My research focuses on memory from both a cognitive and a neurological perspective. My cognitive research has recently examined the causes of false memories and the strategies for preventing them. One strategy that I am particularly interested in is known as the distinctiveness heuristic and is based on our expectations about what we should remember about a past event. I am also interested in the brain areas that are associated with the use of this retrieval strategy, as measured with fMRI.
Selected Publications
Dodson, C. S. & Shimamura, A. P. (2000). Differential effects of cue dependency for item and source memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 26, 1023-1044.
Dodson, C. S., Koutstaal, W., & Schacter, D. L. (2000). Escape from Illusion: Reducing False Memories. Trends in Cognitive Science, 4, 391-397.
Slotnick, S. D., Klein, S. A., Dodson, C. S., & Shimamura, A. P. (2000). An analysis of signal detection and threshold models of source memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 26, 1499-1517.
Dodson, C. S. & Schacter, D. L. (2001a). Memory Distortion. In B. Rapp (Ed.), What Deficits Reveal about the Human Mind/Brain: The Handbook of Cognitive Neuropsychology (pp 445 ?463).
Dodson, C. S. & Schacter, D. L. (2001b). "If I'd said it I would've remembered it:? Reducing false memories with a distinctiveness heuristic. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 8, 155-161.
Schacter, D. L. & Dodson, C. S. (2001). Misattribution, false recognition and the sins of memory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 356, 1385 ? 1393.
Schacter, D. L., Cendan, D. L., Dodson, C. S., & Clifford, E. (2001). Retrieval conditions and false recognition: Testing the distinctiveness heuristic. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Dodson, C. S. & Schacter, D. L. (2002a). Cognitive Neuropsychology of False Memory: Theory and Data. In A. D. Baddeley, M. D. Kopelman, and B. A. Wilson, (Eds.) Handbook of Memory Disorders (pp. 343 ? 362).
Dodson, C. S. & Schacter, D. L. (2002b). When false recognition meets metacognition: The distinctiveness heuristic. Journal of Memory and Language, 46, 782 ? 803.
Dodson, C. S. & Schacter, D. L. (2002c). Aging and strategic retrieval processes: Reducing false memories with a distinctiveness heuristic. Psychology and Aging, 17, 405 ? 415.
Weiss, A. P., Dodson, C. S., Goff, D., Schacter, D. L., & Heckers, S. (2002). Intact suppression of false recognition in schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 1506 ? 1513.
Hege, A. C. G., & Dodson, C. S. (2004). Why distinctive information reduces false memories: Evidence for both impoverished encoding and distinctiveness heuristic accounts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition.
Simons, J. S., Dodson, C. S., Bell, D., & Schacter, D. L. (2004). Specific and partial source memory: Effects of aging. Psychology and Aging, 19, 689 – 694.
Slotnick, S. D. & Dodson, C. S. (2005). The effect of recognition memory strength on the shape of the source memory ROC. Memory and Cognition
Dodson, C. S. & Hege, A. C. G. (2005). Speeded retrieval abolishes the false memory suppression effect: Evidence for the distinctiveness heuristic. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Mitchell, J. P., Dodson, C. S., & Schacter, D. L. (2005). Counteracting misattribution: an event-related fMRI study of illusory truth. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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