David P. McCabe
Department of Psychology 
Colorado State University 
Campus Box 1876 
Fort Collins CO 80523-1876 
(970) 491-3018 
david.mccabe@colostate.edu

 

 

 

 

 

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Colorado State University. 

 

Research Interests:

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.

Selected Papers (updated on 8/05/09):

 

McCabe, D. P., Roediger, H. L., McDaniel, M. A., Balota, D. A., & Hambrick, D. Z. (in press). The relationship between working memory capacity and executive functioning: Evidence for an executive attention construct. Neuropsychology. PDF

 

Rhodes, M. R., & McCabe, D. P. (in press). Expertise makes the world slow down: Judgments of duration are influenced by domain knowledge. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. PDF

 

Geraci, L., McCabe, D. P., & Guillory, J. J. (in press). On interpreting the relationship between remember-know judgments and confidence: The role of instructions. Consciousness and Cognition. PDF

 

Butler, K. M., McDaniel, M. A., McCabe, D. P., & Dornburg, C. C. (in press). Age-related increases in false memory under an item-specific processing strategy. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition. PDF

 

Bishara, A. J., Kruschke, J. K., Stout, J. C., Bechara, A., McCabe, D. P., & Busemeyer, J. R. (in press). Sequential learning models for the Wisconsin Card Sort Task: Assessing processes in substance dependent individuals. Journal of Mathematical Psychology. PDF

 

McCabe, D. P., & Geraci, L. (2009). The role of extra-list associations in false remembering: A source misattribution account. Memory & Cognition, 18, 401-413. PDF

 

McCabe, D. P., & Geraci, L. (2009). The influence of instructions and terminology on the accuracy of remember-know judgments. Consciousness and Cognition, 18, 401-413. PDF

 

McCabe, D. P., Roediger, H. L., McDaniel, M. A., & Balota, D. A. (2009). Aging decreases veridical remembering but increases false remembering: Neuropsychological test correlates of remember/know judgments. Neuropsychologia, 41, 2164-2173. PDF

 

Castel, A. D., Balota, D. A., & McCabe, D. P. (2009). Aging, memory efficiency and the strategic control of attention at encoding: Selective impairments of value-directed remembering in Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropsychology, 23, 297-306. PDF

 

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. PDF

 

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

 

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. PDF

 

Lyle, K. B., McCabe, D. P., & Roediger, H. L. (2008). Handedness is related to memory via hemispheric interaction: Evidence from paired associate recall and source memory tasks. Neuropsychology, 22, 523-530. PDF

 

McCabe, D. P., & Balota, D. A. (2007). Context effects on remembering and knowing: The expectancy heuristic. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 536-549. PDF

 

McCabe, D. P., Smith, A. D, & Parks, C. P. (2007). Inadvertent plagiarism in young and older adults: The role of working memory capacity in reducing memory errors. Memory & Cognition, 35, 231-241. PDF

 

Castel, A. D., McCabe, D. P., & Roediger, H. L. (2007). Illusions of competence and overestimation of associative memory for identical items: Evidence from judgments of learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 107-111. PDF

 

Castel, A. D., McCabe, D. P., & Roediger, H. L., & Heitman, J. (2007). The dark side of expertise: Domain specific memory errors. Psychological Science, 18, 3-5. PDF

 

McCabe, D. P., & Smith, A. D. (2006). The distinctiveness heuristic in false recognition and false recall. Memory, 14, 570-583. PDF

 

Geraci, L. & McCabe, D. P. (2006). Examining the basis for illusory recollection: The role of remember/know instructions. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 466-473. PDF

 

McCabe, D. P., Robertson, C. L., & Smith, A. D. (2005). Age differences in Stroop interference in working memory. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 27, 633-644. PDF

 

McCabe, D. P., Presmanes, A. G., Robertson, C. L., & Smith, A. D. (2004). Item-specific processing reduces false memories. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 1074-1079. PDF

 

McCabe, D. P., & Smith, A. D. (2002). The effect of warnings on false memories in younger and older adults. Memory & Cognition, 30, 1065-1077. PDF

 

Submitted Manuscripts and Manuscripts In Preparation:

 

McCabe, D. P. (2009). Metacognitive control of response times in complex working memory span tasks: A comparison of experimenter-paced and computer-paced tasks. Manuscript submitted for publication.

 

Durrance Blalock, L., & McCabe, D. P. (2009). Proactive interference and practice effects in visuospatial working memory span task performance. Manuscript submitted for publication.

 

Cleary, A. M., Konkel, K. E., Nomi, J. S., & McCabe, D. P. (2009). Odor recognition without identification. Manuscript submitted for publication.

 

McCabe, D. P., & Loaiza, V. (2009). Factors dissociating retrieval from working memory and episodic memory:

Dual effects of covert retrieval. Manuscript in preparation.

 

McCabe, D. P., & Soderstrom, N. C. (2009). Monitoring remembering and knowing at study or test improves the accuracy of prospective metamemory judgments. Manuscript in preparation.

 

McCabe, D. P., Roediger, H. L., & Karpicke, J. D. (2009). Familiarity influences free recall: Converging evidence from the process dissociation procedure, remember-know judgments, and intrusion errors. Manuscript in preparation.

 

McCabe, D. P., Loaiza, V., & Roediger, H. L. (2008). Primary and secondary memory as predictors of higher-level cognition. Manuscript in preparation.

 

Karpicke, J. D., McCabe, D. P., & Roediger, H. L. (in preparation). Testing enhances recollection: Process dissociations and metamemory judgments. Manuscript in preparation.

 

 

 

 

 

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