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Vencislav Popov, Ph.D.
Worked 2015-2020 as a graduate student
Ven's dissertation tested whether the resources used to store information in memory recover gradually over time, rather than becoming immediately available after use. He developed a paradigm to test several key predictions of the recovery assumption, namely, he looked at whether spending more resources on one study trial impairs memory for subsequent study trials. His dissertation demonstrated that memory performance for studied item is better, if the preceding item during study 1) was a high-frequency rather than a low-frequency word, 2) was an item presented more frequently during study, 3) was a to-be-forgotten rather than a to-be-remembered item, 4) was separated by a longer inter-stimulus-interval. Collectively, these "sequential study effects" provided strong evidence for the resource recovery assumption. The outcomes of Ven's doctoral work were published in Psychological Review, Psychological Science and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. His other interests include the intersection between semantic and episodic memory, and specifically, how prior knowledge affects future learning. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with Klaus Oberauer at the University of Zürich.
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