Publisher Summary The goal of this chapter is to provide a beginning sketch of the view that
the successes and failures of memory are a reflection of skill in interacting with memory …

Metacognitive monitoring and control must be accurate and efficient in order to allow self-
guided learners to improve their performance. Yet few examples exist in which allowing …

A tacit but fundamental assumption of the theory of signal detection is that criterion
placement is a noise-free process. This article challenges that assumption on theoretical …

Associative memory refers to remembering the association between two items, such as a
face and a name. It is a crucial part of daily life, but it is also one of the first aspects of …

It is widely assumed that older adults suffer a deficit in the psychological processes that
underlie remembering of contextual or source information. This conclusion is based in large …

Three experiments investigated how font emphasis influences reading and remembering
discourse. Although past work suggests that contrastive pitch contours benefit memory by …

Little is understood about how people strategically process and remember important but
complex information, such as sentences. In the current study, we asked whether people can …

Predictions about likely upcoming input may promote rapid language processing, but the
mechanisms by which such predictions are generated remain unclear. One hypothesis is …

Memory for the content of our conversations reflects two partially conflicting demands. First,
to be an effective participant in a conversation, we use our memory to follow its trajectory, to …

A hallmark of adaptive cognition is the ability to modulate learning in response to the
demands posed by different types of tests and different types of materials. Here we evaluate …