Steven Smith
  • Professor
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Research Areas
  • Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience

Biography

Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:15-3:45 (virtual)

Accepting Students for 2024-2025?: Yes

Research Interests

  • Memory — Context-Dependent Memory, Retrieval Blocking & Recovery
  • Metacognition — Judgments of Learning, Automatic & Recollective Processes in Metamemory
  • Creative Cognition — Fixation & Mental Blocks, Incubation, Insight, Creative Idea Generation, Creative Design Fixation, Support Tools for Information Discovery

Selected Publications

    • Smith, S. M., Gerkens, D. R., and Angello, G. (2017). Alternating incubation effects in the generation of category exemplars. Journal of Creative Behavior

    • Smith, S. M. (2017). Those insidious proxies and other comments on De Houwer et al.’s “Psychological Engineering: A Functional-Cognitive Perspective on Applied Psychology.” Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6(1), 40-42.

    • Beda, Z., and Smith, S. M. (2018). Chasing red herrings: Memory of distractors causes fixation in creative problem solving. Memory & Cognition, 46(5), 671-684.

    • Smith, S. M., Handy, J. D., Hernandez, A., and Jacoby, L. L. (2018). Context specificity of automatic influences of memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

    • Saenz G. D. & Smith, S. M. (2018). Testing judgments of learning in new contexts to reduce confidence. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.

    • Smith, S. M., and Beda, Z. (2019). Old problems in new contexts: The context dependent fixation hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000615

    • Smith, S. M., and Beda, Z. (2020). Forgetting fixation with context change. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.

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