Speaker Profile

Benjamin Motz, PhD

Cognitive Scientist, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences; Director, eLearning Research and Practice Lab, Indiana University; Co-Founder, Chief Research Officer, Boost; Researcher in memory and critical thinking; Co-Author, "Learning to Call Bullsh*t via Induction: Categorization Training Improves Critical Thinking Performance" (2021, PsyArXiv), "Generalizability, Transferability, and the Practice-to-Practice Gap" (2021, PsyArXiv), and “A Dissociation Between Engagement and Learning: Enthusiastic Instructions Fail to Reliably Improve Performance on a Memory Task” (2017, PLoS ONE)

BenjaminMotz, PhD

Past Talks

The Science of Knowledge
Applying Brain Science to Build Student Expertise, Reasoning, Reflection, and Critical Thinking
The Science of Reading/Math
Sheraton NY Times Square Hotel, New York, NY or Virtually via Zoom
April 01-03, 2022