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Methods group meetings

Thursday 2.30pm, CBU west wing seminar room unless otherwise stated.

Meetings currently planned in 2008

  • 20 Nov - John Dunn - Models of recognition memory: A state-trace analysis The present paper addresses the current debate between univariate and bivariate models of recognition memory. Univariate models propose that a recognition decision is based on evaluation of a single strength-of-evidence dimension while bivariate models propose that the decision is based on the separate combination of two dimensions, often labeled as recollection and familiarity. Both of these models fit existing experimental data well and a definitive test has not yet been forthcoming. I apply state-trace analysis to this question and evaluate the crucial point that if the bivariate model is correct, there should be evidence of bidimensionality in the data. I report the results of four experiments and a meta-analysis of 37 published experiments which yield little or no evidence of bidimensionality. I conclude that the univariate model provides a consistent and parsimonious account of recognition memory and discuss the general application of state-trace analysis to other similar issues in memory, judgment and decision making.

  • 16 Oct - Rik Henson - 'DCM for fMRI and MEG/EEG'

Meetings in the past