Recognizing a stimulus as previously encountered is a crucial everyday life skill and a
critical task motivating theoretical development in models of human memory. Although there …

Understanding how students self-regulate their learning experiences has been at the
forefront of many empirical and theoretical advances in both cognitive and educational …

Metacognition is thinking about the contents and processes of one's cognition. Research
accumulating since the mid-1960s shows metacognition plays important roles in most …

The ability to take a different perspective is central to a tremendous variety of higher level
cognitive skills. To communicate effectively, we must adopt the perspective of another …

Humanity has always been the species that extends itself into the environment. Memory is
no exception. Internal memory is information stored in one's brain, and external memory is …

Recent years have seen an increased push toward the standardization of education in the
United States. At the federal level, both major national political parties have generally …

It is difficult to monitor whether information was originally retrieved internally, from our own
memory, or externally, from another person or a device. We report two experiments that …

Students' ability to effectively study for an exam, or to manage their time during an exam, is
related to their metacognitive capacity. Prior research has demonstrated the effective use of …

The wisdom of the crowd refers to the finding that judgments aggregated over individuals
are typically more accurate than the average individual's judgment. Here, we examine the …

The prevailing view among criminal justice and legal practitioners, and the general public, is
that eyewitness evidence is generally inaccurate and unreliable. Here we argue that that …