My research focus is on basic and applied aspects of memory and face perception. My basic research has examined the subjective experience of true and false memories for words, objects, stories and events. I've conducted research trying to understand why some memories, although false, nonetheless seem subjectively compelling -- as real as real. These suprisingly compelling false memories have been called 'phantom recollections.' On the flip side I have published a number of studies on the strategies people use to avoid false memories -- memory editing strategies. Most recently I have looked at the development of those strategies in children.
