Karen Tustin
Contact Details
Email karen.tustin@otago.ac.nz
Tel 64 3 479 5089
Biography
Karen has a BA(Hons) in Psychology and has just completed her PhD in Psychology, both from the University of Otago. The focus of Karen’s PhD research was on the specific mechanisms responsible for childhood amnesia (the inability of adults to recall their infancy and early childhood). In particular, Karen is interested in how the development of episodic memory contributes to our understanding of childhood amnesia. Currently, Karen is working on the Graduate Longitudinal Study New Zealand (GLSNZ), a new longitudinal study designed to understand the value of a New Zealand tertiary education by following a cohort of students for 10 years post-graduation.
Selected Publications
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Hayne, H., Gross, J., McNamee, S., Fitzgibbon, O., & Tustin, K. (accepted). Episodic memory and episodic foresight in 3- and 5-year-old children. To appear in a special issue of Cognitive Development.
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Hayne, H., & Tustin, K. (in press). Infants and young children as sources of information about their own lives. In A. Ben-Arieh, J. Cashmore, G. S. Goodman, & G. B. Melton (Eds.), Children in childhood: A research handbook. London, UK: Sage.
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Tustin, K., & Hayne, H. (2010). Defining the boundary: Age-related changes in childhood amnesia. Developmental Psychology, 46, 1049-1061.
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Tustin, K., Gross, J., & Hayne, H. (2004). Maternal exposure to first-trimester sunshine is associated with increased birth weight in human infants. Developmental Psychobiology, 45, 221-230.
Recent Presentations at Professional Meetings
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Schaughency, E., Suggate, S. P., & Tustin, K. (2010, May). Using local norms to describe reading achievement: A longitudinal examination from third to fifth grade. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA), Denver, CO.
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Schaughency, E., Suggate, S. P., Tustin, K., & Madigan, S. (2009, November). From research and theory in reading development, for practice to assist learning: Preliminary evaluation of brief self-ratings of reading. Poster presented at the Second Educational Psychology Forum: Theory, Practice Challenges, Wellington, New Zealand.
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Tustin, K., & Hayne, H. (2008, November). Episodic memory and autonoetic consciousness in children, adolescents, and adults. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), Washington, DC.
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Tustin, K., Gross, J., & Hayne, H. (2008, March). Memory by association: Deferred imitation prolongs retention for the VRM paradigm. Poster presented at the meeting of theInternational Society on Infant Studies (ISIS), Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Tustin, K., & Hayne, H. (2007, November). What do young children remember about a unique experience after a long delay? Poster presented at the meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), San Diego, CA.
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Tustin, K., & Hayne, H. (2007, March). “And the whistle goed whoo whoo!” A new task to study age-related changes in memory during early childhood. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Boston, MA.
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Tustin, K., & Hayne, H. (2006, October). A new task to study age-related changes in memory during early childhood. Poster presented at the meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), Atlanta, GA.
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Tustin, K., & Hayne, H. (2006, July). Age-related changes in long-term retention: Implications for childhood amnesia. Paper presented at the meeting of the Fourth International Conference on Memory (ICOM-4), Sydney, Australia.
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Tustin, K., & Hayne, H. (2006, July). A new method to measure childhood amnesia in children, adolescents, and adults. Poster presented at the meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Melbourne, Australia.
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Tustin, K., & Hayne, H. (2005, September). The Timeline: A unique method for interviewing children about what they remember. Paper presented at the meeting of the Child, Adolescent, and Youth Mental Health Society (CAMHS), Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Tustin, K., & Hayne, H. (2005, September). Remembering the past: The role of encoding, retention, and retrieval. Paper presented at the meeting of the New Zealand Psychological Society (NZPsS), Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Tustin, K., Wright, F., & Hayne, H. (2005, April). Defining the boundary: Age-related changes in childhood amnesia. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Atlanta, GA.
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Tustin, K., Wright, F., & Hayne, H. (2005, January). Childhood amnesia in children, adolescents, and adults. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), Wellington, New Zealand.
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Gross, J., Tustin, K., & Hayne, H. (2003, November). Does season of birth influence birth weight in human infants? Poster presented at the meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), New Orleans, LA.