Research Interests
Human long-term memory, intentional forgetting, and memory in populations at risk for psychopathology. For additional information, please refer to the lab website.
http://labs.psychology.illinois.edu/CMFlab/index.html
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Psychology
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
External Links
Recent Publications
Lo, Y. P., Ding, H., Whitlock, J., & Sahakyan, L. (2024). The role of prior familiarisation and meaningfulness of verbal and visual stimuli on directed forgetting. Memory, 32(7), 845-862. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2358126
Whitlock, J., Hubbard, R., Ding, H., & Sahakyan, L. (2024). Trial-Level Fluctuations in Pupil Dilation at Encoding Reflect Strength of Relational Binding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 50(2), 212-229. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001286
Hubbard, R. J., & Sahakyan, L. (2023). Differential Recruitment of Inhibitory Control Processes by Directed Forgetting and Thought Substitution. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(11), 1963-1975. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0696-22.2023
Pfarr, J. K., Meller, T., Evermann, U., Sahakyan, L., Kwapil, T. R., & Nenadić, I. (2023). Trait schizotypy and the psychosis prodrome: Current standard assessment of extended psychosis spectrum phenotypes. Schizophrenia Research, 254, 208-217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2023.03.004
Sahakyan, L., Wahlheim, C. N., & Kwapil, T. R. (2023). Mnemonic discrimination deficits in multidimensional schizotypy. Hippocampus, 33(10), 1139-1153. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23566