Scholars@Duke
Anna Smith

Selected Publications

Neurofilament light chain concentration mediates the association between regional medial temporal lobe structure and memory in adults with Down syndrome

Journal Article Alzheimer's and Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment and Disease Monitoring · January 1, 2024 INTRODUCTION: Virtually all people with Down syndrome (DS) develop neuropathology associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Atrophy of the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex (EC), as well as elevated plasma concentrations of neurofilament light chain (NfL) ... Full text Cite

Back to the basics: Abstract painting as an index of creativity

Journal Article Creativity Research Journal · January 1, 2023 Researchers have invested a great deal in creating reliable, “gold-standard” creativity assessments that can be administered in controlled laboratory settings, though these efforts have come at the cost of not using ecologically and face-valid tasks. To he ... Full text Cite

Reduced structural connectivity of the medial temporal lobe including the perforant path is associated with aging and verbal memory impairment.

Journal Article Neurobiology of aging · January 2023 The perforant path, the white matter bundle connecting the entorhinal cortex (ERC) with the hippocampal formation deteriorates with age-related cognitive decline. Previous investigations using diffusion-weighted MRI to quantify perforant path integrity in- ... Full text Cite

Bad dream frequency predicts mental health needs during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

Journal Article Journal of affective disorders reports · December 2022 Full text Cite

Hippocampal dentate gyrus integrity revealed with ultrahigh resolution diffusion imaging predicts memory performance in older adults.

Journal Article Hippocampus · September 2022 Medial temporal lobe (MTL) atrophy is a core feature of age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease (AD). While regional volumes and thickness are often used as a proxy for neurodegeneration, they lack the sensitivity to serve as an accurate diag ... Full text Cite

Fixation, flexibility, and creativity: The dynamics of mind wandering.

Journal Article Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · July 2022 The mind-wandering literature is long on results and short on theory. One notable exception is the Dynamic Framework, a theoretical framework that characterizes mind wandering as thoughts that are relatively unconstrained from deliberate and automat ... Full text Cite

Dissociating the freely-moving thought dimension of mind-wandering from the intentionality and task-unrelated thought dimensions.

Journal Article Psychological research · October 2021 The recently forwarded family-resemblances framework of mind-wandering argues that mind-wandering is a multidimensional construct consisting of a variety of exemplars. On this view, membership in the mind-wandering family is graded along various dimensions ... Full text Cite

Comparing the phenomenological qualities of stimulus-independent thought, stimulus-dependent thought and dreams using experience sampling.

Journal Article Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · February 2021 Humans spend a considerable portion of their lives engaged in 'stimulus-independent thoughts' (SIT), or mental activity that occurs independently of input from the immediate external environment. Although such SITs are, by definition, different from though ... Full text Cite

Ways of knowing and appraisals of intellectual activities

Journal Article American Journal of Psychology · January 1, 2018 This study explored implications of individual differences in epistemological approaches to knowledge and learning. We examine the relationship between "separate" and "connected" ways of knowing and assessments of how enjoyable and how important different ... Full text Cite

Developing expert clinical nurses: grow them, hold them andlet them walk away

Journal Article Journal of Nursing Management · January 2011 Full text Cite