Emotion Effects in Cognitive Processing

Lee Wurm, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Department of Psychology
Wayne State University

Presentation Summary
Dr. Wurm will summarize his research on the effects of emotion variables on spoken word recognition and memory performance. He finds that the initial stages of recognizing a spoken word are influenced by the survival-related emotional connotation of the word. He will also discuss new research demonstrating a robust memory advantage following survival-related processing for words in a list. Most of his work has been done with 18-30 year old participants from the Department of Psychology Subject Pool. Recent findings in his lab suggest some interesting possible avenues of research with older participants.

Dr. Wurm is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Wayne State University. He is also a member of the WSU Linguistics Program and a 2008-09 fellow at the Institute of Gerontology. He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Speaker's Research Interests
Dr. Wurm's current research examines fundamental questions about the way information about the world gets into the mind of a human perceiver. He has interests in the roles of semantic and affective information in basic cognitive processes like word recognition and memory.

To learn more about this speaker's work, see http://www.clas.wayne.edu/wurm


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