Santa Clara University

Faculty - Tracey Kahan

Psychology department

Tracey Kahan

Tracey L. Kahan
Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology 
State University of New York,
Stony Brook (1985)

Department: Psychology

Title: Associate Professor

 


Office Phone:
408-554-4812

Email: tkahan@scu.edu

Mail Address:
Santa Clara University
Department of Psychology
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053-0333

 

Classes Taught

  • General Psychology I
  • General Psychology II
  • Research Methods
  • Perception
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychology of Sleep and Dreams
  • Research Practicum

Research Interests

  • 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

Books and Publications


 



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.    


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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