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    Benjamin Motz, PhD 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)

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    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