Roediger receives lifetime achievement award

Henry "Roddy" Roediger photo
Roediger

Henry L. “Roddy” Roediger III, an internationally recognized scholar of human memory and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has received the the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science.

The award, presented by Division 3 of the American Psychological Association (APA), was presented at the APA annual convention held Aug. 4-7 in Denver. In an invited plenary lecture at the conference, Roediger discussed “Varieties of Superior Memory: The Study of People Who Deliberately Memorize.”