John Wixted is the Distinguished Professor Psychology at the University of California, San Diego where he researches episodic memory. Much of his work investigates the cognitive mechanisms that underlie recognition memory, often using signal detection theory as a guide. A related line of research investigates how episodic memory is represented in the human hippocampus, work that is based mainly on single-unit recording studies performed with epilepsy patients. Recently, his research has investigated the applied implications of signal detection-based models of recognition memory with the main focus on the reliability of eyewitness memory.
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