Jason Hicks

Associate Professor

Cognitive Area

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Jason L. Hicks, Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5501
225.578.4109 (office; voice mail)
225.578.4125 (fax)


jhicks@lsu.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

I. Memorial Details and Decision Processes

My work has been shaped largely by the source monitoring framework of Marcia Johnson and her colleagues. Source monitoring refers to the processes by which people remember the original source of a memory (e.g., which of 2 friends said something to you in the past; whether you remember a news story from reading a newspaper or watching the television). According to Johnson's framework, the source of a memory is inferred by both the type and amount of memorial details recovered. Memories may include details concerning sensory information, spatiotemporal context information, semantic information, affective information, and internal records of elaboration, imagination, and organization. Most of my work concerning source memory is aimed toward an understanding of the various memorial qualities people retrieve in making inferences about the source of a memory. In addition, the extent to which these decision processes are influenced by non-episodic factors (e.g., preexisting knowledge, stereotypes) is an interest of mine.

II. Prospective Memory

This line of work pursues a theoretical account of how people successfully remember their plans and intentions. I view prospective memory as a process that is comprised of two components: (1) a retrospective component that stores one's commitments, activities, plans, etc., and (2) a prospective component that reviews the contents of the retrospective component in order to reprioritize, replan, and schedule task completion. Clearly, then, prospective remembering involves more than just memory, including the availability of attentional resources when an intention should be fulfilled.

Representative Publications

• Starns, J.J., & Hicks, J.L. (in press). Episodic generation can cause semantic forgetting: Retrieval-induced forgetting of false memories. Memory & Cognition.

• Hicks, J.L., & Starns, J.J. (2004). Retrieval-induced forgetting occurs in tests of item recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 125-130.

• Hicks, J.L., & Cockman, D. (2003). The effect of general knowledge on source memory and decision process. Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 489-511.

• Cook, G.I., Marsh, R.L., & Hicks, J.L. (2003). Halo and devil effects demonstrate valence-based influences on source-monitoring decisions. Consciousness & Cognition, 12, 257-278.

• Marsh, R.L., Hicks, J.L., Cook, G.I., Hansen, J.S., & Pallos, A.L. (2003). Interference to ongoing cognitive activities covaries with the characteristics of an event-based intention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 861-870.

• Hicks, J.L., & Hancock, T. (2002). The association between associative strength and source attributions in false memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9, 807-815.

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