Publications
Selected publications
Here is a sample of some recent efforts:-
Baddeley, A. B., Hitch, G. J. & Quinlan, P. T. (2018). Is the phonological similarity effect in working memory due to proactive interference? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 44(8), 1312.
Chubala, C., Suprenant, A. M., Neath, I., & Quinlan, P. T. (2018). Does dynamic visual noise eliminate the concreteness effect in working memory? Journal of Memory and Language, 102, 97-114.
Cohen, D. J. & Quinlan, P. T. (2018). The log-linear response function of the bounded number line task is unrelated to the psychological representation of quantity. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25, 447-454.
Quinlan, P. T, Yue, Y., & Cohen, D. J. (2017). The processing of images of biological threats in visual short-term memory. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1283. Published 23 August 2017.
Quinlan, P. T., Roodenrys, S., & Miller, L. (2017). Serial reconstruction of order and serial recall in verbal short-term memory. Memory & Cognition, 45, 1126-1143.
Cohen, D. J, & Quinlan, P. T. (2016). How numbers mean: Comparing random walk models of numerical cognition varying both encoding processes and underlying quantity representations. Cognitive Psychology, 91, 63-81.
And of course:-
Quinlan, P. T. (2013). Misuse of power: in defense of small-scale science. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 14, 585.
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Full publications list
Below is a more extensive (not exhaustive) list of my publications. See also the York Research Database.
Humphreys, G. W., Besner, D., & Quinlan, P. T. (l988). Event perception and the word repetition effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 117, 51-67.
Humphreys, G. W., & Quinlan, P. T. (l988). Priming effects between two-dimensional shapes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 14, 203-220.
Humphreys, G. W., Riddoch, M. J., & Quinlan, P. T. (l988). Cascade processes in picture naming. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 5, 67-103.
Humphreys, G. W., Quinlan, P. T., & Riddoch, M. J. (1989). Grouping processes in visual search: Effects with single- and combined feature targets. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 118, 258-279.
Humphreys, G. W., Evett, L. J., & Quinlan, P. T. (1990). The orthographic description in visual word processing. Cognitive Psychology, 22, 517-560.
Quinlan, P. T. (1991). Differing approaches to two-dimensional shape recognition. Psychological Bulletin, 109, 224-241.
Morrison, C. M., Ellis, A. W., & Quinlan, P. T. (1992). Age of acquisition, not word frequency, affects object naming, not object recognition. Memory & Cognition, 20, 705-714.
Quinlan, P. T. & Wilton, R. N. (1998). Grouping by proximity or similarity?: Competition between the Gestalt principles in vision. Perception, 27, 417-430.
Quinlan, P. T. (1998). Structural change and development in real and artificial neural networks. Neural Networks, 11, 577-599.
Tipples, J., Young, A. W., Quinlan, P. T., Broks, P., & Ellis, A. W. (2002). Searching for threat. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55A, 1007-1026.
Dyson, B. J., & Quinlan, P. T. (2002). Within- and between-dimensions processing in the auditory modality. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 1483-1498.
Patching, G. R., & Quinlan, P. T. (2002). Garner and congruence effects in the speeded classification of bimodal signals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 755-775.
Quinlan, P. T. (2003) Visual Feature Integration Theory: Past, present and future. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 643-673.
Dyson, B. J., & Quinlan, P. T. (2004). Stimulus processing constraints in audition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30, 1117-1131.
Clelland, A. A., Gaskell, M. G., Quinlan, P. T, & Tamminen, J. (2006). Frequency effects in spoken and visual word recognition: Evidence from dual-task methodologies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, 104-119.
Quinlan, P. T., van der Maas, H. L. J., Jansen, B. R. J., Booij, O, & Rendell, M. (2007). Re-thinking stages of cognitive development: An appraisal of connectionist models of the balance scale task. Cognition, 103, 413-459.
Gaskell, M. G., Quinlan, P. T., Tamminen, J., & Clelland, A. A. (2008). The nature of phoneme representation in spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 282-302.
Andreadis, N., & Quinlan, P. T. (2010). Task switching under predictable and unpredictable circumstances. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 72, 1776-1790.
Dyson, B. J., & Quinlan, P. T. (2010). Decomposing the Garner paradigm: Evidence for dissociations between macro-level and micro-level performance. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 72, 1676-1691.
Stainthorp, R., Stuart, M., Powell, D., Quinlan, P. T., & Garwood, H. (2010). Visual processing deficits in children with slow RAN performance. Scientific Studies of Reading, 14, 266-292.
Quinlan, P. T. (2010). On the use of the term ‘attention’ (pp. 217-243). In Mitchell, C., & Le Pelley, M. (Eds.), Attention and associative learning. From brain to behaviour. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Compositions
Authored books
Quinlan, P. T. (1991). Connectionism and psychology: A psychological perspective on new connectionist research (293 pages). Hemel Hempstead, Herts.: Harvester Wheatsheaf and Chicago University Press. Italian edition, 1995, Bologna, il Mulino.
Quinlan, P. T. & Dyson, B. J. (2008). Cognitive psychology (706 pages). Pearson Education. [Amazon link here.]
Edited books
Quinlan, P. T. (Ed.). (2003). Connectionist models of development: Developmental processes in real and artificial neural networks. Hove and New York: Psychology Press. (386 pages). [Amazon link here.]
Special Edition of Perception.
I recently acted as Editor for a special edition of the journal Perception that marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of Marr's Vision. [web link here.]
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