At the highest level, I am interested in memory systems and how they change with age. My three main lines of research are related to individual differences and age-related differences in working memory. The first line involves evaluating the efficacy of different strategies that people use to help improve their memory.
The second line of work involves how individuals effectively segment, or chunk, incoming information and how they update their working memory representations accordingly.
Finally the third line of work involves how older adults use their existing knowledge to help them remember information about everyday activities.
Research Interests:
- Individual and age-related differences in working memory
- Evaluating the efficacy of different strategies that people use to help improve their memory
- Why performance on working memory tasks predicts how someone will perform on other important cognitive tests such as an IQ test or the SAT
- How individuals effectively segment, or chunk, incoming information and update their working memory representations accordingly
At the broadest level, our lab is interested in memory systems and how they change with age. More specifically, we investigate strategy use for improving memory, relationships between working memory performance and performance on other cognitive tasks, and differences in segmentation (or chunking) of information present in every day events.
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Keywords: Event Cognition, Working Memory, Episodic Long-Term Memory, and Aging
