- When
- Thursday, Apr 16, 2026, 3:30 – 4:30 pm
- Event interval
- Single day event
- Campus location
- Kincaid Hall (KIN)
- Campus room
- 102/108
- Accessibility contact
- chairpsy@uw.edu
- Event types
- Lectures/Seminars
- Event sponsors
- Department of Psychology
- Description
The Secret Lives of Memories: Computational Phenotyping of Long-Term Memory in Healthy and Clinical Populations
Andrea Stocco, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Washington
Forgetting is among the most salient aspects of long-term memory, yet it is not directly observable, posing a fundamental challenge for theory. In this talk, I argue that forgetting is best captured as a latent computational process that can be inferred through computational phenotyping—the use of formal models of cognition to estimate theoretically meaningful parameters from behavior. I will present a series of experiments showing that parameters governing forgetting can be reliably identified at the individual level, remain stable across time, provide diagnostic leverage beyond surface performance measures, and allow researchers to better investigate the neural mechanisms of forgetting.
This free lecture is part of the promotion review for Dr. Stocco in the Department of Psychology.
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