Dr. John Wixted's research focuses on all aspects of memory, including the basic cognitive and brain mechanisms that underlie recognition and recall. He is an expert in signal detection theory and its application to learning and memory. Dr. Wixted also has a research program focusing on single-unit recordings from the human hippocampus during encoding and retrieval. He is passionate about eyewitness memory and has made impacts on policies related to the use of eyewitness identification (recognition memory) in the criminal justice system.
Key Research Areas:
Hippocampal Mechanisms of Declarative Memory, Recognition Memory, Eyewitness Identification
