I am a third year graduate student in the Behavior, Brain, & Cognition program of the Department of Psychology at Washington University. I am currently investigating high confidence false memories for members of semantic categories, and am interested in the ways this methodology is similar to and different from other procedures for evoking false memories in the cognitive laboratory.

More generally, I am interested in human memory and its applications to education and law, metacognition, motivation and effort, and the relationship between psychology and technology.

I am a Liberman Fellow at Washington University, which means that I give regular seminars to fellow graduate students about how to integrate technology into their research, teaching, and personal development. I am also an Association for Psychological Science Campus Representative and served as the Membership and Volunteers Officer for the Student Caucus from 2010-2011.
  • B.S., College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 2009, Psychology, Computer Science (high honors)

  • M.A., Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2011

  • Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2014

 

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    K. Andrew DeSoto
    Washington University in St. Louis
    One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1125
    St. Louis, MO 63130
    Email: desoto@wustl.edu
    Lab Phone: (314) 935-8731

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  • DeSoto, K. A., Del Toro, C., Grieve, S., Meade, C., & White, A. (2008, April). Is there a need for the episodic buffer? Poster presented at the University of Virginia Undergraduate Psychology Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia.
  • DeSoto, K. A. (2009). Eye movements while zoning out during reading: implications for mind wandering and metaconsciousness. Unpublished undergraduate thesis, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. [PDF]
  • Ball, C. T. & DeSoto, K. A. (2009, November). Eye movements while zoning out during reading. Talk given at the 50th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • DeSoto, K. A. & Roediger, H. L. (2010, May). Confidence and memory: accuracy and errors. Poster presented at the 22nd Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, Massachusetts. [PDF]
  • Weinstein, Y., & DeSoto, K. A. (2010, November). Teaching Flash programming for psychology. Poster presented at the 40th Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • DeSoto, K.A. & Roediger, H. L. (2010, November). Confidence and accuracy in recognition memory: Positive, negative, and zero correlations. Poster presented at the 51st Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • DeSoto, K. A. (2011, May). Often wrong but never in doubt: Effects of category typicality on false memory and confidence ratings. Talk given at the Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
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