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Human Memory and Cognition Lab

We are graduate students (in the BCAN Ph.D. and Masters programs), undergraduate students (doing independent study projects or other research for experience and fun), and occasionally, post-docs and bright high school interns from local high schools, all working with Dr. P (Zehra Peynircioglu).

We are interested in exploring all intriguing phenomena related to memory and cognition. Some of the current projects we are working on involve:

•  Autobiographical Memory
•  Metamemory
• Music, Language, and Emotion
• Music Perception
• Bilingual Cognition
• Revelation Effect
• Rehearsal

The 2007-2008 members:

• Tim Hohman (Ph.D.)
• Nilam Patel (Ph.D.)
• Brian Rabinovitz (Ph.D.)
• Kym Young (Ph.D.)
• Ryan Brown (MA)
• Tim George (MA)
• Dan Krusemark
  
  Dan Krusemark, Kym Young and Brian Rabinovitz at the Psychonomics Conference in Houston, Texas -- November 2006
  (MA)
• Ifi Flores (undergraduate)
• Kate Thornborough (undergraduate)

The following are Ph.D. recipients in the last decade:

 Tom Mayer, Ph.D., 1998

Dissertation title: Processes used in working memory and reading by deaf and hearing ASL signers and hearing non-signers.

 

Ali I. Tekcan, Ph.D., 1999

Dissertation title: Recall, consistency and determinants of flashbulb memories.

 

 

Cecilia Fernandez-Hall, Ph.D., 2000

Dissertation title: The effect of revelation of words and faces on recognition accuracy and decision bias in schizophrenia.

Jennifer Thompson, Ph.D., 2000

Dissertation title: Funny you should ask, what is the effect of humor of memory and Metamemory?

Omar Ali, Ph.D., 2004 Dissertation Title: Music and Emotion: The effects of lyrics and familiarity on affective responses to music.

Lisa Korenman, Ph.D., 2004 Dissertation Title: Individual differences in learning and remembering music.

Esra Mungan , Ph.D., 2007

Dissertation Title: Effect of Encoding Processes on Explicit and Implicit Remembering of Melodies.