1st Edition

New Methods in Cognitive Psychology

Edited By Daniel Spieler, Eric Schumacher Copyright 2020
    300 Pages
    by Routledge

    300 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book provides an overview of cutting-edge methods currently being used in cognitive psychology, which are likely to appear with increasing frequency in coming years.

    Once built around univariate parametric statistics, cognitive psychology courses now seem deficient without some contact with methods for signal processing, spatial statistics, and machine learning. There are also important changes in analyses of behavioral data (e.g., hierarchical modeling and Bayesian inference) and there is the obvious change wrought by the advancement of functional imaging. This book begins by discussing the evidence of this rapid change, for example the movement between using traditional analyses of variance to multi-level mixed models, in psycholinguistics. It then goes on to discuss the methods for analyses of physiological measurements, and how these methods provide insights into cognitive processing.

    New Methods in Cognitive Psychology provides senior undergraduates, graduates and researchers with cutting-edge overviews of new and emerging topics, and the very latest in theory and research for the more established topics.

    Rouder, F., Hierarchical Models in Cognitive Psychology. Martin Sliwinski, Longitudinal Models. A. Conway, Structural Equation Models and Process Theories.

    4. Bayesian Statistics for Cognitive Psychology

    Possible Author: Andy Gelman, Columbia

    II. Advances in Data Analysis and Data Interpretation

    5. Anatomical Constraints and Process Oriented Inferences

    Possible Authors: Russ Poldrack, University of Texas

    6. Multivoxel Pattern Analysis

    Possible Authors: Ken Norman, Princeton; Frank Tong Vanderbilt; John Serences, UCSD

    7. Meta-Analyses in Cognitive Neuroscience

    Possible Author: Tor Wager, Columbia

    8. Network and Connectivity Analyses

    Possible Author: Barry Horwitz, NIH; Shella Kielholz Emory

    9. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Cognitive Processing

    Possible Author: Brad Postle, Wisconsin

    10. EEG Phase Synchrony and Cognitive Processing

    Possible Author: John Cavanaugh Arizona; Michael Cohen Amsterdam

    11. "Data Mining for Psychology"

    Possible Authors: Josh Tenenbaum, MIT; Dennis Norris, Cambridge; Michael Lee, UC Irvine

    12. Response Times: Models and the Interpretation of Response Time Data

    Possible Authors: Andrew Heathcote University of Newcastle; Scott Brown, University of Newcastle

    13. Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) curves in memory research

    Possible Authors: Ian Dobbins, Washington University; Andrew Yonelinas, UC Davis

    Biography

    Daniel Spieler is Associate Professor of Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has researched in memory, aging, and visual perception, and his main teaching areas are introductory cognitive psychology and statistics.

    Eric Schumacher is Professor of Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research investigates both the cognitive and the neuroscientific aspects of the processes and representations required to carry out flexible behavior across a wide variety of domains.