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Professor of Psychology in Arts & Sciences
Expertise: memory, aging and memory, learning, recall, forgetfulness, retrieval, memorization, mnemonics, prospective memory, memory fitness
Bio: McDaniel, an expert on human learning and memory, is co-author of Memory Fitness: A Guide for Successful Aging. Published in 2004, the book offers the lay person an overview of what scientific research suggests will happen to our memory capabilities as we age. McDaniel's most significant research explores prospective memory, encoding processes in enhancing memory retrieval processes and mnemonic effects in retrieval. His research on memory function often focuses on factors and processes that lead to memory and learning failures. He has applied this research to examinations of how learning takes place in the classroom.
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Ph.D. in Psychology at University of Colorado
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Tasks lost in tangles of our memory
Book explores our ability to remember future intentions
April 16,
2007 --
Discussions of memory lapses often focus on a failure to recall past events, but equally important to our daily lives is a form of memory that helps us remember to do something in the future — drop a child at daycare, go to the dentist or pick up bread on the way home. "Memory is fallible, even for tasks that are very important," suggests WUSTL psychologist Mark A. McDaniel, Ph.D., co-author of a new book exploring how the brain processes memories critical to planning and other forward-looking activities. "As soon as intention leaves awareness, there's no guarantee that it's going to be retrieved again." More...
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Memory Fitness
Book offers tips on improving memory as we age
Aug. 5,
2004 --
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A new book co-authored by a memory researcher at Washington University in St. Louis is one-stop shopping for all the questions we have about memory and how serious our lapses might be as we grow older. Mark A. McDaniel, Ph.D., professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences at WUSTL, says his book, Memory Fitness: A Guide for Successful Aging, relies on many rigorous academic studies but is written for the lay person. "Our mission is to give the general public a good idea of what they can reasonably expect from their memory capabilities as they age," says McDaniel about the book he co-authored with Gilles O. Einstein, Ph.D., professor and chair of the psychology department at Furman University. "It also outlines some reasonable expectations about things people can do to perhaps increase their memory performances."
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Palin - Biden: The Main Event/ Behind the Scenes
ABC News 'Good Morning America'
Oct. 3,
2008 -- Kate Snow reports on pre-debate preparations of both VP candidates. Snow asks WUSTL psychology professor and memory expert Mark McDaniel if there's any risk to cramming too much.
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