Lael Schooler    
Senior research scientist
Fon: +49-(0)30-82406-355
Secretary:  Edda Foellmer-Häusle
Maren Wöll

PhD in Cognitive Psychology, 1993, Carnegie Mellon University

» Adaptive Behavior and Cognition
Research Interests

  • Adaptation of human memory to the statistical structure of the environment
  • Computational models of human memory and decision making
Selected Literature

  • Please contact sekgigerenzer(at)mpib-berlin.mpg.de for reprints that cannot be downloaded
  • Pachur, T., Mata, R., Schooler, L.J. (in press). Cognitive Aging and the Adaptive Use of Recognition in Decision Making. Psychology & Aging.
  • Morais, A. S., Olsson, H., & Schooler, L. (in press). Ways of probing situated concepts. Behavior Research Methods.
  • Gaissmaier, W., & Schooler, L. J. (2008). The smart potential behind probability matching. Cognition. 109, 416-4221.
  • Hertwig, R., Herzog, S. M., Schooler, L. J., & Reimer, T. (2008). Fluency heuristic: A model of how the mind exploits a by-product of information retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 1191–1206.
  • Gaissmaier, W., Schooler, L.J., & Mata, R. (2008). An ecological perspective to cognitive limits: Modeling environment-mind interactions with ACT-R, Judgment and Decision Making, 3, 278-291.
  • Mata, R., Schooler, L.J., & Rieskamp, J. (2007). The Aging Decision Maker:Cognitive Aging and the Adaptive Selection of Decision Strategies.Psychology and Aging, 22, 796-810.
  • Gaissmaier, W., Schooler, L.J., & Rieskamp, J. (2006). Simple predictions fueled by capacity limitations: When are they successful? Journal of Experimental Psychology, 32 (5), 966-982. - PDF[info]
  • Volz, K. G., Schooler, L. J., Schubotz, R. I., Raab, M., Gigerenzer, G., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2006). Why you think Milan is larger than Modena: Neural correlates of the Recognition Heuristic. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1924-1936.
  • Schooler, L. J., & Hertwig, R. (2005). How forgetting aids heuristic inference. Psychological Review, 112, 610–628. - PDF[info]
  • Schooler, L. J., & Shiffrin, R. M. (2005). Efficiently measuring recognition memory performance with sparse data. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 37, 3-10.
  • Schooler, L. J., Shiffrin, R. M., & Raaijmakers, J. G. W. (2001). Theoretical note: A Bayesian model for implicit effects in perceptual identification. Psychological Review, 108, 257-272. - PDF[info]
  • Schooler, L. J., & Anderson, J. R. (1997). The role of process in the rational analysis of memory. Cognitive Psychology, 32 (3), 219-250. - PDF[info]
  • Anderson, J. R., & Schooler, L. J. (1991). Reflections of the environment in memory. Psychological Science, 2, 396-408. - PDF[info]
       
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