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Overview

Jennifer Wiley is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily revolves around the field of psychology, with significant contributions in developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, and education. The scientist's work engages deeply with topics such as educational strategies and epistemologies, visual and cognitive learning processes, creativity in education and neuroscience, innovative teaching and learning methods, intelligent tutoring systems and adaptive learning, topic modeling, and education and critical thinking development.

Wiley has authored multiple papers published in various academic venues, including:

  • Restructuring processes and Aha! experiences in insight problem solving, 2023, Nature Reviews Psychology
  • What causes the insight memory advantage?, 2020, Cognition
  • Need something different? Here's what's been done: Effects of examples and task instructions on creative idea generation, 2020, Memory & Cognition
  • Exploring the necessary conditions for observing interleaved practice benefits in math learning, 2022, Learning and Instruction
  • Great expectations: Misleading effects of images in the alternate uses task., 2021, Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts

Jennifer Wiley frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable coauthors include Thomas D. Griffin, Tim George, Tricia A. Guerrero, Lena Hildenbrand, and Carola Salvi.

The scientist has published in a range of recurring academic venues, reflecting the focus of ongoing research projects. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Discourse Processes
  • Memory & Cognition
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Nature Reviews Psychology
  • Cognition

In addition to journal articles, Wiley has contributed to scholarly book publications, with one known title being The Emergence of Insight, published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Constructing arguments from multiple sources: Tasks that promote understanding and not just memory for text.

    Jennifer Wiley;James F. Voss

  • Source Evaluation, Comprehension, and Learning in Internet Science Inquiry Tasks:

    Jennifer Wiley;Susan R. Goldman;Arthur C. Graesser;Christopher A. Sanchez

  • Expertise as mental set: The effects of domain knowledge in creative problem solving

    Jennifer Wiley

  • Comprehending and Learning From Internet Sources: Processing Patterns of Better and Poorer Learners

    Susan R. Goldman;Jason L.G. Braasch;Jennifer Wiley;Arthur C. Graesser

  • An examination of the seductive details effect in terms of working memory capacity.

    Christopher A. Sanchez;Jennifer Wiley

  • Uncorking the muse: Alcohol intoxication facilitates creative problem solving

    Andrew F. Jarosz;Gregory J.H. Colflesh;Jennifer Wiley

  • Individual differences, rereading, and self-explanation: concurrent processing and cue validity as constraints on metacomprehension accuracy.

    Thomas D. Griffin;Jennifer Wiley;Keith W. Thiede

  • Putting the Comprehension in Metacomprehension

    Jennifer Wiley;Thomas D. Griffin;Keith W. Thiede

  • Poor Metacomprehension Accuracy as a Result of Inappropriate Cue Use

    Keith W. Thiede;Thomas D. Griffin;Jennifer Wiley;Mary C. M. Anderson

  • Working Memory Capacity, Attentional Focus, and Problem Solving

    Jennifer Wiley;Andrew F. Jarosz

  • Metacognitive Monitoring During and After Reading

    Keith W. Thiede;Thomas D. Griffin;Jennifer Wiley;Joshua S. Redford

  • What about false insights? Deconstructing the Aha! experience along its multiple dimensions for correct and incorrect solutions separately.

    Amory H. Danek;Jennifer Wiley

  • Understanding the delayed-keyword effect on metacomprehension accuracy

    Keith W. Thiede;John Dunlosky;Thomas D. Griffin;Jennifer Wiley

  • The nature of restructuring in insight: An individual-differences approach

    Ivan K. Ash;Jennifer Wiley

  • Effects of titles on the processing of text and lexically ambiguous words: Evidence from eye movements

    Jennifer Wiley;Keith Rayner

  • Concept mapping improves metacomprehension accuracy among 7th graders

    Joshua S. Redford;Keith W. Thiede;Jennifer Wiley;Thomas D. Griffin

  • How Working Memory Capacity Affects Problem Solving

    Jennifer Wiley;Andrew F. Jarosz

  • The effects of domain knowledge on metacomprehension accuracy.

    Thomas D. Griffin;Benjamin D. Jee;Jennifer Wiley

  • The Effects of ‘Playing Historian’ on Learning in History

    Jennifer Wiley;James F. Voss

  • SEEK Web tutor: fostering a critical stance while exploring the causes of volcanic eruption

    Arthur C. Graesser;Jennifer Wiley;Susan R. Goldman;Tenaha O’Reilly

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan R. Goldman
Susan R. Goldman University of Illinois at Chicago
M. Anne Britt
M. Anne Britt Northern Illinois University
Arthur C. Graesser
Arthur C. Graesser University of Memphis
Tom Trabasso
Tom Trabasso University of Chicago
Joseph Ciarrochi
Joseph Ciarrochi Australian Catholic University
Jonathan W. Schooler
Jonathan W. Schooler University of California, Santa Barbara
Vladimir M. Sloutsky
Vladimir M. Sloutsky The Ohio State University
Richard E. Mayer
Richard E. Mayer University of California, Santa Barbara
Ken McRae
Ken McRae University of Western Ontario
Andrew R. A. Conway
Andrew R. A. Conway Claremont Graduate University

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