Chris Donkin

chris donkin

july 29th, 2015	Attended a workshop in Vitznau, Switzerland, with the ambitious aim of deciding on a set of benchmark phenomena in the area of working memory.
july 24th, 2015	Talk at Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society on the use of a simple exemplar theory in a judgment and decision making task. For the write-up, see the proceedings paper
	Paper showing that we can use informative priors to distinguish between models using Bayes factors, as applied to visual working memory, was accepted for a special issue on Bayes factors in Journal of Mathematical Psychology
july 19th, 2015	Was awarded the William K Estes Early Career Award by the Society of Mathematical Psychology
	Paper looking at whether people are capable of using optimal Bayesian inference to update their beliefs about simple probabilities published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition
	Talk at Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology at Newport Beach on whether there is a single capacity of working memory
may 22nd to 23rd, 2015	Gave a workshop on choice response time models at the University of Cologne
may 20th, 2015	Talk at University of Cologne on slots models in visual working memory
may 15th, 2015	Talk at a workshop on Memory and Decision Making near Basel on the use of exemplar memories in decision making tasks
april 22nd, 2015	Paper looking at the relationship between working memory capacity and the processing of redundant information was published in Frontiers in Psychology
april 10th, 2015	Talk at Australasian Empirical Psychology Conference at University of Sydney on whether Psychology is ready for Bayesian statistics.
april 2nd, 2015	All three submissions to Cognitive Science Meeting were accepted - two as talks, and one as a poster.
february 11th, 2015	Talk at Australian Mathematical Psychology at Shoal Bay on Bayes factors as prediction testers.
january 24th, 2015	Going to serve on the editorial board for Journal of Memory and Language.
january 20th, 2015	Going to serve as action editor for Experimental Psychology.
january 13th, 2015	Talk at University of Zurich on Slots models of visual working memory.
january 12th, 2015	Talk at University of Basel on Testing the predictions of models, and why priors are essential to the scientific process.
november 26th, 2014	Going to serve a consulting editor for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
november 30th, 2014	Paper showing that people can not help but attend to stimuli that signal large reward, even when they are explicitly told that doing so will revoke their reward published in a special issue on reward-based attentional capture in Visual Cognition
november 26th, 2014	Going to serve as consulting editor for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
november 22nd, 2014	Gave a talk at Psychonomic Society Conference at Long Beach, USA, on using Bayes factors to test the predictions from visual working memory models.
november 8th, 2014	Paper showing that you can not reduce base rate neglect through experience with the base rate, using Bayesian hierarchical mixture modeling, is accepted in Decision
november 6th, 2014	Paper showing that the slots model of visual working memory fails a critical test of one of its predictions is accepted to appear in a special issue on visual working memory in Memory & Cognition.
october 30th, 2014	Paper showing that older participants struggle to inhibit distracting information more than younger participants accepted in PLoS One.
september 30th, 2014	Paper showing that Pieron's Law is not always a result of the decision-making process, and sometimes may reflect information about physical to perceptual mappings accepted in Journal of Mathematical Psychology.
september 26th, 2014	Paper demonstrating that people can accumulate evidence outside of conscious awareness published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
september 23rd, 2014	Paper examining the importance of choosing suitable data structures, and considering a range of appropriate models when identifying potential classification strategies accepted in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition.
june 6th, 2014	Paper looking at the influence of verbal labels in retention of visual stimuli in working memory accepted in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
december 20th, 2013	Added a new section to the website containing short videos explaining some introductory concepts in Bayesian Statistics.
december 16th, 2013	Paper looking at the influence of the time between trials on sequential effects in a perceptual multiple-alternative decision-making task was accepted in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
november 27th, 2013	Going to serve as associate editor for Behavior Research Methods
november 6th, 2013	Paper looking at the speed-accuracy trade-off effect as it relates to workload capacity using new parametric and non-parametric capacity measures that take into account speed and accuracy was accepted in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
october 31st, 2013	Added a new section to the website containing raw data from published experiments.
october 29th, 2013	Paper using systems factorial technology, a non-parametric, response-time based measure, to show that words are processed efficiently accepted in Acta Psychologica.
october 27th, 2013	Paper showing that the rate of evidence accumulation is faster when participants are trying to be more accurate accepted in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition.
october 22nd, 2013	Paper using the Linear Ballistic Accumulator model to look at the effect of memory load on behavioral disinhibition in externalizing psychopathology accepted in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.
september 17th, 2013	Paper comparing discrete slots and signal detection models of visual working memory on their ability to account for ROC data, using a model selection technique called landscaping, was accepted to appear in a special issue on 'the structure of visual working memory' in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics.
july 24th, 2013	Paper on an extension of discrete slots models of visual working memory to account for response time distributions was accepted in Psychological Review.
november 5th, 2012	ARC Discovery Project grant titled "A new approach to understanding decision making" with Scott Brown and Gordon Logan was funded. ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award, an early career fellowship, titled "A model based approach to investigating short-term memory: Exploiting response time distributions" was funded.
september 20th, 2012	Reply to Pothos & Busemeyer's article on quantum models of cognition.
september 4th, 2012	Paper on context-specific proportion congruent effect was accepted in Frontiers in Psychology.
august 11th, 2012	Paper in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review was selected as the Best Article published in the journal in 2012.
june 18th, 2012	Paper on the categorization of integral dimension stimuli was accepted in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition.
november 1st, 2011	Paper on the decay of memory strength in short-term to long-term memory was accepted in Psychological Science.
october 21st, 2011	New website. Thank you Jette!