Larry Z. Daily Assistant Professor of Psychology Psychology Department Chair

Working Memory

My most recent research involved the experimental investigation of the role of working memory in cognitive task performance. I also do computational modeling of working memory capacity using the ACT-R framework. A brief description of this project, click here. This work is being conducted in collaboration with Lynne M. Reder and Marsha C. Lovett.

Publications and Presentations on Working Memory

Daily, L. Z. (2004). A Computational Model of Working Memory Capacity. Poster presented at the 75^th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Society, Washington, DC.

Daily, L. Z., Bowman, J. L., & Jolliffe, A. B. (2002). A Source Activation Account of Working Memory. Paper presented at the 73^rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Society, Boston, MA.

Daily, L. Z., Lovett, M. C. & Reder, L. M. (2001). Modeling individual differences in working memory performance: A source activation account. Cognitive Science, 25, 315-353.

Lovett, M. C., Daily, L. Z., & Reder, L. M. (2000). A source activation theory of working memory: Cross-task predictions of performance in ACT-R. Journal of Cognitive Systems Research, 1, 99-118.

Daily, L. Z., Lovett, M. C. & Reder, L. M. (1999). Cross-task prediction of working memory performance: Working memory capacity as source activation. Paper presented at the Sixth Annual ACT-R Workshop, Fairfax, VA. [view the slides]

Daily, L. Z., Lovett, M. C. & Reder, L. M. (1998). Modeling individual differences in working memory capacity. Paper presented at the Fifth Annual ACT-R Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA. [view the slides]

Recognition Memory

Before going to Carnegie Mellon I was a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at George Mason University. There I worked with Alan Boneau on exploring the "recent negative" effect in recognition memory. The recent negative effect refers to the finding that false alarms are higher for a recently seen negative probe than for a more distant negative probe.

Publications and Presentations on Recognition Memory

Boneau, C. A., & Daily, L. Z. (1995, June). Exponential decay of episodic traces in short term recognition memory. Poster presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Society, New York, NY.[text]

Daily, L. Z., & Boneau, C. A. (1994, June). Item recency effects in recognition and recall. Poster presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Society, Washington, DC.

Boneau, C. A., & Daily, L. Z. (1994, April). Recognition accuracy for words and non words. Poster presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Providence, RI.

Boneau, C. A., & Daily, L. Z. (1992, November). Short-term recognition memory and LTM activation. Paper presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.

The Generation Effect

Publications and Presentations on Idiosyncratic Generation Effects

Chrosniak, L. D., Salzman, M. C., Daily, L. Z., & Sanford, J. F. (1995). Effects of idiosyncratic and traditional generation on recall and recognition. Poster presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Sanford, J. F., Chrosniak, L. D., & Daily, L. Z. (1994, April). Effects of equating original learning on recall of self-generated, idiosyncratic word pairs. Poster presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Providence, RI.

Sanford, J. F., & Daily, L. Z. (1993, April). Learning and memory for self-generated word pairs. Poster presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC.

Iconic Memory

I’ve also been involved in research on iconic memory. One of the assumptions of the partial report method used in demonstrating the existence of iconic memory is that an equal amount of information is available about all parts of the icon. Our (see below) research showed that this assumption may be false. In the future I hope to continue this work.

Publications and Presentations on Iconic Memory

Daily, L. Z., Koubratoff, V., & Sanford, J. F. (1997, April). Focal stimulus effects on the allocation of attention in iconic memory. Poster presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC. [View the poster]

Sanford, J. F., Daily, L. Z., Anderson, M. A., & Peabody, A. Y. (1994, April). Differential attention within the icon: Implications for visual sensory memory. Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Providence, RI.