She also incorporates her knowledge of memory into her classroom by encouraging students to use active study methods that research suggests are more effective tools of memorization than common, less-engaged habits like rereading notes and studying with distractions. She is fascinated by questions of how memories can change over time and why two individuals may remember the same event differently.
Many of Dudukovic’s classes on learning and memory involve a discussion of flashbulb memories. Why were we at a French restaurant in Vienna?” “I know I was in Vienna, I know we were at a restaurant-I want to say it was a French restaurant, which seems kind of weird. “I can remember certain things,” Dudukovic adds. Even Dudukovic has a hard time recalling the day’s events. Unsurprisingly, her sister forgot several details. Within a few years after their trip, Dudukovic used the notes to test her sister on what she recalled from their flashbulb moment. “This idea of the flashbulb is that everything would be preserved like a photo, perfectly, so you would remember all of these details, and it’s just not really the case.”ĭudukovic keeps the notes her sister jotted down in a box in her basement closet. However, research suggests that just like a normal memory, flashbulb memories fade over time. She knew that her experience was an example of the infamous psychological concept of “flashbulb memory.”Ī flashbulb memory is “a really vivid memory of when a specific event happened and what you were doing and saying at the time,” Dudukovic says. Dudukovic told her sister to write down the details of that moment, including what they had to eat, what the couple looked like, and how much the meal cost. Senior Instructor of Psychology Nicole Dudukovic and her older sister were having dinner at a restaurant in Vienna when a nearby couple told them that two planes had flown into the World Trade Towers on Sept. Story by Claire Warner, CHC Communications
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