John Spencer

ohn  Spencer , Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1998

Office: 
E114 SSH (Phone: 319-335-2482)
Fax:  319-335-0191
Email:  john-spencer@uiowa.edu

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Research Interests

Development of working memory, attention, and action; visuo-spatial cognition; spatial language and early word learning; dynamical systems and neural network models of cognition and action.
 
 
Selected Publications
 
  • Spencer, J.P. & Perone, S. (2008). Defending qualitative change: The view from dynamical systems theory. Child Development, 79, 1639-1647.
  • Spencer, J.P., Blumberg, M.S., McMurray, B., Robinson, S.R., Samuelson, L.K., & Tomblin, J.B. (in press). Short arms and talking eggs: Why we should no longer abide the nativist-empiricist debate. Child Development Perspectives.
  • Johnson, J.S., Spencer, J.P., Luck, S.J., & Schöner, G. (in press). A dynamic neural field model of visual working memory and change detection. Psychological Science.
  • Schutte, A.R. & Spencer, J.P. (in press). Tests of the dynamic field theory and the spatial precision hypothesis: Capturing a qualitative developmental transition in spatial working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

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