Nicholas Griffin is a second year graduate student working with Dr. David Schnyer in the Cognitive Neuroscience area of the psychology department at the University of Texas at Austin. He graduated from Michigan State University in 2014, earning a Bachelor of Science in psychology with a specialization in cognitive science. At MSU, Nicholas was a member of the Sleep and Learning Lab under the supervision of Dr. Kimberly Fenn, where he worked as lab manager and completed his honors thesis on false memory for information encoded via social media. His research interests include the use of behavioral, EEG, and fMRI methods to investigate false memory and source memory, specifically emotional valence and memory in individuals with depressive symptoms and memory distortion in narrative learning.

 

 

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Fenn, K. M., Griffin, N. R., Uitvlugt, M. G., & Ravizza, S. M. (2014). The effect of Twitter exposure on false memory formation. Psychonomic bulletin & review,21(6), 1551-1556.