EDUCATION
Ph.D. Cognitive Psychology
Dartmouth College- Hanover, NH.
BA Psychology (Cum laude with High Honors)
Dartmouth College- Hanover, NH.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr. Schwartz’s research areas include metacognition, human and non-human memory. In particular, ongoing projects include research on the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon and episodic memory in great apes. He recently published the book "Tip-of-the-tongue states: Phenomenology, mechanism, and lexical retrieval.” Dr. Schwartz teaches the following courses: Cognitive Processes, Memory and Memory improvement, Neuropsychology, and Introductory Psychology.
COURSES TAUGHT
- Cognitive Processes,
- Sensation and Perception,
- Animal Cognition,
- Cognitive Neuroscience
SELECT AWARDS
PRIME Minority Development Grant
APA/ NIGMS
Provost'sFoundation Grant
Florida International University
College Grant-in-Aid
College of Arts & Sciences, Florida International University
TIP award for Outstanding Teaching
Florida International University
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PUBLICATIONS
Schwartz, B. L. (2002). Tip-of-the-tongue states: Phenomenology, mechanism, and lexical retrievalLawrence Erlbaum: New Jersey.
Schwartz, B. L., Colon, M. R., Sanchez, I. C., Rodriguez, I. A., & Evans, S. (2002). Single-trial learning of "what" and "who" information in a gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla): Implications for episodic memory. Animal Cognition., 5, 85- 90.
Schwartz, B. L. (2006). Tip-of-the-tongue states as metacognition. Metacognition and Learning.1, 149 - 158
Schwartz, B. L., & Metcalfe, J. (1992). Cue familiarity but not target retrievability enhances feeling-of-knowing judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18 , 1074-1083.
Kersten, D., Bulthoff, H. H., Schwartz, B. L., & Kurtz, K. J. (1992). Interaction between transparency and structure from motion. Neural Computation, 4, 573-589.
Metcalfe, J., Schwartz, B. L., & Joaquim, S. G. (1993). The cue familiarity heuristic in metacognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 19, 851 - 86
