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Curriculum Vita 1 of 6Zachary L. BuchinContact Information20 Hayes Road Chapel Hill, NC 27517 Email: buchinzl@live.unc.edu Phone: (804) 651-2829EducationUniversity of North Carolina - Chapel HillChapel Hill, NC 275992015 - Present; PhD student, Cognitive Psychology2018; M.A., Cognitive PsychologyFormal Concentration, Quantitative PsychologyJames Madison UniversityHarrisonburg, VA 228072011 - 2015; B.S., Psychology3.918 GPA (Magna Cum Laude)Research InterestsHuman Memory Testing Effects Divided Attention Cognitive Learning StrategiesPublicationsSu, N., Buchin, Z. L., & Mulligan, N. W. (2020). Levels of retrieval and the testing effect. Journalof Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online igan, N. W., Buchin, Z. L., & West, J. T. (2020). Assessing why the testing effect ismoderated by experimental design. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory,and Cognition, 46(7), 1293-1308. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000787Picklesimer, M. E., Buchin, Z. L., & Mulligan, N. W. (2019). The effect of retrieval practice ontransitive inference. Experimental Psychology, 66(6), uchin, Z. L., & Mulligan, N. W. (2019). The testing effect under divided attention: Educationalapplication. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 25(4), 558-575.https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000230Buchin, Z. L. & Mulligan, N. W. (2019). Divided attention and the encoding effects of retrieval.Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(10), Mulligan, N. W., Smith, S. A., & Buchin, Z. L. (2019). The generation effect and experimentaldesign. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(8), 14221431. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000663Buchin, Z. L. (2018). The testing effect under divided attention: Educational application(Master’s thesis). ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. (No. 10827118).
Zachary L. BuchinCurriculum Vita 2 of 6Buchin, Z. L. (2018). Critical thinking skills across the semester in lecture- and team-basedlearning classes. James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal, 5(1), 3Buchin, Z. L., & Mulligan, N. W. (2017). The testing effect under divided attention. Journal ofExperimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(12), , J. A., Panitz, J., Buchin, Z. L., & Mulligan, N. W. (2017). The motoric fluency effect onmetamemory. Journal of Memory and Language, 95, impson, E. A., Buchin, Z. L., Werner, K, Worrell, R., & Jakobsen, K. V. (2014). Finding facesamong faces: Human faces are located more quickly and accurately than other primate andmammal faces. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 76(8), 4-xPresentationsBuchin, Z. L. (2020, November). Levels of retrieval and the testing effect. Poster presented atthe 2020 Virtual Psychonomic Society annual conference.Buchin, Z. L. (2020, February). Levels of retrieval and the testing effect: Understanding theencoding effects of retrieval. Departmental talk given at the University of North Carolina atChapel Hill.Buchin, Z. L. (2019, March). Cognitive learning theories and retrieval effects: The role of priorknowledge. Departmental talk given at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Buchin, Z. L. & Mulligan, N. W. (2019, March). The testing effect under divided attention:Educational application. Poster presented at the North Carolina Cognition Conference atNorth Carolina State University.Buchin, Z. L. & Mulligan, N. W. (2018, November). The testing effect under divided attention:Educational application. Poster presented at the 2018 Psychonomic Society annualconference in New Orleans, Louisiana.Buchin, Z. L. (2018, March). The testing effect under divided attention: Educational application.Departmental talk given at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Susser, J. A., Mulligan, N. W., & Buchin, Z. L. (2017, November). The motoric fluency effect inmetamemory. Talk given by Dr. Neil Mulligan at the 2017 Psychonomic Society annualconference in Vancouver, Canada.Buchin, Z. L. & Mulligan, N. W. (2017, November). The testing effect under divided attention:Free recall. Poster presented at the 2017 Psychonomic Society annual conference inVancouver, Canada.Buchin, Z. L. (2017, March). The testing effect under divided attention: Free recall.Departmental talk given at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Zachary L. BuchinCurriculum Vita 3 of 6Buchin, Z. L., Myers, S. L., & Mulligan, N. W. (2017, March). The testing effect under dividedattention: Free recall. Poster presented at the North Carolina Cognition Conference at theUniversity of North Carolina at Greensboro.Mulligan, N. W. & Buchin, Z. L. (2016, November). Attention and the testing effect. Talk given byDr. Neil Mulligan at the 2016 Psychonomic Society annual conference in Boston,Massachusetts.Buchin, Z. L. (2016, April). The testing effect under divided attention. Departmental talk given atthe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Buchin, Z. L., Robbins, H., & Levinson, C. (2014, October). Which pathway to happiness leads toa happy life? Poster presented at the Shenandoah Undergraduate Mathematics andStatistics Conference at James Madison University.Buchin, Z. L., Kaipa, R., & Thomas, R. (2014, July). The role of principle of motor learning in limband oral motor learning tasks. Poster presented at the NSF: REU summer conference atOklahoma State University.Buchin, Z. L., Fullerton, A., Werner, K, Yee, K., & Jakobsen, K. V. (2014, April). During visualsearch task irrelevant human faces capture attention. Poster presented at the VirginiaPsychological Association.Buchin, Z. L., Cover, S., Werner, K., & Jakobsen, K. V. (2014, April). Attention capture of humanbodies. Poster presented at the James Madison University Psychology Symposium.Buchin, Z. L., Werner, K., Worrell, R, Yee, K., & Jakobsen, K. V. (2014, April). Search asymmetryfor human faces. Poster presented at the James Madison University Psychology Symposium.Teaching ExperienceInstructor (Teaching Fellow); UNC-CH Course: Pedagogy Course for Undergraduate Learning AssistantsFall 2020 Course: Sensation and Perception (5 semesters)Fall 2018 - Spring 2020 Course: The Science of LearningSummer 2018 Course: Thriving at Carolina and BeyondSpring 2018Instructor (Duke Talent Identification Program); Duke University Course: Don’t Forget! The Science of Memory Course: The Brain, Intelligence, and CreativityGraduate Teaching Assistant; UNC-CH Course: Psychological Statistics (6 semesters) Course: Cognitive PsychologyUndergraduate Teaching Assistant; JMU Course: Cognitive Psychology Course: Research Methods Course: Psychological StatisticsFall 2016; Fall 2017Summer 2016Fall 2015 - Spring 2018Spring 2016Fall 2014Spring 2014Fall 2013
Zachary L. BuchinCurriculum Vita 4 of 6Honors & AwardsGraduate School Dissertation Fellowship; UNC-CHSummer 2020 Awarded a 5,000 Summer Research Fellowship to support dissertation researchUniversity Teaching Award; UNC-CHSpring 2020 Awarded the Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by a GraduateStudentGraduate School Student Research Assistance Grant; UNC-CHFall 2019 Awarded a 3,600 Graduate Student Opportunity Fund grant to cover researchrelated expensesDepartmental Undergraduate Teaching Commendation; UNC-CHSpring 2019 Awarded to faculty and graduate student teachers in Psychology and Neurosciencewhose course ratings are within the top 15% among all undergraduate instructorsDepartmental Graduate Student Travel Award; UNC-CH Awarded a 500 grant for research conference travelFall 2018Psychology & Neuroscience Teaching Workshop Service Award; UNC-CHSummer 2018 Organized and facilitated the department’s annual teaching workshopCenter for Faculty Excellence Large Course Redesign Grant; UNC-CHSummer 2017 Worked as a redesign consultant for a psychology research methods courseStatistics Minor Award; JMU Awarded to an outstanding graduating senior with a minor in statisticsSpring 2015Eileen Nelson Scholarship for Senior Excellence; JMU Awarded a 1,500 academic excellence scholarship awardSpring 2015Psychology Department Research Award; JMU Awarded a 500 research grant for research-related expensesPsychology Department Travel Award; JMU Awarded a 900 grant for research conference travelFall 2014Spring 2014President’s List; JMU GPA exceeding 3.9 (4 semesters)Spring 2013 - Spring 2015Dean’s List; JMU GPA exceeding 3.5 (4 semesters)Fall 2011 - Fall 2013Madison Achievement Scholarship; JMUFall 2011 - Spring 2015 Received a 11,000 scholarship award through the Honors ProgramHonors Program; JMUFall 2011 - Spring 2015 Advanced curriculum, additional classes, seminars and research opportunities
Zachary L. BuchinCurriculum Vita 5 of 6Professional ExperienceHonors Thesis Student Advisor; UNC-CHFall 2017 - Spring 2018 Zhang, A. (2018). Effect of attention on hypermnesia and the testing effect.https://doi.org/10.17615/b0qb-n615 Advised an undergraduate student (Angela Zhang) on her Honors Thesis; helpedwith experiment design, data analysis, and served on her defense committeePsychology Research Project Advisor; UNC-CHFall 2016 - Spring 2017 Research advisor for undergraduate students (Shannon Myers; Angela Zhang);helped with experiment design, data collection and analysis, and final papersCognitive Lecture Series Organizer; UNC-CHFall 2015 - Spring 2016 Organized and facilitated the Cognitive Psychology weekly talk seriesVolunteer Classroom Assistant; Plains Elementary SchoolFall 2014 Worked on test-taking skills with students and helped with classroom managementVirginia Child Protection Newsletter; JMUFall 2013 - Fall 2014 Student research editor under Dr. Joann Grayson; wrote research summariesTherapeutic Summer Camp/School Counselor; Wediko, NHSummer 2013 Worked with developmentally disabled children and held group therapy sessionsUndergraduate Research ExperienceHonors Thesis; JMUSpring 2014 - Spring 2015 Buchin, Z. L. (2015). Critical thinking skills across the semester in lecture and teambased learning classes. James Madison University Scholarly Commons. Awarded best undergraduate honors thesis in the Psychology departmentNational Science Foundation (NSF) Internship; Oklahoma State University Summer 2014 NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) internship Used a DELSYS Electromyography (EMG) to assess motor learning principles anddevelopment; helped develop experiments and presented results at a conferenceJames Madison Undergraduate Research Journal; JMU Established JMU’s first undergraduate research journal Worked as a developer, editor, and later as an advisorSpring 2013 - Spring 2014Cognitive-Developmental Undergraduate Research Assistant; JMU Spring 2013 - Fall 2014 Worked with Dr. Krisztina Jakobsen Used a Tobii eye tracker to measure attention capture in relation to age and speciesspecific stimuli; helped write IRB’s and research grant proposalsSocial Psychology Undergraduate Research Assistant; JMUFall 2014 Worked with Dr. Natalie Kerr Lawrence Assessed the hypocrisy paradigm in relation to student texting and driving
Zachary L. BuchinCurriculum Vita 6 of 6Professional MembershipsCenter for Integration of Research, Teaching, & Learning (CIRTL)Spring 2018 - PresentPsychonomic SocietyFall 2015 - PresentPsi-ChiFall 2014 - PresentProfessional SkillsSoftware: E-PRIME; JASP; Microsoft Office; M-plus; R; SPSS; StataCollaborative Institutional Training Initiative Ethics and Institutional Review Board Training
Psychology Department Travel Award; JMU Spring 2014 Awarded a 900 grant for research conference travel President’s List; JMU Spring 2013 - Spring 2015 GPA exceeding 3.9 (4 semesters) Dean’s List; JMU
