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Gibson, J. M. & Chang, H. Working memory modulates the odd-even effect in sudoku puzzles and math problems. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco. May 23, 2009
Veld, S., & Gibson, J. M. Central executive modulates the effects of cognitive exhaustion on insight. Poster presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago. November 15, 2008.
Gibson, J. M., & Jackson-Babel, R. Free recall of repeated words from a previously read story reveals that implicit memory facilitates explicit memory. Poster presented at the summer meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, Edinburgh, Scotland. July 5, 2007.
Teaching Interests
I teach Cognitive Psychology, Advanced Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Language, Introduction to Psychology, and Decision Making. In 2009-2010, I am on sabbatical.
Research Interests
My main focus of research is on implicit memory, the influence of past
experience that facilitates or biases current performance in the absence
of conscious recollection. I have explored this aspect of memory a) in the
context of aging, where older adults (over 60 years old) often have equivalent levels
of implicit memory but weaker explicit memory to that of younger adults
(around 20 years old), b) in the context of problem solving, where primes
in the environment facilitate or bias solutions that come to mind in solving
lateral thinking puzzles, and c) in the context of its perceptual/conceptual
nature, where the repetition between the priming event and task performance
shows strongest implicit memory when the perceptual characteristics overlap
(includes modality and dysphonemic effect studies). I am interested in executive functioning and implicit memory. Peripheral areas of
interest include prospective memory and time management.
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