Research Interests
Human learning, memory, and decision-making
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Additional Campus Affiliations
Acting Head, Psychology
Professor, Psychology
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
External Links
Recent Publications
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
Hamilton, K. A., Siler, J., & Benjamin, A. S. (2023). Using the internet “raises the bar” for precision in self-produced question answering. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37(4), 721-735. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4072