Criss in Cognitive Brown Bag Weds. Oct. 26th at noon

Time: 12:00pm to 1:15pm Wednesday Oct. 26. Location:  Tobin 521B.

Amy Criss (Syracuse University)

http://memolab.syr.edu/

Title: Memory across Tasks, Items, and Individuals

Memory researchers have spent the past several decades drilling down into memory. For example, many empirical investigations and theoretical developments focus on a single task and/or a single effect. We propose that the field is well-positioned to benefit from zooming back out. Here we present one attempt to do so. 462 participants completed 5 memory tasks with a fixed set of words that varied on many dimensions. We extract factors that are shared across memory tasks and we identify properties of items that support memory.  Finally, we sketch the beginnings of a conceptual model based on these findings.