Profile Claudia Araya

Dr. Claudia Araya

Research associate in the DFG project on research into the psychological implications of co-opetition

+49 (0) 651 201-2048

 

  • PhD in Psychology, Kyoto University 2024
  • Undergraduate and graduate studies in psychology at the University of Costa Rica 2011-2017 and Kyoto University 2018-2020

 

Research interests

Cognitive conflict, Cognitive flexibility, Working memory, Long-term memory

 

Selected publications

  • Araya, C., Oberauer, K., & Saito, S. (2023). Hebb Repetition Effects in Complex and Simple Span Tasks Are Based on the Same Learning Mechanism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001290

  • Araya, C., Oberauer, K., & Saito, S. (2022). The Hebb repetition effect in complex span tasks: Evidence for a shared learning mechanism with simple span tasks. Memory & Cognition, 50(5), 925-940. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01261-3

Conference papers

  • Araya, C., Oberauer, K., & Saito, S. (2023, September). Distractor processing has no impact on the Hebb repetition effect in complex span tasks [Oral presentation]. 23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP). Porto, Portugal. 

  • Araya, C., Oberauer, K., & Saito, S. (2022, November). Hebb repetition effects are transferable between simple and complex span tasks [Poster presentation]. Psychonomic Society 63rd annual meeting. Boston, USA.

  • Araya, C., Oberauer, K., & Saito, S. (2021, December). Testing the generalizability of the Hebb repetition effect in complex span tasks: An online replication study [Oral presentation]. Japan Society for Working Memory 18th annual meeting. Tokyo, Japan 

  • Araya, C., Oberauer, K., & Saito, S. (2020, September). The Hebb repetition effect in complex span tasks: Evidence towards position-item association as its underlying mechanism [Oral presentation]. 10th European Working Memory Symposium (EWoMSX). Cardiff, Wales

  • Araya, C., & Rodriguez-Villagra, O. A. (2018, September). A retrospective study of the influence of working memory capacity and fluid intelligence on the scores of the admission test to the University of Costa Rica [Oral presentation]. 16th annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology. Osaka, Japan

  • Araya, C., & Rodriguez-Villagra, O. A. (2017, September). A retrospective study of the influence of working memory capacity and fluid intelligence on the scores of the admission test to the University of Costa Rica [Oral presentation]. Institute for Psychological Research Symposium: Collective Actions in Research, Teaching and Social Action. San Jose, Costa Rica

  • Rodriguez-Villagra, O & Araya, C. (2017, September). Gender differences in the updating speed of working memory representations [Poster presentation]. Institute for Psychological research Symposium: Collective Actions in Research, Teaching and Social Action. San Jose, Costa Rica