Individual Differences

People differ in how well they can control their own memory. Not everyone forgets the same way, and that variation might tell us something important. One line of work in our lab examines these individual differences, focusing on executive control, the ability to let go of unwanted memories, and the role that context processing plays in this ability.

Our current work focuses on young adults with vulnerability for mental illness, examining how these abilities relate to clinical risk. In the past, this line of research has also included healthy older adults (65+) and young adults who vary in executive control.

Across these populations, we draw on behavioral, eye-tracking, and neural measures to understand how executive control and context processing shape our ability to manage memory.