Christopher L. Zerr
I joined the Memory Lab at Washington University in St. Louis as a postdoctoral researcher in Fall 2021. I received my PhD at Washington University in St. Louis in 2021 working under Dr. Kathleen McDermott.
My main interests are in examining both collective memory and individual differences in long-term memory, in particular how memories are formed and how they change over time. I am also interested in the similarities (and differences) between individual and group memory and forgetting. Much of my doctoral work was focused on the relation between how quickly people learn information and how well they remember it over time, as well as how learning rate related to forgetting rate.
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Zerr, C. L., Spaventa, T., & McDermott, K. B. (2021). Are efficient learners of verbal stimuli also efficient and precise learners of visuospatial stimuli? Memory, 29, 675-692.
McDermott, K. B., & Zerr, C. L. (2019). Individual differences in learning efficiency. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28, 607-613.
Zerr, C. L., Berg, J. J., Nelson, S. M., Fishell, A. K., Savalia, N. K., & McDermott, K. B. (2018). Learning efficiency: Identifying individual differences in learning rate and retention in healthy adults. Psychological Science, 29, 1436-1450.
Thrailkill, E. A., Trott, J. M., Zerr, C. L., & Bouton, M. E. (2016). Contextual control of chained instrumental behaviors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 42(4), 401-414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000112
Shaffer, F., McCraty, R., & Zerr, C. L. (2014). A healthy heart is not a metronome: An integrative review of the heart’s anatomy and heart rate variability. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1-19. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01040