Memory and Technology (PDF)

Jason R. Finley earned his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently an assistant professor of psychology at Fontbonne University, in St. Louis, MO. His research interests include memory, metacognition, and offloading cognition onto the environment, particularly as the interplay of internal and external memory continues to change with twenty-first century technology. He has published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology (Applied, and Learning, Memory, and Cognition), the American Journal of Psychology, the Journal of Memory and Language, Memory & Cognition, Psychological Inquiry, and Memory.




Farah Naaz is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Louisville, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. She is a cognitive neuroscientist with a background in experimental psychology. Her research interest is in the domain of executive functions, specifically in the process of learning and memory. Her graduate research focused on learning neuroanatomy using 3D graphical visualizations. Her current work explores the process of cognitive control of emotion and memory. She has published in the journals Cerebral Cortex, Brain and Cognition,Psychiatry Research, Advances in Health Sciences Education, Cognition and Instruction, and Anatomical Sciences Education.


Francine W. Goh is a graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Psychology. She is currently part of the Social and Cognitive Psychology program. She graduated with a B.S. in psychology from Fontbonne University, where her research focused on the effects of stress on decision making in social dilemmas. Her research interests include decision making, both broadly-defined and in social contexts, particularly when individuals decide to engage in prosocial behavior and cooperate with others.