Welcome to the website of the Tasmanian Cognition Laboratory.
The primary aim of the TasCL is the experimental investigation and mathematical and computational modelling of cognitive processes that underpin decision making, language, attention, memory, and learning.
Publications with associated pdf files can be found in the publications area. In some cases there are also links to associated data and analysis software (see also the Data and Software area of the site). We gratefully acknowledge support from funding bodies, particularly the Australian Research Council (see the Funding area of the site).
The primary aim of the TasCL is the experimental investigation and mathematical and computational modelling of cognitive processes that underpin decision making, language, attention, memory, and learning.
Publications with associated pdf files can be found in the publications area. In some cases there are also links to associated data and analysis software (see also the Data and Software area of the site). We gratefully acknowledge support from funding bodies, particularly the Australian Research Council (see the Funding area of the site).
Recent Publications:
- Evans, N., Howard, Z.L., Heathcote, A., & Brown, S.D. (2017). Model Flexibility Analysis does not measure the persuasiveness of a fit. Psychological Review, 124, 339-345.
- Bushmakin , M.A., Eidels, A. & Heathcote, A. (2017). Breaking the rules in perceptual information integration. Cognitive Psychology, 95,1-16.
- Matzke, D., Love, J. & Heathcote, A. (2017). A Bayesian approach for estimating the probability of trigger failures in the stop-signal paradigm. Behavior Research Methods, 49, 267-281.
- Matzke, D., Hughes, M., Badcock, J.C., Michie, M. & Heathcote, A. (2017). Failures of cognitive control or attention? The case of stop-signal deficits in Schizophrenia. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 79, 1078-1086.
- Hawkins, G.E., Mittner, M., Forstmann, B.U., & Heathcote, A. (2017). On the efficiency of neurally-informed cognitive models to identify latent cognitive states. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 76, 142-155.
- Palada, H., Neal, A., Vuckovic, A., Martin, R., Samuels, K. & Heathcote, A. (2016). Evidence accumulation in a complex task: Making choices about concurrent multi-attribute stimuli under time pressure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 22, 1-23.
- Osth, A.F., Dennis, S. & Heathcote, A. (2016). Likelihood ratio sequential sampling models of recognition memory. Cognitive Psychology, 92, 101-126.
- Van Maanen, L., Forstmann, B. , Keuken, M. C., Wagenmakers, E-J. & Heathcote, A. (2016). The impact of MRI scanner environment on perceptual decision making. Behavior Research Methods, 48, 184-200.
- Mullens, D., Winkler, I., Damaso, K., Heathcote, A., Whitson, L., Provost, A. & Todd, J. (2016). Biased relevance filtering in the auditory system: Context effects on confidence-weighted first-impressions. Biological Psychology, 115, 101-111.
- Davis-Stober, C. Morey, R.D., Gretton, M. & Heathcote, A. (2016). Bayes factors for state-trace analysis. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 72, 116-129.(Supplementary Material)
- Humphries, M. A., Bruno, R., and Lai, F.Y., Thai, P. K., Holland, B. R., O'Brien, J. W., Ort, C. & Mueller, J. F. (2016). Evaluation of monitoring schemes for wastewater-based epidemiology to identify drug use trends using cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA and methadone. Environmental Science and Technology, 50 (9), 4760-4768.
- Lai, F. Y., O'Brien, J. W., Thai, P. K., Hall, W., Chan, G., Bruno, R., Ort, C., Prichard, J., Carter, S., Anuj, S., Kirkbride, K. P., Gartner, C., Humphries, M. A. & Mueller, J. F. (2016). Cocaine, MDMA and methamphetamine residues in wastewater: Consumption trends (2009-2015) in South East Queensland, Australia. Science of the Total Environment, 568, 803-809.[Click here to request a copy]
- Manning, E. M., Holland, B. R., Ellingsen, S. P., Breen, S. L., Chen, X. & Humphries, M. (2016). Comparison of three statistical classification techniques for maser identification. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 33 Article e015.
- Bantoft, C., Summers, M. J., Tranent, P. J., Palmer, M. A., Cooley, P. D., & Pedersen, S. J. (2016). Effect of standing or walking at a workstation on cognitive function: A randomized counterbalanced trial. Human Factors, 58, 140-149.
- Blake, G. A., Ferguson, S. F., Palmer, M. A., & Shiffman, S. (2016). Development and psychometric properties of the smoking restraint questionnaire. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 30, 238-245.
- Russell, B. A., Summers, M. J., Tranent, P. J., Palmer, M. A., Cooley, P. D., & Pedersen, S. J. (2016). A randomised control trial of the cognitive effects of working in a seated as opposed to a standing position in office workers. Ergonomics, 59, 737-744.
- Drummond, A., Palmer, M. A., & Sauer, J. D. (2016). Enhancing endorsement of scientific inquiry increases support for pro-environment policies. Royal Society Open Science, 3: 160360.
- Zuj, D. V., Palmer, M. A., Lommen, M. J. J., & Felmingham, K. L. (2016). The centrality of fear extinction in linking risk factors to PTSD: A narrative review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 69, 15-35.
- Zuj, D. V., Palmer, M. A., Hsu, C-M. K., Nicholson, E. L., Cushing, P. J., Gray, K., E., & Felmingham, K. L. (2016). Impaired fear extinction associated with PTSD increases with hours-since-waking. Depression and Anxiety, 33, 203-210.
- Hope, L., Blocksidge, D., Gabbert, F., Sauer, J.D., Lewinski, W., Atuk, E., & Mirashi, A. (2016). Memory and the Operational Witness: Police officer recall of firearms encounters as a function of active response role. Law & Human Behavior, 40, 23-35.
- Sauer, J.D. & Hope, L. (2016). The effects of divided attention at study and reporting procedure on regulation and monitoring for episodic recall. Acta Psychologica, 169, 143-156.
- Tang AD, Lowe AS, Garrett AR, Woodward R, Bennett W, Canty AJ, Garry MI, Hinder MR, Summers JJ, Gersner R, Rotenberg R, Thickbroom G, Walton J, Rodger J (2016). Construction and evaluation of rodent-specific rTMS coils. Frontiers in Neural Ciruits. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2016.00047.
- Stöckel T, Summers JJ, Carroll TJ, Hinder MR (2016). Motor learning and cross-limb transfer represent distinct neural adaptation processes. J Neurophysiol doi: 10.1152/jn.00225.2016.
- Narra, M., Heathcote, A., & Finkbeiner, M. (2016). Time course differences between bilinguals and monolinguals in the Simon task. In J. B. Schwieter (Ed.), Cognitive control and consequences of multilingualism (pp. 399–427). John Benjamins Publishing.
- Finkbeiner, M. & Heathcote, A. (2016). Distinguishing the time- and magnitude-difference accounts of the Simon Effect: Evidence from the reach-to-touch paradigm. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 78, 848-867.
- Williams, P., Heathcote, A., Nesbitt, K. & Eidels, A. (2016). Post-error recklessness and the hot hand. Judgement and Decision Making, 11, 174 -184.
- Averell, L., Prince, M. & Heathcote, A. (2016). Fundamental causes of systematic and random variability in recognition memory.
Journal of Memory and Language, 88, 51-69. The published version can be accessed via: http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1SN09,H2pbEOGh
- Holmes, W. R., Trueblood, J. S., & Heathcote, A. (2016). A new framework for modeling decisions about changing information: The Piecewise Linear Ballistic Accumulator model. Cognitive Psychology, 85, 1-29. [click here to request a copy] [Data]
- Hawkins, G.E., Mittner, M., Boekel, W., Heathcote A. & Forstmann, B. U. (2015) Toward a model-based cognitive neuroscience of mind wandering. Neuroscience, 310, 290-305.
In Press:
- Tillman, G. Strayer, D., Eidels, A., Heathcote, A. (accepted 2/May/2017). Modeling cognitive load effects of conversation between a passenger and driver. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics.
- Osth, A., Bora, B., Dennis, S. & Heathcote, A. (accepted 18/April/2017). Diffusion vs. linear ballistic accumulation: Different models, different conclusions about the slope of the zROC in recognition memory. Journal of Memory and Language.
- Tilman, G., Osth, A., Van Ravenzwaaij, D., and Heathcote, A. (accepted 16/2/2017). A diffusion decision model analysis of evidence variability in the lexical decision task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
- Strickland, L., Loft, S., Remington, R.W. & Heathcote, A. (accepted 27/1/2017). Accumulating evidence about what prospective memory costs actually reveal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition. (Supplementary Material)
- Palmer, M. A., Sauer, J. D., & Holt, G. A. (in press). Undermining position effects in choices from arrays, with implications for police lineups. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
- Lin, Y.-S., & Heathcote, A (in preparation). ggdmc: An R package for hierarchical Bayesian evidence accumulation models, using differential evolution Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampler. Retrieved from https://github.com/TasCL/ggdmc
- Houpt, J., Heathcote, A. & Eidels, A. (accepted 16/9/2016). Bayesian Analyses of Cognitive Architecture. Psychological Methods.
- Sense, F., Morey, C., Prince, M., Heathcote, A., & Morey, R. (in press, 2016). Opportunity for verbalization does not improve visual change detection performance: A state-trace analysis. Behavior Research Methods.
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