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Emily L Parks

Lecturing Fellow of Thompson Writing Program
Thompson Writing Program
Thompson Writing Program, Box 90025, Durham, NC 27708
1 Brody Gym Drive, Campus Box 90025, Durham, NC 27708

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Lecturing Fellow of Thompson Writing Program · 2017 - Present Thompson Writing Program, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent Publications


Joining the conversation: Teaching students to think and communicate like scholars.

Journal Article Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology · 2020 Full text Cite

Exogenous vs. endogenous attention: Shifting the balance of fronto-parietal activity.

Journal Article Neuropsychologia · March 2018 Despite behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for dissociations between endogenous (voluntary) and exogenous (reflexive) attention, fMRI results have yet to consistently and clearly differentiate neural activation patterns between these two types of ... Full text Cite

Sources of disconnection in neurocognitive aging: cerebral white-matter integrity, resting-state functional connectivity, and white-matter hyperintensity volume.

Journal Article Neurobiol Aging · June 2017 Age-related decline in fluid cognition can be characterized as a disconnection among specific brain structures, leading to a decline in functional efficiency. The potential sources of disconnection, however, are unclear. We investigated imaging measures of ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · 2011 Ph.D.