Prediction errors drive reinforcement learning and organize episodic memory into distinct
contexts, but do these effects interact? Here, we review the roles of midbrain dopamine, the …

We address four issues in response to Osth and Hurlstone's (2022) commentary on the
context retrieval and updating (CRU) theory of serial order (Logan, 2021). First, we clarify the …

Guided by the conjecture that memory retrieval is attention turned inward, we examined
serial attention in serial memory, combining the psychological refractory period (PRP) …

A full characterization of memory must include how participants use exogenous and
endogenous cues to guide retrieval. In free recall, in which endogenous cues play a large …

Interactive imagery, one of the most effective strategies for remembering pairs of words,
involves asking participants to form mental images during study. We tested the hypothesis …

Position-specific intrusions of items from prior lists are rare but important phenomena that
distinguish broad classes of theory in serial memory. They are uniquely predicted by …

“Earworms” have been proposed as a particular type of involuntary musical imagery (INMI)
where musical material is repeated in the mind. The structure of the repetition is investigated …

Mathematical models of association memory (study AB, given A, recall B) either predict that
knowledge for constituent order of a word pair (AB vs. BA) is perfectly unrelated, or …

The general goal of this thesis was to uncover the computational characteristics of verbal
association memory by focusing on two specific topics. We first examined the role of mental …