Sydney Garlitch
Affiliate Professor
- B.S. Psychology, Grand Valley State University
- M.A. Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Ph.D. Cognitive Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Office: 2111 Au Sable Hall
Phone: (616) 331-9234
Email: [email protected]
Specialization
Cognitive Psychology
Courses Taught
PSY 364 - Lifespan Development
Research Interests
My primary interests are in memory and cognitive aging. I specifically am interested in how we update and may alter our episodic memories based on previous experiences, how attention can support memory updating, and how older and younger adults differ in memory for episodes. Some of my recent research has focused on the consequences of lapses in attention on discriminating or integrating similar but distinct memories.
Publications and Presentations
Publications
Wahlheim, C. N., Smith, S. T., Garlitch, S. M., & Wiley, R. W. (2023). Interpolated retrieval retroactively increases recall and promotes cross-episode memory interdependence. Learning & Memory, 30, 151-163.
Wahlheim, C. N., Garlitch, S. M., Mohamed, R. M., & Weidler, B. J. (2023). Self-reported encoding quality leads to lure rejections and false alarms. Learning & Memory, 30(4), 96-100.
Garlitch, S. M., Richmond, L. L., Ball, B. H., & Wahlheim, C. N. (2022). Adult age differences in subjective context retrieval in dual-list free recall. Memory, 1-16.
Presentations
Garlitch, S. M., & Wahlheim, C. N. (2023, March 20). A direct comparison of updating from semantic and episodic memory [Paper presentation]. 95th Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL, United States.