2026 Aaron S. Benjamin: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	40	8243	7697	4410	4016	132	6800

Overview

Aaron S. Benjamin is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily lies at the intersection of neuroscience and psychology, focusing extensively on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main fields of study in which Aaron S. Benjamin has contributed include:

Neuroscience
Psychology

Their work extends into several subfields, notably:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Artificial Intelligence
Social Psychology

The primary research topics explored by Benjamin cover diverse aspects of cognitive and neural mechanisms, highlighting:

Memory Processes and Influences
Child and Animal Learning Development
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Speech and dialogue systems
Neural dynamics and brain function

Aaron S. Benjamin's recent publication record exhibits a focus on memory and visual working memory processes, exemplified by the following papers:

"Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data" (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Is there a K in capacity? Assessing the structure of visual short-term memory" (2020), published in Cognitive Psychology
"Memory Fidelity Reveals Qualitative Changes in Interactions Between Items in Visual Working Memory" (2021), published in Psychological Science
"Word predictability blurs the lines between production and comprehension: Evidence from the production effect in memory" (2020), published in Cognition
"The effect of lineup size on eyewitness identification." (2020), published in Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied

Benjamin collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

Sarah Brown-Schmidt
Belgin Ünal
Maria M. Robinson
Melisa Akan
Runhan Yang

Their contributions appear in various academic journals with recurring publications in:

Journal of Memory and Language
Memory
Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied
Applied Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Science

Best Publications

THE MISMEASURE OF MEMORY : WHEN RETRIEVAL FLUENCY IS MISLEADING AS A METAMNEMONIC INDEX

Aaron S. Benjamin;Robert A. Bjork;Bennett L. Schwartz

782
Citations
What makes distributed practice effective

Aaron S Benjamin;Jonathan G Tullis

373
Citations
On the effectiveness of self-paced learning.

Jonathan G. Tullis;Aaron S. Benjamin

330
Citations
The effects of aging on selectivity and control in short-term recall.

Alan D. Castel;Aaron S. Benjamin;Fergus I. M. Craik;Michael J. Watkins

302
Citations
On the dual effects of repetition on false recognition.

Aaron S. Benjamin

273
Citations
Retrieval Fluency as a Metacognitive Index

Aaron S. Benjamin;Robert A. Bjork

234
Citations
Signal detection with criterion noise: Applications to recognition memory

Aaron S. Benjamin;Michael Diaz;Serena Wee

182
Citations
Recognition memory reveals just how CONTRASTIVE contrastive accenting really is

Scott H. Fraundorf;Duane G. Watson;Aaron S. Benjamin

164
Citations
The Inferential and Experiential Bases of Metamemory

Bennett L. Schwartz;Aaron S. Benjamin;Robert A. Bjork

163
Citations
Using the Internet to access information inflates future use of the Internet to access other information

Benjamin C. Storm;Sean M. Stone;Aaron S. Benjamin

162
Citations
Memory is More than just Remembering: Strategic Control of Encoding, Accessing Memory, and Making Decisions

Aaron S. Benjamin

145
Citations
Metacognition of the testing effect: guiding learners to predict the benefits of retrieval.

Jonathan G. Tullis;Jason R. Finley;Jason R. Finley;Aaron S. Benjamin

144
Citations
Measurement of relative metamnemonic accuracy.

Aaron S. Benjamin;Michael Diaz

143
Citations
Metacognitive control of the spacing of study repetitions

Aaron S. Benjamin;Randy D. Bird

141
Citations
Successful Remembering and Successful Forgetting : A Festschrift in Honor of Robert A. Bjork

Aaron S. Benjamin

132
Citations
Predicting and postdicting the effects of word frequency on memory.

Aaron S. Benjamin

131
Citations
Distractor plausibility and criterion placement in recognition

Aaron S. Benjamin;Sameer Bawa

121
Citations
Parallel effects of aging and time pressure on memory for source: Evidence from the spacing effect

Aaron S. Benjamin;Fergus I. M. Craik

109
Citations
Aging and recognition memory: A meta-analysis.

Scott H. Fraundorf;Kathleen L. Hourihan;Rachel A. Peters;Aaron S. Benjamin

98
Citations
Perspective-Taking in Comprehension, Production, and Memory: An Individual Differences Approach

Rachel A. Ryskin;Aaron S. Benjamin;Jonathan Tullis;Sarah Brown-Schmidt

95
Citations
Memory in Elderly People

Aaron S. Benjamin;Alan D. Castel

89
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert A. Bjork University of California, Los Angeles

Sarah Brown-Schmidt Vanderbilt University

Brian H. Ross University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Gary S. Dell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Fergus I. M. Craik University of Toronto

Bruce K. Christensen Australian National University

Nate Kornell Williams College

John T. Wixted University of California, San Diego

Laura Mickes University of Bristol

Alan D. Castel University of California, Los Angeles

External Links

Personal website of Aaron S. Benjamin

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