Dr. William Hockley
Professor, Psychology
Contact Information
Email: whockley@wlu.caPhone: 519-884-0710 ext.3737
Office Location: N2074F (Science Building
Office Hours: Undergrad. Academic Advising By Appointment
Languages Spoken
English
Academic Background
BA (Honours), Psychology, Queen's UniversityMA, Cognitive Psychology, University of Toronto
PhD, Cognitive Psychology, University of Toronto
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Psychology, University of Auckland, NZ
Biography
My research program, funded by NSERC, has focused on issues related to recognition memory. In particular, I have been interested in distinguishing between decision-based and memory-based influences on recognition performance. Recent work includes studies of different aspects of recognition memory such as the effects of context, the Revelation Effect, the Mirror Effect, and face recognition. I am also interested in the distinction between item and associative information, and the separate contributions of familiarity and recollection to memory performance.
Additional Information
The courses I typically teach include Introduction to Cognitive Psychology, and laboratory and seminar courses in Cognitive Psychology.
Areas of Expertise
- Cognitive psychology with a focus on human attention and memory;
- Recognition decision processes;
- Memory for different attributes of experience
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