Kathleen Hourihan

Kathleen Hourihan is an Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her research focuses on memory processes, particularly intentional forgetting, metamemory, and the influence of emotional content, mood, and cognitive variables on memory accuracy. She holds a B.Sc. from Dalhousie University and a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo.

Her work examines how individuals control what they remember and predict future memory performance. Key areas include conceptual implicit memory, the role of contextual encoding, and the cross-race effect in face recognition. She has explored how situational factors like time of day and working memory capacity affect metamemory judgments.

Research Trends: Hourihan's publications emphasize the production effect, directed forgetting, and emotional memory. Recent work (2020–2025) investigates visual representation fidelity, context influence, and sleep effects on forgetting. Earlier studies (2006–2017) laid groundwork for understanding directed forgetting mechanisms and metamemory accuracy with emotional stimuli.

Awards: No scientific awards explicitly mentioned.

Advising & Grants: No student advisees or grant details provided in the text. Collaborations include studies on category learning and face-name associations.