Publications

2025

Archer, K. & Persaud, K (in review). Strengthening Connections: Differentiating the Role of Encoding Context on Object-Feature Representations

Hu, A. & Persaud, K. (in review). Evaluating Emotion Effects on Episodic Memory: What Makes Negative Information Memorable?

Archer, K., Macias, C., & Persaud, K. (in revision). What Do Kids Expect: Investigating Children’s Memory for Congruent and Incongruent Object Features. Developmental Psychology.

Macias, C., & Persaud, K. (2025). Investigating the Color Bizarreness Effect in Long-term Memory. Memory (Publisher).

Persaud, K., Macias, C., & Bonawitz, E. (2025). Expectation-[In]congruence differentially impacts recall and recognition of object features. Memory & Cognition (Publisher).

2024

Persaud, K. & Hemmer, P. (2024).  The Influence of functional components of natural scenes on episodic memory. Scientific Reports 14, 30313 (Publisher)

Macias, C., & Persaud, K. (2024). From Silos to Synergy: Integrating Approaches to Investigate the Role of Prior Knowledge and Expectations on Episodic Memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. (PDF)

Cheng, Qi., Mert, I., Grmek, G, Mbarki, R, Choi, T., Sun, Y., Persaud, K., Wang, J., & Alikhani, M. (2023). Learning multimodal cues of children’s uncertainty. SIGDial Proceedings – Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue.(PDF)

2023

Macias, C., & Persaud, K. (2023). How Bizarre: Does the color bizarreness effect extend to long-term memory? Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45. (PDF)

2022

Choi, T., Mbarki, R., Grmek, G., Persaud, K., Wang, J., & Alikhani, M. (2022). Learning variations in children’s multimodal cues of uncertainty during a math-related numerical discrimination task.  In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, No. 44). (PDF)

2021

Persaud, K., Macias, C., Hemmer, P., & Bonawitz, E. (2021). Evaluating recall error in preschoolers: Category expectations influence episodic memory for color. Cognitive Psychology, 24, 101357. (Publisher)

2019

Persaud, K., Macias, C., Hemmer, P., & Bonawitz, E. (2019). Age-Related Differences in the Influence of Category Expectations on Episodic Memory in Early Childhood. In A.K. Goel, C.M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.) Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society. (Publisher)

Persaud, K., Bass, I., Colantonio, J., Macias, C., & Bonawitz, E. (2019). Opportunities and Challenges Integrating Resource-Rational Analysis with Developmental Perspectives. Invited Commentary to Lieder and Griffiths, Brain and Behavioral Sciences. (Publisher)

2017

Persaud, K., McMahan, B., Alikhani, M., Pei, K., Hemmer, P., & Stone, M. (2017). When is likely unlikely: Investigating the continuum of linguistic vagueness. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2876-2881). London, EU: Cognitive Science Society. (PDF)

Persaud, K., Hemmer, P., Kidd, C. & Piantadosi, S. (2017). Seeing colors: Cultural and environmental influences on episodic memory. i-Perception, 1-5. (PDF)

Ahluwalia, D., Hemmer, P., & Persaud, K. (2017).  Pop-culture exerts a strong influence on the Misattribution of Memory. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1513-1518). London EU: Cognitive Science Society. (PDF)

2016

Persaud, K. & Hemmer, P. (2016). The dynamics of fidelity over the time course of long-term memory. Cognitive Psychology, 88, 1-21. (Publisher)

2015

Hemmer, P., Persaud, K., McGovern, C., & Piantidosi, S. (2015). Inferring the Tsimane’s use of color categories from recognition memory. In Noelle, D. C., Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshimi, J., Matlock, T., Jennings, C. D., & Maglio, P. P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. San Diego, CA: Cognitive Science Society. (PDF)

2014

Hemmer, P & Persaud, K. (2014). Interaction between categorical knowledge and episodic memory across domains. Frontiers in Psychology (Cognitive Science). Research Topic “Common and Distinctive Mechanisms in Memory, Reasoning, and Categorization” hosted by Dr(s) BRETT HAYES, Evan Heit, Caren Rotello. (PDF)

Persaud, K. & Hemmer, P. (2014). The influence of knowledge and expectations for color on episodic memory. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, QC: Cognitive Science Society.  (PDF)

Hemmer, P., Persaud, K., Venaglia, R., & DeAngelis, J. (2014). What’s your source: evaluating the effects of context in episodic memory for objects in natural scenes. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, QC: Cognitive Science Society. (PDF)

In Preparation

Persaud K. & Bonawitz, E. (in prep). Dissociating the Impact of Object-Color Expectations and Object-Color Violations on Visual Feature Memory

Persaud, K., Macias, C., & Bonawitz, E. (in prep). Integrated Approaches for Investigating the Impact of Expectation-Congruency on Episodic Memory

Persaud, K. Macias, C., & Bonawitz, E. (in prep). Integrating behavioral, computational, and developmental approaches to evaluate the impact of study context on episodic memory.

Persaud, K. & Hemmer, P. (in prep). Guess Again: Evaluating the role of prior knowledge and random guessing in long-term memory.

Persaud, K. & Hemmer, P. (in prep). Assessing Misassociations in Long-term memory for color.