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Matthew R. Kelley > Biographical Sketch

Matthew Kelley, a native of Milwaukee, earned his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Purdue University in 2001.  He joined the psychology faculty at Lake Forest College in 2002 after completing a post-doctoral fellowship in developmental neuropsychology at the University of Louisville.  At the College, he regularly teaches the introductory psychology course, as well as courses on research methods, statistics, cognitive psychology, learning, and memory.  His research is aimed at discovering the general principles that govern memory over both short and long time intervals.  In particular, he focuses on how the temporal aspects of events are encoded, maintained, and retrieved by the human memory system.