Faculty Advisor
Contact Information
Email
Lab Website
(615) 343-9492
604 Wilson Hall
Research Area
Education
B.S., University of Central Florida, Psychology, 2007
B.A., University of Central Florida, Political Science, 2007
Curriculum Vitae
Societies
Vision Sciences Society, Psychological Sciences, Society for Neuroscience, American Psychological Association, Southeastern Psychological Association, Psychonomics, Psi Chi
Melonie Williams
Graduate Student
Research Area: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
I am interested in the visual working memory system and how we process and maintain object information. I am also interested in understanding the relationship between working memory and visual selection.
Representative Publications
- Williams, M. (2008). Reaction Time Measures of False Memory: The Effects of Blocked and Random Word Lists on the Production of False Memories: VDM Verlag.
- Williams, M. & Woodman, G. F. (2012). Directed Forgetting and Directed Remembering in Visual Working Memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38(5), 1206-1220.
- Williams, M., Hong, S. W., Kang, M., Carlisle, N. B., & Woodman, G. F. (2012). The Benefit of Forgetting. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
- Williams, M., Pouget, P., Boucher, L., & Woodman, G. F. (in press). Visual-Spatial Attention Aids the Maintenance of Object Representations in Visual Working Memory. Memory & Cognition.
- Williams, M. & Woodman, G. F. (in preparation). Discarding the Contents of Visual Working Memory.
Honors
UCF's Burnett Honors College Rising Star Award, 2012
Lisa M. Quesenberry Foundation Grant, 2011
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award Fellow, 2009
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention, 2008
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Doctoral Program Honorable Mention, 2008
Vanderbilt University Provost's Graduate Fellowship, 2007