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Applying cognitive psychology to educationMark A McDaniel
Psychon Bull Rev 14:185-6. 2007- "Brain-specific" nutrients: a memory cure?Mark A McDaniel
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
Nutrition 19:957-75. 2003..The compounds examined are phosphatidylserine (PS), phosphatidylcholine (PC), citicoline, piracetam, vinpocetine, acetyl-L-carnitine (ALC), and antioxidants (particularly vitamin E)... 
Evidence for spontaneous retrieval of suspended but not finished prospective memoriesMichael K Scullin
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130 4899, USA
Mem Cognit 37:425-33. 2009..These results suggest that target cues associated with suspended intentions can spontaneously trigger remembering but that finished intentions are quickly deactivated...- Prospective memory and aging: preserved spontaneous retrieval, but impaired deactivation, in older adultsMichael K Scullin
Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO 63130 4899, USA
Mem Cognit 39:1232-40. 2011..These results indicate that normal aging might not compromise spontaneous retrieval processes but that the ability to deactivate completed intentions is impaired... 
The relationship between working memory capacity and executive functioning: evidence for a common executive attention constructDavid P McCabe
Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1876, USA
Neuropsychology 24:222-43. 2010..We conclude that tests of working memory capacity and executive function share a common underlying executive attention component that is strongly predictive of higher level cognition...- Cognitive exertion and subsequent intention execution in older adultsJill Talley Shelton
Department of Psychology, Washington University, Campus Box 1125, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 66:143-50. 2011..The present study sought to address this gap by using a resource depletion paradigm... - Control of cost in prospective memory: evidence for spontaneous retrieval processesMichael K Scullin
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130 4899, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 36:190-203. 2010..These results suggest that when monitoring is absent, spontaneous retrieval processes can support focal prospective remembering. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)... - Repetition errors in habitual prospective memory: elimination of age differences via complex actions or appropriate resource allocationMark A McDaniel
Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn 16:563-88. 2009..Consistent with this finding, the resource allocation profiles suggested that older participants were monitoring their output (prospective memory execution) in each trial block... - Focal/nonfocal cue effects in prospective memory: monitoring difficulty or different retrieval processes?Michael K Scullin
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130 4899, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 36:736-49. 2010..Collectively, these results suggest that qualitatively different retrieval processes can support prospective remembering for focal versus nonfocal cues... - Age and individual differences in prospective memory during a "Virtual Week": the roles of working memory, vigilance, task regularity, and cue focalityNathan S Rose
Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, WA, USA
Psychol Aging 25:595-605. 2010.... - The influence of distinctive processing manipulations on older adults' false memoryKarin M Butler
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 0001, USA
Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn 17:129-59. 2010..e., no modality effect, even with 8 s of encoding time. Both findings are consistent with impaired distinctive processing by older adults... - Focal and nonfocal prospective memory performance in very mild dementia: a signature declineMark A McDaniel
Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO 63130 4899, USA
Neuropsychology 25:387-96. 2011..This study sought to replicate and extend these findings by investigating both focal and nonfocal PM, as well as possible influences of alleles of the apolipoprotein E (ApoE) gene... - Whoops, I did it again: commission errors in prospective memoryMichael K Scullin
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
Psychol Aging 27:46-53. 2012..This study provides the first experimental demonstration of event-based prospective memory commission errors after all prospective memory tasks are finished and identifies multiple factors that increase risk for commission errors... - Revealing list-level control in the Stroop task by uncovering its benefits and a costJulie M Bugg
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 37:1595-606. 2011..These findings indicate that the list-wide proportion congruence effect at least partially reflects list-level control and challenge purely item-specific accounts of this effect... - Target preexposure eliminates the effect of distraction on event-based prospective memoryMelissa J Guynn
Department of Psychology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003 8001, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 14:484-8. 2007.... - Aging reduces veridical remembering but increases false remembering: neuropsychological test correlates of remember-know judgmentsDavid P McCabe
Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1876, USA
Neuropsychologia 47:2164-73. 2009..We discuss various explanations for these findings and conclude that any comprehensive explanation of recollective experience will need to account for the processes underlying both remember hits and false alarms... - A characterization of individual differences in prospective memory monitoring using the Complex Ongoing Serial TaskAdam C Savine
Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 141:337-62. 2012..This research represents the first explicit attempt to elucidate individual differences in prospective memory monitoring patterns... - The negative cascade of incongruent generative study-test processing in memory and metacomprehensionAyanna Kim Thomas
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
Mem Cognit 35:668-78. 2007..These findings extend a transfer-appropriate processing framework to metacomprehension... - Remembering to execute a goal: sleep on it!Michael K Scullin
Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO 63130 4899, USA
Psychol Sci 21:1028-35. 2010..Our results suggest that consolidation processes active during sleep increase the probability that a goal will be spontaneously retrieved and executed... - Discrepancy processes in prospective memory retrievalJennifer E Breneiser
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130 4899, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 13:837-41. 2006..Prospective memory performance was significantly better in the high-discrepancy group than in the low-discrepancy group. These results support a discrepancy view of prospective remembering... - The read-recite-review study strategy: effective and portableMark A McDaniel
Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, MO 63130 4899, USA
Psychol Sci 20:516-22. 2009..These results indicate that it is also an efficacious study technique that capitalizes on the mnemonic potency of retrieval and feedback... - Age-related deficits in reality monitoring of action memoriesMark A McDaniel
Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
Psychol Aging 23:646-56. 2008..However, sensory information derived from imagination appears to be more similar to that derived from performance for older adults than for younger adults... - Test-enhanced learning in the classroom: long-term improvements from quizzingHenry L Roediger
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63105 4899, USA
J Exp Psychol Appl 17:382-95. 2011..Our results add to a growing body of evidence that retrieval practice in the classroom can boost academic performance... - Dissociative effects of orthographic distinctiveness in pure and mixed lists: an item-order accountMark A McDaniel
Department of Psychology, Washington University, Campus Box 1125, St Louis, MO 63130 4899, USA
Mem Cognit 39:1162-73. 2011..These combined patterns, although not anticipated by prevailing views, are consistent with an item-order account... - The bizarreness effect: dissociation between item and source memoryChristopher B Macklin
Department of Psychology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074, USA
Memory 13:682-9. 2005..Finally, the expectation-violation explanation of the bizarreness effect was not supported by the absence of a relation between recall of the items and memory for context... - Multiple processes in prospective memory retrieval: factors determining monitoring versus spontaneous retrievalGilles O Einstein
Department of Psychology, Furman University, Greenville, SC 29613, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 134:327-42. 2005.... - Disentangling encoding versus retrieval explanations of the bizarreness effect: implications for distinctivenessMark A McDaniel
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Mem Cognit 33:270-9. 2005..The results support the idea that retrieval dynamics primarily mediate the bizarreness effect, and perhaps more generally, distinctiveness effects... - The neuropsychology of prospective memory in normal aging: a componential approachMark A McDaniel
Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1125, St Louis, MO 63130 4899, USA
Neuropsychologia 49:2147-55. 2011..The literature, though sparse with regard to the neuropsychological underpinnings of this kind of prospective memory task, is consistent with the present hypothesis... - Predicting transfer performance: a comparison of competing function learning modelsMark A McDaniel
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 35:173-95. 2009..It was especially telling that in Experiment 2 the transfer pattern was more consistent with EXAM's but not POLE's predictions, even though the presentation of salient linear segments during training dovetailed with POLE's approach... - Generalizing test-enhanced learning from the laboratory to the classroomMark A McDaniel
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130 4899, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 14:200-6. 2007..In addition, frequent testing probably has the indirect positive effects of keeping students motivated and leading them to space out periods of study... - Prospective memory and what costs do not reveal about retrieval processes: A commentary on Smith, Hunt, McVay, and McConnell (2007)Gilles O Einstein
Department of Psychology, Furman University, Greenville, SC 29613, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 36:1082-8; discussion 1089-95. 2010..We also argue that counterbalancing in a within-subjects design is one of several proper methods for assessing costs... - Implementation intentions facilitate prospective memory under high attention demandsMark A McDaniel
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
Mem Cognit 36:716-24. 2008.... - Age differences in veridical and false recall are not inevitable: the role of frontal lobe functionKarin M Butler
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 11:921-5. 2004..More important, our findings indicate that declines in veridical recall and increases in false recall are not an inevitable consequence of aging... - The conceptual basis of function learning and extrapolation: comparison of rule-based and associative-based modelsMark A McDaniel
Department of Psychology, Washington University, One Brookings Drive, St Louis, MO 63130 4899, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 12:24-42. 2005..The results favor a hybrid model that combines associative learning of trained input-prediction pairs with a rule-based output response for extrapolation (EXAM)... - Instability in memory phenomena: a common puzzle and a unifying explanationMark A McDaniel
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 15:237-55. 2008..Extending the item-order account to other "established" recall phenomena may prove fruitful... - Cue-focused and reflexive-associative processes in prospective memory retrievalMark A McDaniel
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 87131 1161, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 30:605-14. 2004..The entire pattern implicates both cue-focused and reflexive-associative processes and more generally supports a multiprocess framework of prospective memory (M. A. McDaniel & G. O. Einstein, 2000)... - Apolipoprotein E and prospective memory in normally aging adultsIra Driscoll
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Neuropsychology 19:28-34. 2005..The authors found a significant deficit in prospective memory for epsilon4 allele carriers but no effect of association in either group. The results suggest the deficit was due to failure of the prospective component of the task... - The Cognitive Interview enhances long-term free recall of older adultsCourtney C Dornburg
Sandia National Laboratories, PO Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA
Psychol Aging 21:196-200. 2006..Both theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed... - Suppressing irrelevant information: knowledge activation or inhibition?Danielle S McNamara
Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 30:465-82. 2004..These results challenge inhibition (e.g. M. A. Gernsbacher, K. R. Varner. & M. Faust, 1990) as the sole mechanism responsible for the suppression of irrelevant information... - Effects of word frequency on individual-item and serial order retention: tests of the order-encoding viewPaul S Merritt
Department of Psychology, Texas A and M University, 6300 Ocean Drive Unit 5827, Corpus Christi, TX 78412 5827, USA
Mem Cognit 34:1615-27. 2006..These results were uniquely predicted by the order-encoding account and favor this view over accessibility, interitem association, and cuing effectiveness explanations of the word frequency effect... - Effects of testing on learning of functionsSean H K Kang
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0109, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 18:998-1005. 2011..Testing has long been shown to enhance the explicit learning and retention of verbal material; our present findings reveal a novel domain for which testing can also be advantageous-that is, function learning... - Aging and maintaining intentions over delays: do it or lose itMark A McDaniel
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA
Psychol Aging 18:823-35. 2003..Consequently, when forced to delay execution of retrieved intentions, older adults may rely more on plan reformulation and subsequent retrieval of the intention from long-term memory at the end of the delay... - Revisiting the picture-superiority effect in symbolic comparisons: do pictures provide privileged access?Paul C Amrhein
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 28:843-57. 2002..Our findings argue against dual-coding and some common-code accounts of conceptual attribute processing, urging reexamination of the assumption that pictures confer privileged access to long-term knowledge... - Adult age differences in errand planning: the role of task familiarity and cognitive resourcesMatthias Kliegel
Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Exp Aging Res 33:145-61. 2007.... - Importance effects on performance in event-based prospective memory tasksMatthias Kliegel
Institute of Psychology, Department of Gerontopsychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Memory 12:553-61. 2004..The results suggest that importance instructions may improve prospective memory if the prospective task requires the strategic allocation of attentional monitoring resources... - Age-related effects in prospective memory are modulated by ongoing task complexity and relation to target cuePeter G Rendell
Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia
Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn 14:236-56. 2007..The substantial age differences found with a nonfocal cue were eliminated when the ongoing task was made less challenging. The findings help reconcile the divergent age-related findings reported in the literature... - Realizing complex delayed intentions in young and old adults: the role of planning aidsMatthias Kliegel
University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Mem Cognit 35:1735-46. 2007..In sum, the results point to the importance of plan-related factors for understanding the delayed realization of intended actions... - Metacomprehension for educationally relevant materials: dramatic effects of encoding-retrieval interactionsAyanna K Thomas
Colby College, Waterville, Maine, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 14:212-8. 2007..Thus, matching enriched-encoding activities with the criterial test plays a critical role in metacomprehension accuracy and control of studying...