Next Speaker

February 15th, 2026 Sunday Meeting 10am to Noon

Subject:  Memory

Speaker: Ben Storm Professor of psychology, Department Chair

 My research focuses broadly on human memory with a special focus on the causes and consequences of forgetting.  I am particularly interested in the role of forgetting in resolving competition during retrieval, overcoming fixation while thinking and solving problems, updating autobiographical memory, and facilitating new learning.  I am also interested in how people use smartphones, the Internet, and other technologies and the effects of such use on the everyday functioning of memory.

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