Research Interests
I am interested in discovering the general principles that govern memory over the short– and long-term. My recent projects fall into the following categories:
Counterintuive Cognition
Hints often hurt memory: part-set cuing inhibition
Collaboration impairs memory: collaborative inhibition
People can remember unpresented or incomplete info better than presented or complete info: generation effect
Applied Memory
Do the benchmark phenomena in basic memory research apply in the everyday world and beyond artificial
laboratory settings? Recent projects have examined real-world instances of the generation effect, reminiscence,
hypermnesia, and part-set cuing. More phenomena were explored in my edited volume Applied Memory.
Memory for Sequential & Spatial Information
How do we explain (and model) serial position and positional uncertainty effects? Are the same mechanisms at work over short- and long-term
episodic memory? Can these mechanisms explain semantic serial position effects?
Counterintuive Cognition
Hints often hurt memory: part-set cuing inhibition
Collaboration impairs memory: collaborative inhibition
People can remember unpresented or incomplete info better than presented or complete info: generation effect
Applied Memory
Do the benchmark phenomena in basic memory research apply in the everyday world and beyond artificial
laboratory settings? Recent projects have examined real-world instances of the generation effect, reminiscence,
hypermnesia, and part-set cuing. More phenomena were explored in my edited volume Applied Memory.
Memory for Sequential & Spatial Information
How do we explain (and model) serial position and positional uncertainty effects? Are the same mechanisms at work over short- and long-term
episodic memory? Can these mechanisms explain semantic serial position effects?
