In this podcast episode, Jonathan Caballero interviews Oliver Bontkes and Dr. Eva Rubínová about their recent paper published in Memory and Cognition about repeated‑event memories and how their position on the semantic–episodic continuum can differ. Transcript Kosovicheva: You are listening to all Things Cognition, a Psychonomic Society podcast. Caballero: I’m Jonathan Caballero, and I will […]
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In this All Things Cognition podcast, I interview Matt Evans and Nicolas Davidenko about their recent paper on the pitch of earworms. Let’s get right into it! Interview Transcript Lai: You’re listening to All Things Cognition, a Psychonomic Society podcast. Now here’s your host, Laura Mickes. Mickes: Having a song stuck in your head is […]
In this episode of All Things Cognition, I interviewed Zoe Hughes (pictured below) about her meta-analysis published in the Psychonomic Society journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review on the effects of mindfulness on creativity with co-authors, Linden Ball, Jeannie Judge, and Cassandra Richardson. We talked about different types of creativity and which was more impacted by […]
In this episode of All Things Cognition, I interviewed Michelle Rivers and Steven Pan (pictured below) about their recent Psychonomic Society journal Memory & Cognition paper called “Metacognitive Awareness of the Pretesting Effect Improves with Self-Regulation Support.” In addition to talking about the benefits of pretesting (or prequestions) on learning, we also talked about other effective […]
In this episode of All Things Cognition, I interviewed Anna Kosovicheva and Ben Wolfe (pictured below) about their research described in an article recently published in the Psychonomic Society journal, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. They co-authored the paper with the first Editor in Chief of another of the Society’s journals, Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, Jeremy Wolfe. […]
In this episode of All Things Cognition, I interviewed Caitlin Sisk (pictured below). Caitlin took a break from wedding celebrations in Cape Cod to tell me about the research she and co-authors published recently in the Psychonomic Society journal, Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CRPI). To be clear, she was attending the wedding, not a star […]
In this podcast episode, I interview Sezin Öner about her paper published in Memory & Cognition. The paper reports research conducted collaboratively with 30 researchers from 15 countries around the world. Participants in those countries reported unusual national and global events during the first signs of the pandemic and what may occur in the future. The authors considered […]
What do we know about the structures of our knowledge and its connectivity? Do they differ between novices and experts, especially on the topics of experts? Imagine if I asked you to come up with as many words as possible related to quantum mechanics. How many words would you generate? How about if you had […]
If you watched the Academy Award winning film, CODA (trailer below), you’ll appreciate that the character who played the son is a native signer. That is, he learned sign language from his parents from the start. How do we learn spatial relations? It’s a fundamental ability we pick up early. Much of what we know […]
Professor David Sherry (pictured below) is the awardee of the Comparative Cognition Society‘s Annual Research Award for 2021 for his contributions in the field of comparative psychology. The award is associated with a Special Issue in Learning & Behavior in honor of his research. In the interview, I talk with Professor Scott MacDougall-Shackleton (pictured below), on the the Guest Editors of the […]