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.
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.
This project assessess the negativity effect on memory by comparing the retrieval advantages for details in positive and negative episodic memories.
This study examines how perceptual fluency influences false memory by using a misinformation paradigm.
This project investigates whether and how the illusory truth effect is affected by context reinstatement through accompanying pictures.
This project examines how matching versus mismatching pairs of speech and gesture influence memory performance and memory predictions from the perspective of fluency.
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.
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 refers to the finding that people generally remember bizarre information (e.g., The dog rode the bicycle down the street) more than plausible information (e.g., The dog chased the bicycle down the street). This project investigates how bizarreness differentially affects memory and metamemory.
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.