The San Diego Union-Tribune wrote a feature on Richard Atkinson, one of the most distinguished and influential memory researchers of all time. The feature highlights a few of his major accomplishments and positions in academia as well as his focus in present day. The article opens with a mention of a project that I’m working on. To quote the lede (with a link to the full-text existing below), “At 96, Richard C. Atkinson talks with interest and enthusiasm about a young professor’s research on reading skills, the same enthusiasm that he has embraced his entire life.”

We published a new paper of mine in JEP: Applied on the effect of a simultaneous rate-them-all lineup procedure on discriminability.

A paper of mine was just published in Applied Cognitive Psychology. This paper investigates why the confidence-accuracy relationship (CAC) for lineup rejections is often flat (while the relationship between confidence and accuracy for postiveIDs is much stronger). Specifically, this paper looks at the role of response bias in terms of restricting the range of memory signal strengths associated with a particular decision. Range restriction for particular decision may lower the ability to detect a possible relationship given a particular level of confidence due to a reduction in sensitivity.

 A new paper of mine came out in Journal of Memory and Language this past February. This is a math modeling paper looking at whether a MAX or AVG decision rule is being used as the basis for confidence when rejecting a lineup. The decision rule for posIDs, by comparison, is a MAX rule.