Tracy Taylor-Helmick
Professor
Email: Tracy.Taylor-Helmick@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-3001
Fax: (902) 494-6585
Mailing Address:
- Memory
- Intentional forgetting
- Directed forgetting
- Mnemonics
- Cognition
Education
BA (University of Calgary)
MA/MSc (黑料吃瓜网)
PhD (黑料吃瓜网)
PDF (Vanderbilt University)
Research Interests
Dr. Taylor-Helmick's research interests include human attention and memory. Her work uses behavioural methods to understand how attention and memory interact to improve remembering and to aid purposeful forgetting. Her work is published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Selected Publications
鈥� Taylor, T. L., & Fawcett, J. M. (2011). Larger IOR effects following forget than following remember instructins depend on exogenous attentional withdrawal and target localization. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 73, 1790-1814. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-011-0146-2.
鈥� Fawcett, J. M., & Taylor, T. L. (2008). Forgetting is effortful: Evidence from reaction time probes in an item-method directed forgetting task. Memory & Cognition, 36, 1168-1181.
鈥� Wylie, G., Foxe, J. J., & Taylor, T. L. (2008). Forgetting as an active process: An fMRI investigation of item-method directed forgetting. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 670-682.
鈥� Hourihan, K. L., & Taylor, T. L. (2006). Cease remembering: Control processes in directed forgetting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, 1354-1365.
鈥� Taylor, T. L. (2005). Inhibition of return following instructions to remember and forget. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58A, 613-629.
Awards and Honours
鈥�2012 黑料吃瓜网Outstanding Graduate Advisor Award
鈥�2009 黑料吃瓜网Alumni Teaching Award
鈥�2002 CIS Academic All-Canadian Mentor Award
鈥�2001 APA New Investigator Award (Honourable Mention)