Department/College/UnitSocial Sciences Division

TitleProfessor
Department Chair
Associate Editor, Memory

AffiliationFaculty

Web Sitehttp://people.ucsc.edu/~bcstorm/research.html

Primary Office LocationSocial Sciences 2
345

Additional Location(s)Social Sciences 2, 409

Mail StopPsychology Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara

Summary of Expertise

Human Memory; Cognitive Mechanisms of Forgetting; Creative Cognition; Learning and Metacognition; Cognitive Offloading and Transactive Memory

Research Interests

My research focuses broadly on human memory with a special focus on the causes and consequences of forgetting.  I am particularly interested in the role of forgetting in resolving competition during retrieval, overcoming fixation while thinking and solving problems, updating autobiographical memory, and facilitating new learning.  I am also interested in how people use smartphones, the Internet, and other technologies and the effects of such use on the everyday functioning of memory.

Selected Publications

• Ditta, A. S., & Storm, B. C. (2019).  A consideration of the seven sins of memory in the context of creative cognition.  Creativity Research Journal, 30, 402-417.
• Fellers, C., Miyatsu, T., & Storm, B. C. (2023).  Remembering what to do when the time comes: The effects of offloading in a complex prospective memory task.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 29, 631-644.
• Murayama, K., Miyatsu, T., Buchli, D., & Storm, B. C. (2014). Forgetting as a consequence of retrieval: A meta-analytic review of retrieval-induced forgetting. Psychological Bulletin, 140, 1383-1409.
• Soares, J. S., & Storm, B. C. (2018).  Forget in a flash: A further investigation of the photo-taking-impairment effect.  Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 7, 154-160.
• Stone, S. M., & Storm, B. C. (2021).  Search fluency as a misleading measure of memory.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47, 53-64.
• Storm, B. C., Angello, G., Buchli, D. R., Koppel, R. H., Little, J. L., & Nestojko, J. F. (2015).  A review of retrieval-induced forgetting in the contexts of learning, eye-witness memory, social cognition, autobiographical memory, and creative cognition.  In B. Ross (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation (pp. 141-194).  Academic Press: Elsevier Inc.
• Storm, B. C., & Soares, J. S. (2024).  Memory in the digital age.  In M. J. Kahana & A. D. Wagner (Eds.), Handbook of Human Memory: Foundations and Applications.  Oxford University Press.
• Storm, B. C., & Stone, S. M. (2015).  Saving-enhanced memory: The benefits of saving on the learning and remembering of new information.  Psychological Science, 26, 182-188.