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Join in the fun, as we highlight an essential conference for cognitive scientists taking place this week: Psychonomics, an annual meeting organized by the Psychonomic Society. Typically focused on basic research, there's more and more cutting-edge research related to education at Psychonomics these days.
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Psychonomics! A Mecca for Cognitive Scientists
This week, experts in the field of cognitive science will be gathering at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society – a conference known informally as "Psychonomics." Psychonomics has a long history of being the preeminent source for cutting-edge laboratory research on cognition: How we think, remember, make decisions, and perceive the world around us.
Continuing the tradition in basic research on human cognition, there has also been a recent increase in research related to education and retrieval practice. Here are some of the educationally-relevant talks and posters to be presented this week in Vancouver, Canada:
Retrieval Practice Enhances Learning Regardless of Material Complexity (Bedwell & Karpicke)
Does Retrieval Practice Enhance Transfer of Learning? A Comprehensive Meta-Analytic Review (Pan & Rickard)
Implementing Test-Enhanced Learning in Medical Education: Evidence From a Meta-Analysis (Wang, Raley, Lee, & Butler)
The Optimal Learning Strategy Depends on Learning Goals and Processes (Yeo & Fazio)
Self-Explanation Enhances the Effect of Retrieval Practice (by McCarthy, Hinze, & McNamara)
There are so many educationally-relevant presentations, we couldn't list them all! To learn more about Psychonomics, the researchers, and their research, check out the Psychonomic Society Facebook Page and YouTube Channel.
