Research Foci - Department of Psychology

COGNITION AND PERCEPTION AREA: RESEARCH FOCI

CATEGORIZATION
(Oakes, Oden, Plumert, Samuelson, Spencer, Wasserman)

Oakes, L. M., & Madole, K. L., (2000). The future of infant categorization research: A process-oriented approach. Child Development, 71, 119-126

Smithson, M., & Oden, G. C. (1999). Fuzzy set theory and applications in psychology. In H.-J Zimmermann (Ed.), Practical Applications of Fuzzy Technologies (Handbooks of Fuzzy Sets Series), Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Plumert, J. M., & Hund, A. M. (2001). The development of memory for location: What role do spatial prototypes play? Child Development, 72, 370-384.

Samuelson, L.K., & Smith, L.B. (1999). Early noun vocabularies: Do ontology, category organization and syntax correspond? Cognition, 73(1), 1-33.

Young, M. E., & Wasserman, E. A. (2001). Entropy and variability discrimination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 27, 278-293.

Hollingworth, A., & Henderson, J. M. (1998). Does consistent scene context facilitate object perception? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 127, 398-415.

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING
(Gupta, Oden, Samuelson, Spencer, Vecera)

Gupta, P. & Cohen, N. J. (in press). Theoretical and computational analysis of skill learning, repetition priming, and procedural memory. Psychological Review.

Oden, G. C. (in press). Implausibility versus misinterpretation of the FLMP. Brain and Behavioral Sciences.

Samuelson, L. K. (2001). Statistical Regularities in Vocabulary Guide Language Acquisition in Connectionist Models and 15-20-Month-Olds. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Schutte, A.R. & Spencer, J.P. (in press). Generalizing the dynamic field theory of the A-not-B error beyond infancy: Three-year-olds' delay- and experience-dependent location memory biases. Child Development.

Vecera, S. P., & O'Reilly, R. C. (1998). Figure-ground organization and object recognition processes: An interactive account. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24, 441-462.

JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING
(Levin, Oden, Windschitl)

Levin, I. P., Huneke, M. E., & Jasper, J. D. (2000). Information processing at successive stages of decision making: Need for cognition and inclusion-exclusion effects. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 82, 171-193.

Levin, I. P., Prosansky, C. M., Heller, D., & Brunick, B. M. (in press). Prescreening of choice options in "positive" and "negative" decision making tasks. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.

Lopes, L. L., & Oden, G. C. (1999). The role of aspiration level in risky choice: A comparison of Cumulative Prospect Theory and SP/A theory. Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 43, 286-313.

Windschitl, P. D., & Weber, E. U. (1999). The interpretation of "likely" depends on the context, but "70%" is 70%--right?: The influence of associative processes on perceived certainty. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25, 1514-1533.

Windschitl, P. D., Martin, R., & Flugstad, A. R. (in press). Context and the interpretation of likelihood information: The role of intergroup comparisons on perceived vulnerability. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE LEARNING
(Gupta, Oakes, Oden, Samuelson)

Gupta, P. & Dell, G. S. (1999). The emergence of language from serial order and procedural memory. In B. MacWhinney (Ed.), The Emergence of Language, 28th Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition. Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum.

Ludden, D., & Gupta, P. (2000). Zen in the art of language acquisition: Statistical learning and the Less is More hypothesis. In L. R. Gleitman & A. K. Joshi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 812-817. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Madole, K. L., & Oakes, L. M. (forthcoming). Infants' attention to and use of functional properties in categorization. To appear in Carlson, L, & van der Zee, E. (Eds.) Functional and spatial features in language: Proceedings from the language and space workshop. New York: Oxford University Press.

Massaro, D. W., & Oden, G. C. (1995). Independence of lexical context and phonological information in speech perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 1053-1064.

Samuelson, L.K., & Smith, L.B. (1998). Memory and attention make smart word learning: An alternative account of Akhtar, Carpenter and Tomasello. Child Development, 1, 94-104.

LEARNING AND MEMORY
(Freeman, Gupta, Oden, Poremba, Wasserman)

Freeman, J.H., Jr. & Nicholson, D.A. (1999). Neuronal activity in the cerebellar interpositus and lateral pontine nuclei during inhibitory classical conditioning of the eyeblink response. Brain Research, 833, 225-233.

Gupta, P. & Cohen, N. J. (in press). Theoretical and computational analysis of skill learning, repetition priming, and procedural memory. Psychological Review.

Sun, R., Honavar, V., & Oden, G. C. (1999). Integration of cognitive systems across disciplinary boundaries (Editorial). Cognitive Systems Research, 1, 1-3.

Poremba A, Gabriel M (2001) Amygdalar Efferents Initiate Auditory Thalamic Discriminative Training-Induced neuronal Activity. The Journal of Neuroscience. 21 (1): 270-278.

Wasserman, E. A., & Berglan, L. R. (1998). Backward blocking and recovery from overshadowing in human causal judgment: The role of within-compound associations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 51B, 121-138.

VISUO-SPATIAL COGNITION AND ATTENTION
(Luck, Oakes, Plumert, Spencer, Vecera, Wasserman)

Woodman, G. F., & Luck, S. J. (1999). Electrophysiological measurement of rapid shifts of attention during visual search. Nature, 400, 867-869.

Oakes, L. M., & Kannass, K. N. (1999). That's the way the ball bounces: Infants' and adults' perception of spatial and temporal contiguity in collisions involving bouncing balls. Developmental Science, 2, 86-101.

Plumert, J. M., Spalding, T. L., & Nichols-Whitehead, P. (2001). Preferences for ascending and descending hierarchical organization in spatial communication. Memory & Cognition, 29, 274-284.

Spencer, J.P. & Hund, A.M. (in press). Prototypes and particulars: Spatial categories are formed using geometric and experience-dependent information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Vecera, S. P., Behrmann, M., & McGoldrick, J. (2000). Selective attention to the parts of an object. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 7, 301-308.

Kirkpatrick-Steger, K., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2000). The pigeon's discrimination of shape and location information. Visual Cognition, 7, 417-436.

Hollingworth, A. (in press). Failures of retrieval and comparison constrain change detection in natural scenes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

WORKING MEMORY
(Gupta, Luck, Spencer)

Gupta, P. & MacWhinney, B. (1997). Vocabulary acquisition and verbal short-term memory: Computational and neural bases. Brain and Language, 59, 267-333.

Vogel, E. K., Woodman, G. F., & Luck, S. J. (2001). Storage of features, conjunctions, and objects in visual working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 92-114.

Woodman, G. F., Vogel, E. K., & Luck, S. J. (2001). Visual search remains efficient when visual working memory is full. Psychological Science, 12, 219-224.

Spencer, J.P. & Schoner, G. (2000). A dynamic field model of location memory. In L. R. Gleitman & A. K. Joshi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Spencer, J.P., Smith, L.B., & Thelen, E. (in press). Tests of a dynamic systems account of the A-not-B error: The influence of prior experience on the spatial memory abilities of 2-year-olds. Child Development.

Hollingworth, A., & Henderson, J. M. (2002). Accurate visual memory for previously attended objects in natural scenes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 113-136.