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
Ding, H., Whitlock, J., & Sahakyan, L. (Accepted/In press). Can intentional forgetting reduce the cross-race effect in memory? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02080-6
Chiu, Y. C., Wang, T. H., Beck, D. M., Lewis-Peacock, J. A., & Sahakyan, L. (2021). Separation of item and context in item-method directed forgetting. NeuroImage, 235, [117983]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117983
Federmeier, K. D., & Sahakyan, L. (Eds.) (2021). The Context of Cognition: Emerging Perspectives. (Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory; Vol. 75). Academic Press Inc.
Hubbard, R. J., & Sahakyan, L. (2021). Separable neural mechanisms support intentional forgetting and thought substitution. Cortex, 142, 317-331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.06.013
Sahakyan, L., Meller, T., Evermann, U., Schmitt, S., Pfarr, J. K., Sommer, J., Kwapil, T. R., & Nenadić, I. (2021). Anterior vs Posterior Hippocampal Subfields in an Extended Psychosis Phenotype of Multidimensional Schizotypy in a Nonclinical Sample. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 47(1), 207-218. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaa099