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 12/20/07):

 

McCabe, D. P. (in press). The role of covert retrieval in working memory span tasks: Evidence from delayed recall tests. Journal of Memory and Language. PDF

 

McCabe, D. P., & Castel., A. D. (in press). Seeing is believing: The effect of brain images on judgments of scientific reasoning. Cognition. PDF

 

Karpicke, J. D., McCabe, D. P., & Roediger, H. L. (in press). False memories are not surprising: The subjective experience of an associative memory illusion. Journal of Memory and Language. PDF

 

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. PDF

 

Engle, R. E., & McCabe, D. P. (in press). Memory. In The New Encyclopedia BritannicaChicago: Encyclopedia Britannica.

 

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

 

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, & 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

 

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., Roediger, H. L., McDaniel, M. A., Balota, D. A., & Hambrick, D. A. (2007). The relationship between working memory capacity, executive functioning, and general fluid intelligence: Converging evidence for an executive attention construct. Manuscript submitted for publication. 

 

McCabe, D. P., & Geraci, L. (2007). A source misrecollection account of remember false alarms. Manuscript submitted for publication.

 

Castel, A. D., Balota, D. A., & McCabe, D. P. (2007). Aging, memory efficiency and the strategic control of attention at encoding: Selective impairments of value-directed remembering in Alzheimer’s disease. Manuscript submitted for publication.

 

Bishara, A. J., Kruschke, J. K., Stout, J. C., McCabe, D. P., Bechara, A., & Busemeyer, J. R. (2007). A cognitive modeling approach to neuropsychological measurement: Disentangling components of the Wisconsin Card Sort Task. Manuscript submitted for publication.

 

McCabe, D. P., Roediger, H. L., & Karpicke, J. D. (2007) Estimating recollection and familiarity in recall using process dissociation. Manuscript in preparation. 

 

Butler, K. M., McDaniel, M. A., McCabe, D. P., & Dornburg, C. C. (2007). Age-related increases in false memory under an item-specific processing strategy. 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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