Publications

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We are committed to the ideals of open science. Data from all of our studies conduced at MSU are posted here for anyone to download. We are in the process of adding data from earlier studies. If you’d like the data from a study that is not yet posted, please contact Karl Healey.

Articles

Publications

Pre-Prints:

Mundorf, A. M. D., Uitvlugt, M. G., & Healey, M. K. (pre-print). Is organization decided at encoding? Differentiating the effects of encoding and retrieval strategies.. PsyArXiv.

Mundorf, A. M. D., Uitvlugt, M. G., & Healey, M. K. (pre-print). Retrieval Practice in Free Recall: Effects of Delay, Additional Tests, and Practice Success. PsyArXiv.

Lazarus, L. T. T., Mundorf, A. M. D., Uitvlugt, M. G., & Healey, M. K. (pre-print). Integrating Retrieved Context Theory and Item-Order Theory: A Hybrid Model of the Distinctiveness Effect. PsyArXiv.

Published:

Broitman, A. W., Healey, M. K., and Kahana, M. J. (In press). Neural biomarkers of age-related memory change. Psychology & Aging.

Guardia, T., Cote, K. A., Healey, M. K., Gammage, K. L., and Campbell, K. L. (2024). Self-reported physical activity and sleep quality is associated with working memory function in middle-aged and older adults during the covid-19 pandemic. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 31, 1176–1195.

Healey, M. K., Gibson, B. S., Uitvlugt, M. G., & Gondoli, D. M. (2024). Recall initiation instructions influence how space and time interact in memory. Memory & Cognition, 52, 852–871.

Kahana, M. J., Lohnas, L. J., Healey, M. K., Aka, A., Broitman, A. W., Crutchley, P., Crutchley, E., Alm, K. H., Katerman, B. S., Miller, N. E., Kuhn, J. R., Li, Y., Long, N. M., Miller, J., Paron, M. D., Pazdera, J. K., Pedisich, I., & Weidemann, C. T. (2024). The Penn Electrophysiology of Encoding and Retrieval Study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 50, 1421–1443.

Mundorf, A. M. D., Uitvlugt, M. G., & Healey, M. K. (2024). Incidentally Encoded Temporal Associations Produce Priming in Implicit Memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 31, 761–771.

Healey, M. K., & Wahlheim, C. M. (2024). PEPPR: A post-encoding pre-production reinstatement model of dual-list free recall. Memory & Cognition, 52, 163–181.

May, C., Hasher, L., & Healey, M. K. (2023). For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 18(6), 1520–1536.

Lohnas, L. J., Healey, M. K., & Davachi, L. (2023). Neural temporal context reinstatement of event structure during memory recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(7), 1840–1872.

Mundorf, A. M. D., Uitvlugt, M. G., and Healey, M. K. (2022). Does depth of processing affect temporal contiguity? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 29(6), 2229–2239.

Robison, M. K., Trost, J. M., Schor, D., Gibson, B. S., & Healey, M. K. (2022). Pupillary correlates of individual differences in long-term memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29(4), 1355–1366.

İmamoğlua, A., Foubert, C., Healey, M. K., Langella, S., Belger, A., Giovanello, K. S., & Wahlheim, C. N. (2022). Episodic memory impairment in children and adolescents at risk for schizophrenia: A role for context processing. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, 28, 100241.

Gibson, B. S., Healey, M. K., Schor, D., & Gondoli, D. M. (2021). Space and time in the similarity structure of memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28(6), 2003–2011.

Mundorf, A. M. D., Lazarus, L. T. T., Uitvlugt, M. G., & Healey, M. K. (2021). A test of Retrieved Context Theory: Dynamics of recall after incidental encoding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(8), 1264–1287.

Lohnas, L. J. and Healey, M. K. (2021). The role of context in episodic memory: Behavior and neurophysiology. In Kara D. Federmeier & Lili Sahakyan (Eds.) Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 75: The Context of Cognition: Emerging Perspectives (pp. 157–199). Academic Press.

Ngo, K. W. J., Amer, T., Healey, M. K., Hasher, L., & Alain, C. (2021). Electrophysiological Signature of Suppression of Competitors during Interference Resolution. Brain Research, 1767, 147564.

Healey, M. K., & Kahana, M. J. (2020). Age-related differences in the temporal dynamics of spectral power during memory encoding. PLOS ONE, 15(1), e0227274.

Broitman, A. W., Kahana, M. J., & Healey, M. K. (2020). Modeling retest effects in a longitudinal measurement burst study of memory. Computational Brain & Behavior, 3(2), 200–207.

Healey, M. K., Long, N. M., & Kahana, M. J. (2019). Contiguity in episodic memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26(3), 699–720.

Healey, M. K., & Uitvlugt M. G. (2019). The role of control processes in temporal and semantic contiguity. Memory & Cognition, 47(4), 719–737.

Gibson, B. S., Healey, M. K., & Gondoli, D. M. (2019). ADHD reflects impaired externally- directed and enhanced internally-directed attention in the immediate free recall task. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128(2), 173–183.

Uitvlugt, M. G., & Healey, M. K. (2019). Temporal proximity links unrelated news events in memory. Psychological Science, 30(1), 92–104.

Healey, M. K. (2018). Temporal contiguity in incidentally encoded memories. Journal of Memory and Language, 102, 28–40.

Healey, M. K. & Kahana, M. J. (2016). A four–component model of age–related memory change. Psychological Review, 123(1), 23–69.

Anderson, J. A. E., Healey, M. K., Hasher, L., & Peterson, M. A. (2016). Age-related deficits in inhibition in figure-ground assignment. Journal of Vision, 16(7):6, 1–12.

Healey, M. K. (2016). Interference. In S. K., Whitbourne (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Adulthood and Aging (pp. 664–669). New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

Healey, M. K., Crutchley, P., & Kahana, M. J. (2014). Individual differences in memory search and their relation to intelligence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 1553–1569.

Burke, J. F., Sharan, A. D., Evans, J., Ramayya, A., Healey, M. K., Sperling, M. R., & Kahana, M. J. (2014). Theta and high-frequency activity mark spontaneous episodic retrieval during free recall. Journal of Neuroscience, 34, 11355–11365.

Healey, M. K. & Kahana, M. J. (2014). Is memory search governed by universal principles or idiosyncratic strategies? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 575–596.

Healey, M. K., Ngo, K. W. J., & Hasher, L (2014). Below baseline suppression of competitors during interference resolution by younger but not older adults. Psychological Science, 25, 145–151.

Healey, M. K., Hasher, L., & Campbell, K. L. (2013). The role of suppression in resolving interference: Evidence for an age related deficit. Psychology and Aging, 28, 721–728.

Campbell, K. L., Zimerman, S., Healey, M. K., Lee, M. M. S., & Hasher, L. (2012). Age differences in visual statistical learning. Psychology and Aging, 27, 650–656.

Healey, M. K., Hasher, L., & Danilova, E. (2011). The stability of working memory: Do previous tasks influence complex span? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140, 573–585.

Healey, M. K. & , Campbell, K. L., Hasher, L., & Ossher, L. (2010). Direct evidence for the role of inhibition in resolving interference. Psychological Science, 21, 1464–1470.

Healey, M. K. & Hasher, L. (2009). Limitations to the deficit attenuation hypothesis: Aging and decision making. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 19, 17–22.

Healey, M. K. & Miyake, A. (2009). The role of attention during retrieval in working memory span: A dual-task study. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 733–745.

Healey, M. K. , Campbell, K. L., & Hasher, L. (2008). Cognitive aging and increased distractibility: Costs and potential benefits. In W. S. Sossin, J. -C. Lacaille, V. F., Castellucci, & S. Bellevill (Eds.). Progress in Brain Research, Vol. 169. (pp. 353–363). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Kim, S., Healey, M. K., Goldstein, D., Hasher, L., & Wiprzycka, U. J. (2008). Age differences in choice satisfaction: A positivity effect in decision making. Psychology and Aging, 23, 33–38.

Presentations

Recent Conference Presentations

Mundorf, A. M. D., Uitvlugt, M. G., & Healey, M. K. (2023). Does Depth of Processing Affect Memory for Temporal Associations? Poster presented at Annual Meeting of the Michigan Academy of Arts and Letters.

Mundorf, A. M. D., Uitvlugt, M. G., & Healey, M. K. (2023). Temporal gradients in implicit memory: Evidence for automatic formation and retrieval of novel associations. Talk presented at Midwestern Psychological Association 95th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Mundorf, A. M. D., Uitvlugt, M. G., & Healey, M. K. (2022). Is Temporal Order Information Retrieved Automatically? Poster presented at the 63rd annual meeting of The Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

Mundorf, A. M. D. (2022). Does the temporal contiguity effect require intentional retrieval? Talk presented at Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.

Lazarus, L. T. T. (2022). Orthographic distinctiveness in mixed lists. Talk presented at Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.

Mundorf, A. M. D., Uitvlugt, M. G., and Healey, M. K. (2022). Levels of processing and temporal contiguity in free recall. Talk presented at the 94th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychology Association, Chicago, IL.

Mundorf, A. M. D., Uitvlugt, M. G., and Healey, M. K. (2021). Does depth of processing affect temporal contiguity? Poster presented at the 62nd annual meeting of The Psychonomic Society, Virtual Conference Due to COVID19.

Healey, M. K. & Wahlheim, C. N. (2021). A Post-Encoding Pre-Production Reinstatement (PEPPR) model of dual-list free recall. Talk presented at Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.

Mundorf, A. M. D., Uitvlugt, M. G., & Healey, M. K. (2021). Does depth of processing affect temporal contiguity? Poster presented at Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.

Dester, A. M., Lazarus, L. T. T., Uitvlugt, M. G., & Healey, M. K. (2020). A test of Retrieved Context Models: Dynamics of recall after incidental encoding. Poster presented at Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.

Lazarus, L. T. T., Dester, A. M., Uitvlugt, M. G., & Healey, M. K. (2020). Modeling of reduced temporal contiguity for distinct items. Poster presented at Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.

Uitvlugt, M. G., & Healey, M. K. (2020). The Temporal Contiguity Effect is negatively correlated with episodic memory performance and fluid intelligence. Poster presented at Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.

Dester, A. M., Lazarus, L. T. T., & Healey, M. K. (2019). Modeling temporal contiguity in incidentally encoded memories. Poster presented at Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, QB, Canada.

Lazarus, L. T. T., Dester, A. M., Uitvlugt, M. G. & Healey, M. K. (2019). Computational modeling of variations in the Temporal Contiguity Effect. Poster presented at Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, QB, Canada.

Healey, M. K. (2019). The role of control processes in the dynamics of episodic memory search. Talk presented at Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.

Dester, A. M., Lazarus, L. T. T., & Healey, M. K. (2019). Temporal contiguity in incidentally encoded memories. Poster presented at Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.

Lazarus, L. T. T., Dester, A. M., & Healey, M. K. (2019). Computational modeling of variations in the Temporal Contiguity Effect. Poster presented at Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.

Dester, A. M., Lazarus, L. T. T., & Healey, M. K. (2019). Temporal contiguity in incidentally encoded memories. Poster presented at the 91st annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychology Association, Chicago, IL.

Healey, M. K (2018). Temporal contiguity in human episodic memory. Talk presented at the 90th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychology Association, Chicago, IL.

Bean, R. R., Bernhardt, L. V., Brimmeier, L. L., Smith, R. L., Zerka, J. N., Uitvlugt, M. G., & Healey, M. K. (2018). The Temporal Contiguity Effect is modulated, but not eliminated, by orthographic distinctiveness. Poster presented at University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum, East Lansing, MI.

Uitvlugt, M. G. & Healey, M. K. (2017). Remembering the 2016 election campaign: Temporal proximity predicts free recall order. Talk presented at Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Bernhardt, L. V., Smith, R. L., Zerka, J. N., Uitvlugt, M. G., & Healey, M. K. (2017). The Temporal Contiguity Effect is modulated, but not eliminated, by orthographic distinctiveness. Poster presented at Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences, East Lansing, MI.

Healey, M. K. (2017). Contiguity with incidental encoding. Talk presented at Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.

Healey, M. K. & Kahana, M. J. (2016). Contiguity in episodic memory. Talk presented at Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.