Professor Andrew Heathcote
I graduated from the University of Tasmania with a B.Sc. in Physics and Psychology in 1983 and a 1st Class Honours in Psychology in 1984. After commencing a PhD at the University of Tasmania with Don McNicol I was awarded a Commonwealth Postgraduate Fellowship. This took me to Queen’s University in Canada to work with Doug Mewhort, where I graduated with a PhD in Psychology in 1990. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow with Roger Ratcliff at Northwestern University in Chicago in 1991 and in 1992 I returned to Australia to take up a position at the University of Newcastle.
Over the next decade I held a number of Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects grants and from 2002-2006 I was Deputy Head and then Head of the School of Psychology at Newcastle. Subsequently I returned to a teaching, administration and research role, became a full Professor, and founded the Newcastle Cognition Laboratory (NewCL.org), which has grown to become a leading centre for Mathematical Psychology and Cognitive Science in Australia. In 2011 I was awarded a five-year Professorial Fellowship by the ARC, enabling me to pursue this research full time. In 2012 I was elected to the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and to the Executive of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, where I served up to 2016, including as Vice-President 2014-2015. I became a Fellow of the Psychonomic Society in 2013.
In 2015 I took up a research chair at University of Tasmania (80%) and University of Newcastle (20%) and founded the Tasmanian Cognition Laboratory (TasCL.org). From 2018 I have been full time at Tasmania. My current research focuses on human memory and skill acquisition, and on the neural and cognitive processes that enable people to make rapid choices. I have graduated 12 PhD, 2 Prof. Doc. and 7 MA students. As of July, 2019, his Scopus (Google Scholar) H = 37 (42) with 4320 (7062) career citations. My Associate Editor roles include JEP: LMC (2009-2013), JMP since 2011 (renewed, 2015 and ongoing), PBR 2014-2016, since late 2016 Cognitive Psychology and since 2018 Computational Brain & Behavior.
Over the next decade I held a number of Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects grants and from 2002-2006 I was Deputy Head and then Head of the School of Psychology at Newcastle. Subsequently I returned to a teaching, administration and research role, became a full Professor, and founded the Newcastle Cognition Laboratory (NewCL.org), which has grown to become a leading centre for Mathematical Psychology and Cognitive Science in Australia. In 2011 I was awarded a five-year Professorial Fellowship by the ARC, enabling me to pursue this research full time. In 2012 I was elected to the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and to the Executive of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, where I served up to 2016, including as Vice-President 2014-2015. I became a Fellow of the Psychonomic Society in 2013.
In 2015 I took up a research chair at University of Tasmania (80%) and University of Newcastle (20%) and founded the Tasmanian Cognition Laboratory (TasCL.org). From 2018 I have been full time at Tasmania. My current research focuses on human memory and skill acquisition, and on the neural and cognitive processes that enable people to make rapid choices. I have graduated 12 PhD, 2 Prof. Doc. and 7 MA students. As of July, 2019, his Scopus (Google Scholar) H = 37 (42) with 4320 (7062) career citations. My Associate Editor roles include JEP: LMC (2009-2013), JMP since 2011 (renewed, 2015 and ongoing), PBR 2014-2016, since late 2016 Cognitive Psychology and since 2018 Computational Brain & Behavior.
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Position
Professor of Cognitive Psychology Faculty / Division School of Medicine Division of Psychology Telephone +61 3 6226 1763 Facsimile +61 3 6226 2883 andrew.heathcote@utas.edu.au Location University of Tasmania School of Medicine Division of Psychology Private Bag 30 Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7005 |
Qualifications
- BSc, University of Tasmania - PhD, Queens University Learned Pop-out in Search for Relative Position Teaching Interests - Introduction in Cognition - Advanced Statistics - Topics in Cognition Fields of Research - Decision Making - Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance - Psychological Methodology, Design and Analysis - Biological Psychology - Linguistic Processes Research Impact - Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences |
Journal Publications
In Press
Reynolds, A., Kvam, P., Osth, A. & Heathcote, A. (accepted 18/2/2020). Correlated racing evidence accumulator models. Journal of Mathematical Psychology.
Matzke, D., Logan, G. D. & Heathcote, A. (accepted 13/2/2020). A cautionary note on evidence-accumulation models of response inhibition in the stop-signal paradigm. Computational Brain & Behavior.
Damaso, K., Williams, P. & Heathcote, A. (accepted 16/9/2019). Different types of errors and post-error changes. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. (Supplementary Material)
Heathcote, A. (accepted 27/8/2019). What do the rules for the wrong game tell us about how to play the right game? Computational Brain & Behavior.
van Ravenzwaaij, D., Brown, S.D., Marley, A.J., & Heathcote, A. (accepted 29/7/2019). Accumulating Advantages: A New Conceptualization of Rapid Multiple Choice. Psychological Review. doi: 10.1037/rev0000166
Gronau, Q. F., Heathcote, A., & Matzke, D. (accepted 3/8/2019). Computing Bayes Factors for evidence-accumulation models using Warp-III Bridge Sampling. Behavior Research Methods. https://psyarxiv.com/9g4et
Starns, J. J., Cataldo, A.M., Rotello, C. M., Annis, J., Aschenbrenner, A., Bröder, A., Cox, G., Criss, A., Curl, R. A., Dobbins, I. G., Dunn, J., Enam, T., Evans, N. J., Farrell, S., Fraundorf, S. H., Gronlund, S. D., Heathcote, A., Heck, A. D. W., Hicks, J. L., Huff, M. J., Kellen, D., Key, K. N., Kilic, A., Klauer, K. C., Kraemer, K. R., Leite, F. P., Lloyd, M. E., Malejka, S., Mason, A., McAdoo, R. M., McDonough, I. M., Michael, R. B., Mickes, L., Mizrak, E., Morgan, D. P., Mueller, S. T., Osth, A., Reynolds, A., Seale-Carlisle, T. M., Singmann, H., Sloane, J. F., Smith, A. M., Tillman, G., van Ravenzwaaij, D., Weidemann, C. T., Wells, G. L., White, C. N., Wilson, J. (accepted 14/6/2019). Assessing theoretical conclusions with blinded inference to investigate a potential inference crisis. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. (Supplementary Material)
Osth, A., Racliff, R., Dunn, J., & Heathcote, A. (accepted 22/5/2019). Two processes are not necessary to understand memory deficits. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Palada, H., Neal, A., Strayer, D., Ballard, T., & Heathcote, A. (accepted 3/5/2019). Competing for cognitive resources: Measuring workload in a time pressured dual-task environment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. https://psyarxiv.com/bckat/ OSF: https://osf.io/rsn9j/
Strickland, L., Elliott, D., Wilson, M.D., Loft, S., Neal, A., & Heathcote, A. (accepted 20/2/2019). Prospective memory in the red zone: Cognitive control and capacity sharing in a complex, multi-stimulus task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. (Supplementary Material)
Boag, R., Strickland, L., Heathcote, A., Neal, A., & Loft., S. (2019). Cognitive Control and Capacity for Prospective Memory in Simulated Air Traffic Control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148, 2181-2206.
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
In Print
2020
van Berkel, N., Dennis, S., Zyphur, M., Li, J., Heathcote, A. & Kostakos, V. (2020). Modeling interaction as a complex system. Human-Computer Interaction, https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2020.1715221
2019
Lin, Y-S., Heathcote, A. & Holmes, W.R. (2019). Parallel probability density approximation. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 2777–2799. doi: 10.3758/s13428-018-1153-1
Garton, R., Reynolds, A., Hinder, M. R., & Heathcote, A. (2019). Equally flexible and optimal response bias in older compared to younger adults. Psychology and Aging, 34, 821-835. (Supplementary Material) http://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000339
Weigard, A., Heathcote, A., & Sripada, C. S. (2019). Modeling the effects of Methylphenidate on conflict, top-down control, and evidence accumulation using the Conflict Linear Ballistic Accumulator. Psychopharmacology. SharedIt Link
Boag, R., Strickland, L., Loft, S., & Heathcote, A. (2019). Strategic attention and decision control support prospective memory in a complex dual-task environment. Cognition, 191,103974. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.05.011
Weigard, A., Heathcote, A., Matzke, D., Huang-Pollock, C. (2019). Cognitive Modeling Suggests That Attentional Failures Drive Longer Stop-Signal Reaction Time Estimates in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Clinical Psychological Science, 7(4), 856-872. osf.io/7gmdv/
Lin, Y-S., Heathcote, A., & Holmes, W.R. (2019). Parallel probability density approximation. Behavior Research Methods. Springer Share Link.
Verbruggen, F., Aron, A. R., Band, G. P. H., Beste, C., Bissett, P. G., Brockett, A. T., Brown, J. W., Chamberlain, S. R., Chambers, C. D., Colonius, H., Colzato, L. S., Corneil, B. D., Coxon, J. P., Eagle, D. M., Dupuis, A., Garavan, H., Greenhouse, I., Heathcote, A., Huster, R. J., Jahfari, S., Kenemans, J. L., Leunissen, I., Logan, G. D., Matzke, D., Morein-Zamir, S., Murthy, A., Li, C. S. R., Paré, M., Poldrack, R. A., Ridderinkhof, K. R., Robbins, T. W., Roesch, M. R., Rubia, K., Schachar, R. J., Schall, J. D., Stock, A-K., Swann, N. C., Thakkar, K. N., van der Molen, M. W., Vermeylen, L., Vink, M., Wessel, J. R., Whelan, R., Zandbelt, B. B., Boehler, C. N. (2019). A consensus guide to capturing the ability to inhibit actions and impulsive behaviors in the stop-signal task. eLife 2019;8:e46323, doi: 10.7554/eLife.46323, https://elifesciences.org/articles/46323
Bird, L., Cockerell, R., Gretton, M., Heathcote, A. (2019). The Cognitive Load of Narrative Lies. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 33, 936-942. doi: 10.1002/acp.3567
Dunn, J.C., Heathcote, A., Kalish, M. (2019). Special issue on state-trace analysis. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 90, 1-3.
Hawkins, G.E., Mittner, M., Forstmann, B.U., & Heathcote, A. (2019). Modeling distracted performance. Cognitive Psychology, 112, 48-80. https://psyarxiv.com/j86sd, doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2019.05.002
Castro, S., Strayer, D., Matzke, D., & Heathcote, A. (2019). Cognitive workload measurement and modelling under divided attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000638
Matzke, D., Curley, S., Gong, C.Q., & Heathcote, A. (2019). Inhibiting responses to difficult choices. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148, 124-142.
Skippen, P., Matzke, D., Heathcote, A., Fulham, W., Michie, P., & Karayanidis, F. (2019). Reliability of triggering inhibitory process is a better predictor of impulsivity than SSRT. Acta Psychologica, 192, 104-117, https://psyarxiv.com/vg5rd/
Heathcote, A., Holloway, E., & Sauer, J.D. (2019). Confidence and varieties of bias. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 90, 31-46. doi: 10.1016/j.jmp.2018.10.002
2018
Palada, H., Neal, A., Tay, R., & Heathcote, A. (2018). Understanding the causes of adapting, and failing to adapt, to time pressure in a complex multi-stimulus environment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 24, 380-399.
Weigard, A., Huang-Pollock, C., Heathcote, A., Hawk Jr., L & Schlienz, N.J. (2018). A cognitive model-based approach to testing mechanistic explanations for neuropsychological decrements during tobacco abstinence. Psychopharmacology, 235, 3115-3124. (Supplementary Material)
Heathcote, A., Lin, Y-S, Reynolds, A., Strickland, L., Gretton, M., & Matzke, D. (2018, online). Dynamic models of choice. Behavior Research Methods. doi: 10.3758/s13428-018-1067-y
https://doi-org.ezproxy.newcastle.edu.au/ 10.3758/s13428-018-1067-y
Boehm, U., Annis, J., Frank, M. J., Hawkins, G.E., Heathcote, A., Kellen, D., Krypotos, A-M., Lerche, V., Logan, G.D., Palmeri, T.J., van Ravenzwaaiji, D., Servant, M., Singmann, H., Starns, J.J., Voss, A., Wiecki, T.J., Matzke, D., & Wagenmakers, E-J. (2018). Estimating Across-Trial Variability Parameters of the Diffusion Decision Model: Expert Advice and Recommendations. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 87, 46–75. http://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/km28u https://osf.io/fjy8z/
Strickland, L., Loft, S., Remington, R.W., & Heathcote, A. (2018). Racing to remember: A theory of decision control in event-based prospective memory. Psychological Review, 125, 851-887. doi: 10.1037/rev0000113 (Supplementary Material)
Evans, N. J., Brown, S. D., Mewhort, D. J. K., & Heathcote, A. (2018). Refining the Law of Practice. Psychological Review, 125, 592-605. Link to data sets https://osf.io/7yx6b/
Osth, A., Fox, J., McKague, M., Heathcote, A., & Dennis, S. (2018). The list strength effect in source memory: Data and a global matching model. Journal of Memory and Language, 103, 91-113.
Osth, A., Jansson, A., Dennis, S., & Heathcote. A. (2018). Modeling the dynamics of recognition memory testing with a combined model of retrieval and decision making. Cognitive Psychology, 104, 106-142.
Weigard, A., Huang-Pollock, C., Brown, S., & Heathcote, A. (2018). Testing formal predictions of neuroscientific theories of ADHD with a cognitive model–based approach. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 127(5), 529-539. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/abn0000357 (Supplementary Material)
Quinn, R.K., James, M.H., Hawkins, G.E., Brown, A.L., Heathcote, A., Smith, D.W., Cairns, M.J., Dayas, C.V. (2018). Temporally specific miRNA expression patterns in the dorsal and ventral striatum of addiction-prone rats. Addiction Biology, 23, 631-642.
Dutilh, G., Annis, J., Brown, S.D., Cassey, P., Evans, N.J., Grasman, R.P.P.P., Hawkins, G.E., Heathcote, A., Holmes, W.R., Krypotos, A., Kupitz, C.N., Leite, F.P., Lerche, V., Lin, Y., Logan, G.D., Palmeri, T.J., Starns, J.J., Trueblood, J.S., van Maanen, L., van Ravenzwaaij, D., Vandekerckhove, J., Visser, I., Voss, A., White, C.N., Wiecki, T.V., Rieskamp, J., Donkin, C. (2018). The quality of response time data inference: A blinded, collaborative assessment of the validity of cognitive models. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
2017
Grootswagers, T., Ritchie, J. B., Wardle, S. G., Heathcote, A., & Carlson, T. A. (2017). Asymmetric compression of representational space for object animacy categorization under degraded viewing conditions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(12), 1995-2010.
Osth, A., Bora, B., Dennis, S. & Heathcote, A. (2017). Diffusion vs. linear ballistic accumulation: Different models, different conclusions about the slope of the zROC in recognition memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 96, 36-61.
Strickland, L., Heathcote, A., Remington, R. W., & Loft, S. (2017). Accumulating evidence about what prospective memory costs actually reveal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 43(10), 1616-1629. (Supplementary Material)
Tillman, G., Strayer, D., Eidels, A., Heathcote, A. (2017). Modeling cognitive load effects of conversation between a passenger and driver. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 79, 1795-1803.
Tillman, G., Osth, A., Van Ravenzwaaij, D., and Heathcote, A. (2017). A diffusion decision model analysis of evidence variability in the lexical decision task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(6), 1949-1956.
Houpt, J., Heathcote, A. & Eidels, A. (2017). Bayesian Analyses of Cognitive Architecture. Psychological Methods, 22, 288-303.
Sense, F., Morey, C., Prince, M., Heathcote, A., & Morey, R. (2017). Opportunity for verbalization does not improve visual change detection performance: A state-trace analysis. Behavior Research Methods, 49, 853-862.
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.
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.
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.
Bushmakin , M.A., Eidels, A. & Heathcote, A. (2017). Breaking the rules in perceptual information integration. Cognitive Psychology, 95, 1-16.
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.
Provost, A., Jamadar, S., Heathcote, A., Brown, S.D., Karayanidis, F. (2017). Intertrial RT variability affects level of target-related interference in cued task switching. Psychophysiology, 00:1–15.
2016
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)
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]
2015
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.
Heathcote, A., Suraev, A., Curley, S., Love, J., & Michie, P. T. (2015). Decision processes and the slowing of simple choices in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 124, 961-974 (Supplementary Material)
Terry, A., Marley, A.A.J., Barnwal, A., Wagenmakers, E.-J., Heathcote, A. & Brown, S.D. (2015). Generalising the drift rate distribution for linear ballistic accumulators. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 68-69, 49-58
Trueblood, J.S., Brown, S.D. & Heathcote, A. (2015). The fragile nature of contextual preference reversals: Reply to Tsetsos, Chater, and Usher (2015). Psychological Review, 122, 848-853.
Provost, A. & Heathcote, A. (2015). Titrating Decision Processes in the Mental Rotation Task. Psychological Review, 122, 735-754
Heathcote, A., James R. Coleman, J.R., Eidels, A.,Watson, J.M., Houpt, J. & Strayer, D.L. (2015). Working memory’s workload capacity. Memory & Cognition, 43, 973-989. (How good is your multi-tasking? Try the new GATEKEEPER challenge!)
Conley, A. C., Marquez, J., Parsons, M. W., Fulham, W. R., Heathcote, A., & Karayanidis, F. (2015). Anodal tDCS over the Motor Cortex on Prepared and Unprepared Responses in Young Adults. PLoS ONE, 10(5), e0124509.
Heathcote, A., Loft, S. & Remington, R. W. (2015). Slow down and remember to remember! A delay theory of prospective memory costs. Psychological Review, 122, 367-410.
2014
Mittner, M., Boekel, W., Tucker, A., Turner, b., Heathcote, A. & Forstmann, B. U. (2014). When the brain takes a break: A model-based analysis of mind wandering. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(49),16286-16295.
Todd, J., Heathcote, A., Whitson, L. R., Mullens, D., Provost, A. & Winkler, I. (2014). Mismatch negativity (MMN) to pitch change is susceptible to order dependent bias. Frontiers in Neuroscience: Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, 8, 180.
Cassey, P., Heathcote, A., & Brown, S. D. (2014). Brain and Behavior in Decision-Making. PLoS Computational Biology, 10(7): e1003700.
Whitson, L.R., Karayanidis, F., Fulham, R., Provost, A., Michie, P., Heathcote, A. & Hsieh, S. (2014). Reactive control processes contributing to residual switch cost and mixing cost in young and old adult. Frontiers in Psychology.
Hawkins, G. E., Marley, A. A. J., Heathcote, A., Flynn, T. N., Louviere, J. J., & Brown, S. D. (2014). The best of times and the worst of times are interchangeable. Decision, 1, 192-214.
Poboka, D., Karayanidis, F. & Heathcote, A. (2014). Extending the Failure-to-Engage Theory of task switch costs. Cognitive Psychology, 72, 108-141.
Hawkins, G. E., Marley, A. A. J., Heathcote, A., Flynn, T. N., Louviere, J. J., & Brown, S. D. (2014). Integrating cognitive process and descriptive models of attitudes and preferences. Cognitive Science, 38, 701-735.
Mullens, D., Woodley, J., Whitson, L., Provost, A., Heathcote, A., Winkler, I., & Todd, J. (2014). Altering the primacy bias—How does a prior task affect mismatch negativity? Psychophysiology, 51(5), 437–445.
Trueblood, J.S., Brown, S.D. & Heathcote, A. (2014). The Multi-attribute linear ballistic accumulator model of context effects in multi-alternative choice. Psychological Review, 121, 179-205.
Rae, B., Heathcote, A., Donkin, C., Averell, L. & Brown, S. (2014). The Hare and the Tortoise: Emphasizing speed can change the evidence used to make decisions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 40, 1226-1243.
Rouder, J.N., Morey, R.N., Gomez, P.I. & Heathcote, A. (2014). The Lognormal Race: A cognitive-process model of choice and latency with desirable psychometric properties. Psychometrika, 1-23.
Heathcote, A., Wagenmakers, E. J., & Brown, S. D. (2014). The falsifiability of actual decision-making models. Psychological Reivew, 121, 676–678.
2013
Todd, J., Heathcote, A., Mullens, D., Whitson, L., Provost, A. & Winkler, I. (2013). What controls gain in gain control? Mismatch negativity (MMN), priors and system biases. Brain Topography, 1-13.
Provost, A., Johnson, B., Karayanidis, F., Brown, S. D., & Heathcote, A. (2013). Two routes to expertise in mental rotation. Cognitive Science, 37, 1321-1342.
Trueblood, J.S., Brown, S.D., Heathcote, A. & Busemeyer, J.R. (2013). Not just for consumers: Context effects are fundamental to decision-making. Psychological Science, 24, 901-908.
Todd, J., Provost, A., Whitson, L., Cooper, G. & Heathcote, A. (2013). Not so primitive: Context sensitive meta-learning about unattended sound sequences. Journal of Neurophysiology, 109, 99-105.
2012
Prince, M., Hawkins, G., Love, J. & Heathcote, A. (2012). An R package for State-Trace Analysis. Behavior Research Methods, 44, 644-655.
Heathcote, A. & Love, J. (2012). Linear deterministic accumulator models of simple choice. Frontiers in Cognitive Science, 3, 292.
Heathcote, A. & Hayes, B. (2012). Diffusion versus Linear Ballistic Accumulation: Different models for response time with different conclusions about psychological mechanisms? Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66,125-136.
Prince, M., Brown, S.D. & Heathcote, A. (2012) The design and analysis of state-trace experiments. Psychological Methods, 17(1), 78-99.
2011
Dodds, P., Donkin, C., Brown, S. D. & Heathcote, A. (2011). Increasing capacity: Practice effects in absolute identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 477-492.
Mansfield, E.L., Karayanidis, F.Jamadar, S., Heathcote, A. & Forstmann, B. U. (2011). Adjustments of response threshold during task switching: A model-based fMRI study. Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 14688-14692.
Dodds, P., Donkin, C., Brown, S. D., Heathcote, A. & Marley, T. (2011). Stimulus-specific learning: Disrupting the bow effect in absolute identification. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 73, 1977-1986.
Karayanidis, F.Whitson, L.R., Heathcote, A. & Michie, P. (2011). Variability in proactive and reactive cognitive control processes across the adult lifespan. Frontiers in Cognition, 2: 318.
Donkin, C., Brown, S.D. & Heathcote, A. (2011). Drawing conclusions from choice response time models: a tutorial using the Linear Ballistic Accumulator. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 55, 140-151.
Karayanidis, F., Provost, A., Brown, S., Paton, B. & Heathcote, A. (2011). Switch-specific and general preparation map onto different ERP components in a task-switching paradigm. Psychophysiology. 48, 559-568.
Averell, L., & Heathcote, A. (2011). The form of the forgetting curve and the fate of memories. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 55, 23-35.
Donkin, C., Brown, S., Heathcote, A., & Wagenmakers, E.J. (2011). Diffusion versus Linear Ballistic Accumulation: Different Models for Response Time, Same Conclusions about Psychological Mechanisms? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 61-69.
2010
Eidels, A., Donkin, C., Brown, S.D. & Heathcote, A. (2010). Converging measures of workload capacity. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 763-771.
Heathcote, A., Brown, S.D., Wagenmakers, E-J. & Eidels, A. (2010). Distribution-free tests of stochastic dominance for small samples. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 54, 454-463 [source code].
Karayanidis, F., Jamadar, S., Ruge, H., Phillips, N., Heathcote, A. & Forstmann, B.U. (2010). Advance preparation in task-switching: converging evidence from behavioural, brain activation and model-based approaches. Frontiers in Psychology, 1, 25.
Smith, J.L., Smith, E.A., Provost, A.L. & Heathcote, A. (2010). Sequence effects support the conflict theory of N2 and P3 in the Go/NoGo task. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 75, 217-226.
Heathcote, A., Bora, B. & Freeman, E. (2010). Recollection and confidence in two-alternative forced choice episodic recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 62, 183-203.
Freeman, E., Heathcote, A., Chalmers, K. & Hockley, W. (2010). Item effects in recognition memory for words. Journal of Memory and Language, 62, 1-18.
2009
Heathcote, A., Freeman, E., Etherington, J., Tonkin, J. & Bora, B. (2009). A dissociation between similarity effects in episodic face recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 824-831.
Brown, S.D., Marley, A.A.J., Dodds, P., & Heathcote, A. (2009). Purely relative models cannot provide a general account of absolute identification. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 583-593.
Donkin, C., Brown, S.D. & Heathcote, A. (2009). The over-constraint of response time models: Rethinking the scaling problem. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 1129-1135.
Donkin, C., Averell, L., Brown, S.D. & Heathcote, A. (2009). Getting more from accuracy and response time data: Methods for fitting the Linear Ballistic Accumulator. Behavior Research Methods, 41, 1095-1110.
Donkin, C., Brown, S.D., Heathcote, A. & Marley, A.A.J. (2009). Dissociating speed and accuracy in absolute identification: The effect of unequal stimulus spacing. Psychological Research, 73, 308-316.
Donkin, C., Brown, S.D., Heathcote, A. (2009). ChoiceKey: A real-time speech recognition program for psychology experiments with a small response set. Behavior Research Methods, 41, 154-162.
Karayanidis, F., Mansfield, E.L., Galloway, K.L., Smith, J.L., Provost, A. & Heathcote, A. (2009). Anticipatory reconfiguration elicited by fully and partially informative cues that validly predict a switch in task. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 202-215.
2008
Bucci, S., Startup, M., Wynn, P., Heathcote, A., Baker, A. & Lewin, T. J. (2008). Referential delusions of communication and reality discrimination deficits in psychosis. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 47, 323-334.
Brown, S. D. & Heathcote, A. (2008). The simplest complete model of choice response time: Linear Ballistic Accumulation. Cognitive Psychology, 57, 153-178.
Brown, S.D., Marley, A.A.J., Donkin, C. & Heathcote, A. (2008). An integrated, principled account of absolute identification. Psychological Review, 115, 396-425.
2007
Sutton, K., Heathcote, A. & Bore, M. (2007). Measuring 3D understanding on the web and in the laboratory. Behavior Research Methods, 39, 926-939.
2006
Heathcote, A., Raymond, F. & Dunn, J. (2006). Recollection and familiarity in recognition memory: Evidence from ROC curves. Journal of Memory and Language, 55, 495-514.
Heathcote, A., Ditton, E. & Mitchell, K. (2006). Word-frequency and word-likeness mirror effects in episodic recognition memory. Memory & Cognition, 34, 826-838.
2005
Brown, S.D. & Heathcote, A. (2005). Practice increases the efficiency of evidence accumulation in perceptual choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 289-298.
Nicholson, R., Karayanidis, F., Poboka, D., Heathcote, A. & Michie, P. T. (2005). Electrophysiological components associated with anticipatory task-switching processes. Psychophysiology, 42, 540-554.
Brown, S.D. & Heathcote, A. (2005). A ballistic model of choice response time. Psychological Review, 112, 117-128.
Heathcote, A. & Elliott, D. (2005). Nonlinear dynamical analysis of noisy time series. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology and Life Sciences, 9, 399-433.
2004
Heathcote, A., & Brown, S.D. (2004). Reply to Speckman and Rouder: A theoretical basis for QML. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 11, 577.
Heathcote, A., & Brown, S.D. (2004). Beyond curve fitting? Comment on Liu, Mayer-Kress and Newell (2003). Journal of Motor Behavior, 36, 225-232.
Cousineau, D., Brown, S.D. & Heathcote, A. (2004). Fitting distributions using maximum likelihood: Methods and packages. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 36, 742-756.
Heathcote, A. (2004). Fitting the Wald and Ex-Wald Distributions to Response Time Data. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 36, 678-694.
Heathcote, A., Brown, S.D. & Cousineau, D. (2004). QMPE: Estimating Lognormal, Wald and Weibull RT distributions with a parameter dependent lower bound. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 36, 277-290.
2003
Heathcote, A. (2003). Item recognition memory and the ROC. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 29, 1210-1230.
Brown, S.D. & Heathcote, A. (2003). Bias in exponential and power function fits due to noise: Comment on Myung, Kim and Pitt. Memory & Cognition, 31, 656‑661.
Brown, S.D. & Heathcote, A. (2003). QMLE: Fast, robust and efficient estimation of distribution functions based on quantiles. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 35, 485-492. Click here to download a zip of the source code.
Brown, S.D. & Heathcote, A. (2003). Averaging learning curves across and within participants. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 35, 11-21.
2002
Brown, S.D., & Heathcote, A. (2002). On the use of Nonparametric Regression in Assessing Parametric Regression Model. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 46, 716-730.
Heathcote, A. (2002). An Introduction to the Art; Nonlinear Dynamics: Techniques and Applications in Psychology by R. A. Heath. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 46, 609‑628.
Heathcote, A., Brown, S.D. & Mewhort, D.J.K. (2002). Quantile Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Response Time Distributions. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 394‑401.
Heathcote, A. & Brown, S.D. (2002). SEEXC: A model of response time in skill acquisition. Noetica, Australasian Cognitive Science Conference 2002 Papers, ISSN 1324-6038
2001
Andrews, S., & Heathcote, A. (2001). Distinguishing common and task-specific processes in word identification: A matter of some moment? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 27, 514-544.
Kelly, A., Heathcote, A., Heath, R. A. & Longstaff, M. (2001). Response time dynamics: Evidence for linear and low-dimensional nonlinear structure in human choice sequences. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54, 805‑840.
Sheu, C-F., & Heathcote, A. (2001). A nonlinear regression approach to estimating signal detection models for rating data. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 33, 108- 114.
2000
Heathcote, A., & Brown, S.D. (2000). The law of practice and localist neural network models. In Page, M., Connectionist modelling in psychology: A localist Manifesto. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 23, 479-480.
Treloar, C., McCall, N., Rolfe, I., Pearson, S., Garvey, G., & Heathcote, A. (2000). Factors affecting progress of mainstream Australian and international students in a problem‑based learning medical course. Medical Education, 34, 708-715.
Heathcote, A., Brown, S.D. & Mewhort, D.J.K. (2000). The power law repealed: The case for an exponential law of practice. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 7, 185-207.
1998
Hill, J., Rolfe, I., Pearson, S., & Heathcote, A. (1998). Do junior doctors feel they are prepared for hospital practice? Medical Education, 32, 19-24.
Heathcote, A. (1998). Neuromorphic models of response time. Australian Journal of Psychology, 50, 157-164.
1997
Carr, S. C., MacLachlan, M., Heathcote, A. & Heath, R.A. (1997). The Approaches to Study Inventory in Malawi: A lesson for educational testing? Psychological Teaching Review, 6, 157-169.
1996
Heathcote, A. (1996). RTSYS: A computer program for analysing response time data. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 28, 427-445.
1993
Heathcote, A., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (1993). Representation and selection of relative position. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 19, 488-515.
1992
Mewhort, D. J. K., Braun, J. G., & Heathcote, A. (1992). Response-time distributions and the Stroop task: A test of Cohen, Dunbar, and McClelland's (1990) parallel distributed processing model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 18, 872-882.
1991
Heathcote, A., Popiel, S. J., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (1991). Analysis of response-time distributions: An example using the Stroop task. Psychological Bulletin, 109, 340-347.
1990
Heathcote, A., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (1990). Is unbounded visual search intractable? In J. K. Tsotsos, Analysing vision at the complexity level. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 13, 449.
1988
Heathcote, A. (1988). Screen control and timing routines for the IBM microcomputer family using a high-level language. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 20, 289-297.
1986
McNicol, D. & Heathcote, A. (1986). Representation of order information: An analysis of grouping effects in short-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 115, 76-95.
Conference Publications
2014
Heathcote, A., Eidels, A., Houpt, J., Colman, J., Watson, J. & Strayer, D. (2014). Multi-tasking in working memory. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Hawkins, G.E., Camilleri, A. R., Heathcote, A., Newell, B.R. & Brown, S.D. (2014). Modeling probability knowledge and choice in decisions from experience. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
2011
Wright, E.W., Ellinghaus, M. P., Close, N.M. & Heathcote, A. (2011). The effect of rule determinacy on deciding contract disputes: Experimental data and network simulation. CELS2011: Sixth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Chicago, IL.
2010
Prince, M., & Heathcote A. (2010). The disproportionate face inversion effect in recognition memory. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Dodds, P., Donkin, C., Brown, S.D. & Heathcote, A. (2010). Multidimensional scaling methods for absolute identification data. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Hawkins, G., Prince, M., Brown, S.D. & Heathcote, A. (2010). Designing state-trace experiments to assess the number of latent psychological variables underlying binary choices. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Donkin, C., Shiffrin, R.M., Brown, S.D. & Heathcote, A. (2010).Does micro-variability make models more complex? A comparison between diffusive and linear evidence accumulation. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Karayanidis, F., Whitson, L.R., Michie, P.T. & Heathcote, A. (2010). Neural correlates and temporal dynamics of task-switching in normal aging. In W. Christensen, E. Schier, and J. Sutton (Eds.), ASCS09: Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (pp. 170-177). Sydney: Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science.
Averell, L., & Heathcote, A. (2010). Posterior distribution analysis of the retention of briefly studied words. In Christensen, W., Schier, E. & Sutton, J. (Eds.), ASCS09: Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. Sydney: Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science. (pp. 5- 11). Sydney: Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science.
2009
Averell, L. & Heathcote, A. (2009). Long term implicit and explicit memory for briefly studied words. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. ISBN 978-0-9768318-5-3
Donkin, C., Heathcote, A., Brown, S. & Andrews, S. (2009). Non-Decision Time Effects in the Lexical Decision Task. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. ISBN 978-0-9768318-5-3
Prince, M. & Heathcote, A. (2009). State-Trace Analysis of the Face Inversion Effect. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 66-72). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. ISBN 978-0-9768318-5-3
Close, N., Heathcote, A., Ellinghaus, F. & Wright, T. (2009). Coherence based reasoning and models of contract law. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. ISBN 978-0-9768318-5-3
Dodds, P., Donkin, C., Brown, S. & Heathcote, A. (2009). Revising the limits of learning in Absolute Identification. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. ISBN 978-0-9768318-5-3
Donkin, C., Heathcote, A., & Brown, S. (2009). Is the Linear Ballistic Accumulator Model Really the Simplest Model of Choice Response Times: A Bayesian Model Complexity Analysis. In A. Howes, D. Peebles, R. Cooper (Eds.), 9th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling - ICCM2009, Manchester, UK.
2005
Sutton, K., Heathcote, A. & Bore, M. (2005). Implementing a web-based measurement of 3D understanding. In T. Bentley & S. Balbo, Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia, Canberra, Australia, Interactive CD. ISBN 1-59593-222-4.
Book Chapters
2019
Strickland, L., Loft, S., & Heathcote, A. (2019). Evidence Accumulation Modeling of Event-Based Prospective Memory. In J. Rummel & M.A. McDaniel (Eds), Current Issues in Memory: Prospective Memory (pp. 78-94). London, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
2017
Ly, A., Boehm, U., Heathcote, A., Turner, B.M., Forstmann, B., Marsman, M. & Matzke, D. (2017). A flexible and efficient hierarchical Bayesian approach to the exploration of individual differences in cognitive-model-based neuroscience. In A.A. Moustafa (Ed.) Computational models of brain and behavior (pp. 467-480). Wiley Blackwell. osf.io/evsyv
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
2015
Heathcote, A., Brown, S.D. & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2015). An introduction to good practices in cognitive modeling. In B. U. Forstmann, & E.-J. Wagenmakers (Eds). An Introduction to Model-Based Cognitive Neuroscience. Springer: New York.
Donkin, C., Rae, B., Heathcote, A. & Brown, S.D. (2015). Why is accurately labelling simple magnitudes so hard? In J.R. Busemeyer, J.T. Townsend, Z. J. Wang, & A. Eidels, (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Computational and Mathematical Psychology, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
2010
Heathcote, A., & Elliott, D. (2010). Nonlinear dynamical analysis of noisy time series. In S. Guastello & R. Gregson, (Eds.), Nonlinear dynamical systems analysis for the behavioural sciences using real data. (pp. 103-134). CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida
Technical Reports
2018
French, B., Duenser, A., Heathcote, A. (2018). Trust in Automation – A Literature Review. CSIRO Report EP184082. CSIRO, Australia.