Adult Cognition & Memory Lab
R. Reed Hunt, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology
Director, The Adult Cognition and Memory Lab of UTSA
Education:
B. S. College of William and Mary
M.A. Wake Forest University
Ph.D. The University of New Mexico
Research Grants:
2004-2006 False Memories Following Visual or Auditory Learning
Grant Number: R15 MH067582 (AREA grant)
National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Mental Health
Role: Principal Investigator.
1990-1993 Problem solving: Intentional versus Unintentional Retrieval
Grant Number: NICHHD 1 R15 HD25587
NIH, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Role: Principal Investigator.
Selected Publications:
Hunt, R. R., & Rawson, K. A. (in press). Knowledge affords distinctive processing in memory. Journal of Memory and Language.
Hunt, R. R., Smith R. E., & Dunlap, K. D. (2011) How does distinctive processing reduce false memory? Journal of Memory and Language, 65, 378-389.
Worthen, J. B., & Hunt, R. R. (2011). Mnemonology: Mnemonics for the 21st Century. New York: Psychology Press.
Hunt, R. R. (2009). Does salience facilitate longer term retention? Memory, 17, 49-53.
Worthen, J. B., & Hunt, R. R. (2008). Mnemonic devices. In H. L. Roediger (Ed.), Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference. London: Elsevier.
Hunt, R. R. (2008). Coding processes. In H. L. Roediger (Ed.), Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference. London: Elsevier.
McConnell, M. D., & Hunt, R. R. (2007). Can false memories be corrected by feedback in the DRM paradigm? Memory & Cognition, 35, 999-1006.
Smith, R. E., Hunt, R. R., McVay, J. C., & McConnell, M. D. (2007). The cost of event-based prospective memory: Salient target events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 734-746.
Hunt, R. R. & Lamb, C. A. (2006). What does it take to implicitly prime low frequency category exemplars? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 32, 249-258.
Hunt, R. R., & Worthen, J. B. (Eds.) (2006), Distinctiveness and memory. New York: Oxford University Press
Van Overschelde, J. P., Rawson, K. A., Dunlosky, J. & Hunt, R. R. (2005). Distinctive processing underlies skilled memory. Psychological Science, 16, 358-361.
Hunt, R.R., & Ellis, H.C. (2004). Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology, 7th edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
Hunt, R. R. (2003). Two contributions of distinctive processing to accurate memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 811-825.
Hunt, R. R. & Lamb, C. A. (2001). What causes the isolation effect? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 1359-1366
Dunlosky, J., Hunt, R.R., & Clark, E. (2000). Is perceptual salience needed in explanations of the isolation effect? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 649-657.
Smith, R.E., and Hunt, R.R. (2000). The effects of distinctive processing on retrieval induced forgetting. Memory & Cognition, 28, 503-508.
Smith, R.E. & Hunt, R.R. (2000). The effects of distinctiveness require reinstatement of organization: The importance of intentional memory instructions. Journal of Memory and Language, 43, 431-436.
Toth, J. P., & Hunt, R. R. (1999). Not one versus many, but zero versus any: Structure and function in the context of the multiple-memory systems debate. In J.K Foster & M. Jelicic (Eds.), Unitary versus multiple system accounts of memory. Oxford University Press.
Smith, R.E., and Hunt, R.R. (1998). Presentation modality affects false memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 4, 710-715.
Hunt R.R., and Smith, R.E. (1996). Accessing the particular from the general: The power of distinctiveness in the context of organization. Memory and Cognition, 24, 217-225
Hunt, R.R. (1995). The subtlety of distinctiveness: What von Restorff really did. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2, 105-112.
<English translation of von Restorff's 1933 paper.>
Hunt, R.R., & McDaniel, M.A. (1993). The enigma of organization and distinctiveness. Journal of Memory and Language, 32, 421-445.
Recent presentations:
Hunt, R. R., McConnell, M. D., & Smith, R. E. (2007, November). A couple of weird things about feedback effects in paired-associate learning. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.
Smith, R. E., Hunt, R. R., Jennifer C. Little, & McConnell, M. D. (2006, November). Focal processing of salient target events does not eliminate cost associated with prospective memory. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Houston, TX.
Little, J. C. & Hunt, R. R. (2006, May). Directed forgetting in a proactive interference paradigm. Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago.
McConnell, M. D., Hunt, R. R., & Smith, R. E. (2006, May). Differential effects feedback on test performance. Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Hunt, R. R. (2005, November). What Does It Take To Implicitly Prime Low Frequency Category Exemplars? Psychonomic Society, Toronto.
Hunt, R. R. (April, 2005). Event salience and event memory. Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Durham, NC.
McConnell, M. D. & Hunt, R. R. (2005, May). Can false memories, once expressed, be corrected by feedback? Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago.
Smith, R. E. & Hunt, R. R. (2004, November). The modality effect on false memory: Now you see it, now you don’t. Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis.
Hunt, R. R., McConnell, M. & Smith, R. E. (2004, February). Does feedback reduce memory for originally incorrect responses, and if so, so what? North Carolina Cognition Group, Raleigh.
Hunt, R. R. (2003, April). What is distinctiveness in memory? Southwestern Psychological Association, New Orleans.
Professional Affiliations and Activities
Member of the Psychonomic Society
American Psychological Association, Fellow of Divisions 1 & 3
Southeastern Psychological Association
Eastern Psychological Association
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Association for Psychological Science, Fellow
Midwestern Psychological Association
Southwestern Psychological Association
Associate Editor:
Memory
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 2009-2012
Consulting Editor:
The American Journal of Psychology - 1986-1989
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition-1987-1990;1995-2000; 2006-2008, 2012-present
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology - 1988-92
Occasional editorial consultant to:
Journal of Memory and Language
Memory and Cognition
Journal of Gerontology
Canadian Journal of Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Psychological Bulletin
Memory
Cognition and Emotion
Psychology and Aging
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Psychological Review
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Psychological Science
Cognitive Psychology
Grant Reviews:
National Science Foundation
National Sciences and Engineering Research Council
U.S. Air Force
Contact Information:
Department of Psychology
The University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249
office phone: 210-458-6642
fax: 210-458-5728
reed.hunt@utsa.edu
Last update: Sept 11, 2012