FACULTY - Ben Denkinger
Assistant Professor
Ben Denkinger, Ph.D., is a cognitive and biological psychologist specializing in age-related changes in memory and the perception of time. Ben has taught courses in introductory psychology and research methods, as well as in cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and the psychology of aging.
Ben’s research seeks to bolster our understanding of the many facets of time perception. Most recently, he investigated age-related changes in memory for causally-related events using an original stimulus set. His future research will consider how our perception of time’s passage is shaped by a number of factors, including memory and attentional mechanisms, motivational states, normal aging processes, and societal influences.
Selected Scholarship
Recent / Upcoming publications
Denkinger, B. & Koutstaal, W. (in preparation). One thing leads to another: A novel stimulus set
for investigating causal association learning.
Denkinger, B. & Koutstaal, W. (in preparation). Time Further Out: An investigation of age
related changes in temporal and causal order memory.
Denkinger, B.& Koutstaal, W. (2009). Perceive-Decide-Act, Perceive-Decide-Act: How abstract is decision learning? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 35, 742 – 756. doi: 10.1037/a0015263.
Recent Presentations
Denkinger, B.& Koutstaal, W. (2008, May). Perceive-decide-act, perceive-decide-act: The benefits and costs of previous decisions on object priming. Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.
