Matthew Kelley, Ph.D.
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Research Interests

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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?

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