Dr. Erickson directs the Ecological Research in Cognitive Operations (ERiCO) Laboratory.  His research involves human memory, specifically applying human face recognition to problems related to law and national security interests. Active research programs include investigations into the efficacy of forensic age-progressed images of missing persons, how the human visual system can recognize faces that have aged since their last viewing, and how normal cognitive aging affects eyewitness memory. He is also a frequent contributor to the Popular Culture Psychology book series, examining psychological issues as depicted in such franchises as Star Trek, Stranger Things, and Handmaids Tale.