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Aaron S. Benjamin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Human Memory and Cognition Lab Director
Contact info:
Phone 217-333-6822
Fax 217-244-5876
827 Psychology Building
630 East Daniel Street
Champaign, IL 61820
Research interests:
Every act of remembering involves more than just memory. Our research
interests concern the host of cognitive processes that selectively
search, evaluate, interpret, organize, revise, and prioritize memory
stores. The goal of our research is to understand memory use in
the larger context of skilled performance -- by specifying a minimal
set of operations that operate in service of translating experience
into memory, and vice-versa, and then exploring the flexibility
of how these basic operations are used by the cognitive system as
a whole. We believe that the remarkable flexibility of memory owes
not to its inherent comprehensiveness nor to a particular wealth
of operations that govern the encoding or retrieval of information,
but rather to the subtle control processes that operate prior and
subsequent to memory access.
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