![]() Psychonomic Society 63rd Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, United States. Semantic association increases the subjective duration of word pairs. We know it's affected by perceptual and emotional factors, but what about conceptual ones like the semantic relatedness of our thoughts? My latest findings suggest that experiences seem to last longer when we're making meaningful connections. Recently I've been examining a profound mystery of consciousness: the perception of time. My collaborators and I have observed how specific brain structures select and maintain the information we're thinking about, but less efficiently as we age. I'm also interested in working memory, the system that produces our stream of thought. Some of my research concerns biases in that process, showing how so-called "false memories" aren't really false at all they reflect the misattribution of true information to the wrong source. For example, reality monitoring is our ability to distinguish between memories for perceived and imagined events. PSYC 345 - History and Systems of PsychologyĪs a cognitive psychologist I study the science of mental processes, especially memory and perception.PSYC 203 - Research Methods in Psychology (with lab).It's relevant to everything! What I Teach Here I discovered how rewarding it is to teach in a small liberal arts program, especially since my field of cognitive psychology is the most interesting topic that anyone could ever study. After all those years at big research institutions, it felt right to return home and join Simmons in 2004. I grew up in Greater Boston, but my studies took me to McMaster University in Canada, then Princeton, then UMass, then the University of Wisconsin. I feel lucky to be a psych prof at Simmons. ![]() (Hon.) in Psychology, McMaster University (1991) About Me in Psychology, Princeton University (2000)ī.A. ![]()
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