Murray Glanzer

Psychology

Memory

I received a doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1952. My thesis was on exploratory behavior. Before coming to New York University in 1963, I was at Brooklyn College, the American Institute for Research, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. I also spent a year at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem while on a Guggenheim fellowship.

My past research included the following areas: effects of aging on cognition and memory, mathematical analysis of social structure, rote learning, concept attainment, psycholinguistics, and problem solving. More recent work has been concerned with lexical decision, models for recall and recognition, the role of memory in reading comprehension, and neuromagnetic correlates of imagery in memory. Currently I am studying basic aspects of recognition memory, applying signal detection theory.

Representative Publications

Kaufman, L., Glanzer, M., Cycowicz, Y. M., and Williamson, S. J. (1989). Visualizing and rhyming cause differences in alpha suppression. In Advances in Biomagnetism, eds. Williamson, S. J., Stroink, G., and Kotani, M. New York: Plenum Press.

Glanzer, M., and Adams, J. K. (1990). The mirror effect in recognition memory: Data and theory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 16, 5-16.

Koppenaal, L., and Glanzer, M. (1990). An examination of the continuous distractor task and the ³long-term¹¹ recency effect. Memory and Cognition 18, 183-195.

Glanzer, M., Adams, J. K., and Iverson, G. (1991). Forgetting and the mirror effect in recognition memory: Concentering of underlying distributions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 17, 81-93.

Glanzer, M., Adams, J. K., Iverson, G. J., and Kim, K. (1993). The regularities of recognition memory. Psychological Review 100, 546-567.

Kim, K., and Glanzer, M. (1995). Intralist interference in recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 21, 1-12.

Glanzer, M., Kisok, K., and Adams, J.K. (1998). Response distribution as an explanation of full mirror effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology; Learning Memory, and Cognition, 24, 1-12.