Research Interests
Human learning, memory, and decision-making
Education
B. A., Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Neuroscience Program
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
External Links
Recent Publications
Patel, T. N., Yang, R., Steyvers, M., & Benjamin, A. S. (Accepted/In press). The Metacognition of Vigilance: Using Self-Scheduled Breaks to Improve Sustained Attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000518
Ünal, B., & Benjamin, A. S. (2024). Judgments of learning reflect the encoding of contexts, not items: evidence from a test of recognition exclusion. Memory, 32(1), 55-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2279907
Akan, M., & Benjamin, A. S. (2023). Haven't I seen you before? Conceptual but not perceptual prior familiarity enhances face recognition memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 131, Article 104433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2023.104433
Brown-Schmidt, S., Jaeger, C. B., Evans, M. J., & Benjamin, A. S. (2023). MEMCONS: How Contemporaneous Note-Taking Shapes Memory for Conversation. Cognitive Science, 47(4), Article e13271. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13271
Cho, S. J., Brown-Schmidt, S., Boeck, P. D., Naveiras, M., Yoon, S. O., & Benjamin, A. (2023). Incorporating Functional Response Time Effects into a Signal Detection Theory Model. Psychometrika, 88(3), 1056-1086. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-023-09906-9
