Dr. John Wixted

Biography

John Wixted is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on understanding episodic memory and the cognitive mechanisms underlying recognition memory, employing signal detection theory as a guiding framework. Wixted's work investigates how episodic memory is represented in the human hippocampus, primarily through single-unit recording studies conducted with epilepsy patients. In recent years, he has explored the applied implications of signal detection-based models of recognition memory, particularly concentrating on the reliability of eyewitness memory. His contributions to the field include significant publications addressing the relationship between eyewitness confidence and identification accuracy, as well as studies on the coding of episodic memory neurons in the human hippocampus.

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