Steve Lindsay

Professor
Ph.D. 1987 (Princeton)
joined Department in 1991

My research explores the relationship between memory, current performance, and conscious experience. Specific lines of research concern phenomena such as illusory feelings of remembering (as in déjà vu, although I've never figured out a good way to get that particular phenomenon into the lab!) and unaware uses of memory (as in involuntary plagiarism). Other projects apply theories concerning the subjective experience of remembering to practical issues such as eyewitness testimony.

Interests

Memory and cognition
Eyewitness memory

Program affiliations

Cognition and brain sciences

Representative Publications

Strange, D., Garry, M., Bernstein, D. M., & Lindsay, D. S. (2011). Photographs cause false memories for the news. Acta Psychologica, 136, 90-94.

Kantner, J., & Lindsay, D. S. (2010). Can corrective feedback improve recognition memory? Memory & Cognition, 38, 389-406.

Nash, R. S., Wade, K., & Lindsay, D. S. (2009). Digitally manipulating memory: Effects of doctored videos and imagination in distorting beliefs and memories. Memory & Cognition, 37, 414-424.

Newman, E., & Lindsay, D. S. (2009). False memories: What the hell are they for? Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 1105-1121.