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, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
External Links
Recent Publications
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), [e13271]. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13271
Hamilton, K. A., Siler, J., & Benjamin, A. S. (Accepted/In press). Using the internet “raises the bar” for precision in self-produced question answering. Applied Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4072
King, M. J., Courtenay, K., Christensen, B. K., Benjamin, A. S., & Girard, T. A. (2023). Lower memory specificity in individuals with dysphoria is not specific to autobiographical memory. Journal of Affective Disorders, 325, 542-549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.01.040
King, M. J., Girard, T. A., Benjamin, A. S., & Christensen, B. K. (Accepted/In press). Strategic regulation of memory in dsyphoria: a quantity-accuracy profile analysis. Memory. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2212429
Kumar, A., Benjamin, A. S., Heathcote, A., & Steyvers, M. (2022). Comparing models of learning and relearning in large-scale cognitive training data sets. npj Science of Learning, 7(1), [24]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-022-00142-x
