In the Memory Research Lab, we seek answers to the following sorts of questions: What cognitive and neural mechanisms are involved in the creation of memories? What cognitive and neural processes are affected (or not) by healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease? What do we know about our own memory functions (metamemory), and how does this knowledge vary across individuals? We use research tools from cognitive psychology and neuroscience to identify the mechanisms that drive memory accuracy and distortion in different contexts.