Welcome to EVERYDAY MEMORY RESEARCH website 
 (This website is maintained by Prof. Lia Kvavilashvili, University of Hertfordshire) 
Our research sheds light on memory processes in a variety of everyday contexts. For example, how do we remember to take a medication or keep an appointment (prospective memory); why do certain memories, words or tunes pop into our mind unexpectedly (involuntary memories) or repeatedly (intrusive memories); or how do we remember emotionally arousing and significant events (flashbulb memories)? We also study the developmental aspects of these memory processes in children and old age, as well as their manifestation in various clinical conditions (e.g., mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, depression). 


SPecific  Research  Topics  include

- Prospective memory

- Everyday memory failures

- Autobiographical memories, flashbulb memories

- Involuntary autobiographical memories

- Involuntary semantic memories or mind-pops

- Involuntary musical mind-pops and 'earworms'

- Intrusive memories

- Mental health and psychological well being


Populations  studied

Young adults, children, normally ageing older adults, older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment, people with dysphoria, depression, schizophrenia, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.


Methods  used

Standard laboratory methods, questionnaires and interviews, paper and electronic diaries

willing to take part in our studies?

Please check adverts for some of projects conducted in our lab

Interested in doing a PhD?

Please check a page on PhD Supervision for information
Link to Departmental website  

Events and news


Department of Psychology and Sport Sciences Research Seminar programme in 2019-2020


​Special Interest Meeting on Autobiographical Memory and Psychopathology, University of Cambridge, 5-6 December, 2019


An interdisciplinary Conference on Music and Lifetime Memories, Durham University, 1-2 November, 2019 


Special Issue on Spontaneous Future Cognition (Edited by Scott Cole and Lia Kvavilashvili) was published in Psychological Research in June 2019. 
 

14th Conference of the Society for Applied Research for Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) - Nagoya, Japan,  21-24 July, 2021


Prof. Agnieszka Niedzwienska was awarded Marie Curie Fellowship (by European Commission) to study prospective memory in Mild Cognitive Impairment (PMinMCI) at the University of Hertfordshire (October, 2014 - April 2016) 

Interview with Farris Jabr in Scientific American, 23 May, 2012, on involuntary semantic memories.