Publications

† mentored undergraduate students

1. Lemler, M.†, Bialer, D. M., & Chang, M.  (2026). Judgment of learning reactivity for emotional faces. Behavioral Sciences, 16(8), 1443. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16081443 [PDF]

2. Chang, M., Mak, M., Giries, E.†, & Baker, A.† (in press). Examining the memory effects of emotional ambiguity via the lens of emotional context variation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. [PDF]

3. Chang, M., Greene, N. R., Brainerd, C.J., Williams, C.†, Diosdado, X.†, & Kirmani, S.† (in press). Picture versus word: Moderator effects on age-related differences in false memories depend on stimulus type. Psychology and Aging. [PDF]

4. Gatti, D., Chang, M., Talbot, J., & Mazzoni, G. (2026). Remembering sentences not presented in lists. Journal of Memory and Language, 150, 104779. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2026.104779 [PDF]

5. Brainerd, C. J., Chang, M., Liu, X., & Bialer, D. M. (2026). Perceiving semantic attributes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001606 [PDF]

6. Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., & Chang, M. (2025). Developmental change and invariance in verbatim and gist memory: Cross-sectional and longitudinal applications of the dual-retrieval model. Psychology and Aging. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000936 [PDF]

7. Chang, M., & Brainerd, C. J. (2025). Judgments of learning enhance elaborative rather than relational processing: Implications from phonologically related and phonological-semantic mediated pairs. Journal of Memory and Language, 144, 104667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2025.104667 [PDF]

8. Chang, M., Brainerd, C. J, Bialer, D. M., & Liu, X. (2025). How gist and association affect false memory: False recognition and gist rating norms. Behavior Research Methods, 57, 159. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02681-8 [PDF]

9. Brainerd, C. J, Chang, M., Bialer, D. M., & Liu, X. (2025). Memory framing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 51(12), 1941–1952. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001485 [PDF]

10. Chang, M., Johns, B. T., & Brainerd, C. J. (2025). True and false recognition in MINERVA2: Integrating fuzzy-trace theory and computational memory modeling. Psychological Review. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000541 [PDF]

11. Brainerd, C. J., Bialer, D. M., Liu, X., & Chang, M. (2025). Developmental invariance in deep distortion. Psychology & Aging, 40(2), 178–196. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000869 [PDF]

12. Chang, M., & Brainerd, C. J. (2024). Effects of emotional ambiguity and emotional intensity on true and false memory. Memory & Cognition, 52, 1494–1509. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01559-y [PDF]  

13. Chang, M., & Brainerd, C. J. (2024). Judgment of learning reactivity on item-specific and relational processing. Journal of Intelligence, 12(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence12010004 [PDF]   

14. Brainerd, C. J., Bialer, D. M., Chang, M., & Liu, X. (2024). Deep distortion in memory for everyday facts: Fact memory is illogical, too. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(4), 1017–1037. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001535 [PDF] 

15. 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 [PDF] 

16. Chang, M., & Johns, B. T. (2023). Integrating distributed semantic models with an instance memory model to explain false recognition. In M. Goldwater, F. Anggoro, B. Hayes, & D. Ong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2042-2049). Sydney: Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2s14p686 [PDF]

17. Chang, M., Jones, M. N., & Johns, B. T. (2023). Comparing word frequency, semantic diversity, and semantic distinctiveness in lexical organization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(6), 1814-1823. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001407 [PDF] 

18. 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 [PDF]  

19. Chang, M., & Brainerd, C. J. (2023). The font size effect depends on inter-item relation. Memory & Cognition, 51, 1702-1713. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-023-01419-1 [PDF] 

20. Brainerd, C. J., Liu, X., Bialer, D. M., & Chang, M. (2023). The big three: Accuracy, organization, and retrieval effects of latent semantic attributes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(6), 1768-1786 https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001365 [PDF]

21. Brainerd, C. J., Chang, M., Bialer, D. M., & Liu, X. (2023). How does attribute ambiguity improve memory? Memory & Cognition, 51, 38-70. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01343-w [PDF]

22. 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 [PDF] 

23. Chang, M., & Brainerd, C. J. (2022). Predicting conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s disease with multimodal factor scores. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 44(4), 316-335. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2022.2115015 [PDF] 

24. Brainerd, C. J., Bialer, D. M., & Chang, M. (2022). Memory effects of semantic attributes: A method of controlling attribute contamination. Behavior Research Methods, 55, 2910-2939. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01945-x [PDF]

25. 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 [PDF] 

26. Brainerd, C. J., Bialer, D. M., Chang, M., & Upadhyay, P. (2022). A fundamental asymmetry in human memory: Old ≠ not-new and new ≠ not-old. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 48(12), 1850-1867. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001101 [PDF]

27. Brainerd, C. J., Bialer, D. M., & Chang, M. (2022). Fuzzy-trace theory and false memory: Meta-analysis of conjoint recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 48(11), 1680-1697. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001040 [PDF]

28. 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 [PDF]

29. Brainerd, C. J., Chang, M., Bialer, D. M., & Toglia, M. P. (2021). Semantic ambiguity and memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 121, 104286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2021.104286 [PDF]

30. Chang, M., & Brainerd, C. J. (2021). Factor analyses of the ADNI neuropsychological battery: An examination of diagnostic and longitudinal invariance. Neuropsychology, 35(4), 434-450. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000736 [PDF]

31. Brainerd, C. J., Chang, M., & Bialer, D. M. (2021). Emotional ambiguity and memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(8), 1476-1499. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001011 [PDF]

32. Chang, M., Brainerd, C. J., Toglia, M. P., & Schmidt, S. R. (2021). Norms for emotion-false memory lists. Behavior Research Methods, 53(1), 96-112. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01410-7 [PDF]

33. Brainerd, C. J., Chang, M., & Bialer, D. M. (2020). From association to gist. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 46(11), 2106-2127. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000938 [PDF]

34. Brainerd, C. J., Bialer, D. M., & Chang, M. (2020). Norming retrieval processes. Journal of Memory and Language, 115, 104143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104143 [PDF]

35. Brainerd, C. J., Nakamura, K., Chang, M., & Bialer, D. M. (2019). Verbatim editing: A general model of recollection rejection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 45(10), 1776-1790. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000684 [PDF]

36. Brainerd, C. J., Nakamura, K., Chang, M., & Bialer, D. M. (2019). Super-overdistribution. Journal of Memory and Language, 108, 104027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.104027 [PDF]

37. Odegaard, B., Chang, M. Y., Lau, H., & Cheung, S. H. (2018). Inflation versus filling-in: Why we feel we see more than we actually do in peripheral vision. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373, 20170345. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0345 [PDF]