Kelsey James, Ph.D.

Kelsey (they/she) is an Assistant Professor at University of Houston-Clear Lake in the Psychology department. They received their PhD at the University of California, Santa Cruz working in the Human Memory lab with advisor Benjamin C. Storm.

 

She studies human learning and memory with a focus on testing and technology in education. They are interested in how we can utilize a theoretical understanding of human memory to improve educational systems and how we can utilize knowledge of student performance to improve our theoretical understanding of human memory. Additionally, her research aims to address how learning and memory are changing in the digital age, and in particular how constant access to the internet is changing the ways we use our memory and what we are able to retain long-term.