547: Examining Episodic Memory and Making Sense of Memory Failures - Dr. Ayanna Thomas




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Summary: Dr. Ayanna Thomas is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Graduate Program in Psychology at Tufts University. Her research aims to better understand how our memories work, how our memories fail, how we perceive our memory function (metacognition), how memories change over time, and the impacts and implications of these aspects of memory in our lives. In her free time, Ayanna loves watching movies. She and her husband always watch a different horror movie each night in October to celebrate Halloween.