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Kawasaki Lab
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A lab that uses experiments to explore the mechanisms of memory, asking why people remember things that never happened.
AboutAbout the lab
Why do memories of things that never happened arise?
The Kawasaki Lab is an experimental psychology lab that investigates the mechanisms of human memory through experiments.
Its main focus is false memory, in which people recall something as having happened even though they never actually saw or heard it.
The lab tests, while varying conditions, what kinds of word properties make false memories more likely to occur.
It also studies memories of one's own past and the memory of people who use multiple languages.
Key terms
- False memory
- A memory in which a person recalls something they never actually experienced as if it really happened
- Autobiographical memory
- Memory of events a person has personally experienced, including memory of when, where, and what happened
- Experimental psychology
- A field that conducts experiments under controlled conditions and examines the workings of the mind quantitatively
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The lab uses experiments to test, one by one, the mechanisms by which human memory diverges from fact. It approaches this from the angles of word properties, memories of one's own past, and the relationship with the languages people use.
*Illustrative imageWhy Do False Memories Arise?
The lab deals with the phenomenon in which people recall words that were not actually presented as having been there. Experiments test which properties of words affect how readily false memories arise.
*Illustrative imageMultiple Languages and Memory
The lab looks at which language people who use multiple languages memorize in and which language they recall in. It examines how differences in the language used affect the way memories are formed.
*Illustrative imageMemories of One's Own Past
The lab deals with memories of events a person has experienced. It examines individual differences in how people recall and talk about the past.
*Illustrative imagePhenomena Where Perception Diverges
Even when looking at the same thing, how it looks can differ from person to person. The lab examines how past experience and interaction with others affect this kind of ambiguous perception.
MembersFaculty
- Yayoi Kawasaki
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Oppstilling-2” Oslo police / Public domain (cropped)
- Why Do False Memories Arise?: “Great reed warbler nest with eggs” AttilaMarton1 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Multiple Languages and Memory: “Old japanese dictionary ( )” P K / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Memories of One's Own Past: “Ships Wake and Cloudscape, Caribbean 5858” ImagePerson / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Phenomena Where Perception Diverges: “Optical illusion vase” Περίεργος / Public domain (cropped)
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