Learning and Metacognition Experimental Lab

Many congratulations to Krzysztof PiątkowsKi (no j there) for being among the select few to get this year's Graduate Travel Award from the Psychonomic Society! Well deserved!

The Psychonomic Society is pleased to announce that Krzysztof Piątkowski, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, has been named a recipient of the PS 2024 Graduate Travel Award. Congratulations, Krzysztof! https://bit.ly/3OOdTRA

We are happy to announce that the second paper from dr Ewa Butowska-Buczyńska's PhD thesis has now been published. If you are curious whether guessing (also known as errorful learning) can be used as an effective learning strategy for general knowledge facts*, you can read all about it in Memory & Cognition. Congratulations to Ewa!

*Spoilers below:
No.

Errorful learning of trivia questions and answers: The role of study time - Memory & Cognition Errorful learning—asking questions and forcing responding even before the correct answers are presented for study—has recently been proposed as a way of maximizing the effectiveness of study. However, much support for the superiority of errorful learning over standard learning via reading comes ...

LaMELab is recruiting!

Currently we have three openings for PhD students in our lab in Poznań, Poland. We are looking for Master's degree holders with an interest in cognitive psychology/cognitive science and a knack for experimental research. If you know anyone who might be interested, please share.

All details regarding the positions and the recruitment process can be found at lamelab.org/join_us

(Also, we will soon be looking for a post-doc - stay tuned!)

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Many congratulations to Krzysztof Piątkowski, our 4th year PhD student and the first author on our most recent paper in JEP:LMC!

In this paper we hint at possible similarities in terms of processes underlying encoding into working- and long-term memory. Those who would like to learn what they are and don't have access to the publisher's version can download the post-print from lamelab.org.

Our newest paper - and the first from Ewa Butowska's PhD - is now available online at https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01254-2. Many congratulations to Ewa!

In this paper we show 1) how (not) to learn foreign vocabulary, and 2) how to publish a series of studies which produced none of the results we expected. Oh, and it's published in open access, so you can download and read it straightaway.

link.springer.com

We are proud to announce that two of Psychonomic Society's 2021 Graduate Conference Awards have gone to researchers currently or previously affiliated with LaMELab.

Congratulations to our second-year PhD student Ewa Butowska, and our alumna Aleksandra Krogulska, who is currently finishing her PhD at Warwick University!

2021 Graduate Conference Award Recipients - Psychonomic Society Emily Burgess Oregon State University Abstract #4178"Navigating Zoom: The Effect of Individual Working Memory Capacity and Cognitive Load"