Aaron Benjamin is Professor, Assistant Head, and Acting Head of Psychology for 2023-2024 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he also holds appointments in the Program in Neuroscience and at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. His research applies behavioral and computational approaches to basic and applied problems in human memory, attention, metamemory, and decision-making.

Benjamin received a BA in Psychology and in German from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991, where we worked with Kenneth Kotovsky and Herbert Simon. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998, where he worked with Robert Bjork. From 1998 until 2001, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Toronto, where he worked with Fergus Craik. Since that time, he has been at Illinois, where he directs the Human Memory and Cognition Laboratory.

He has been a member of the Psychonomic Society since 2000, served on the Governing Board from 2012-2018, and was Chair of the Governing Board in 2017. He is a Fellow of the Psychonomic Society, the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for Experimental Psychology. He has also served on the Board of Scientific Affairs at APA and on the Council of Scientific Society Presidents.

He is the current Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, a past president of the International Association for Metacognition, and a recipient of the James McKeen Cattell sabbatical Award.

Lab: https://publish.illinois.edu/benjaminlab/

Contact Information:

Aaron S. Benjamin
Professor and Assistant Head
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
308 Psychology Bldg, MC-716
603 East Daniel St.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA

Phone: (217) 333-0631
Email:asbenjam@illinois.edu

Benjamin Assumes Role of 2017 Chair of the Governing Board

The Psychonomic Society is pleased to announce that Aaron Benjamin is now the Chair of the Governing Board. He will serve a one-year term.

Aaron Benjamin is Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also holds appointments in the Program in Neuroscience and at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. His research applies behavioral and computational approaches to basic and applied problems in human memory, metamemory, and decision-making.

Benjamin received a BA in Psychology and in German from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991, where we worked with Kenneth Kotovsky and Herbert Simon. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998, where he worked with Robert Bjork. From 1998 until 2001, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Toronto, where he worked with Fergus Craik. Since that time, he has been at Illinois, where he directs the Human Memory and Cognition laboratory.

He has been a member of the Psychonomic Society since 2000 and was elected to the Governing Board in 2012. He has served on the Audit, Finance, and Workshop committees of the Society. He is a Fellow of both the Psychonomic Society and Association for Psychological Science.

Cathleen Moore, University of Iowa, becomes Past Chair and John Dunlosky, Kent State University, becomes Chair-elect. Continuing Governing Board members include: Edward Awh, University of Chicago, Teresa Bajo, University of Granada, Laura Carlson, University of Notre Dame, Fernanda Ferreira, University of California, Davis, Robert Logie, University of Edinburgh, Janet Metcalfe, Columbia University, Patricia Reuter-Lorenz, University of Michigan, and Valerie Reyna, Cornell University. Marc Brysbaert, Ghent University, and James Pomerantz, Rice University were elected by the Society’s membership in September and join the Governing Board now. Governing Board member Lynne Reder, Carnegie Mellon University leaves us after a fantastic six year term. Thanks Lynne!