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Henry Roediger
Titles
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor

Office Contact Information

Degree
PHD, Yale University
Degree
BA, Washington & Lee University
Office
Psychology Building 235C
Mailbox

Campus Box 1125

Phone
(314) 935-4307
Email
URL
Lab Website

Research specialization

Publications
  • Roediger, H.L. (1990). Implicit memory: Retention without remembering. American Psychologist, 45, 1043-1056.
  • Roediger, H.L., & McDermott, K.B. (1995). Creating false memories: Remembering words that were not presented in lists. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 21, 803-814.
  • Roediger, H. L. & Karpicke, J. D. (2006). The power of testing memory: Basic research and implications for educational practice. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1, 181-210.
  • Roediger, H. L., Dudai, Y., & Fitzpatrick, S. M. (Eds.). (2007). Science of memory:Concepts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Karpicke, J. D., & Roediger, H. L. (2007). Expanding retrieval practice promotes short-term retention, but equally spaced retrieval enhances long-term retention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 33, 704-719.
Courses
  • Human Memory
  • Retrieval Processes in Memory
  • Introduction to Psychology
  • Freshman Seminar
  • Cognitive Illusions
  • Psychology of Academia
Research Interests

Professor Roediger's research interests center on learning and memory. Current programs of research include: 1. applying principles of cognitive psychology to improve educational practice; 2. how retrieval practice improves retention; 3. the study of memory illusions and false memories (or why people sometimes remember events differently from the way they happened or even remember events that never happened at all); and 4. implicit memory, or the study of tests that tap memory indirectly and may tap unconscious forms of memory.

Departments
  • Psychology
  • Philosophy
  • Neuroscience