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Amy Lynne Shelton is a U.S. cognitive psychology professor and academic administrator serving as the director of the Center for Talented Youth since 2022. She is a professor and associate dean for research at the Johns Hopkins School of Education.

Life

Shelton earned a B.S. in psychology from the Illinois State University.[1] She completed a master's degree (1996) and Ph.D. (1999) in cognitive psychology at Vanderbilt University.[2] Her dissertation was titled, The Role of Egocentric Orientation in Human Spatial Memory.[3] Timothy P. McNamara was Shelton's doctoral advisor.[3]

From 2002 to 2013, Shelton worked in the department of psychological and brain sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Education.[2] Her research focuses on spatial cognition, learning and memory, spatial skill development, and neurodevelopmental disorders.[1] She then took a joint position in the school of education and the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) as its director of research.[2] From January 2019 to July 2020, she was the interim CTY director, succeeding Elaine Tuttle Hansen.[2][4] In 2022, she became director of CTY.[2] She is also a professor and an associate dean for research in the school of education.[2] Shelton holds joint appointments in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.[2] She is on the editorial board of Spatial Cognition and Computation and is a past editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology.[2]

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