Research

My research interest is generally in human memorial processes. More specifically, my research program involves several key areas and questions:

1) Retrieving Memories
Implicit vs. explicit memory
What is the role of attention in memory?
Are unusual events better remembered than typical events?
How do we know that we do not know something?
 
2) Understanding and Correcting Memory Errors
  What is the nature of memory errors?
  How do we correct memory errors?
 
3) Retelling Memories
  How flexible can people be in retelling their memories?
  Do retellings alter memories?

These research aims have been investigated in collaboration with several individuals, Neil Mulligan, Ute Bayen, and Rebekah Smith. I completed my Master's Thesis with Neil mulligan on the effects of divided attention on conceptual and perceptual explicit retrieval.

I recently completed my Doctoral Dissertation again under the guidance of Neil Mulligan. For this, I investigated the role of attention during implicit memory retrieval through the use of a divided attention paradigm.

I have also worked on several other projects exploring distinctiveness and memory and the hindsight bias.

I am currently working with Elizabeth Marsh at Duke University as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. We are currently working on several studies: the nature of autobiographical retellings of scripted events, how people know that they do not know something, the nature of the generation effect, and the role of feedback in memory.

Email me if you have any further questions about my research.