In his talk, Dr Dejan Draschkow explores how memory and past experiences are selectively drawn upon in different circumstances. After highlighting memory’s dominant association with the ‘past’ and ‘past events’, he argues that memory also retains significant value in the present. Importantly, memory plays a key role in informing future behavior, with individuals drawing upon past experiences to guide their actions. This is true for the interpretation of visual stimuli, with familiar contextual clues guiding our perception of the environment. Therefore, in order to illustrate this, Dr Draschkow encourages students to engage in a series of visual perception tasks. These activities demonstrate how uncertainty can create greater reliance upon memory, leading the individual to draw upon past experiences to determine what they might be seeing. Finally, Dr Draschkow explores how effort intensive retrieval can lead to greater reliance on contextual cues, demonstrated by a series of controlled virtual reality.In his talk, Dr Dejan Draschkow explores how memory and past experiences are selectively drawn upon in different circumstances. After highlighting memory’s dominant association with the ‘past’ and ‘past events’, he argues that memory also retains significant value in the present. Importantly, memory plays a key role in informing future behavior, with individuals drawing upon past experiences to guide their actions. This is true for the interpretation of visual stimuli, with familiar contextual clues guiding our perception of the environment. Therefore, in order to illustrate this, Dr Draschkow encourages students to engage in a series of visual perception tasks. These activities demonstrate how uncertainty can create greater reliance upon memory, leading the individual to draw upon past experiences to determine what they might be seeing. Finally, Dr Draschkow explores how effort intensive retrieval can lead to greater reliance on contextual cues, demonstrated by a series of controlled virtual reality.
Dr Dejan Draschkow
Dr Draschkow is a Departmental Lecturer at the Department of Experimental Psychology. After gathering some experience at LMU Munich, Harvard Medical Schools’ Visual Attention Lab and the Active Vision Lab at the University of Dundee, Dr Draschkow completed his PhD at the Scene Grammar Lab. He followed this up with an Interim Professorship at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Dr Draschkow has taught introductory and advanced lectures and seminars in Cognitive Psychology and Experimental Methods & Statistics. You can read more about Dr Draschkow and his research and teaching here.
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