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Overview

Lia Kvavilashvili is affiliated with the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Their research focuses mainly on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology, with additional work touching on Clinical Psychology and Computer Networks and Communications.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Mind wandering and attention
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Cognitive Functions and Memory
  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Age of Information Optimization

Kvavilashvili has authored numerous research papers published in several notable venues. Frequent publication venues for their work include Memory and Consciousness and Cognition, with additional contributions to Review of General Psychology, Nature Reviews Psychology, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Kvavilashvili are:

  • On the Nature of Everyday Prospection: A Review and Theoretical Integration of Research on Mind-Wandering, Future Thinking, and Prospective Memory (2020), published in Review of General Psychology
  • Deficits in Spontaneous Cognition as an Early Marker of Alzheimer's Disease (2020), published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Current theories of prospective memory and new directions for theory development (2022), published in Nature Reviews Psychology
  • Prospective memories in the wild: Predicting memory for intentions in natural environments (2022), published in Memory & Cognition
  • Comparing music- and food-evoked autobiographical memories in young and older adults: A diary study (2023), published in British Journal of Psychology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Krystian Barzykowski
  • Jan Rummel
  • Ioanna Markostamou
  • Agnieszka Niedźwieńska
  • Ruth M. Ford

Overall, Kvavilashvili's body of work contributes to advancing understanding within various subfields of psychology related to memory, cognition, mind wandering, and neuropsychological conditions. Their collaboration with multiple researchers and presence in diverse high-impact journals highlights an active and interdisciplinary research profile.

Best Publications

  • Varieties of intention: Some distinctions and classifications.

    Lia Kvavilashvili;Judi Ellis

  • Prospective Memory in 2000: Past, Present, and Future Directions

    Judi Ellis;Lia Kvavilashvili

  • Remembering intention as a distinct form of memory

    Lia Kvavilashvili

  • Out of One's Mind: A Study of Involuntary Semantic Memories.

    Lia Kvavilashvili;George Mandler;George Mandler

  • Involuntary autobiographical memories in and outside the laboratory: how different are they from voluntary autobiographical memories?

    Simone Schlagman;Lia Kvavilashvili

  • Is time-based prospective remembering mediated by self-initiated rehearsals Role of incidental cues, ongoing activity, age and motivation

    Lia Kvavilashvili;Laura Fisher

  • Prospective memory in children: The effects of age and task interruption.

    Lia Kvavilashvili;David J. Messer;Pippa Ebdon

  • A content analysis of involuntary autobiographical memories: examining the positivity effect in old age.

    Simone Schlagman;Joerg Schulz;Lia Kvavilashvili

  • Differential effects of age on involuntary and voluntary autobiographical memory

    Simone Schlagman;Matthias Kliegel;Jorg Schulz;Lia Kvavilashvili

  • Remembering intentions: A critical review of existing experimental paradigms

    Lia Kvavilashvili

  • Comparing flashbulb memories of September 11 and the death of Princess Diana: effects of time delays and nationality

    Lia Kvavilashvili;Jennifer Mirani;Simone Schlagman;Diana E. Kornbrot

  • I Suppress, Therefore I Smoke Effects of Thought Suppression on Smoking Behavior

    James A.K. Erskine;George J. Georgiou;Lia Kvavilashvili

  • Differential effects of age on prospective and retrospective memory tasks in young, young-old, and old-old adults

    Lia Kvavilashvili;Diana E Kornbrot;Veronica Mash;Janet Cockburn

  • Ecological validity and twenty years of real-life/laboratory controversy in memory research: A critical (and historical) review

    L. Kvavilashvili;J. Ellis

  • The development of prospective memory in children : Methodological issues, empirical findings, and future directions

    Lia Kvavilashvili;Fiona E. Kyle;David J. Messer

  • Role of triggers and dysphoria in mind-wandering about past, present and future: A laboratory study.

    Benjamin Plimpton;Priya Patel;Lia Kvavilashvili

  • Effects of Age on Involuntary Autobiographical Memories

    Simone Schlagman;Lia Kvavilashvili;Joerg Schulz

  • The predictors of thought suppression in young and old adults: Effects of rumination, anxiety, and other variables.

    James A.K. Erskine;Lia Kvavilashvili;Diana E. Kornbrot

  • Experimental tests of prospective remembering: the influence of cue-event frequency on performance.

    Judi Ellis;Lia Kvavilashvili;Alan Milne

  • On the Nature of Everyday Prospection: A Review and Theoretical Integration of Research on Mind-Wandering, Future Thinking, and Prospective Memory:

    Lia Kvavilashvili;Jan Rummel

  • Involuntary autobiographical memories

    Rosemary J. Bradley;Chris J. A. Moulin;Lia Kvavilashvili

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith R. Laws
Keith R. Laws University of Hertfordshire
David Messer
David Messer The Open University
Lynn B. Myers
Lynn B. Myers Brunel University London
Alan B. Milne
Alan B. Milne University of Aberdeen
George Mandler
George Mandler University of California, San Diego
Martin A. Conway
Martin A. Conway City, University of London
Mareike Altgassen
Mareike Altgassen Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Chris J. A. Moulin
Chris J. A. Moulin Grenoble Alpes University
Matthias Kliegel
Matthias Kliegel University of Geneva

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