Alan Castel
Alan Castel is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) specializing in human memory and cognitive aging. His research focuses on age-related cognitive differences, investigating memory processes in younger and older adults. His published work examines topics including value-directed remembering, associative memory, curiosity and learning, error correction, and scam susceptibility.
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Publications
- Associative Memory and Trustworthiness of Artificial Faces in Young and Older Adults.
- Subjective semantic search space as an estimate of prior knowledge predicts curiosity to learn among younger and older adults.
- Spot the Scam: Identifying Email Scams and Scam Susceptibility in Younger and Older Adults.
- Memory and Curiosity for Free Grocery Items and Prices in Younger and Older Adults.
- Curiosity, error correction, and confidence in younger and older adults.
- Memory and automatic processing of valuable information in younger and older adults.
- Serial and strategic memory processes in younger and older adults.
- Advancing with age: Older adults excel in comprehension of novel metaphors.
- Mind-wandering when studying valuable information: The roles of age, dispositional traits, and contextual factors.
- Does repetition enhance curiosity to learn trivia question answers? Implications for memory and motivated learning.
- Memory selectivity in younger and older adults: The role of conative factors in value-directed remembering.
- Curiosity across the adult lifespan: Age-related differences in state and trait curiosity.
- Associative memory for honest and dishonest faces in younger and older adults.
- Prediction of information value influences memory: the effect of predicted and assigned value on memory.
- Strategic value-directed remembering in younger and older adults.
- Knowing more than we know: metacognition, semantic fluency, and originality in younger and older adults.
- Age-Related Differences in Overcoming Interference When Selectively Remembering Important Information.
- Value-directed retrieval: The effects of divided attention at encoding and retrieval on memory selectivity and retrieval dynamics.
- Age-Related Differences in Framing Selective Memory in Terms of Gains and Losses.
- Age-related differences in selective associative memory: implications for responsible remembering.
- Goal-directed remembering in older adults.
- Memory selectivity in older age.
- The effect of time constraints on value-directed long-term memory in younger and older adults.
- The effect of emotional valence and font size on metacognition and memory.
- The perceived importance of words in large font guides learning and selective memory.
- Strategic metacognition: Self-paced study time and responsible remembering.
- Correction to: Strategic metacognition: Self-paced study time and responsible remembering.
- Responsible attention: the effect of divided attention on metacognition and responsible remembering.
- Establishing a causal role for left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in value-directed memory encoding with high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation.
- Value-directed memory selectivity relies on goal-directed knowledge of value structure prior to encoding in young and older adults.
- Younger and older adults' strategic use of associative memory and metacognitive control when learning foreign vocabulary words of varying importance.
- Value-directed learning: Schematic reward structure facilitates learning.
- The effect of video playback speed on learning and mind-wandering in younger and older adults.
- The effect of video playback speed on learning and mind-wandering in younger and older adults.
- Age-related differences in memory when offloading important information.
- The role of metacognition and schematic support in younger and older adults' episodic memory.
- Metacognitive control, serial position effects, and effective transfer to self-paced study.
- The role of attention and ageing in the retrieval dynamics of value-directed remembering.
- Memory and Reward-Based Learning: A Value-Directed Remembering Perspective.
- An own-race bias in the categorisation and recall of associative information.
- The effect of perceptual processing fluency and value on metacognition and remembering.
- Responsible Remembering and Forgetting in Younger and Older Adults.
- The Influence of Emotional Framing and Graph Complexity on Biases in Graphical Memory for COVID-19 Data in a Lifespan Sample.
- Serial and strategic memory processes in goal-directed selective remembering.
- Selective remembering and directed forgetting are influenced by similar stimulus properties.
- Value-directed remembering in first-episode schizophrenia.
- Differential effects of proactive and retroactive interference in value-directed remembering for younger and older adults.
- Age-related similarities and differences in the components of semantic fluency: analyzing the originality and organization of retrieval from long-term memory.
- Responsible remembering and forgetting as contributors to memory for important information.
- Metamemory that matters: judgments of importance can engage responsible remembering.
- Selective memory disrupted in intra-modal dual-task encoding conditions.
- The dynamics of memory for United States presidents in younger and older adults.
- Is the Future Bright or Bleak? Assessing Past and Future Outlooks Across the Adult Lifespan.
- Age-related differences in recognition in associative memory.
- Emotion-enhanced binding of numerical information in younger and older adults.
- Strategic encoding and enhanced memory for positive value-location associations.
- Remembering proper names as a potential exception to the better-than-average effect in younger and older adults.
- Younger and Older Adults' Mood and Expectations Regarding Aging During COVID-19.
- Effects of Age-Related Stereotype Threat on Metacognition.
- Improving Expectations Regarding Aging in Younger Adults: A Classroom Study.
- Memory and availability-biased metacognitive illusions for flags of varying familiarity.
- Aging and forgetting: Forgotten information is perceived as less important than is remembered information.
- White matter integrity in brain structures supporting semantic processing is associated with value-directed remembering in older adults.
- Memory for Weather Information in Younger and Older Adults: Tests of Verbatim and Gist Memory.
- Age-related differences in metacognition for memory capacity and selectivity.
- Knowing What Others Know: Younger and Older Adults' Perspective-Taking and Memory for Medication Information.
- Self-regulated learning of important information under sequential and simultaneous encoding conditions.
- Successful aging: The role of cognitive gerontology.
- Younger and older adults' associative memory for medication interactions of varying severity.
- Memory for important item-location associations in younger and older adults.
- The effects of value on context-item associative memory in younger and older adults.
- On belief and fluency in the construction of judgments of learning: Assessing and altering the direct effects of belief.
- The role of attention in remembering important item-location associations.
- Memory Recall for High Reward Value Items Correlates With Individual Differences in White Matter Pathways Associated With Reward Processing and Fronto-Temporal Communication.
- The role of interest in memory for trivia questions: An investigation with a large-scale database.
- Improving Medication Understanding and Adherence Using Principles of Memory and Metacognition: In Press - Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
- Metacognition and proofreading: the roles of aging, motivation, and interest.
- Gist-based memory for prices and "better buys" in younger and older adults.
- Explaining the forgetting bias effect on value judgments: The influence of memory for a past test.
- Test expectancy and memory for important information.
- OLDER AND YOUNGER ADULTS' STRATEGIC CONTROL OF METACOGNITIVE MONITORING: THE ROLE OF CONSEQUENCES, TASK EXPERIENCE, AND PRIOR KNOWLEDGE.
- Free recall test experience potentiates strategy-driven effects of value on memory.
- Younger and older adults' associative memory for social information: The role of information importance.
- Selectively Distracted: Divided Attention and Memory for Important Information.
- Recognizing What Matters: Value Improves Recognition by Selectively Enhancing Recollection.
- Memory for Allergies and Health Foods: How Younger and Older Adults Strategically Remember Critical Health Information.
- Effects of aging on value-directed modulation of semantic network activity during verbal learning.
- When enough is not enough: Information overload and metacognitive decisions to stop studying information.
- I owe you: age-related similarities and differences in associative memory for gains and losses.
- The parallel impact of episodic memory and episodic future thinking on food intake.
- The cognitive control of emotional versus value-based information in younger and older adults.
- The value in rushing: Memory and selectivity when short on time.
- Achievement goals affect metacognitive judgments.
- Age-related differences in memory after attending to distinctiveness or similarity during learning.
- Memory for medication side effects in younger and older adults: the role of subjective and objective importance.
- The Apple of the mind's eye: Everyday attention, metamemory, and reconstructive memory for the Apple logo.
- Mastery-approach goals eliminate retrieval-induced forgetting: the role of achievement goals in memory inhibition.
- Retrieval monitoring is influenced by information value: the interplay between importance and confidence on false memory.
- Thirst for knowledge: The effects of curiosity and interest on memory in younger and older adults.
- Eyes wide open: enhanced pupil dilation when selectively studying important information.
- Value-based modulation of memory encoding involves strategic engagement of fronto-temporal semantic processing regions.
- Multilevel induction of categories: venomous snakes hijack the learning of lower category levels.
- Predicting memory benefits in the production effect: the use and misuse of self-generated distinctive cues when making judgments of learning.
- When disfluency is--and is not--a desirable difficulty: the influence of typeface clarity on metacognitive judgments and memory.
- Selecting valuable information to remember: age-related differences and similarities in self-regulated learning.
- Memory, priority encoding, and overcoming high-value proactive interference in younger and older adults.
- The floor effect: impoverished spatial memory for elevator buttons.
- False memory and importance: can we prioritize encoding without consequence?
- Back to the future: past and future era-based schematic support and associative memory for prices in younger and older adults.
- Beliefs about the "hot hand" in basketball across the adult life span.
- Fire drill: inattentional blindness and amnesia for the location of fire extinguishers.
- The fate of being forgotten: information that is initially forgotten is judged as less important.
- Betting on memory leads to metacognitive improvement by younger and older adults.
- Monitoring one's own forgetting in younger and older adults.
- The ease-of-processing heuristic and the stability bias: dissociating memory, memory beliefs, and memory judgments.
- Memory and metamemory for inverted words: illusions of competency and desirable difficulties.
- Are we aware of our ability to forget? Metacognitive predictions of directed forgetting.
- The influence of FMRI lie detection evidence on juror decision-making.
- The development of memory efficiency and value-directed remembering across the life span: a cross-sectional study of memory and selectivity.
- Memory for age-face associations in younger and older adults: the role of generation and schematic support.