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
Sahakyan, L. (2024). Current Perspectives on Directed Forgetting. In M. J. Kahana, & A. D. Wagner (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Human Memory, Two Volume Pack: Foundations and Applications (pp. 1257-1277). (Oxford Library of Psychology). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190917982.013.42
Whitlock, J., Ding, H., Hubbard, R., & Sahakyan, L. (Accepted/In press). Delayed Testing in Directed Forgetting Dissociates Active and Passive Forms of Forgetting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001394
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