Education

2011 Whitman College, B.A.
2012 Boston University, M.A.
2019 Claremont Graduate University, Ph.D.

Courses Taught

General Psychology
Cognitive Psychology

Career Specialties

Patricia' Xi's primary research interest is on cognitive aging, especially on how language and memory processes change over time in healthy older adults. She is particularly interested in everyday occurrences like the memory failure known as the tip of the tongue phenomenon.

Professional and Community Activities

Recently, she has published an article featuring two longitudinal experiments on the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.

Xi, P. M., Gardner, E. and Burke, D. M. (2026). If at first you don’t succeed, you should try again: Repeated retrieval attempts reduce tip-of-the-tongue recurrence. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 38(2), 133-154. 

Honors and Awards

Member of Psi Chi
2024 Phillip Green Wright-Lombard College Prize for Distinguished Teaching at Knox College

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