Research in our lab is aimed at advancing the experimental literature on memory as well as extending this research to more applied settings.
In general, we focus on factors that produce memory accuracy and inaccuracy across the lifespan. Recently, we have examined the effects of practice on recalling remembered events, the effects of omitting information from practice, false serial position effects, and false memories. In terms of extending laboratory-based memory research to more applied settings, we examine forensic or eyewitness memory (e.g., accuracy of children’s testimony), the role memory plays in health related issues (e.g., effects of dysphoria and depression on the forgetting of negative autobiographical memories), and individual differences in memory. Currently we are conducting a study that examines how children remember and forget painful experiences. Understanding children’s memory for distressful and painful events will aid in the development of a memory-based intervention that will help children cope more effectively with future painful experiences.
Memory Research Lab
St. Thomas More College (Room 2007)
1437 College Drive
Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W6
focusonmemory@stmcollege.ca