Professor, Psychology Carnegie Mellon University Phone: (412) 268-3792 Fax: (412) 268-2844 Email: reder@cmu.edu Individual Website: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/reder/index.html

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Research Interests

Memory is at the heart of virtually all other psychological processes and behaviors. The research in our lab focuses on furthering our understanding of how information is acquired and retrieved for use in different situations, using a variety of methodologies. These include computational modeling, behavioral studies that measure accuracy and latency, psychopharmacological interventions (using midazolam that create temporary anterograde amnesia), neuroimaging (both EEG and fMRI).

We use midazolam to help answer basic questions about the nature of memory processes and as a model of amnesia, aging and dimentia. We have developed computational models of the effect of midazolam on memory, aging on memory, interference on memory, etc.

Examples of on-going projects in the lab:

• Developing and testing models of the relationship between working memory and encoding and language acquisition
• Conducting an ERP study of rapid feeling of knowing
• Using fMRI to explore the impact of midazolam on paired-associate learning
• Exploring the limits of the picture superiority effect
• Examining ERP of the other race effect
• Examining the role of contextual fan on recognition and recollection

Recent Publications

• Buchler NEG, Reder LM: Modeling age-related memory deficits: A two-parameter solution. Psychol Aging 22(1): 104-121, 2007.
• Reder LM, Oates JM, Dickison D, Anderson JR, Gyulai F, Quinlan JJ, Ferris JL, Dulik M, Jefferson B: Retrograde facilitation under midazolam: The role of general and specific interference. Psychon Bull Rev 14(2): 261-269, 2007.
• Diana RA, Reder LM: The low frequency encoding disadvantage: Word frequency affects processing demands. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 34(4): 805-815, 2006.
• Park H, Arndt JD, Reder LM: A contextual interference account of distinctiveness effects in recognition. Mem Cognit 34(4): 462-471, 2006.
• Reder LM, Proctor I, Anderson JR, Gyulai F, Quinlan JJ, Oates JM: Midazolam does not inhibit association formation, just its storage and strengthening. Psychopharmacology 188(4): 462-471, 2006.
• Diana R, Vilberg KL, Reder LM: Identifying the ERP correlate of a recognition memory search attempt. Cogn Brain Res 24: 674-684, 2005.
• Park H, Quinlan JJ, Thornton ER, Reder LM: The effect of midazolam on visual search: Implications for understanding amnesia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101(51):17879-17883, 2004.