SciComm

Psychonomic Society Featured Content Blog Posts

• Co-organized Digital Event on Strategic Learning [Link]

• Blue or blew? Homophones can tell us about working memory strategies. [Link]

• Erudite at the museum: Learning from virtual exhibits. [Link]

• Food for thought: What happens in the brain when you eat the whole bag of chips? [Link]

• It's about time: People can learn temporal information automatically. [Link]

• Taking it all in: Holistic processing of words and faces. [Link]

• The dark side of older adults' motivation to do well in the lab. [Link]

• Visual long-term memory is massive, but only if the memories are meaningful [Link]

• Wait... Does Stanley have a moustache? I'd remember if we were from the same race. [Link]

• When you put it that way, I'll remember it! Framing effects on memory for important information. [Link]

• Where is your mind: Who is mind wandering in class and what does this mean for learning? [Link]

Guest Blog Posts

• How does testing affect related, untested content? Learning Scientists Blog; 2018. [Link]

• How judging future learning influences learning. Psychology Today: Illusions, Delusions, and Reality; 2019. [Link]

• How test expectancy promotes learning. Learning Scientists Blog; 2018. [Link]

• Increasing research transparency in psychological science: How can graduate students participate? gradPSYCH Blog; 2019. [Link]

Podcast Episode

• Pretesting improves learning, but learners need a push to appreciate it. All Things Cognition podcast. [Link]

Research Presentations

• Are test-expectancy effects better explained by changes in encoding strategies or differential test experience? Virtual Psychonomics 2020. [Link]

• Experience is the best teacher: Guiding students to appreciate effective learning strategies. Kent State University's Three Minute Thesis Competition 2020. [Link]

• What do learners believe about practice testing, and do they use it effectively? McMaster Conference on Education & Cognition - EdCog2020. [Link]