Courtney Kurinec, PhD

• Baylor University, PhD
• Baylor University, MA
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, BA

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Department of Psychology, Washington State University, 2019-2022

Dr. Kurinec is part of an interdisciplinary research group that investigates how situational factors such as sleep deprivation influence cognitive performance. Her research specifically focuses on how sleep (and the lack thereof) affects individuals’ memory and learning and how these deficits to memory and learning underlie deficits observed in other cognitive abilities.

Areas of Research

Sleep deprivation, memory, decision making, metacognition and learning

• Kurinec CA, Stenson AR, Hinson JM, Whitney P, Van Dongen HPA. Electrodermal activity is sensitive to sleep deprivation but does not moderate the effect of total sleep deprivation on affect. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 2022;16. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.885302
• Leman J, Kurinec C, Rowatt W. Overconfident and unaware: Intellectual humility and the calibration of metacognition. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 2021. doi: 10.1080/17439760.2021.1975155
• Stenson AR, Kurinec CA, Hinson JM, Whitney P, Dongen HPAV. Total sleep deprivation reduces top-down regulation of emotion without altering bottom-up affective processing. PLOS ONE. 2021;16(9):e0256983. doi: 10.1080/20445911.2017.1329205
• Kurinec CA, Whitney P, Hinson JM, Hansen DA, Van Dongen HPA. Sleep deprivation impairs binding of information with its context. Sleep. 2021;44(8):zsab113. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsab113
• Scullin MK, Kurinec CA, Nguyen K. The effects of implementation intention strategies on prospective memory cue encoding. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 2017;29(8):929–38. doi: 10.1080/20445911.2017.1329205