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Assistant Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology
My interests lie in the functioning of human memory and metamemory. The working conceptualization of memory that I employ is one in which only sparse patterns of information relating to an event are stored and the task for the rememberer is to use extramnemonic sources of evidence--including current perceptual experience, statistical regularities in the environment, and knowledge about memory--to buttress the meager products of memory itself. From that perspective, the challenge for the subject in many memory tasks is not only to learn the material at hand, but to make a host of decisions concerning the objective status of past events and the likely outcome of future events using phenomenological cues that are, by their very nature, subjective. My work consists of a combination of behavioral experiments with young and old subjects (as well as some pathological, memory disordered populations), computational modeling, and functional neuroimaging. Publications Benjamin, A. S. (2001). On the dual effects of repetition on false recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 29, 691-697. Benjamin, A. S., Kester, J. D., Craik, F. I. M., & Black, S. (in press). Pathological familiarity and false recognition: A case study. Brain and Cognition. Benjamin, A. S. & Bjork, R. A. (2000). On the relationship between recognition speed and accuracy for words rehearsed via rote versus elaborative rehearsal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 26, 638-648. Benjamin, A. S., Bjork, R. A., & Schwartz, B. L. (1998). The mismeasure of memory: When retrieval fluency is misleading as a metacognitive index. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 127, 55-68. Benjamin, A. S., Bjork, R. A., & Hirshman, E. (1998). Predicting the future and reconstructing the past: A Bayesian characterization of the utility of subjective fluency. Acta Psychologica, 98, 267-290. Keywords human memory, metamemory |
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Aaron
S. Benjamin, Ph.D.