Journal Publications of Nicholas J. Cepeda

• Kang, S. H. K., Pashler, H., Cepeda, N. J., Rohrer, D., Carpenter, S. K., & Mozer, M. C. (2011). Does incorrect guessing impair fact learning? Journal of Educational Psychology, 103, 48-59.
  [129k pdf] [cited by 7]
• Moreno, S., Bialystok, E., Barac, R., Schellenberg, E. G., Cepeda, N. J., & Chau, T. (2011). Short-term music training enhances verbal intelligence and executive function. Psychological Science, 22, 1425-1433.
  [655k pdf] [cited by 3]
• Sobel, H. S., Cepeda, N. J., & Kapler, I. V. (2011). Spacing effects in real-world classroom vocabulary learning. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25, 763-767.
  [156k pdf] [cited by 2]
• Blackwell, K. A., Cepeda, N. J., & Munakata, Y. (2009). When simple things are meaningful: Working memory strength predicts children's cognitive flexibility. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 103, 241-249.
  [477k pdf] [cited by 7]
• Carpenter, S. K., Pashler, H., & Cepeda, N. J. (2009). Using tests to enhance 8th grade students' retention of U. S. history facts. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 760-771.
  [119k pdf] [cited by 18]
• Cepeda, N. J., Coburn, N., Rohrer, D., Wixted, J. T., Mozer, M. C., & Pashler, H. (2009). Optimizing distributed practice: Theoretical analysis and practical implications. Experimental Psychology, 56, 236-246.
  [262k pdf] [cited by 34]
• Cepeda, N. J., Vul, E., Rohrer, D., Wixted, J. T., & Pashler, H. (2008). Spacing effects in learning: A temporal ridgeline of optimal retention. Psychological Science, 19, 1095-1102.
  [898k pdf] [cited by 39]
• Cepeda, N. J., & Munakata, Y. (2007). Why do children perseverate when they seem to know better: Graded working memory, or directed inhibition? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14, 1058-1065.
  [592k pdf] [cited by 22]
• Pashler, H., Rohrer, D., Cepeda, N. J., & Carpenter, S. K. (2007). Enhancing learning and retarding forgetting: Choices and consequences. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14, 187-193.
  [634k pdf] [cited by 77]
• Wodniecka, Z., & Cepeda, N. J. (2007). Beyond the classroom: Bilingualism, cognitive skills, and health. Mosaic: A Journal for Language Teachers, 9, 3-8.
  [180k pdf] [cited by 1]
• Cepeda, N. J., Pashler, H., Vul, E., Wixted, J. T., & Rohrer, D. (2006). Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 354-380.
  [653k pdf] [cited by 237]
• Pashler, H., Cepeda, N. J., Wixted, J. T., & Rohrer, D. (2005). When does feedback facilitate learning of words? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 3-8.
  [116k pdf] [cited by 102]
• Rohrer, D., Taylor, K., Pashler, H., Wixted, J. T., & Cepeda, N. J. (2005). The effect of overlearning on long-term retention. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19, 361-374.
  [141k pdf] [cited by 45]
• Cepeda, N. J., Kramer, A. F., & Gonzalez de Sather, J. C. M. (2001). Changes in executive control across the life-span: Examination of task switching performance. Developmental Psychology, 37, 715-730.
  [1423k pdf] [cited by 211]
• DiGirolamo, G. J., Kramer, A. F., Barad, V., Cepeda, N. J., Weissman, D. H., Milham, M. P., Wszalek, T. M., Cohen, N. J., Banich, M. T., Webb, A., Belopolsky, A. V., & McAuley, E. (2001). General and task-specific frontal lobe recruitment in older adults during executive processes: An fMRI investigation of task switching. Neuroreport, 12, 2065-2071.
  [155k pdf] [cited by 133]
• Kramer, A. F., Cepeda, N. J., & Cepeda, M. L. (2001). Methylphenidate effects on task-switching performance in attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 40, 1277-1284.
  [189k pdf] [cited by 30]
• Cepeda, M. L., Allen, F. H., Cepeda, N. J., & Yang, Y.-M. (2000). Physical growth, sexual maturation, body image and sickle cell disease. Journal of the National Medical Association, 92, 10-14.
  [255k pdf] [cited by 16]
• Cepeda, N. J., Cepeda, M. L., & Kramer, A. F. (2000). Task switching and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 28, 213-226.
  [87k pdf] [cited by 102]
• Cepeda, N. J., & Kramer, A. F. (1999). Strategic effects on object-based attentional selection. Acta Psychologica, 103, 1-19.
  [146k pdf] [cited by 16]
• Cepeda, N. J., Cave, K. R., Bichot, N. P., & Kim, M.-S. (1998). Spatial selection via feature-driven inhibition of distractor locations. Perception and Psychophysics, 60, 727-746.
  [2082k pdf] [cited by 104]
• Blake, R., Cepeda, N. J., & Hiris, E. (1997). Memory for visual motion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23, 353-369.
  [1633k pdf] [cited by 41]
• Marco, L. A., Joshi, R. S., Cepeda, N. J., & Rhyne, D. B. (1991). Unitary correlates of linguo-pharyngeal events in a dyskinetic rat model. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 99C, 413-419.
  [713k pdf] [cited by 0]

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters and Proceedings

• Lindsey, R., Mozer, M. C., Cepeda, N. J., & Pashler, H. (2009). Optimizing memory retention with cognitive models. In A. Howes, D. Peebles, & R. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM). Manchester, UK.
  [3.3M pdf] [cited by 1]
• Mozer, M. C., Pashler, H., Cepeda, N. J., Lindsey, R., & Vul, E. (2009). Predicting the optimal spacing of study: A multiscale context model of memory. In Y. Bengio, D. Schuurmans, J. Lafferty, C. K. I. Williams, & A. Culotta (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Systems 22 (pp. 1321-1329). La Jolla, CA: Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation.
  [201k pdf] [cited by 6]
• Wodniecka, Z., & Cepeda, N. J. (2008). Beyond the classroom: Bilingualism, cognitive skills, and health. In A. Mollica (Ed.), Teaching and Learning Languages (pp. 15-24). Welland, Ontario: Soleil Publishing. (Reprint of Wodniecka & Cepeda, 2007)
  [180k pdf] [cited by 0]

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Kapler, I. V., Weston, T., & Cepeda, N. J. (2012). Spacing, testing, and feedback: Helping students overcome forgetting. Education Canada, 52.
  Online version [cited by 0]
• Pashler, H., Rohrer, D., & Cepeda, N. J. (2006). Temporal spacing and learning. Observer, 19, 19.
  [45k pdf] [cited by 4]

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