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Brendan Murray

ph.d. candidate

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Office: McGuinn 504C
Phone: 617-552-2083
Email: brendan.murray.2@bc.edu

Primary Advisor: Elizabeth Kensinger

Interests: My research focuses on how associations between discrete pieces of information are formed in, and later forgotten from, memory. I am particularly interested in how the emotionality of information affects how these associations are formed and broken, and how these phenomena differ between college age and older (aged 65+) adults.

Publications

Murray, BD, Muscatell, KA, & Kensinger, EA (in press). Effects of emotion and age on performance during a think/no-think memory suppression task. Psychology and Aging.

Murray, BD & Kensinger, EA (in press). Cognitive aging. In N. Seel (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer.

Murray, BD & Kensinger, EA (in press). Emotional memory. In N. Seel (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer.

Murray, BD & Kensinger, EA (in press). Semantic learning in profound amnesia. In N. Seel(Ed.), The Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer.

Presentations

Murray, BD & Kensinger, EA (2010). The effects of emotion and encoding strategy on associative memory. Talk given at Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.

Murray, BD, Muscatell, KA, & Kensinger, EA (2010). Memory suppression of neutral and emotional items in young and older adults. Talk given at Gerontological Society of America, New Orleans, LA.

Murray, BD & Kensinger, EA (2010). The effects of emotion and integrative visualization strategy on associative memory. Poster presented at the Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society, Longwood, MA.

Murray, BD & Kensinger, EA (2010). Neural correlates of associative memory foremotional items. Poster presented at The Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting, Champéry, Switzerland.

Wong, WX, Murray, BD, & Kensinger, EA (2010). Suppressing target memories with multiple episodic cues. Poster presented at Boston College Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference, Boston, MA.

Wong, WX, Murray, BD, & Kensinger, EA (2010). Use of a modified directed forgetting paradigm leads to memory suppression. Poster presented at Association for Psychology Society 22nd Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

Murray, BD, Muscatell, KA, & Kensinger, EA (2009). Memory suppression across the adult lifespan. Poster presented at 19th Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference (“Cognitive Aging: Research and Practice”),Toronto, ON.

Murray, BD & Kensinger, EA (2009). The influence of emotion and encoding on associative memory. Poster presented at Psychonomic Society Meeting, Boston, MA.

Steinmetz, KRM, Waring, JD, Atapattu, R, Holland, AC, Morvan, CI, & Murray,BD (2009). Boston College brain awareness week: From schools to senior Centers. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.