Publications: Applications for Education


Memory and belief updating following complete and partial reminders of fake news


Paige L. Kemp*, Alyssa H. Sinclair*, R. Alison Adcock, Christopher N. Wahlheim

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, vol. 9(28), 2024 May 7


Instructed motivational states bias reinforcement learning and memory formation


Alyssa H. Sinclair*, Yuxi C. Wang*, R. Alison Adcock

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 120(31), 2023 Aug 1, pp. e2304881120


Prediction errors disrupt hippocampal representations and update episodic memories


Alyssa H. Sinclair, Grace M. Manalili, Iva K. Brunec, R. Alison Adcock, Morgan D. Barense

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 118(51), 2021 Dec 21, pp. e2117625118


Prediction Error and Memory Reactivation: How Incomplete Reminders Drive Reconsolidation


Alyssa H. Sinclair, Morgan D. Barense

Trends in Neurosciences, vol. 42(10), 2019 Sep 7, pp. 727-739


Surprise and destabilize: Prediction error influences episodic memory reconsolidation


Alyssa H. Sinclair, Morgan D. Barense

Learning & Memory, vol. 25(8), 2018, pp. 369-381