Benjamin A. Clegg

Associate Professor
Cognitive Psychology

Phone: (970) 491-2211
Office Location: A11 Clark
Email: Benjamin.Clegg@colostate.edu
Web Page: http://lamar.colostate.edu/~bclegg/

PhD: University of Oregon, 1998
Area of Specialization: Implicit Learning, Skill Acquisition, Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Teaching Courses:
Office Hours:
Monday- | Tuesday- 2:00 - 3:00 | Wednesday- 10:00 - 11:00 | Thursday- | Friday- | By Appointment- Yes

Current Research: Much of my work has centered on the general topic of skill acquisition. A core component of this research has been studies of implicit learning - that is, knowledge acquired without any direct intention to learn it, and with limited subsequent awareness of the information that has been learned. Think about what you could tell someone about how to ride a bike, or swing a golf club, or the sequence of activities to perform as you drive your car through a junction. My research explores the nature of the representation of the unconscious knowledge used to guide performance. The central issues revolve around how you learn things, and what you then know. This work has included the use of a number of basic research paradigms (such as sequence learning in the serial reaction time task, and the Hebb Digits task), as well as more complex real-world tasks.

Vita: clegg.pdf

Recent Publications

Francis, A. P., Schmidt, G. L., Carr, T. H., & Clegg, B. A. (in press) Implicit learning of word string orders. Psychological Research.

Groeger, J. A. & Clegg, B. A. (2007) Systematic changes in the rate of instruction during driver training. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21(9), 1229-1244.

Clegg, B. A. (2005) Stimulus-specific sequence representation in serial reaction time tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 58A(6), 1087-1101.