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Amy L. Wiseman
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Mailing Address:
Psychology Department
Allegheny College
Meadville PA 16335
Phone: 814-332-3324
E-mail: amy.wiseman@allegheny.edu
Office: Carnegie 021
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Amy received a B.A. from Trinity University (San Antonio) and a M.A.
and Ph.D. from Harvard University. She teaches courses in Foundations
of Neuroscience (FSNeuro 201), Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology,
Research Design and Statistics, and Human Memory Processes.
Our memories are fallible, especially as we age. Amy's research is
on ways to avoid making memory errors. Her dissertation research examined
a laboratory technique using imagery that resulted in both college-aged
and elderly adults making fewer false memories than a baseline condition.
At Allegheny, she plans to see if making the technique explicit to participants,
first college students and later older adults, will serve as a way to
train older adults to avoid false memories outside of the laboratory.
Though there are a number of studies on successfully training of older
adults to improve their memory for what they have experienced, training
elderly adults to avoid false memories has not yet been attempted. As
a cognitive neuroscientist by training, Amy would also like to eventually
examine the neural correlates of how we avoid false memories using event-related
potentials. One of the many questions to be asked is whether older adults
recruit more brain regions than younger adults, possibly as compensation,
when both age groups avoid false memories to the same degree.
