Current Research Projects and Interests

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Basic Encoding and Retrieval Processes:

· Boundary Conditions of the Testing Effect

· Theoretical Explanations of the Testing Effect

· Applications of the Testing Effect to Education

· Distinctions Between the Testing Effect and Generation Effect

· Individual Item vs. Relational Information in the Generation Effect

· Individual Item vs. Relational Information in the Word Frequency Effect

· Spacing Effects in Pure vs. Mixed List Designs

· Memory and Relative Cue Effectiveness

· The Modality Effect in the DRM False Memory Paradigm

 

Aging and Memory:

· Aging, Memory, and Inhibitory Processing

· Effect of Physical Fitness on Age-Related Declines in Memory and Cognition

 

Function Learning:

· Abstraction vs. the Learning of Individual Instances in Function Learning

· Interpolation and Extrapolation in Function Learning

· Hypothesis Testing in Function Learning

Ed DeLosh, Ph.D.