Please find the publications from our lab below in reverse chronological order, along with OSF links (where relevant) and open-access versions of the article if it’s behind a paywall.
Peer-reviewed empirical and theoretical publications
Loaiza, V. M., Senziani, K., Bartsch, L. M., & Mizrak, E. (in press). What makes a birdbrain tick: Long-term memory drives expertise effects on working memory binding. Psychology and Aging. OSF Open-access paper Kudos
Myers, S. J., Rhodes, M. G., & Loaiza, V. M. (2025). Judgments of learning (JOLs) impact item memory but not source memory: Insights into JOL reactivity using a multinomial model. (Stage 2 registered report). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 51(6), 1004-1021. OSF Open-access paper
Kemp, P. L., Loaiza, V. M., Kelley, C. M., & Wahlheim, C. N. (2024). Correcting fake news headlines after repeated exposure: Memory and preceived accuracy in younger adults. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 9, 55. OSF
Cheung, H. C., Geeraert, N., & Loaiza, V. M. (2024). Evidence against effects of cultural group and prior knowledge on feature binding in working memory. Journal of Cognition, 7, 62. OSF
Loaiza, V. M., & Souza, A. S. (2024). Active maintenance in working memory reinforces bindings for future retrieval from episodic long-term memory. Memory & Cognition, 52, 1999-2021. OSF
Loaiza, V. M., Cheung, H. W., & Goldenhaus-Manning, D. T. (2024). What you don’t know can’t hurt you: Retro-cues benefit working memory regardless of prior knowledge in long-term memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3, 1-12. OSF
Goldenhaus-Manning, D. T., Cooper, N. R., & Loaiza, V. M. (2024). Examining the role of attention during feature binding in visuospatial working memory. (Stage 2 registered report). Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 86, 354-365. OSF
Chao, C. M., Xu, C., Loaiza, V. M., & Rose, N. (2023). Are latent working memory items retrieved from long-term memory? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17470218231217723. OSF Open-access paper
Kemp, P. L., Loaiza V. M., & Wahlheim, C. N. (2023). Testing can enhance episodic memory updating in younger and older adults. Psychology & Aging, 38, 656-669. OSF Open-access paper
Holford, D. L., Tognon, G., Gladwell, V., Murray, K., Nicoll, M., Knox, A., McCloy, R., & Loaiza, V. M. (2023). Planning engagement with web resources to improve diet quality and break up sedentary time for home-working employees: A mixed methods study. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 28, 224-238. OSF
Roehr-Brackin, K., Loaiza, V. M., & Pavlekovic, R. (2023). Language learning aptitude in older adults. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 7, 1-15. Open-access paper
Loaiza, V. M., Oftinger, A.-L., & Camos, V. (2023). How does working memory promote traces in episodic memory? Journal of Cognition, 6, 1-10. OSF
Zuber, S., Joly-Burra, E., Mahy, C. E. V., Loaiza, V. M., & Kliegel, M. (2023). Are facet-specific task trainings efficient in improving children’s executive functions, and why (might they not be)? A multi-facet latent change score approach. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 227, 105602.
Kemp, P. L., Loaiza, V. M., & Wahlheim, C. N. (2022). Fake news reminders enhance memory and belief accuracy more than labels alone. Scientific Reports, 12, 1-13. OSF
Loaiza, V. M., & Souza, A. S. (2022). The eyes don’t have it: Eye movements are unlikely to reflect refreshing in working memory. PLOS One, 17. OSF
Loaiza, V. M., & Lavilla, E. T. (2021). Elaborative strategies contribute to the long-term benefits of time in working memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 117, 1-17. OSF Open-access paper
Loaiza, V. M., Doherty, C., & Howlett, P. (2021). The long-term consequences of retrieval demands during working memory. Memory & Cognition, 49, 112-126. OSF Open-access paper
Jarjat, G., Ward, G., Hot, P., Portrat, S., & Loaiza, V. M. (2021). Distinguishing the impact of age on semantic and non-semantic associations in episodic memory. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences, 76, 722-731. OSF Open-access paper
Loaiza, V. M., & Srokova, S. (2020). Semantic relatedness corrects the age-related binding deficit in working memory and episodic memory. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences, 75, 1841-1849. OSF Open-access paper
Bartsch, L. M., Loaiza, V. M., Jäncke, L., Oberauer, K., & Lewis-Peacock, J. A. (2019). Dissociating refreshing and elaboration and their impacts on memory. NeuroImage, 199, 585-597. OSF Open-access paper
Loaiza, V. M., & Halse, S. C. (2019). Where working memory meets long-term memory: The interplay of list length and distractors on memory performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45, 1455-1472. OSF Open-access paper
Zuber, S., Ihle, A., Loaiza, V. M., Schnitzspahn, K. M., Stalh, C., Philips, L. H., Kaller, C. P., & Kliegel, M. (2019). Explaining age-differences in working memory: The role of updating, inhibition, and shifting. Psychology & Neuroscience, 12, 191-208. Open-access paper
Loaiza, V. M., & Souza, A. S. (2019). An age-related deficit in preserving the benefits of attention in working memory. Psychology and Aging, 34, 268-281. OSF Open-access paper
Bartsch, L., Loaiza, V. M., & Oberauer, K. (2019). Does limited working memory capacity underlie age differences in associative long-term memory? Psychology and Aging, 34, 282-293. OSF Open-access paper
Galli, G., Sirota, M., Gruber, M. J., Ivanof, B. E., Ganesh, J., Materassi, M., Thorpe, A., Loaiza, V. M., Cappelletti, M., & Craik, F. I. M. (2018). Learning facts during aging: The benefits of curiosity. Experimental Aging Research, 44, 311-328. OSF Open-access paper
Loaiza, V. M., & Souza, A. S. (2018). Is refreshing in working memory impaired in older age? Evidence from the retro-cue paradigm. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1424, 175-189. OSF Open-access paper
Camos, V., Johnson, M. R., Loaiza, V. M., Portrat, S., Souza, A. S., & Vergauwe, E. (2018). What is attentional refreshing in working memory? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1424, 19-32. Open-access paper
Loaiza, V. M., & Camos, V. (2018). The role of semantic representations in verbal working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44, 863-881. Open-access paper
Loaiza, V. M., & Borovanska, B. M. (2018). Covert retrieval in working memory impacts the phenomenological characteristics remembered during episodic memory. Consciousness & Cognition, 57, 20-32. OSF Open-access paper
Camos, V., Lagner, P., & Loaiza, V. M. (2017). Maintenance of item and order information in verbal working memory. Memory, 25, 953-968. Open-access paper
Loaiza, V. M., & Camos, V. (2016). Does controlling for temporal parameters change the levels-of-processing effect in working memory? Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 12, 2-9. Open-access paper
Loaiza, V. M., Rhodes, M. G., Camos, V., & McCabe, D. P. (2015). Using the Process Dissociation Procedure to estimate recollection and familiarity in working memory: An experimental and individual differences investigation. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 27, 844-854. Open-access paper
Loaiza, V. M., Rhodes, M. G., & Anglin, J. (2015). The influence of age-related differences in prior knowledge and attentional refreshing opportunities on episodic memory. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 70, 729-736. Open-access paper
Loaiza, V. M., Dupperreault, K. A., Rhodes, M. G., & McCabe, D. P. (2015). Long-term semantic representations moderate the effect of attentional refreshing on episodic memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22, 274-280. Open-access paper
Lucidi, A., Loaiza, V. M., Camos, V., & Barrouillet, P. (2014). Assessing working memory capacity through time-constrained elementary activities. The Journal of General Psychology, 141, 98-112. Open-access paper
Loaiza, V. M., & McCabe, D. P. (2013). The influence of aging on attentional refreshing and articulatory rehearsal during working memory on later peisodic memory performance. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 20, 471-493. Open-access paper
Castel, A. D., Rhodes, M. G., McCabe, D. P., Soderstrom, N. C., & Loaiza, V. M. (2012). The fate of being forgotten: Forgotten information is judged as less important. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 2281-2287. Open-access paper
Loaiza, V. M., & McCabe, D. P. (2012). Temporal contextual processing in working memory: Evidence from delayed cued recall and delayed free recall tests. Memory & Cognition, 40, 191-203. Open-access paper
Loaiza, V. M., McCabe, D. P., Youngblood, J. L., Rose, N. S., & Myerson, J. (2011). The influence of levels of processing on recall from working memory and delayed recall tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 1258-1263. Open-access paper
Chapters, Reviews, and Editorials
Morra, S., Howard, S. J., & Loaiza, V. M. (2025). Working memory and executive functions: Theoretical advances. (Special issue editorial). Journal of Cognition, 8(1), 1-15.
Bartsch, L. M., Fukuda, K., Loaiza, V. M., & Mizrak, E. (2024). The information exchange between working memory and long-term memory. (Special issue editorial). Memory & Cognition, 52, 1-9.
Loaiza, V. M. (2024). An overview of the hallmarks of cognitive aging. Current Opinion in Psychology, 56, 101784.
Loaiza, V. M. (2017). Working memory in older age. In N. A. Pachana (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Geropsychology. Springer.
McCabe, D. P., & Loaiza, V. M. (2012). Working memory. In S. K. Whitbourne & M. J. Sliwinski (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Adult Development and Aging (pp. 154-173). Wiley-Blackwell.
McCabe, D. P., & Loaiza, V. M. (2010). A unique overview of important issues in cognitive aging. PsycCritiques, 55.
