Memory
Memory research is a central focus for a number of laboratories in the Cognitive area. Research in Dr. Colleen Kelley's lab includes studies memory experiences such as familiarity, the determinants of false memories, and metamemorial processes of monitoring and control. Other work in the Kelley lab explores the use of memory in tasks such as problem solving and judgment. Retrieval cues, factors facilitating reconstruction of autobiographical memories, as well as encoding modalities can be facilitators to have access to memories. Effects of memory alterations on the acceptance of these memories as authentic records are being explored as well. Research in Dr. Anders Ericsson's lab includes studies of people who develop special expertise in memory for certain categories of events, which Dr. Ericsson has used as a basis for a model of "long-term working memory". Other work in the Ericsson lab challenges current theories of working memory. Dr. Kaschak's lab studies how memory for particular experiences with language influences language processing at later times. This work also explores the role of memory in language acquisition.
Faculty involved in memory research:
Colleen Kelley (Cognitive)
Anders Ericsson (Cognitive)
Neil Charness (Cognitive)
Frank Johnson (Neuroscience)
Michael Kaschak (Cognitive)
Selected publications:
Cokely, E.T., Kelley, C.M., & Gilchrist, A.H. (in press). Sources of individual
differences in working memory: Contributions of strategy to capacity.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Dijkstra, K., Kaschak, M. P., & Zwaan, R. A. (in press). Body posture facilitates
retrieval of autobiographical memories. Cognition.
Dijkstra, K. & Kaschak, M. P. (in press). Encoding in verbal, enacted, and
autobiographical tasks in young and older adults. Quarterly Journal
of Experimental Psychology.
Dijkstra, K. & Kaup, B. (2005). Mechanisms of autobiographical memory retrieval
in younger and older adults. Memory & Cognition, 33, 811-820.
Kaschak, M. P. (in press). Long-term structural priming affects subsequent
patterns of language production. Memory and Cognition.
Kaschak, M. P., & Saffran, J. R. (2006). Idiomatic syntactic constructions
and language learning. Cognitive Science, 30, 43-63.
Rhodes, M.G. & Kelley, C.M. (2005). Executive processes, memory accuracy and
memory monitoring: An aging and individual difference analysis. Journal
of Memory and Language, 52, 578-594.
Kelley, C.M., & Rhodes, M. G. (2002). Making sense and nonsense of experience:
Attributions in memory and judgment. In B. H. Ross (Ed.) Psychology
of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Theory and Research Vol.
41, 293-320.
Radvansky, G.A., Zwaan, R.A., Franklin, N., & Federico, T. (1998). Retrieval
from temporally organized situation models. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 1224-1237.
Zwaan, R.A., & Truitt, T.P. (1998). Smoking urges affect language processing.
Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 6, 325-330.
Zwaan, R.A., & Radvansky, G.A. (1998). Situation models in language comprehension
and memory. Psychological Bulletin, 123, 162-185.
