Ongoing Projects


We are investigating the memory processes in humans by collecting behavioral data. In particular, we are examining the factors influencing the encoding and retrieval processes of memory, as well as the metacognitive processes that guide these decisions. In addition to these, we are also interested in truth judgments and how they are influenced by fluency. Below, you can see some of the projects that we are currently working on.

The Effects of Photo-Taking & Note-Taking on Memory & Metamemory

The study investigates how photo-taking and note-taking during the encoding phase affect memory performance and metacognitive judgments for lecture content. This project titled “Investigating the Comparative Effects of Photo-Taking and Note-Taking Strategies on Memory and Metacognitive Judgments and Understanding the Cognitive Processes Underlying These Strategies” is funded by TÜBİTAK 1001. 

Cognitive Offloading & Memory

This study examines how cognitive offloading affects the memory processes. Specifically, we investigate how note-taking behavior as an offloading device affects memory performance for food recipe videos.

Emotion & Metamemory

This study investigates the JOL-reactivity effect in relation to emotional words. Particularly, the study focuses on whether making JOLs is a special type of processing or whether it is similar to any other kind of judgment that participants make for emotional materials. 

Gestures & Memory

This project examines how matching versus mismatching pairs of speech and gesture influence memory performance and memory predictions from the perspective of fluency.

False Memory, Fluency & Narrative

This study examines how perceptual fluency influences false memory by using a misinformation paradigm.

Illusory Truth Effect & Memory Processes Underlying This Illusion

Repeated information is typically judged to be truer than novel information. This is called the “illusory truth effect” (Hasher et al., 1977). This set of studies examines the effects of recollection and familiarity on truth judgments.

Context Reinstatement & the Illusory Truth Effect

This project investigates whether and how the illusory truth effect is affected by context reinstatement through accompanying pictures.

Generation Effect & Perceptual & Semantic Cues

This study investigates how the generation effect is influenced by perceptual and semantic cues, how they impact judgments of learning, and their implications for JOL reactivity.

Value Directed Remembering & Lie Fabrication

This TÜBİTAK-funded project examines how people’s memory predictions and memory performance are influenced by truthful versus deceptive information that differ in importance. 

Bizarreness Effect, Memory & Metamemory

Bizarreness effect refers to the finding that people generally remember bizarre information more than plausible information. This project investigates how bizarreness differentially affects memory and metamemory.