• Dr. Minyu Chang is a cognitive psychologist studying memory and metacognition. Her research focuses on using behavioral experiments, mathematical models, and computational models to investigate (a) how memory errors occur, (b) how people monitor and regulate their learning, (c) how memory is shaped by semantic and contextual knowledge, and (d) how these cognitive processes change across the human lifespan.

    Before joining Trinity, Dr. Chang was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at McGill University from 2022 to 2024, working with Dr. Brendan Johns. Dr. Chang earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from Cornell University in 2022, under the supervision of Dr. Charles Brainerd. Before that, she completed her Bachelor's degree in Psychology at the University of Hong Kong in 2017.

    • Postdoc, McGill University
    • Ph.D., Cornell University
    • BSocSc, University of Hong Kong

    • Brainerd, C. J., Chang, M., Bialer, D. M., & Liu, X. (2024). From association to gist: Some critical tests. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 50(6), 930–943. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001304
    • Chang, M., & Brainerd, C. J. (2023). The recognition effects of attribute ambiguity. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30, 2315-2327. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02291-5 
    • Chang, M., & Brainerd, C. J. (2023). Changed-goal or cue-strengthening? Examining the reactivity of judgments of learning with the dual-retrieval model. Metacognition and Learning, 18, 183–217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-022-09321-y
    • Chang, M., & Brainerd, C. J. (2022). Association and dissociation between judgments of learning and memory: A meta-analysis of the font size effect. Metacognition and Learning, 17, 443-476. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-021-09287-3
    • Chang, M., & Brainerd, C. J. (2021). Semantic and phonological false memory: A review of theory and data. Journal of Memory and Language, 119, 104210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104210

     

    For the complete list, please see https://www.minyuchang.com/publications

    • Fundamentals of Cognition
    • Memory and Cognition