Vitae

American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Psychological Association . Association for Psychological Science . Cognitive Neuroscience Society . European Society for Cognitive Psychology . Memory Disorders Research Society . Psychonomic Society . Society for Neuroscience .

HONORS

Fellow, Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Fellow, American Psychological Association (APA)

Chair (2008), Past Chair (2009), and Member (2004-2009), Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society

Featured in Faces and Minds of Psychological Science, Association for Psychological Science (APS) Convention Program (May 2009)

Featured in Faculty Profiles, College of Arts and Sciences, Stony Brook University (2005-2006)

Fetzer Foundation Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon Symposium Series (1993)

University Fellowship, Rice University (1988-1991)

Graduated with high honors: M.A., Bangalore University, Bangalore, India (1986)

National Merit Scholarship. University Grants Commission, Government of India (1984-1986) (Awarded at the national level based on excellence in the B.A. program.)

Sixth rank: B.A., Bangalore University, Bangalore, India (1984) (The ten highest scoring individuals out of approx. 30,000 are awarded ranks.)

Scholarship for Languages (English). Bangalore University, Bangalore, India (1981-1984) (Awarded at the state level, based on continued excellence in a given language.)

GRANTS

Research Grants

Dean's Competitive Small Grants, Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Stony Brook University. PI: Suparna Rajaram (1994)

Priming new associates in amnesia: A process analysis. PI: Suparna Rajaram. FIRST Award, National Institutes of Mental Health (1997- 2002, no-cost extension to 2004)

Professional Development and Quality of Work Life Award, Stony Brook University. PI: Suparna Rajaram (1998-1999)

Individual Faculty Development Award, Stony Brook University (2005-2006, 2006-2007)

Effects of repetition on learning and memory in amnesia. Stony Brook Subcontract PI: Suparna Rajaram (Main Application PI: Mieke Verfaellie). National Institutes of Mental Health. (RO1) (01/01/07-12/31/11)

Minority status and the academic achievement gap: Assessment of the social, cognitive and health markers of stereotype threat. Joint PI: Suparna Rajaram (along with Joint PI Bonita London). Russell Sage Foundation (09/01/2007-08/31/2010)

Neural and cognitive control of emotional content. Co-PI: Suparna Rajaram (PI: John Lutterbie, Co-PI: Hoi-Chung Leung). Multidisciplinary Research Initiation Grant (MIG), Office of the Vice President for Research, Stony Brook University (07/01/2008-06/30/2009)

Collaborative memory impairment: The role of executive control (Student PI: Sarah Barber; Faculty Sponsor: Suparna Rajaram) Predoctoral NRSA F31, National Institutes of Mental Health (2009-2011). Pending.

Professional Activities Grants

Advance Leadership Grant: Women in Cognitive Science. Co-PI: Suparna Rajaram (PI: Judith Kroll, Professor, Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, Co-PI: Randi Martin, Professor, Rice University), National Science Foundation. (07/01/03-07/31/06, no-cost extension to 07/31/2008)

Conference Support for Women in Cognitive Science: 2008-2009. Co-PI: S. Rajaram (PI: L. Feldman; Co-PIs, J. Van Hell, J. Kroll), National Science Foundation (9/1/08-8/31/09)

Conference Support for Women in Cognitive Science: 2009-2010. Consultant: S. Rajaram (PI: L. Feldman; Co-PI, J. Van Hell; Consultant, J. Kroll), National Science Foundation. Pending.

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Journals

Associate Editor: Psychological Science (2007-2008)

Associate Editor: Psychological Bulletin (2003-2005)

Associate Editor: Memory & Cognition (1998-2001)

Consulting Editor: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (1998-2002; 2006-present); Journal of Memory and Language (2001-2007); Memory & Cognition (2009-present); APA Dictionary of Psychology (2001-2005, published 2006)

Ad hoc Journal Reviewer, Acta Psychologica, Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition & Emotion, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Developmental Psychology, Enclyclopedia of Social Measurement, Experimental Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Journal of Memory and Langauge, Memory, Memory & Cognition, Neurocase, Neuropsychology, Neuropsychologia, Psychology and Aging, Psychological Science, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Grant-Related

Member, Committee of Visitors, National Science Foundation (2009)

Member, Stony Brook University/Brookhaven National Labs Provost’s Seed Grant Selection Committee (2007)

Vice-Chair and Member: PRRC Grant Review Panel, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education (2002)

Ad hoc Grant Reviewer: City University of New York System

National Institutes of Mental Health

National Science Foundation

Other

Program Co-Chair (1998-1999): Mind, Brain, and Behavior Symposium Series (Aug., 1999). Division 3 (Experimental Psychology), American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Book Reviewer: Harper Collins, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

External Reviewer: Lakehead University, Canada (M.S. Thesis)

University of Toronto, Canada (Ph.D. Thesis)

Ad hoc Conference Reviewer: Eastern Psychological Association

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE AND SERVICE

National

Chair (2006-2007) and Member (2004-2007) of the Publications Committee of the Psychonomic Society

Member, Finance Committee of the Psychonomic Society (2006-2008)

Member, Website Committee of the Psychonomic Society (2008)

Member, Editor Search Committee for Psychological Bulletin (2007)

Co-Founder (one of three): Women in Cognitive Science (2001); Co-Organizer: The Women in Cognitive Science Group Meetings (2001-2009)

Member (2000-2001) and Chair (2001-2002), Fellows Committee, Division 3, American Psychological Association

University (Selective)

Member, Stony Brook University Turner Advisory Committee for the advancement of minority and disadvantaged students (2007-2009)

Member, Steering Committee, Center for Cognitive Studies, Stony Brook University (2008)

Member, Steering Committee, Science & Art Group, the Humanities Institute, SBU (2007-2008)

Member, Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity Committee, Social and Behavioral Sciences Division, Stony Brook University (Fall, 1994 - Fall, 1996; Spring, 1998-Summer, 1999)

Department (Selective)

Member, Faculty Contract Renewal Committee, Psychology, Stony Brook Univ. (SBU) (2006, 2008)

Member, Faculty Promotion Committee, Psychology, SBU (Fall, 2008)

Cognitive/Experimental Faculty Representative, Undergraduate Committee, Psychology, SBU (Spring, 2000; Fall, 2008 – present)

Cognitive/Experimental Faculty Representative, Graduate Committee, Psychology, SBU (Fall, 2005-Spring, 2006; Spring 2007-2008)

Co-Chair, Cognitive Faculty Search Committee, Dept. of Psychology, SBU (2004-2005)

Member, Cognitive Faculty Search Committee, Dept. of Psychology, SBU (1994; 1997; 2001-2002)

Member, Strategic Planning Committee, Dept. of Psychology, SBU (2000-2001)

Ombudsperson, Faculty Renewal Committee, Dept. of Psychology, SBU (Fall, 2001)

Chair, Cognitive Neuroscience Faculty Search Committee, Psychology, SBU (2000-2001)

Chair, Faculty Search Committee, SBU (1998-1999)

Member, Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Site Visit Committee, SBU (Fall, 1996)

Other Service

Faculty Project Director, Project WISE (Women in Science and Engineering), URECA 187, Stony Brook University (Spring of 1995-2004)

Invited Workshop Speaker, CUNY Gender Equity Project Workshop (2007, 2008, 2009)

Expert Consultant on collaborative learning, Association for Colleges of the South, Atlanta, GA (May, 2008)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Graduate Memory (Stony Brook University, Fall, 1995; Fall, 1997; Spring, 2001; Spring 2003; Spring 2005; Spring, 2007; Spring, 2009)

Career Issues: Graduate (Co-taught with N. Squires) (Stony Brook University, F2004, F2005)

Human Brain Function (Stony Brook University, Spring, 1994; Spring, 1995; Spring, 2002)

Undergraduate Memory (Stony Brook University, Spring, 1999)

Undergraduate Honors Seminar (Stony Brook University, Spring, 1997; Fall, 1997; Spring, 1998)

Research Lab: Human Cognition (Stony Brook University, Spring, 1997; Fall 2002; Spring, 2004; Fall, 2005; Spring, 2006; Spring 2008 (two course offerings))

Research Methods Laboratory (Stony Brook University, Spring, 1995; Spring, 1996; Fall, 1996)

Research Methods in Psychology (Stony Brook University, Fall, 1993, Fall, 1994; Fall, 1995)

Faculty Supervisor, Graduate Substantial Direct Instruction, Stony Brook University (1993-1999, 2002, 2004-2006)

GRADUATE RESEARCH SUPERVISION (1993-present)

Stony Brook Graduate Students: Sarah Barber (current), Helena Blumen (now postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University Medical Center), Adam Congleton (current), Danielle Culp, Lisa Geraci (now Assistant Professor, Texas A&M), Maryellen Hamilton (now tenured Associate Professor, St. Peter’s College), Jonathan Holmes, Luciane Pereira-Pasarin (now Assistant Professor, Caldwell College), Stephanie Travers (now Assistant Professor, Luther College)

Ad hoc Research Supervision: Al Herreira (current, Social Area), Angel Gonzales (current, Social Area), Anita Jose (current, Clinical Area), Mathew Williams (Clinical Area)

Interational Visiting Graduate Students: Guido D’Angelo (Summer, 2008, University of Bari, Italy), Celia Harris (Fall, 2008, Macquarie University)

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SUPERVISION (1992 - present)

NSF-Funded SUNY AGEP Summer Research Institute for underrepresented students: Student: Alysia Forster

MARC (Minority Access to Research Career) / NIMH Fellow: Monica Jefferson

Honors Theses: Ethan Fox (Stony Brook University), Kayla Young (Stony Brook University), Sarika Saxena (Stony Brook University), Richard Delaney (Stony Brook University), Neil Resnick (Stony Brook University), Monica Swahn (Temple University)

Summer NSF-REU/URECA students: Tara Price (1994), Maura Rzeznekeiwicz (1994), Amanda Salomon (1995), Mana Heydarpour (1996), Kathy Le (1996), Mira Kinariwala (2003), Kayla Young (Summer, 2008)

Faculty Advisor for supervised research of undergraduate students in my laboratory: Up to 7 students per semester since 1993

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed Articles

*Student author

Jose, A.*, Rajaram, S., O’Leary, K.D., & Williams, M.C.* (in press). Memory for partner related stimuli: Free recall and frequency estimation. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Blumen, S.*, & Rajaram, S. (2008). Effects of Group Collaboration and Repeated Retrieval on Individual Recall. Memory, 16, 231-244.

Verfaellie, M., Rajaram, S., Fossum, K. *, & Williams, L. * (2008). Not all repetition is alike: Different benefits of repetition in amnesia and normal memory. Journal of International Neuropsychological Society, 14, 365-372.

Barber, S. J. *, Rajaram, S., & Marsh, E.J. (2008). Fact learning: How information accuracy, delay, and repeated testing change retention and retrieval experience. Memory, 16, 934-946.

Rajaram, S., & Pereira-Pasarin, L. * (2007). Collaboration can improve individual recognition memory: Evidence from immediate and delayed tests. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 95-100.

Goldstein, R.Z., Tomasi, D., Rajaram, S, Cottone, L.A., Zhang, L., Maloney, T., Telang, F., Alia-Klein, N., & Volkow, N.D. (2007). Role of the anterior cingulate and medial orbitofrontal cortex in processing drug cues in cocaine addiction. Neuroscience, 144, 1153-1159.

Geraci, L. *, & Rajaram, S. (2004). The distinctiveness effect in the absence of conscious recollection: Evidence from conceptual priming. Journal of Memory and Language, 51, 217-230.

Hamilton, M. *, & Rajaram, S. (2003). States of awareness across multiple memory tasks: Obtaining a "pure" measure of conscious recollection. Acta Psychologica, 112, 43-69.

Geraci, L. * & Rajaram, S.(2002). The orthographic distinctiveness effect on direct and indirect tests of memory: Delineating the awareness and processing requirements. Journal of Memory & Language, 47, 273-291.

Rajaram, S., Hamilton, M. *, & Bolton, A. (2002). Distinguishing states of awareness from confidence during retrieval: Evidence from amnesia. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2, 227-235.

Goldstein, R.Z., Volkow, N.D., Wang, G.J., Fowler, J.S., & Rajaram, S. (2001). Addiction changes orbitofrontal gyrus function: Involvement in response inhibition. NeuroReport, 12 (11), 2595-2599.

Hamilton, M.*, & Rajaram, S. (2001). The concreteness effect in implicit and explicit memory tests. Journal of Memory and Language, 44, 96-117.

Rajaram, S., Srinivas, K., & Travers, S. * (2001). The effects of attention on perceptual implicit memory. Memory & Cognition, 29, 920-930.

Rajaram, S. & Coslett, H.B. (2000). New conceptual associative learning in amnesia. A case study. Journal of Memory and Language, 43, 291-315.

Rajaram, S., & Coslett, H.B. (2000). Acquisition and transfer of new verbal information in amnesia: retrieval and neuroanatomical constraints. Neuropsychology, 14, 427-455.

Rajaram, S., & Geraci, L. * (2000). Conceptual fluency selectively influences knowing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 1070-1074.

Srinivas, K., Culp, D. * & Rajaram, S. (2000). On associations between computers and restaurants: Rapid learning of new associations on a conceptual implicit memory test. Memory & Cognition, 28, 900-906.

Holmes, J.B. *, Waters, H.S., & Rajaram, S. (1998) The phenomenology of false memory: Episodic content and confidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 1026-1040.

Rajaram, S. (1998). The effects of conceptual salience and perceptual distinctiveness on consciousness recollection. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 5, 71-78.

Rajaram, S., Srinivas, K., & Roediger, H.L. (1998). A transfer-appropriate account of context effects in word fragment completion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 993-1004.

Rozin, P., Dow, S. *, Moscovitch, M., & Rajaram, S. (1998). Psychological Science, 9, 392-396.

Rajaram, S. (1997). Basal forebrain amnesia. Neurocase, 3, 405-415.

Rajaram, S. (1996). Perceptual effects on remembering: Recollective processes in picture recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 22, 365-377.

Coslett, H.B., Stark, M., Rajaram, S., & Saffran, E.M. (1995). Neurocase, 1, 305-318.

Rajaram, S., & Roediger, H.L. (1993). Direct comparison of four implicit memory tests. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 19, 765-776.

Rajaram, S. (1993). Remembering and knowing: Two means of access to the personal past. Memory & Cognition, 2, 89-102.

Srinivas, K., Roediger, H.L., & Rajaram, S. (1992). The role of syllabic and orthographic properties of letter cues in solving word fragments. Memory & Cognition, 20, 219-230.

Rajaram, S., & Neely, J.H. (1992). Dissociative masked repetition priming and word frequency effects in lexical decision and episodic recognition tasks. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 152-182.

Chapters

*Student author

Rajaram, S. & Coslett, H.B. (2008). New Associative Learning in Amnesia. Chapter to appear in N. Srinivasan, A.K. Gupta, & J. Pandey (Eds.), Advances in Cognitive Science. Sage Publications.

Rajaram, S., & Barber, S.* (2008). Retrieval processes in memory. Chapter in H.L. Roediger, III (Volume Editor), Cognitive Psychology (in J.H. Bryne (Ed.), Learning and Memory – A Comprehensive Reference). Elsevier.

Rajaram, S. (2007). Remembering: An integrative view. In H. L. Roediger, III, Y. Dudai, and S. M. Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Science of memory: Concepts. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Roediger, H.L., Rajaram, S., & *Geraci, L. (2007). Accessing memories: Three forms of consciousness. Chapter to appear in M. Moscovitch, P. Zelazo, & E. Thompson (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness. Cambridge University Press.

Rajaram, S. (2007). Attentional Requirements of Perceptual Implicit Memory. Chapter in Nairne, J. S. (Ed.) The Foundations of Remembering: Essays in Honor of Henry L. Roediger III. New York: Psychology Press.

Rajaram, S. & Travers, S.V.* (2005). Deselection effects in long-term memory. In N. Ohta, C. MacLeod, & B. Uttl (Eds.) Dynamic Cognitive Processes. Tokyo: Springer-Verlag.

Geraci, L. *, & Rajaram, S. (2004). The distinctiveness effect in explicit and implicit memory. In R. R. Hunt & J. Worthen, (Eds.), Distinctiveness and Memory. Oxford.

Rajaram, S. (1999). Assessing the nature of retrieval experience: Advances and challenges. Chapter in B.H. Challis & B. M. Velichkovsky (Eds.), Stratification of Consciousness and Cognition (pp. 255-275). John Benjamin Publishing: Amsterdam.

Rajaram, S., & Roediger, H.L. (1997). Remembering and knowing as states of consciousness during retrieval. In J.D. Cohen & J.W. Schooler (Eds.), Scientific Approaches to the Question of Consciousness (pp. 213-240). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Roediger, H.L., Wheeler, M.A., & Rajaram, S. (1993). Remembering, knowing, and reconstructing the past. In D. Medin (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation (pp. 97-134). New York: Academic Press.

Roediger, H.L., Rajaram, S., & Srinivas, K. (1990). Specifying criteria for distinguishing memory systems. In A. Diamond (Ed.), The Development and Neural Bases of Higher Cognitive Functions (pp. 572-595). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

INVITED TALKS AND KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

Conferences

Rajaram, S. (May, 2008). Memory and Awareness: Means of Access and Processing Requirements. Invited keynote at the Tuft University Conference, Cognitive neuroscience of visual knowledge: Where vision meets memory, Medford, MA.

Rajaram, S. (April, 2007). Through the recognition glass: Autonoesis, amnesia, and social influences. Invited keynote address at the (Grand) SLAMM (Symposium on Learning and Memory at Manitoba) Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Rajaram, S. (November 2006). Item distinctiveness versus contextual distinctiveness: Influences on Remembering. Keynote address at the Rice Alumni Conference, Houston, TX.

Rajaram, S. (2006, May). Implicit memory: Function and process. Invited talk in the Memory and Consciousness Symposium, Association for Psychological Science (APS) Conference, New York, NY.

Rajaram, S. (March 2005). Costs of ignoring information on long-term memory. Invited talk at the Roddy Roediger Memory Conference at Purdue University, IN.

Rajaram, S. (2004, March). Attention and memory. Invited address at the 5th Tsukuba International Conference on Memory: Dynamic Cognitive Processes, Tsukuba, Japan.

Rajaram, S. (1998, June). Dissociating conscious recollection from confidence: Evidence from cognitive neuropsychology. Invited talk at the Show-Me State Conference, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.

Rajaram, S. (1993, October). Acquisition of new information in amnesia. Invited talk at the NY/NJ Learning and Memory Workshop, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Newark, NJ.

Colloquia

Boston University, Memory Disorders Research Center, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Boston, MA (May, 2008)

University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC (April, 2008)

Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (March, 2008)

Queens College, Flushing, NY (February, 2008)

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (October, 2007)

Universita Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples, Italy (November, 2006)

Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, Scotland (November, 2006)

Yale University, New Haven, CT (March, 2006)

Northshore Hospital, Manhassett, New York (March, 2006)

Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY (May, 2004)

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (November, 2003)

Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (May, 2003)

New York University, New York, NY (May, 2003)

The Northshore Hospital, Manhassett, New York (April, 2002)

Boston University, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Boston, MA (March, 2001)

Yale University, New Haven, CT (February, 2001)

The Ebbinghaus Empire, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (September, 1999)

Binghamton University - SUNY, Binghamton, New York (April, 1999)

The Northshore Hospital, Manhassett, New York (April, 1998)

Columbia University, New York, NY (October, 1997)

The Brookhaven National Laboratories, Upton, NY (July, 1997)

Yale University, New Haven, CT (November, 1996)

Boston University, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Boston, MA (April, 1996)

The New School for Social Research, New York, NY (November, 1995)

New York University, New York, NY (April, 1995)

Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY (November, 1993)

CONFERENCE SYMPOSIA

*Student author

Rajaram, S., Barber, S.J.*, & Aron, A. (May, 2009). Collaborative encoding impairs memory. Paper presented in A. Memon & G. Echterhoff (Chairs), How Memory Is Shaped by Social Interaction: Effects of Conversation and Collaboration, held at the meetings of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), San Francisco, CA.

Blumen, H.M.*, & Rajaram, S. (November, 2007). Individual and group retrieval efforts modulate later memory outcomes. Paper presented in A.J. Barnier (Chair), Toward a Cognitive Psychology of Collective Memory: Methods, Data, and Theories, held at the meetings of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

Rajaram, S.,Hamilton, M.*, & Pereira-Pasarin, L.* (July, 2006). Item distinctiveness versus contextual distinctiveness: Influences on Remembering. In S. Rajaram (Chair), Memory Awareness, held at the fourth International Conference on Memory, Sydney, Australia.

Geraci, L.*, & Rajaram, S. (2003). The distinctiveness effect in explicit and implicit memory. In R. Hunt & J. Worthen (Chairs), Distinctiveness and memory, held at the Southwestern Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

Rajaram, S. (July, 2001). The Role of retrieval cues in new associative learning in amnesia. In S. Rajaram (Chair), Memory and Amnesia, held at the third International Conference on Memory, Valencia, Spain.

Rajaram, S., & Hamilton, M.* (July, 2001). Effects of contextual variability at encoding on Remembering and Knowing. In S. Rajaram (Chair), Recollective Memory, held at the third International Conference on Memory, Valencia, Spain.

Rajaram, S. (1999, April). Does prior knowledge influence explicit and implicit memory differently? In N.R. Gee (Chair), The effects of pre-existing knowledge or experience on current memory performance. Symposium held at the Eastern Psychological Association, Providence, RI.

Rajaram, S. (1997, November). Experiential components of recognition memory. In M. Rugg (Chair), Two Factors of Recognition Memory. Presented in the symposium at the meeting of the Memory Disorders Research Society, in San Francisco, CA.

Rajaram, S. (1997, November). New verbal learning in amnesia. In A. Parkin (Chair), Remediation strategies in amnesia. Presented in the symposium at the meeting of the Memory Disorders Research Society, in San Francisco, CA.

Rajaram, S. (1997, May). Metamemorial measures of retrieval experience: What influences Remembering and Knowing? In M. Anderson (Chair), Metacognition: Its many faces. Symposium held at SUNY, Cortland, NY.

Rajaram, S. (1997, April). Assessing the phenomenology of retrieval: Advances and challenges. In M.A. McDaniel (Chair), The Battig‑Ellis Memory Symposium. Symposium held at the Rocky Mountain Psychology Association, Reno, Nevada.

Rajaram, S. (1997, April). Invited Discussant. In David G. Payne (Chair), Memory Illusions: False and created memories. Symposium held at the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington,D.C.

Rajaram, S. (1996, July). The Role of Conceptual and Perceptual Factors in Recollective experience. In S. Rajaram (Chair), Remembering and Knowing the Past. Symposium held at the International Conference on Memory, Padua, Italy.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

*Student author

Jose, A., O’Leary, K.D., Rajaram, S., & Williams, M. (2009, June). Memory of Partner Interactions: Reality-Based or Schema-Dependent? Paper accepted at the 40th International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Santiago de Chile.

Pereira-Pasarin, L., & Rajaram, S. (2009, March). Collaboration and Category Size: Benefits on Individual Recognition. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburgh, PA.

Greenberg, D., Page, K.M., Keane, M.M., Rajaram, S., Verfaellie, M. (2008, November). The status of neocortically-based slow learning in amnesia. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.

Barber, S., Rajaram, S., & Aron, A. (2008, November). Encoding Variations and Collaborative Inhibition in Group Memory. Paper presented the 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

Kroll, J., Rajaram, S., Feldman, L.B., & van Hell, J. (2008, May). Women in Cognitive Science: improving the visibility of women scientists. Poster presented at the NSF ADVANCE Meeting, Washington, DC.

Pereira-Pasarin, L.*, & Rajaram, S. (2007, November). Divided attention and repetition at encoding: The role of individual subjective organization in group Recall. Paper presented the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

Barber, S.J.*, Rajaram, S., & Marsh, E.J. (2007, November). Distinguishing among Remembered, Familiar, and Just Known memories: An experimental analysis. Poster presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

Barber, S.J.*, Rajaram, S., & Marsh, E.J. (2007, August). Remembering, Knowing, and Just Knowing: Changes over time. Paper presented at the European Society of Cognitive Psychology, Marseille, France.

Blumen, H.M. * & Rajaram, S. (2007, July). Effects of group collaboration and repeated retrieval on individual memory. Poster presented at the joint Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society and the Psychonomic Society, Edinburgh, UK.

Foster, A**., Blumen, H.M*. & Rajaram S. (2006, November). Towards localizing the

nature of conceptual deficits in medial temporal lobe amnesia: An empirical model of the free association task. Poster presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), Anaheim, CA. (First author recipient of Best Poster Award.)

Rajaram, S. & Pereira-Pasarin, L.* (2006,November). Collaboration and individual memory: Evidence from immediate and delayed recognition. Paper presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX.

Blumen, H.*, Rajaram, S., & Srinivas, K. (2006, March). Testing the longevity of rapidly-formed new conceptual associations. Paper presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Pereira-Pasarin, L. P.*, & Rajaram, S. (2006, March). The effects of collaboration on individual memory across delay. Paper presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association. Baltimore, MD.

Blumen, H.*, Rajaram, S., & Srinivas, K. (2005, November) Testing the longevity of rapidly-formed, new conceptual associations. Poster presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.

Rajaram, S. (2004, December). New associative learning in amnesia. Presented at the Inaugural International Conference on Cognitive Science, Centre for Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India.

Travers, S.*, & Rajaram, S. (2003, November). Effects of deselection on long-term memory. Paper presented at the 43^rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Hamilton, M.*, Geraci, L.*, & Rajaram, S. (2002, November). Picture superiority effect on a conceptual implicit memory test with distinctive cues. Presented at the 42^nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, MO.

Geraci, L.*, & Rajaram, S. (2002, November). The distinctiveness effect can occur in the absence of conscious awareness. Presented at the 42^nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, MO.

Travers, S.*, & Rajaram, S. (2001, November). Attentional effects of Stroop encoding on perceptual priming. Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Orlando, FL.

Geraci, L.*, & Rajaram, S. (2001, November). The isolation effect on an implicit category verification test. Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Orlando, FL.

Hamilton, M.*, & Rajaram, S. (2000, November). Can referential processing produce the picture superiority effect in conceptual priming? Presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. New Orleans, LA.

Geraci, L.*, & Rajaram, S. (2000, November). Searching for the locus of the orthographic distinctiveness effect. Presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. New Orleans, LA.

Geraci, L.*, & Rajaram, S. (2000, June). Eliminating the effect of orthographic distinctiveness using a perceptual implicit memory test. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Miami, FL.

Culp, D.*, & Rajaram, S. (1999, November). Divided attention at encoding and retrieval differentially affects conceptual priming. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Dallas, TX.

Hamilton, M.*, & Rajaram, S. (1999, August). Examining picture processing in implicit conceptual memory. Poster presented at the 107^th annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Culp, D.*, & Rajaram, S. (1999, April). Differential effects of divided attention at encoding and retrieval in on conceptual explicit and implicit memory. Paper presented at the 70^th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Providence, RI.

Geraci, L.*, & Rajaram, S. (1999, April). Conceptual fluency affects Knowing. Poster presented at the 70^th annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Providence, RI.

Rajaram, S., & Srinivas, K. (1998, November). The effects of attention on perceptual implicit memory. Presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Dallas, TX.

Wiens, S.*, Park, G.*, Katkin, E. S., Rajaram, S., & Kelsey, R. M. (1998, September). Physiological detection of deception and the false memory phenomenon. Presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Denver, CO.

Culp, D.N.*, Srinivas, K., & Rajaram, S. (1998, February). Event-based conceptual implicit memory: Isolating the necessary conditions for new learning. Paper accepted to the 69th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Hamilton, M.*, & Rajaram, S. (1997, November). There is no concreteness effect on conceptual implicit memory. Poster presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Rajaram, S., & Coslett, H.B. (1997, March). Semantic learning in medial temporal lobe amnesia: The role of interference. Poster presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.

Hamilton, M.*, & Rajaram, S. (1997, April). Concreteness effect on implicit conceptual tests. Paper presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

Rajaram, S., (1996, November). Effects of conceptual and perceptual factors on recollective experience. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

Rajaram, S. (1996, July). The influence of semantic and nonsemantic variables on the recollective experience. Presented at the Summer Workshop in Cognitive Psychology, Co-sponsored by Williams College and SUNY, Albany, Williamstown, MA.

Hamilton, M.*, & Rajaram, S. (1996, March). The concreteness effect in implicit and explicit memory. Paper presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Rajaram, S., & Hamilton, M.* (1995, November). Recollective experience in varied recall situations. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA.

Hamilton, M.*, & Rajaram, S. (1995, March). "Remember" and "Know" judgments in different memory tests. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Holmes, J.B.*, & Rajaram, S. (1995, March). The phenomenology of mismemory: Linguistic abstraction and Remember/Know judgments. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Rajaram, S., & Coslett, H.B. (1995, March). Constraints on semantic learning in medial temporal lobe amnesia. Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Rajaram, S., & Coslett, H.B. (1994, November). Acquisition and transfer of novel information in amnesia: Converging evidence. Poster presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Washington, D.C.

Bolton, A., Schindler, R., Rajaram, S., Vaillancourt, P., O'Connor, M. (1994, May). Amnesic syndrome in a case of circumscribed hypothalamic tumor. Poster presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, Washington D.C.

Rajaram, S., Coslett, H.B., & Saffran, E.M. (1994, February). Restriction in the "spotlight" of visual attention in Alzheimer's Disease: A case study. Paper Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society, 22nd meeting held in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Rajaram, S., & Coslett, H.B. (1993, November). Learning and transfer of novel verbal information in amnesia. Poster presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Washington, D.C.

Rajaram, S. & Coslett, H.B. (1993, May). Effects of size and reflection of objects on "Remember"/"Know" responses in recognition memory. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May, 1993.

Rajaram, S. & Coslett, H.B. (1993, February). Acquisition and transfer of new semantic information in amnesia. Paper presented at the International Neuropsychological Society, Twenty-first annual meeting, Galveston, TX.

Rajaram, S. & Coslett, H.B. (1992, November). Further dissociations between "Remember" and "Know" judgments in recognition memory. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.

Rajaram, S. (1991, November). The components of recollective experience: Remembering and knowing. Poster at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA.

Roediger, H.L., Rajaram, S., Srinivas, K., & McDermott, K.B. (1991, November). Specificity of operations in perceptual priming. Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA.

Rajaram, S., & Roediger, H.L. (1991, May). Components of recollective experience: Remembering and knowing. Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Rajaram, S., Roediger, H.L. (1990, May). A comparison of five implicit memory tests as a function of mode of input. Paper presented at the meetings of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Srinivas, K., Roediger, H.L., & Rajaram, S. (1990). Both syllabicity and trigram frequency of letter units mediate visual word recognition. Poster presented at the meetings of the American Psychological Society, Dallas, TX.

Rajaram, S., & Neely, J.H. (1989, May). What causes the masked repetition priming effect? Paper presented at the meetings of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Rajaram, S., & Neely, J.H. (1988, May). Masked repetition priming effect in the lexical decision and episodic recognition tasks. Paper presented at the meetings of the Society to Study the Hoosier Mental Life, West Lafayette, IN.