Amy Shelton

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 a former 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]