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LAB RESEARCH

In our lab, we explore how we gain access to, and awareness of, what we know and remember, and the accuracy and confidence of our judgments associated with such access.  We also examine processes and factors that may either enhance, or impede, our ability to think in flexibly adaptive ways.

Experimental cognitive psychology research is conducted with various participant populations.  Our lab also uses neuroimaging techniques (fMRI) to examine the neuroanatomical correlates of memory encoding and retrieval in healthy young adults.

For a sampling of our lab's research see:  Recent Findings

For a list of published articles (each with abstracts) see:  Publications

PEOPLE AND PROJECTS

Post-doctoral Fellow

        Alaitz Aizpurua Sanz
        Project:  Thinking, perception, and memory in younger and older adults

Graduate Students

Rebecca Deason and Vaughn Steele
Project:  Abstract and specific object priming

Benjamin Denkinger
Project:  Object priming across tasks and object exemplars

Sara Kvidera
Project:  Confidence in perceptual versus conceptual decisions

Lily Sun (coordinator, working with Alana Feijo, Katie Pesch, and Andrea Rude)
Project:  Thoughts about words and objects

Abby Dirks (co-ordinator, working with Mark Iris, Eve Shapiro, Aaron Whirley, and Khong Xiong)
Project:  Evaluating words or pictures

Matt Schwer
Project:  Flexible remembering and mood state (Honors thesis research)

Tae Yoon (working with Se-Jin Kim)
Project:  Confidence in perceptual vs. conceptual decisions (Honors thesis research)

UNIVERSITY OF READING, UK

We have several ongoing research projects and collaborations in my previous lab at the University of Reading in England, and these ongoing projects are listed here.

Tiffany Fu  (Graduate Student)
Project:  Depression and realism of confidence judgments. 
(In collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, University of London)

  M.Sc. Project:  Depression, confidence, and decision:  Evidence against depressive realism.  Abstract
  Ph.D. Project:  Affective states and accuracy of confidence assessments: 
                       A test of two competing hypotheses.  Abstract

Lesley Tranter (Post-doctoral Fellow)
Project:  Enhancing cognitive performance in normal cognitive aging:  Novelty, play, and plasticity.
(Research supported by the Office for Sponsored Research, UK.)  Abstract   Preprint of Article

Ming-Ching Wen (Graduate Student)
Project:  The impact of apathy and depression on problem-solving training in young and older adults