Dr. Mitchell Metzger is a Full Professor of Psychology at Ashland University, where he was hired in 2003 and has served as the department chair since 2007. He earned a B.S. (1992) in Psychology from Bowling Green State University, and an M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1997) in Experimental Psychology from Kent State University. Prior to coming to Ashland University, Dr. Metzger worked for six years as an Assistant Professor at Penn State, Shenango in Sharon, Pennsylvania. Dr. Metzger’s graduate training was in biopsychology, where he researched animal models of memory function, specifically investigating processes involved in retrograde amnesia, the forgetting of stimulus attributes, and thermoregulatory tolerance. His current research primarily falls in the areas of memory modulation and investigating those factors involved in forgetting. To date, he has published more than 20 peer-reviewed works in such journals as Psychobiology, Physiology & Behavior, the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory, the Journal of General Psychology, and Perceptual & Motor Skills. As professional service, he serves as a manuscript reviewer for a number of journals and textbook publishers. Dr. Metzger teaches a wide variety of courses including General Psychology I and II, Introductory and Advanced Research Methods, Cognitive Psychology, Theories and Principles of Learning, Physiological Psychology, and Neuropsychology. In the summer of 2009, Dr. Metzger was appointed the 'AU in Germany' program director.
Face Recognition
Directed forgetting: Differential effects on typical and distinctive faces, Journal of General Psychology (2011)
Directed forgetting (DF) occurs when stimuli presented during the study phase are followed by 'forget'...
Directed forgetting for typical and distinctive faces: Its easier to ignore the "Average Joe" (with Timothy Batdorf), Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association (2008)
Face distinctiveness and delayed testing: Differential effects on performance and confidence, Journal of General Psychology (2006)
The author investigated the effect of delayed testing on participants' memory for distinctive and typical...
The World Wide Web and the laboratory: A comparison using face recognition (with Valerie L. Kristof and Yoest J. Donald), CyberPsychology & Behavior (2003)
Distinctiveness and delayed testing in face recognition, Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science (2002)
Memory Modulation
Acute soy isoflavone consumption does not impact visual-spatial or verbal memory among healthy young adults (with David F. Vanata), North American Journal of Psychology (2007)
Past research has shown that long-term dietary consumption of soy products, containing isoflavones, has beneficial...
Glucose enhancement of face recognition is unaffected by alterations of face features (with Robert W. Flint Jr.), Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (2003)
Glucose improves memory on a variety of tasks has been well established in both the...
Glucose enhancement of a facial recognition task in young adults, Physiology & Behavior (2000)
Examined the effect of glucose consumption on a nonverbal, facial recognition task in young adults....
Animal Models of Memory
The forgetting of stimulus attributes in latent inhibition (with David C. Riccio), Physiology & Behavior (2009)
Numerous studies have demonstrated that the forgetting of stimulus attributes is a common occurrence; that...