tessforest.bsky.social
Incoming Assistant Prof. of Psychology at Notre Dame (Jan 2027). PostDoc at Columbia, with Dima Amso. I study how learning changes with experience and brain development. @UBC cogs & @UofT psych alumna, Wisconsinite. https://sites.google.com/view/tessforest
👤 Joined on 21 November 2023
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@tessforest.bsky.socialNow out in Psychophysiology! We show that ppl still use exemplar-specific representations to search, even when category-level features are 'good enough'. w/ Ryan Williams, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social, + Susanne Ferber doi.org/10.1111/psyp...
Show PostPsychologists @artsci.utoronto.ca have found that the speed at which people learn structured information shapes memories differently in adults versus in children www.psych.utoronto.ca/news/how-lea...
Show Post“Kids aren’t just little mini adults,” says @tessforest.bsky.social. “They’re really learning in fundamentally different ways than grown-ups are.”
Show PostHappy fall semester, everyone! I have accepted an Assistant Professorship at Yale University in the Child Study Center, School of Medicine, and have started my own lab (complete with a coat of arms which I hand-drew; no AI). The CASTLE Lab eagerly looks forward to future collaborations!
Show PostOne reason why I worry that "experimental psych" memory tasks are not capturing all of episodic memory development. Free reading link for 50 people. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FAAGH...
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