Background
Doctor Rovee-Collier grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Doctor Rovee-Collier grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
She graduated from Louisiana State University in 1962 with a bachelor"s degree in psychology. She obtained her master"s degree in 1964 and her Doctor of Philosophy in experimental child psychology from Brown University in 1966.
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, she was a pioneer and an internationally renowned expert in cognitive development. She was named one of the 10 most influential female graduates of the Brown University. She taught at Trenton University and then Rutgers university, where she was on the faculty for 43 years until her death on October 2, 2014, after a long struggle with multiple sclerosis and breast cancer, in her Stockton, New Jersey home.
Her research focused on learning and memory in pre-verbal infants.
In her research, she used operant and deferred imitation procedures to study latent learning, and how memory retrieval affects future retention.