Research Interests
Human learning, memory, and decision-making
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Psychology
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
External Links
Recent Publications
Brown-Schmidt, S., Jaeger, C. B., Lord, K., & Benjamin, A. S. (Accepted/In press). Remembering conversation in group settings. Memory and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01630-8
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