Sydney Garlitch

Sydney Garlitch is an Affiliate Professor in the Psychology Department at Grand Valley State University. Holding a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she specializes in memory and cognitive aging, with a focus on episodic memory updating and attentional effects across age groups.

Her research investigates how episodic memories are updated through prior experiences, attentional mechanisms in memory integration, and age-related differences in memory discrimination. Key methodologies include experimental paradigms analyzing memory interdependence and attentional lapses.

Recent publications in Learning & Memory and Memory explore aging impacts on dual-list recall, false alarms from encoding quality, and cross-episode memory dynamics. Her work bridges cognitive psychology and lifespan developmental theories.