I study human memory from an empirical and computational modeling perspective. One of the first things students of memory often learn is that memory retrieval is an extremely flexible operation; there are many different ways in which we can retrieve information about an event we've experienced.

My overall research goal is to understand the myriad of different ways in which we can recognize or recall either information we've experienced, contextual details about what we've experienced, or the order in which we've experienced information.

I attempt to understand these different retrieval operations by building computational models. In essence, myself and my collaborators construct psychological theories of memory functioning and make the theories mathematically explicit so that they a.) make precise predictions and b.) can be applied to data directly. This involves specification of the representations, learning, retrieval operations, and decision processes.

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Adam Osth's highlights

FEATURED Journal article

Sources of Interference in Item and Associative Recognition Memory

Adam Osth's selected work

Measuring Interference From Prior Memories Using Experience Sampling

Internal Research Grant

Here's why memories come flooding back when you visit places from your past

NEWS ARTICLE

Global semantic similarity effects in recognition memory: Insights from BEAGLE representat..

Journal article

Measuring Interference From Prior Memories Using Experience Sampling

Research Grant

Why smells trigger your memories

NEWS ARTICLE

Accounting for the build-up of proactive interference across lists in a list length paradi..

Journal article

Projects

Displaying the 2 most recent projects by Adam Osth.

Measuring Interference From Prior Memories Using Experience Sampling

The project aims to better understand the causes of forgetting in recognition memory. This project will measure participants' experiences us..

2017 - 2020

Completed

Measuring Interference From Prior Memories Using Experience Sampling

The project aims to better understand the causes of forgetting in recognition memory. This project will measure participants' experiences us..

2017 - 2020

Completed

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Projects

Project Types

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Internal Research Grant

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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 25 most recent scholarly works by Adam Osth.

Global semantic similarity effects in recognition memory: Insights from BEAGLE representations and the diffusion decision model

AF Osth, KD Shabahang, DJK Mewhort, A Heathcote

Journal article | 2020 | Journal of Memory and Language

Accounting for the build-up of proactive interference across lists in a list length paradigm reveals a dominance of item-noise in recognition memory

Julian Fox, Simon Dennis, Adam F Osth

Journal article | 2020 | Journal of Memory and Language

Are associations formed across pairs? A test of learning by temporal contiguity in associative recognition

Adam F Osth, Julian Fox

Journal article | 2019 | Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

In models such as the search of associative memory (SAM: Gillund & Shiffrin, Psychological Review, 91(1), 1-67 1984) model, associ..

Privacy versus open science

Simon Dennis, Paul Garrett, Hyungwook Yim, Jihun Hamm, Adam F Osth, Vishnu Sreekumar, Ben Stone

Journal article | 2019 | Behavior Research Methods

Pervasive internet and sensor technologies promise to revolutionize psychological science. However, the data collected using these..

Using Response Time Distributions and Race Models to Characterize Primacy and Recency Effects in Free Recall Initiation

Adam F Osth, Simon Farrell

Journal article | 2019 | Psychological Review

Two processes are not necessary to understand memory deficits

Adam F Osth, John C Dunn, Andrew Heathcote, Roger Ratcliff

Journal article | 2019 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Bastin et al. propose a dual-process model to understand memory deficits. However, results from state-trace analysis have suggeste..

The list strength effect in source memory: Data and a global matching model

Adam F Osth, Julian Fox, Meredith McKague, Andrew Heathcote, Simon Dennis

Journal article | 2018 | Journal of Memory and Language

Modeling the dynamics of recognition memory testing with an integrated model of retrieval and decision making

Adam F Osth, Anna Jansson, Simon Dennis, Andrew Heathcote

Journal article | 2018 | Cognitive Psychology