Robert A. Bjork

University of California, Los Angeles — United States

Neuroscience · Life Sciences

76h-index26.8kcitations285works14.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Memory Processes and Influences(117), Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning(44), Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes(35), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies(27), Child and Animal Learning Development(25)

Publications285 total

Forgetting as an active process: Attentional withdrawal following a forget instruction
Memory & Cognition·2025
The Memrise Prize, an international research competition: A pragmatic trial to compare methods for learning foreign language vocabulary.
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition·2025Open Access
Why Empirical Forgetting Curves Deviate from Actual Forgetting Rates: A Distribution Model of Forgetting
Behavioral Sciences·2025Open Access
General knowledge and detailed memory benefit from different training sequences.
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Acquiring an Accurate Mental Model of Human Learning
Oxford University Press eBooks·2024· 2 cited
Retrieval As A Memory Modifier: An Interpretation of Negative Recency and Related Phenomena
2024· 92 cited
Learning from errors versus explicit instruction in preparation for a test that counts
British Journal of Educational Psychology·2024· 15 citedOpen Access
The effects of lecture speed and note‐taking on memory for educational material
Applied Cognitive Psychology·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Thinking first versus googling first: Preferences and consequences.
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition·2022· 5 cited
Going beyond the spacing effect: Does it matter how time on a task is distributed?
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology·2022· 5 citedOpen Access
Retrieval Practice: The importance of doing
Character Lab Tips·2022
Retrieval Practice: The importance of doing
Character Lab Tips·2022
Space to Learn: The best way to schedule studying
Character Lab Tips·2022
Change Is Good: Vary what and where you practice
Character Lab Tips·2022
Space to Learn: The best way to schedule studying
Character Lab Tips·2022
Change Is Good: Vary what and where you practice
Character Lab Tips·2022
General knowledge and detailed memory benefit from different training sequences
2021· 2 cited
On the Role of Generation Rules in Moderating the Beneficial Effects of Errorful Generation
Zeitschrift für Psychologie·2021· 3 cited
Does Spelling Still Matter—and If So, How Should It Be Taught? Perspectives from Contemporary and Historical Research
Educational Psychology Review·2021· 26 citedOpen Access
Pan, Rickard, and Bjork (2021) Does spelling still matter—And if so, how should it be taught?
2021· 1 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Elizabeth Ligon Bjork(9), Nate Kornell(9), Michael C. Anderson(4), K. Anders Ericsson(4), John Dunlosky(2), Aaron S. Benjamin(2), Bennett L. Schwartz(2), Asher Koriat(2), R. Edward Geiselman(2), Deborah L. Fishman(2), Alan D. Castel(2), Ralph E. Chatham(2), Harold Pashler(1), Mark A. McDaniel(1), Doug Rohrer(1), Richard A. Schmidt(1), A Richardson-Klavehn(1), Steven M. Smith(1), Arthur M. Glenberg(1), Nicholas C. Soderstrom(1)