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SUMMARY:Are there multiple memory systems? A new theoretical framework for
  implicit and explicit memory. - Professor David Shanks\, Professor and As
 sociate Dean of Psychology and Language Sciences\, University College Lond
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:We have recently developed a new framework\, based on signal d
 etection theory\, for understanding the relationship between explicit (e.g
 .\, recognition) and implicit (e.g.\, priming) memory. Within this framewo
 rk different assumptions about sources of memorial evidence can be framed.
  Application to experimental results provides robust evidence for a single
 -system model in preference to multiple-systems models. This evidence come
 s from several sources including studies of the effects of amnesia and agi
 ng on explicit and implicit memory.\n\nA brief biography:\n\nI was an unde
 rgraduate in the Cambridge Department and then did my PhD there (under Ton
 y Dickinson)\, before moving across town to the MRC Applied Psychology Uni
 t (now Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) where I had my first post-doc. I
  had another post-doc position for a year at the University of California\
 , San Diego\, and then moved to UCL in 1993 where I've been ever since. Be
 tween 1995-2010 I was a research fellow in the ESRC Centre for Economic Le
 arning and Social Evolution at UCL. I was head of the UCL psychology depar
 tment and am now head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences.
  I won the Experimental Psychology Society's prize for young researchers i
 n 1994 and won this year's EPS Mid-Career Award. My books include Straight
  Choices: The Psychology of Decision Making (2007\, with Ben Newell and Da
 vid Lagnado).\n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Experimental Psychol
 ogy
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