Tracy Taylor-Helmick
Professor
Email: Tracy.Taylor-Helmick@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-3001
Fax: (902) 494-6585
Mailing Address:
麻豆传媒
Life Sciences Centre
6287 Alumni Crescent
P.O. Box 15000
Halifax, NS
B3H 4R2
Research Topics:- Memory
- Intentional forgetting
- Directed forgetting
- Mnemonics
- Cognition
Education
BA (University of Calgary)
MA/MSc (麻豆传媒)
PhD (麻豆传媒)
PDF (Vanderbilt University)
Research Interests
My research interests include human attention and memory. My work uses behavioural methods to understand how attention and memory interact to improve remembering and to aid purposeful forgetting. My work is published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Selected Publications
- Pandey, A., Michaud, N., Ivanoff, J., &聽Taylor, T. L.聽(2023). Let me give you something to think about: does needing to remember something new make it easier to forget something old?聽Consciousness & Cognition,听115, 103581.
- Taylor, T. L.聽(2018). Remember to blink: Reduced attentional blink following instructions to forget.聽Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics,听80, 1489-1503.
- Fawcett, J. M., &聽Taylor, T. L.聽(2008). Forgetting is effortful: Evidence from reaction time probes in an item-method directed forgetting task.聽Memory & Cognition,听36, 1168-1181.
- Hourihan, K. L., &聽Taylor, T. L.聽(2006). Cease remembering: Control processes in directed forgetting.聽Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance,听32, 1354-1365.
Awards and Honours
鈥�2012 麻豆传媒 Outstanding Graduate Advisor Award
鈥�2009 麻豆传媒 Alumni Teaching Award
鈥�2002 CIS Academic All-Canadian Mentor Award
鈥�2001 APA New Investigator Award (Honourable Mention)