Publications: Learning & Memory


Affective framing of environmental news headlines influences engagement, donations, and memory


Alyssa H. Sinclair, Danielle Cosme, José Carreras-Tartak, Emily B. Falk

PsyArXiv


Pausing to reflect during news consumption counteracts negativity biases in memory


Alyssa H. Sinclair, Abigail Hsiung, Rachael Wright, Shabnam Hakimi, R. Alison Adcock

OSF Preprints


First impressions or good endings? Preferences depend on when you ask


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

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 153(10), 2024, pp. 2588-2604


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


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, 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, pp. e2117625118


Closed-minded cognition: Right-wing authoritarianism is negatively related to belief updating following prediction error


Alyssa H. Sinclair, Matthew L. Stanley, Paul Seli

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, vol. 27, 2020, pp. 1348-1361


Prediction Error and Memory Reactivation: How Incomplete Reminders Drive Reconsolidation


Alyssa H. Sinclair, Morgan D. Barense

Trends in Neurosciences, vol. 42(10), 2019, 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