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Tracey Kahan

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Tracey Kahan

Professor Emerita

Research
  • Discrimination of memories for actual and imagined experience
  • Relationship between dreaming and waking cognition and metacognition
  • Contribution of reflective consciousness to memory
  • "Mindfulness" Practice and social action 
Courses
  • PSYC 1: General Psychology I
  • PSYC 43: Research Methods
  • PSYC 120: Perception
  • PSYC 131: Cognitive Psychology
  • PSYC 133: Advanced Topics in Cognitive Psychology
  • PSYC 135: Psychology of Sleep and Dreaming
  • PSYC 195: Research Practicum
Publications

Kahan, T. L., & Claudatos, S. (2016). Phenomenological features of dreams: Results from dream log studies using the Subjective Experiences Rating Scale (SERS)Consciousness and Cognition: An International Journal41, 159–176.

Thomas, S., Pollak, M., & Kahan, T. L. (2015). Subjective qualities of dreams with and without awarenessDreaming25(3), 173–189.

Kahan, T. L. (2011). Possible worlds, possible selves: Dreaming and the liberation of consciousness. In S. Kakar (Ed.), On dreams and dreaming (pp. 109-126). New Delhi: Viking-Penguin. PDF

Kahan, T.L. and LaBerge, Stephen P. (2011). Dreaming and waking: Similarities and differences revisited, Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 494-515.

Bulkeley, K. and Kahan, T.L. (2008). The impact of September 11 on dreaming. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 1248-1256.

Baker, F. C., Colrain, I. A., Kahan, T. L., Trinder, J. (2007). Sleep Quality and the Sleep Electroencephalogram in Women with Severe Premenstrual Syndrome. SLEEP, Vol. 30, No. 10.

Kahan, T. L., & Simone, P. (2005). Where neurocognition meets the master: Attention and metacognition in Zen. Chapter to appear in K. Bulkeley (Ed.), Soul, Psyche, & Brain (pp. 113-137), New York: Palgrave. PDF   


Frey, M., Graca, M., Hem, H., Hoffman, C., & Kahan, T. L. (2003). Influence of a Sleeping Verses Waking Retention Interval on Spatial Visual Auditory Memory Performance. Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research, 8 (4), 163-169. PDF

Kahan, T.L. (2001). Consciousness in dreaming: A metacognitive approach. In K. Bulkeley (Ed.), Dreams: A reader on the religious, cultural, and psychological dimensions of dreaming (pp. 333-360). New York: Palgrave. PDF

Rose, D.A., & Kahan, T. L. (2001). Melatonin and sleep qualities in healthy adults: Pharmacological and expectancy effects. The Journal of General Psychology: Experimental, Physiological, and Comparative Psychology, 128 (4), 401-421. PDF

Kahan, T.L. (2000). The "problem" of dreaming in NREM sleep continues to challenge reductionist (two generator) models of dream generation (Commentary). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23: 6, 956-958. 

Kahan, T.L., Hays, J., Hirashima, B., & Johnston, K. (2000). Effects of melatonin on dream bizarreness among male and female college students. Sleep and Hypnosis, 2(2), 74-83. PDF

Kahan, T.L., Mohsen, R., Tandez, J., & McDonald, J. (1999). Discriminating memories for actual and imagined taste experiences: A reality monitoring approach. American Journal of Psychology, 112(1), 97-112. PDF

Rose, D.A., Chase, J., Blazej, E., & Kahan, T. L. (1999). Effects of exogenous melatonin on sleep quality in healthy college students. Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research, 4(1), 3-8. PDF

Kahan, T.L., LaBerge, S., Levitan, L., & Zimbardo, P. (1997). Similarities and differences between dreaming and waking cognition: An exploratory study. Consciousness and Cognition, 6, 132-147. PDF

Kahan, T.L., & LaBerge, S.L.(1996). Cognition and metacognition in dreaming and waking: Comparisons of first and third-person ratings. Dreaming, 6, 235-249. PDF

Kahan, T.L. (1996). Memory source confusions: The effects of character rotational sensory modality. American Journal of Psychology, 109, 431-449. PDF

Kahan, T.L., & LaBerge, S.L.(1994). Lucid dreaming as metacognition: Implications for cognitive science. Consciousness and Cogntion, 3, 246-264. PDF