Faculty Expert Profile
Amy Shelton
- Director of the Center for Talented Youth
- ashelton@jhu.edu
- Office phone
- (410) 516-4222
Media Representatives
- Name
- Jill Rosen
- jrosen@jhu.edu
- Office phone
- 443-997-9906
- Cell phone
- 443-547-8805
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Amy Shelton
- Director of the Center for Talented Youth
Affiliations
- Center for Talented Youth
- School of Education
Amy Shelton, a cognitive psychology expert, is executive director of the university's Center for Talented Youth (CTY).
Shelton served as director of research at CTY from 2013 to 2022 and was also a professor and associate dean for research in the university's School of Education. She served as interim director at CTY from January 2019 through July 2020.
Shelton served on the faculty in JHU's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences from 2002 to 2013 before assuming the joint position with CTY and Education. She also holds joint appointments in the School of Medicine and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and served on steering committees for the universitywide Science of Learning Institute. She serves on the editorial board for Spatial Cognition and Computation and previously served as associate editor for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Shelton earned master's and doctoral degrees in cognitive psychology from Vanderbilt University.
