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Jennifer P. Provyn [CV]
jpprovyn AT syr DOT edu
Experimental Psychology
Ph.D. Candidate
570C Huntington Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244
(315) 443-3986

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Courses

• PSY332

Research interests

Associative memory; statistical learning; underlying neural, behavioral, and computational links between intentional and incidental statistical learning; sequential learning and the extraction of latent structures from input stimuli; connectionist modeling--the Elman/Simple Recurrent Network (SRN); ERP correlates of transitive associations.

• Current Direction

Presentations At Scientific Meetings

Provyn, J.P. and Howard, M.W. Associative processes in probabilistic sequence learning, Poster presented to the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, November, 2007. [PS07]

Provyn, J.P., Sliwinski, M.J., Iyer, S., and Howard, M.W. Age differences in transitive associations, Poster presented to the Society for Mathematical Psychology, Vancouver, BC, July, 2006. [SMP06]

Provyn, J.P, Sliwinski, M.J., and Howard, M.W. Reduced susceptibility to associative interference in paired-associate learning with age, Poster presented to Neurofest, Skaneateles, NY, March, 2006. [Neurofest06]

Invited Talks

"Effects of age on contextually mediated associations in paired-associate learning", Gardner Conference, September 2007, Auburn NY

Publications

Provyn, J. P, Howard, M. W., and Sliwinski, M. J. (2007). Effects of age on contextually mediated assocations in paired associate learning. Psychology and Aging, 22, 846--857. [ProvEtal07]

Howard, M. W., Jing, B., Rao, V. J., Provyn, J. P., and Datey, A. V. (2009). Bridging the gap: Transitive associations are formed from learning items in similar temporal contexts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 391--407. [HowaEtal09]

Working Papers