David McCabe

Assistant Professor
Cognitive Psychology

Phone: (970) 491-3018
Office Location: A28 Clark
Email: David.McCabe@colostate.edu
Web Page: http://lamar.colostate.edu/~dmccabe/dmccabe.htm

PhD: Georgia Tech, 2003
Area of Specialization: Human Memory; Cognitive Aging; Working Memory; Metamemory; Memory Accuracy
Teaching Courses: History of Psychology; Research Methods
Office Hours:
Monday- 12:30 - 1:30 | Tuesday- | Wednesday- | Thursday- | Friday- 3:00 - 4:00 | By Appointment- Yes

Current Research: Broadly speaking, I am interested in cognitive psychology, with a particular interest in memory performance across the adult life span. A comprehensive understanding human memory requires both an analysis of the cognitive processes involved in memory performance, and an understanding of how individuals differ in these processes. I use a combination of experimental and individual differences methodologies to study working memory, conscious recollection, and memory accuracy. Much of this research focuses on adult age differences in memory performance. The common theme to these interdependent lines of research are (a) an interest in the role of controlled processing in memory and cognition, and (b) an interest in the subjective experience associated with memory retrieval.

Vita: mccabe.pdf

Recent Publications

Engle, R. W., & McCabe, D. P. (in press) Human memory. To appear in The New Encyclopedia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica.

Lyle, K. B., McCabe, D. P., & Roediger, H. L. (in press) Handedness is related to memory via hemispheric interaction: Evidence from paired associate recall and source memory tasks in an adult lifespan sample. Neuropsychology.

Karpicke, J. D., McCabe, D. P., & Roediger, H. L. (2008) False memories are not surprising: The subjective experience of an associative memory illusion. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 1065-1079.

McCabe, D. P. (2008) The role of covert retrieval in working memory span tasks: Evidence from delayed recall tests. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 480-494.

McCabe, D. P., & Castel., A. D. (2008) Seeing is believing: The effect of brain images on judgments of scientific reasoning. Cognition, 107, 343-352.