I am a Ph.D. student in the Cognitive Psychology program at Colorado State University studying under Dr. Anne Cleary.
My research focuses on recognition memory processes in humans, specifically during instances of retrieval failure. Frequently, people fail to remember the details of how they met someone, where they left something, the name of a song, or what was on their grocery list. During these moments, although the details are momentarily inaccessible, people still have access to other information about the memory. My research examines how people are able to make decisions during retrieval failure by relying on familiarity signals. To study this phenomenon, known as recognition without identification, I use a variety of methodologies, including behavioral paradigms, simulations, eye-tracking, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
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1876 Campus Delivery Department of Psychology Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-1876
Select conference presentations. See CV for full list
McNeely-White, K. L. (March 2022). Déjà entendu: The auditory déjà vu experience and its associated biases. Invited talk at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Mobile, AL.
McNeely-White, K. L., Huebert, A. M., & Cleary, A. M. (August 2021). Does the Tip-of-the-Tongue State Entail a Feeling of Being on the Tip of the Prediction? Poster presented at APA Convention, virtual conference.
McNeely-White, K. L., Huebert, A. M., & Cleary, A. M. (November 2020). How Features Interact Across Memory Traces to Produce Familiarity-based Recognition. Poster presented at Psychonomics, virtual conference.
McNeely-White, K. L., & Cleary, A. M. (November 2019). Haven't I heard this before? The mechanism and bias of déjà entendu. Poster presented at Psychonomics, Montreal, QC.
*Kerr, J. E., *Hughes, E., McNeely-White, K. L., & Cleary, A. M. (April 2019). Embedding familiarized musical features into novel song sequences. Poster presented at Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Denver, CO. *Russell, S., *Dawson, J., *Kerr, J. E., McNeely-White, K. L., Huebert, A. M., & Cleary, A. M. (April 2019). The use of smartwatches to encourage effective study habits. Poster presented at Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Denver, CO. McNeely-White, K. L., & Cleary, A. M. (March 2019). Déjà entendu: That strange feeling of knowing a song. Invited talk at Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Cincinnati, OH. McNeely-White, K. L., Cleary, A. M., & Claxton, A. M. (November 2018). Embedding familiarized rhythm or pitch sequences in musical pieces increases subjective song familiarity. Poster presented at Psychonomics, New Orleans, LA. McNeely-White, K. L., Huebert, A. M., & Cleary, A. M. (April 2018). Irrational feelings of prediction during tip-of-the-tongue states. Talk presented at Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Denver, CO.*denotes undergraduate mentee at time of work
Applying Effective Learning Strategies to Human Physiology, Colorado State UniversityFall 2020, Spring 2021
Cognitive Psychology Lecturer, Colorado State UniversitySummer 2020 - Summer 2022
Science of Learning Guest Lecturer, Colorado State UniversitySpring 2020
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory Instructor, Colorado State UniversityFall 2019, Fall 2021
Applied Cognitive Psychology Laboratory Instructor, Colorado State UniversityFall 2018, Spring 2019
Cognitive Neuroscience Guest Lecturer, Colorado State University Fall 2017, Spring 2018
Please find below the most recently updated version of my CV (April 24, 2022)
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