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Sanders, D.M.W.* and Cowell, R.A. (2023). The locus of recognition memory signals in human cortex depends on the complexity of the memory representations. Cerebral Cortex, 33:17, 9835–9849. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad248. [pdf]

Leger, K.R.*, Cowell, R.A. & Gutchess, A. (2023) Do cultural differences emerge at different levels of representational hierarchy? Memory & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-023-01459-7. [pdf]

Sadil, P.S.*, Cowell, R.A. and Huber, D.E. (2023). The Push-Pull of Serial Dependence Effects: Every Response is both an Attraction to the Prior Response and a Repulsion from the Prior Stimulus. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02320-3. [pdf]

Nikiforova, M.*, Cowell, R.A. and Huber, D.E. (2023). Gestalt formation promotes awareness of suppressed visual stimuli during binocular rivalry. Visual Cognition, 31:1, 18-42, DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2023.2192991. [pdf]

Sadil, P.*, Cowell, R.A. & Huber, D.E. (2022) A modeling framework for determining modulation of neural-level tuning from non-invasive human fMRI data. Communications Biology, 5, 1244. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04000-9Ìý Ìý[pdf]

Sanders, D.M.W.*, Cowell, R.A., Castillo, J.*, Starns, J. (2022). Boosting confidence without boosting performance: Item strength creates the illusion of source accuracy.ÌýMemory. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2022.2098338. [pdf]

Jiang, Z.*, Sanders, D.M.W.*, Cowell, R.A. (2022). Visual and Semantic Similarity Norms for a Photographic Image Stimulus Set Containing Recognizable Objects, Animals and Scenes.ÌýBehavior Research Methods.Ìýhttps://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01732-0.ÌýÌý[pdf]

Cowell, R.A. & Huber, D.E. (2020) Mechanisms of memory: an intermediate level of analysis and organization.ÌýCurrent Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 32: 65:71.Ìý[pdf]Ìý

Cowell, R.A., Barense, M.D., Sadil, P.S.* (2019). A Roadmap for Understanding Memory: Decomposing Cognitive Processes into Operations and Representations.ÌýeNeuro, 6(4),Ìý.Ìý[pdf]Ìý

Sadil, P.S.*, Potter, K., Huber, D.E. and Cowell, R.A. (2019). Connecting the dots without top-down knowledge: Evidence for rapidly-learned low-level associations that are independent of object identity.ÌýJournal of Experimental Psychology: General,Ìý148(6): 1058-1070.Ìý[pdf]Ìý

Sadil, P.S.*, Cowell R.A., Huber, D.E. (2019). A hierarchical Bayesian state trace analysis for assessing monotonicity while factoring out subject, item, and trial level dependencies.ÌýJournal of Mathematical Psychology,Ìý90: 118-131.Ìý[pdf]Ìý

Wilson, D.M.*, Potter, K. and Cowell, R.A. (2018). Recognition Memory Shielded from Semantic but not Perceptual Interference in Normal Aging.ÌýNeuropsychologia, 119: 448-463. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.07.031.Ìý[pdf]Ìý

Ross, D.A.*, Sadil, P.S.*, Wilson, D.M.* and Cowell, R.A. (2018). Hippocampal Engagement During Recall Depends on Memory Content.ÌýCerebral Cortex, 28(8): 2685–2698.Ìý[pdf]Ìý

Newsome, R.N., Trelle, A.N., Hong, B., Smith, V.M., Jacob, A., Ryan, J.D., Rosenbaum, R.S., Cowell, R.A., & Barense, M.D. (2018). Dissociable contributions of thalamic nuclei to recognition memory: Novel evidence from a case of medial dorsal thalamic damage.ÌýLearning and Memory, 25: 31-44.Ìý[pdf]

Cowell, R.A., Leger, K.* and Serences, J.T. (2017). Feature-coding transitions to conjunction-coding with progression through human visual cortex.ÌýJournal of Neurophysiology,Ìý118(6):3194-3214. doi: 10.1152/jn.00503.2017.Ìý[pdf]

Sadil, P.S.* & Cowell, R.A. (2017). A Computational Model of Perceptual and Mnemonic Deficits in Medial Temporal Lobe Amnesia.ÌýJournal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29:6, 1075-1088. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01106.Ìý[pdf].

Martin, C.B., Cowell, R.A., Gribble, P.L., Wright, J. and Köhler, S. (2016). Distributed category-specific recognition memory signals in human perirhinal cortex.ÌýHippocampus, 26: 423–436.Ìý[pdf]

Sadil, P.S.* & Cowell, R.A. (2016). A Computational Model of Perceptual Deficits in Medial Temporal Lobe Amnesia.ÌýProceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016.Ìý[pdf]

Ikeda M.Z.*, Jeon S.D., Cowell, R.A., Remage-Healey, L. (2015). Norepinephrine Modulates Coding of Complex Vocalizations in the Songbird Auditory Cortex Independent of Local Neuroestrogen Synthesis.ÌýJournal of Neuroscience, 35(25): 9356-68.Ìý[pdf]

Cowell, R.A. & Cottrell, G.W. (2013). What evidence supports special processing for faces? A cautionary tale for fMRI interpretation.ÌýJournal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(11): 1777-93.Ìý[pdf]

Yeung, L-K., Ryan, J.D., Cowell, R.A., Barense, M.D. (2013). Recognition Memory Impairments Caused by False Recognition of Novel Objects.ÌýJournal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142(4): 1384-97.Ìý[pdf]

Cowell, R.A. (2012). Computational Models of Perirhinal Cortex Function.ÌýHippocampus, 22: 1952-1964.Ìý[pdf]

Cowell, R.A., Bussey, T.J. & Saksida, L.M. (2012). Empiricists are from Venus, Modelers are from Mars: Reconciling Experimental and Computational Approaches in Cognitive Neuroscience.ÌýNeuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 36(10): 2371-9.Ìý[pdf]

Forwood, S.E., Cowell, R.A., Bussey, T.J., and Saksida, L.M. (2012). Multiple Cognitive Abilities from a Single Cortical Algorithm.ÌýJournal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(9): 1807-25.Ìý[pdf]

Cowell, R.A. & French, R.M. (2011). Noise and the emergence of rules in category learning: A connectionist model.ÌýIEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, 3 (3): 194-206.Ìý[pdf]

van Dantzig, S., Cowell, R.A., Zeelenberg, R., Pecher, D. (2011). A sharp image or a sharp knife: Norms for the modality-exclusivity of 774 concept-property items.ÌýBehavior Research Methods, 43 (1): 145-154.Ìý[pdf]

Bartko, S.J., Cowell, R.A., Winters, B.D., Saksida, L.M. and Bussey, T.J. (2010). Increased susceptibility to interference in a rat model of object amnesia: impairment in both storage and retrieval.ÌýNeuropsychologia, 48 (10): 2987-2997.Ìý[pdf]

Cowell, R.A., Bussey, T.J. & Saksida, L.M. (2010). Components of recognition memory: dissociable cognitive processes or just differences in representational complexity?ÌýHippocampus, 20 (11): 1245-1262.Ìý[pdf]

Cowell, R.A., Bussey, T.J. & Saksida, L.M. (2010). Functional dissociations within the ventral object processing pathway: cognitive modules or a hierarchical continuum?ÌýJournal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22 (11): 2460-2479.Ìý[pdf]

Huber, D.E. & Cowell, R.A. (2010). Theory-driven modeling or model-driven theorizing? A comment on McClelland et al./Griffiths et al.ÌýTrends in Cognitive Sciences, 14 (8): 343-344.Ìý[pdf]

McTighe, S.M., Cowell, R.A., Winters, B.D., Bussey, T.J. & Saksida, L.M. (2010) Paradoxical false memory for objects after brain damage.ÌýScience, 330: 1408-1410.Ìý[pdf]Ìý[supplementary]

Cowell, R.A., Huber, D.E., and Cottrell, G.W. (2009). Virtual Brain Reading: A connectionist approach to understanding fMRI.ÌýProceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Winner of the Perception/Action Modeling Prize, 2009.Ìý[pdf]

Abreu, A., French, R. M., Cowell, R. A. & de Schonen, S. (2007). Local-Global visual deficits in Williams Syndrome: Stimulus presence contributes to diminished performance on image-reproduction.ÌýPsychologica Belgica, 46(4): 269-281.

Bartko, S.J., Winters, B.D., Cowell, R.A., Saksida, L.M. and Bussey, T.J. (2007a). Perceptual functions of perirhinal cortex in rats: zero-delay object recognition and simultaneous oddity discriminations.ÌýJournal of Neuroscience, 27 (10): 2548-2559.Ìý[pdf]

Bartko, S.J., Winters, B.D., Cowell, R.A., Saksida, L.M. and Bussey, T.J. (2007b). Perirhinal cortex resolves feature ambiguity in configural object recognition and perceptual oddity tasks.ÌýLearning & Memory, 14: 821-832.Ìý[pdf]

Cowell, R.A., Bussey, T.J. & Saksida, L.M. (2006). Why does brain damage impair memory? A connectionist model of object recognition memory in perirhinal cortex.ÌýJournal of Neuroscience, 26 (47): 12186-12197.Ìý[pdf]

Winters, B.D., Forwood, S.E., Cowell, R.A., Saksida, L.M. & Bussey T.J. (2004). Double dissociation between the effects of peri-postrhinal and hippocampal lesions on tests of object recognition and spatial memory: heterogeneity of function within the temporal lobe.ÌýJournal of Neuroscience, 24: 5901-8.Ìý[pdf]

Di Ciano, P., Cardinal, R.N., Cowell, R.A., Little, S.J. & Everitt, B.J. (2001). Differential involvement of NMDA, AMPA/kainate, and dopamine receptors in the nucleus accumbens core in the acquisition and performance of pavlovian approach behavior.ÌýJournal of Neuroscience, 21: 9471-7.Ìý[pdf]