Publications
Published
Brown-Schmidt, S., Jaeger, C.B., Evans, M.J., & Benjamin, A.S. (2023). MEMCONS: How contemporaneous note-taking shapes memory for conversation. Cognitive Science, 23. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13271. Public Files. Read-Only Link.
Evans, M.J., Jenkins, M.D., & Berry, J.N. (2021). Low but not moderate amounts of caffeine increase co-consumption of ethanol in C57BL/6J mice. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbb.2021.173221
In progress
Evans, M.J., Clough, S., Duff, M.C, & Brown-Schmidt, S. (under review). Temporal organization of narrative recall is present but attenuated in adults with hippocampal amnesia.
Evans, M.J., Hong, MK., & Brown-Schmidt, S. (under review). Recall of ambiguous homographs is shaped by context.
Fazio, L.K. & Evans, M.J. (in preparation). Repetition before rationale: Self-explanations do not reduce the effect of repetition on perceived truth.
Evans, M.J. & Brown-Schmidt, S. (in preparation). What did you ask? Recognition memory for questions is worse than memory for answers.
Kekes-Szabo, S., Clough, S., Evans, M.J., Brown-Schmidt, S., & Duff, M.C. (in preparation). Multiparty conversation in adults with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury.
Conference Presentations
(* indicates I was or will be the presenter)
Upcoming
Evans, M.J. Clough, S., Duff, M.C., & Brown-Schmidt, S. (May 2024). The organization of memory for language following memory impairment. [Poster presentation]. The 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Ann Arbor, MI.
Previous
Clough, S., Kekes-Szabo, S., Evans, M., Casilio, M, Brown-Schmidt, S., & Duff, M.C. (January 2024). Nonverbal signals of multiparty audience design in adults with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury. [Paper presentation]. The International Cognitive-Communication Disorders Conference, Orange, CA.
Kekes-Szabo, S., Clough, S., Evans, M., Casilio, M, Brown-Schmidt, S., & Duff, M.C. (January 2024). How do adults with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury communicate in a group? An investigation of audience design in multiparty conversation. [Paper presentation]. The International Cognitive-Communication Disorders Conference, Orange, CA.
*Evans, M.J. & Brown-Schmidt, S. (2023, Nov. 16). What did you ask? Recognition memory for questions is worse than memory for answers [Poster presentation]. The Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA.
*Evans, M.J., Clough, S., Duff, M.C., & Brown-Schmidt, S. (2023, Aug. 10). Temporal contiguity for narrative recall in clinical populations with memory impairment [Poster presentation]. The 14th Biennial meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Nagoya, Japan.
Clough, S., Evans, M.J., Brown-Schmidt, S., & Duff, M. C. (2023, Mar. 31). Reduced temporal contiguity of narrative recall in adults with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury [Poster presentation]. IBIA 14th Biennial World Congress on Brain Injury, Dublin, Ireland.
Brown-Schmidt, S., Jaeger, C., Evans, M.J., & Benjamin, A.S. (2022, Nov. 18). MEMCONS: How contemporaneous note-taking shapes memory for conversation [Spoken presentation]. The Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.
*Evans, M.J., Hong, MK., & Brown-Schmidt, S. (2022, Nov. 17). Recall of Ambiguous Homographs is Shaped by Conversational Partners [Poster presentation]. The Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.
Brown-Schmidt, S., Jaeger, C., Evans, M.J., & Benjamin, A.S. (2022, Nov. 4). MEMCONS: How contemporaneous note-taking shapes memory for conversation [Poster presentation]. The 16th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Charlottesville, VA.
*Evans, M.J. & Brown-Schmidt, S. (2021, Nov. 6). Recall of ambiguous homographs is shaped by context and language goals [Poster presentation]. The Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, virtual.
Myself and the other winners of the Graduate Conference Award for the Psychonomic Society Conference in San Francisco, 2023.
Myself and my mentor, Dr. Sarah Brown-Schmidt, with our poster at the 16th annual CELS hosted at UVA in 2022.
Myself and Dr. Sarah Brown-Schmidt at my poster for the 14th Biennial SARMAC conference in Nagoya, Japan in 2023.
Honors & Awards
Psychonomic Society Graduate Conference Award
2023 Poster: What did you ask? Recognition memory for questions is worse than memory for answers
SARMAC Student Caucus Best Poster Award
2023 Poster: Temporal contiguity for narrative recall in clinical populations with memory impairment
Vanderbilt Award for Doctoral Discovery
$1000 award, Spring 2023
Abby and Jon Winkelried Fellowship
2021-2022 Academic year
Phi Beta Kappa
Honors society, Theta of Indiana