Kathleen McDermott

Kathleen is a Professor of Psychology at Washington University who investigates human memory encoding and retrieval and how they interact. She is well known for her research on how human memory is encoded and retrieved, with a specific interest in how false memories develop. In collaboration with Henry L. (Roddy) Roediger III, she developed the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm used to study the phenomenon of memory illusions.