Dr. Melissa Guynn

Biography

Education: B.A. – Furman University, 1991 M.A. – Rice University, 1994 Ph.D. – University of New Mexico, 2001 My primary research interests are in the area of human memory. One line of work focuses on prospective memory, or memory to do things in the future in the absence of a direct prompt to remember. My students and I are exploring the factors that impact task interference, or the impaired performance on an ongoing task when a prospective memory task is embedded compared to when it is not. Another line of work focuses on retrospective memory, or memory for information learned in the past, usually in the presence of a direct prompt to remember. My interests in this area include the generation-recognition model of recall, the distinction between organizational and distinctive effects on memory, and collaborative inhibition in memory.

Research Interest

retrieval processes in explicit retrospective memory Area of Human memory implicit memory