Henry Roediger

Title:	James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor Dean of Academic Planning in Arts & Sciences
Degree:	PHD, Yale University BA, Washington & Lee University
Dept:	American Culture Studies Psychology
Office:	Psychology Building 235C
Mailbox:	Campus Box 1125 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Hide Full Mailing Address
Phone:	(314) 935-4307
E-mail:	roediger@wustl.edu

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.

Selected 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. (1996). Memory illusions. Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 76-100.

Roediger, H.L. (2000). Why retrieval is the key process to understanding human memory. In E. Tulving (Ed.), Memory, Consciousness and the brain: The Tallinn Conference. (52-75). Philadelphia: Psychology Press.

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.