I am interested in different topics involving memory. One project that I am working on addresses potential changes in relational memory that might accompany aging. Binding is the ability to make arbitrary associations among multiple objects to form memory representations of a scene or event. I am interested to know whether binding across time is compromised in older adults, and further, how it differs from the binding behaviour elicited by young adults. Another project that I am working on investigates temporal biases in judgments of the self and details of events in the absence of autonoetic consciousness. Autonoetic consciousness is a state of awareness that is essential for the retrieval of personal memories, and the imagination of future events in which one might participate. I will research this topic in an amnesic patient with compromised autonoetic consciousness, indexed by autobiographical episodic memory impairment due to bilateral hippocampal damage.

Light, R. (2005) Writing about regrets: Pathways to greater well-being in old age?
Undergraduate Honours Thesis submitted to the Department of Psychology, Concordia University.

Teaching Assistant at the University of Toronto
Psych 280: Introduction to perception (present)