Research

The lab's research focuses on understanding and improving the metacognitive monitoring and control processes that influence self-regulated learning across the lifespan. Metacognitive monitoring refers to people’s subjective experience of their learning and memory processes and metacognitive control refers to the behaviors and cognitive processes people engage in to achieve their learning goals. We study the interplay between these two types of processes during learning, and how these processes develop and change across the lifespan. Current research projects are also focused on the efficacy of training students to use empirically supported cognitive strategies to better regulate their study for course content and on developing educational technologies using principles from cognitive psychology to compensate for sub-optimal self-regulatory behavior.