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Dr. Chris Was will give a talk entitled "Mind-Wandering and Task Performance: Not a Simple Relationship" regarding his and others' work on the often deleterious yet sometimes beneficial process of thinking off task (aka mind-wandering). Dr. Was obtained his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Utah and is a Professor of Psychology at Kent State University. His research interests include the broad area of working memory models, and his research program has focused on testing different models and aspects of working memory to determine how processing limits in working memory affect complex cognitive processes such as comprehension. Research in this area provides evidence that working memory as an attention-driven storage capacity and the facilitation of procedural memory (strengthening of prior cognitive operations) are related yet independent. Dr. Was' studies in this area consist of both experimental studies, as well as individual difference studies. Another area of interest involves metacognition and student self-regulated learning. Research in this field includes in-class experiments designed to test interventions designed to increase students' knowledge monitoring abilities, as well as studies aimed at increasing the ability to measure students’ metacognition. We are excited that Dr. Was will attend the conference to give this year’s keynote address.

Students can submit their abstracts online using the online submission form link. Each presentation should be submitted only once by the first author. Additional authors will need to register for the conference using the attendee form link. Presenters (oral and poster) should prepare an APA-style abstract that is no more than 800 characters (approximately 150 words) on their word processor, proof and spell check, and then copy it into the submission form. First authors who complete the submission form are also automatically registered for the conference; all additional authors will need to complete the registration form to attend the conference. The submission deadline is 5 p.m. EDT, Friday, April 4.

Registration and Submission links and information are found on the 2025 conference website: .