founder of infant long-term memory research. Her research focused on learning and memory in pre-verbal infants. In her research, she used operant and deferred imitation procedures to study latent learning, and how memory retrieval affects future retention. Rovee-Collier had authored 200 articles and chapters and a 2001 book, The development of implicit and explicit memory, and received recognition for her research accomplishments from various organizations. Rovee-Collier died on October 2, 2014 in her New Jersey home from breast cancer.