Amy Shelton

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 at the Johns Hopkins School of Education.

Life Shelton earned a B.S. in psychology from the Illinois State University. She completed a master's degree (1996) and Ph.D. (1999) in cognitive psychology at Vanderbilt University. Her dissertation was titled, The Role of Egocentric Orientation in Human Spatial Memory. Timothy P. McNamara was Shelton's doctoral advisor. In 2022, she became director of CTY. She is also a professor and a former associate dean for research in the school of education. Shelton holds joint appointments in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. She is on the editorial board of Spatial Cognition and Computation and is a past editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology.