The proposed research will employ a variety of skill learning tasks to investigate four basic aspects of human cognition: 1) The limitations of parallel information processing, 2) The mechanisms of strategy choice, 3) The properties of the memory system involved in skill learning, and the relations between that memory system and human memory more generally, and 4) The specificity of memory. The research will test and extend the PI's previous work in the areas of skill acquisition, skill transfer, and memory and amnesia.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Type
First Independent Research Support & Transition (FIRST) Awards (R29)
Project #
5R29MH058202-04
Application #
6477059
Study Section
Perception and Cognition Review Committee (PEC)
Program Officer
Kurtzman, Howard S
Project Start
1998-12-01
Project End
2003-11-30
Budget Start
2001-12-01
Budget End
2002-11-30
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
2002
Total Cost
$101,193
Indirect Cost
Name
University of California San Diego
Department
Psychology
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
077758407
City
La Jolla
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
92093
Franco-Watkins, Ana M; Rickard, Timothy C; Pashler, Hal (2010) Taxing executive processes does not necessarily increase impulsive decision making. Exp Psychol 57:193-201
Rickard, Timothy C (2007) Forgetting and learning potentiation: dual consequences of between-session delays in cognitive skill learning. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 33:297-304
Rickard, Timothy C; Bajic, Daniel (2006) Cued recall from image and sentence memory: a shift from episodic to identical elements representation. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 32:734-48
Rickard, Timothy C; Verfaellie, Mieke; Grafman, Jordan (2006) Transverse patterning and human amnesia. J Cogn Neurosci 18:1723-33
Rickard, Timothy C (2005) A revised identical elements model of arithmetic fact representation. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 31:250-7
Rickard, Timothy C; Bajic, Daniel (2005) In search of cross-talk facilitation in a dual-cued recall task. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 31:750-67
Rickard, Timothy C; Bajic, Daniel (2004) Memory retrieval given two independent cues: cue selection or parallel access? Cogn Psychol 48:243-94
Rickard, Timothy C (2004) Strategy execution in cognitive skill learning: an item-level test of candidate models. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 30:65-82
Rickard, Timothy C; Bajic, Daniel (2003) Automatic mediation or absence of mediation? Commentary on Crutcher and Ericsson (2000). J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 29:1381-6; discussion 1387-9
Nino, Randall S; Rickard, Timothy C (2003) Practice effects on two memory retrievals from a single cue. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 29:373-88