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Ayanna Kim Thomas
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Contact Info
Department of Psychology
Tufts University
Psychology Building
Room 204
Medford, MA 02155
Lab website
Tel: 617-627-4559
Email Professor
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Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Washington, 2001
Ayanna Thomas received her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology
from the University of Washington. She then spent three years
as an NIA postdoctoral fellow at Washington University, and
one year as a research scientist, studying changes in long-term
memory as a function of age. After teaching at Colby College for
two years, Ayanna came to the Department of Psychology at Tufts
University, where she established the Cognitive Aging and Memory
lab in 2007. Ayanna's research examines the contextual cues that
younger and older adults rely on when making decisions about
memory and metamemory.
Graduate and Undergraduate students interested in working
in the Cognitive Aging and Memory Lab should contact Ayanna at
ayanna.thomas@tufts.edu.
Representative Publications
- Thomas, A. K., Bulevich, J.B., & Dubois, S. (2011) The role
of contextual information in episodic feeling of knowing. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 38, 96 - 108.
- Thomas, A.K., Bulevich, J. B. & Chan, J.C.K. (2010) Reducing
retrieval enhanced suggestibility through warning. Journal of
Memory & Language, 63, 149 - 157.
- Chan, J. C. K., Thomas, A. K., & Bulevich, J. B. (2009). Recalling a witnessed event increases eyewitness suggestibility.
Psychological Science, 20, 66-73.
- Thomas, A. K. & McDaniel, M. A. (2007). The negative cascade of
incongruent task-test processing in memory and metamemory. Memory &
Cognition, 35, 668-678.
- Thomas, A. K. & McDaniel, M. A. (2007). Metacomprehension for
Educationally Relevant Materials: Dramatic Effects of Encoding-Retrieval
Interactions. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 212-218.
- Thomas, A. K. and Bulevich, J. B. (2006). Effective Cue Utilization
Reduces Memory Errors in Older Adults. Psychology & Aging, 21,
379-389.
- Thomas, A. K., Hannula, D. E., and Loftus, E. F. (2006). How
Self-Relevant Imagination Affects Memory for Behaviour? Applied
Cognitive Psychology, 20, 1-18.
- Thomas, A. K. and Sommers, M. S. (2005). Attention to Item-Specific
Processing Eliminates Age Effects in False Memories. Journal of
Memory & Language, 52, 71-86.
- Thomas, A. K., Bulevich, J. B., and Loftus, E. F. (2003). Exploring the
role of repetition and sensory elaboration in the imagination inflation
effect. Memory & Cognition, 31, 630-640.
- Berliner, L., Hyman, I., Thomas, A. K., and Fitzgerald, M. (2003).
Children's memories for traumatic and positive experiences: Relationship
to psychological symptoms. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 16,
229-236.
- Thomas, A. K., and Loftus, E. F. (2002). Creating bizarre false memories
through imagination. Memory & Cognition, 30, 423-431
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