Aaron S Benjamin

Aaron S Benjamin is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, affiliated with the Neuroscience Program and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois. His research focuses on human learning, memory, and decision-making, with particular emphasis on metacognition, aging effects, and recognition memory.

• Education: Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles

His scholarly work spans diverse subfields including:

• Metacognitive control
• Recognition memory
• Memory for conversations
• Alcohol's cognitive effects
• Aging and episodic memory
• Forensic memory applications

Recent publications analyze transdermal alcohol biosensors, conceptual familiarity in face recognition, and attention regulation through self-scheduled breaks. His research has been recognized with the Psychonomic Society Mid-Career Award (2023) and SEP Fellowship (2018).