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Aaron S Benjamin

Professor, Psychology
Research: Human Memory, Attention, Metacognition, and Decision-Making

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

Recent Publications

Fairbairn, C. E., Han, J., Caumiant, E. P., Benjamin, A. S., & Bosch, N. (2025). A wearable alcohol biosensor: Exploring the accuracy of transdermal drinking detection. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 266, Article 112519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.112519

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

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