Welcome to the Memory & Cognition Lab in the Psychology Department at Texas State University!

The overall goal of our research is to understand how we learn and remember information as well as how memory and cognition are altered or impaired by aging and disease.

We are affiliated with the Alliance of Researchers in Aging (ARIA).

Ongoing projects

Music and Memory:  Can pairing information you want to learn with music lead to better memory? Does this potential improvement work for different types of conditions (e.g., memory processes, stimuli, expertise, age) and how does it relate to confidence in memory performance?

Music, Memory, and Sleep:  Can sleep help increase the benefit of music to memory?  Can we link memory improvements to specific stages of sleep?

Subjective age (how old you feel):  How does your subjective age relate to other self-report and objective measures of memory and cognition?  How does this change across the lifespan?

Caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias:  How does subjective age and other measures of well-being relate to the impact of caregiving on family caregivers?  Can knowledge of the disease help mitigate some of the negative consequences of caregiving?