Publications

The lab investigates how people and other animals learn, remember, think, and know. We are guided by the wisdom of instance theory: memory is a repository of episodic experience and higher-level cognition emerges in the course of parallel retrieval.

2026+

Guitard, D., Cowan, N., Saint-Aubin, J., Reid, J. N., & Jamieson, R. K. (in press). Toward a comprehensive account of verbal memory: An embedded computational model across representational domains. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
Reid, J. N., Guitard, D., & Jamieson, R. K. (in press). MINERVA OPS: A computational framework for the representation and recognition of orthographic, phonological, and semantic associates. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., Crump, M. J. C., & Jones, M. N. (in press). Instance memory models as a general computational framework for exploring language processing: Bringing the lexicon to life. Linguistics Vanguard

2025

Jamieson, R. K., & Crump, M. J. C. (2025). An instance model of associative inference. American Journal of Psychology, 138, 231-247.
- Experiment 1a (Data)
- Experiment 1b (Data)
- Experiment 2 (Data)
Guitard, D., Saint-Aubin, J., Reid, J. N., & Jamieson, R. K. (2025). An embedded computational framework of memory: The critical role of representations in veridical and false recall predictions. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 32, 2004-2058.
Guitard, D., Saint-Aubin, J., Reid, J. N., & Jamieson, R. K. (2025). An embedded computational framework of memory: Accounting for the influence of semantic information in verbal short-term memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 140: 104573.
Sonier, R-P., Melanson, E., Guitard, D., Jamieson, R. K. & Saint-Aubin, J. (2025). Semantic similarity is not emotional: No effect of similarity defined by valence, arousal, and dominance on short-term ordered recall. Memory and Cognition, 53, 1708-1724.

2024

Spear, J., Reid, J. N., Guitard, D., & Jamieson, R. K. (2024). Directed forgetting and the production effect: Assessing strength and distinctiveness. Experimental Psychology, 71, 278-297.

2023

Reid, J. N., Yang, H., & Jamieson, R. K. (2023). A computational account of item-based directed forgetting for nonwords: Incorporating orthographic representations in MINERVA 2. Memory and Cognition, 51, 1785-1806.
Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., & Jones, M. N. (2023). Scalable cognitive modelling: Putting Simon’s (1969) ant back on the beach. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77, 185-201.
Mah, E. Y., Campbell, A., Tamburri, N., Grannon, K., Jamieson, R. K., & Lindsay, D. S. (2023). A direct replication and extension of Popp and Serra (2016, Experiment 1): Better free recall and worse cued recall of animal names than object names. Frontiers in Psychology, 14:1146200.
Reid, J. N., & Jamieson, R. K. (2023). True and false recognition in MINERVA 2: Extension to sentences and metaphors. Journal of Memory and Language, 129, 104397.

2022

Jamieson, R. K., Johns, B. T., Vokey, J. R., & Jones, M. N. (2022). Instance theory as a domain-general framework for cognitive psychology. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1, 173-184.
Reid, J. N., & Jamieson, R. K. (2022). A computational model of item-based directed forgetting. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76, 75-86.
Jamieson, R. K. (2022). Words that fire together wire together. Psynopsis, 44(1), 29.
Jamieson, R. K., Johns, B. T., Taler, V., & Jones, M. N. (2022). The importance of formal modelling for the development of cognitive theory. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2, 218-219.

2021

Jamieson, R. K. (2021). You heard about spreading activation... but how about spreading forgetting? Psynopsis, 43(2), 30.

2020

Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., Crump, M. J. C., Jones, M. N., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2020). Production without rules: Using an instance memory model to exploit structure in natural language. Journal of Memory and Language, 104165.
Collins, R. N., Milliken, B., & Jamieson, R. K. (2020). MINERVA-DE: An instance model of the deficient processing theory. Journal of Memory and Language, 104151.
Jamieson, R. K., & Pexman, P. (2020). Moving beyond 20 questions: We (still) need stronger psychological theory. Canadian Psychology, 61, 273-280.
Vokey, J., & Jamieson, R. K. (2020). On the computation of the topological entropy of artificial grammars. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 16, 355-362.
Crump, M. J. C., Jamieson, R. K., Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2020). Controlling the retrieval of general vs specific semantic knowledge in the instance theory of semantic memory . Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Cognitive Science Society. Toronto ON: Cognitive Science Society.
Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., & Jones, M. N. (2020). The continued importance of theory: Lessons from big data approaches to language. In S. E. Woo, L. Tay, & R. W. Proctor (Eds.) Big data in psychological research (p. 277-295). American Psychological Association.

2019

Aujla, H., Crump, M. J. C., Cook, M. T., & Jamieson, R. K. (2019). The Semantic Librarian: A search engine built from vector-space models of semantics. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 2405-2418.
Johns, B. T., & Jamieson, R. K. (2019). The influence of time and place on lexical behavior: A distributional analysis. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 2483-2453.
Curtis, E. T., & Jamieson, R. K. (2019). Computational and empirical simulations of selective memory impairments: Converging evidence for a single-system account of memory dissociations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74, 798-817.
Jamieson, R. K. (2019). Editorial. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73, 1-2.
Jamieson, R. K., Bodner, G. E., Saint-Aubin, J., & Titone, D. (2019). Registered Reports. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73, 3-4.

2018

Jamieson, R. K., Avery, J. E., Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2018). An instance theory of semantic memory. Computational Brain and Behavior, 2, 119-136.
- Correction
  - Jamieson, R. K., Avery, J. E., Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2020). Correction to: An instance theory of semantic memory. Computational Brain and Behavior, 3, 126–127.
- Code: ITS.R
- TASA corpus by paragraph: CorpusByParagraph.txt
Johns, B. T., & Jamieson, R. K. (2018). A large-scale analysis of individual variability in written language. Cognitive Science, 42, 1360-1374.
Jamieson, R. K., Avery, J. E., Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2018). An instance theory of distributional semantics. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, J. Zhu, & T. T. Rogers (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Cognitive Science Society. Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Vokey, J. R., Jamieson, R. K., Tangen, J., Searston, R., & Allen, S. (2018). A visual familiarity account of evidence for orthographic processing in pigeons (Columbia livia): A reply to Scarf, Corballis, Güntürkün, and Colombo (2017). Animal Cognition, 21, 425-431.

2017

Cook, M. T., Chubala, C. M., & Jamieson, R. K. (2017). AGSuite: Software to conduct feature analysis of artificial grammar learning performance. Behavior Research Methods, 49, 1639-1651.
- App: https://mcook.shinyapps.io/AG_suite/
Jamieson, R. K., Vokey, J. R., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2017). Implicit learning is order dependent. Psychological Research, 81, 204-218.
- Data (Excel): Jamieson, Vokey, & Mewhort (2017)
- Data (Raw): Jamieson, Vokey, & Mewhort (2017)

2016

Jamieson, R. K., Mewhort, D. J. K., & Hockley, W. E. (2016). A computational account of the production effect: Still playing twenty questions with nature. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 154-164.
Bodner, G. E., Jamieson, R. K., Cormack, D., McDonald, D-L., Bernstein, D. M. (2016). The production effect in recognition memory: Weakening strength can strengthen distinctiveness. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 93-98.
- Data (Excel): Bodner et al. (2016, CJEP)
- Data (Raw): Bodner et al. (2016, CJEP)
Chubala, C. M., Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2016). Applying an exemplar model to the implicit rule-learning task: Implicit learning of semantic structure. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69, 1049-1055.
Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., Crump, M. J. C., Jones, M. N., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2016). The combinatorial power of experience. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, J. Trueswell, & D. Mirman (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Cognitive Science Society. Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Jamieson, R. K., Nevzorova, U., Lee, G., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2016). Information theory and artificial grammar learning: Inferring grammaticality from redundancy. Psychological Research, 80, 195-211.
- Data (Excel): Jamieson, Nevzorova, Lee, & Mewhort (2016)
- Data (Raw): Jamieson, Nevzorova, Lee, & Mewhort (2016)
Curtis, E. T., Chubala, C. M., Spear, J., Jamieson, R. K., Hockley, W. E., & Crump, M. J. C. (2016). False recognition of instruction-set lures. Memory, 24, 32-43.
- Data: Curtis et al. (2016, Memory)

2014

Jamieson, R. K., & Spear, J. (2014). The offline production effect. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, 20-28.
- Data: Jamieson & Spear (2014)
Vokey, J. R., & Jamieson, R. K. (2014). A visual familiarity account of evidence for orthographic processing in baboons (Papio papio). Psychological Science, 25, 991-996.

2013

Chubala, C. M., & Jamieson, R. K. (2013). Recoding and representation in artificial grammar learning. Behavior Research Methods, 45, 470-479.

2012

Jamieson, R. K., Crump, M. J. C., & Hannah, S. D. (2012). An instance theory of associative learning. Learning & Behavior, 40, 61-82.
Jamieson, R. K., & Hauri, B. (2012). An exemplar model of performance in the artificial grammar task: Holographic representation. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 98-105.
Jamieson, R. K., & Jones, M. N. (2012). Introduction: Essays in honour of Douglas J. K. Mewhort. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 81-82.

2011

Jamieson, R. K., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2011). Grammaticality is inferred from global similarity: A reply to Kinder (2010). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 209-216.

2010

Jamieson, R. K., Holmes, S., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2010). Global similarity predicts dissociation of classification and recognition: Evidence questioning the implicit/explicit learning distinction in amnesia. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 36, 1529-1535.
Jamieson, R. K., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2010). Applying an exemplar model to the artificial-grammar task: String-completion and performance for individual items. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 1014-1039.
- Data (Excel): Jamieson & Mewhort (2010, QJEP)
- Data (Raw): Jamieson & Mewhort (2010, QJEP)
Jamieson, R. K., Hannah, S. D., & Crump, M. J. C. (2010). A memory based account of retrospective revaluation. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 153-164.
Jamieson, R. K., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2010). Holographic stimulus representation and judgement of grammaticality in an exemplar model: Combining item and serial-order information. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Cognitive Science Society. Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society.

2009

Jamieson, R. K., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2009). Applying an exemplar model to the serial reaction time task: Anticipating from experience. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1757-1783.
Jamieson, R. K., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2009). Applying an exemplar model to the artificial-grammar task: Inferring grammaticality from similarity. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 550-575.

2001-2005

Jamieson, R. K., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2005). The influence of grammatical, local, and organizational redundancy on implicit learning: An analysis using information theory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 9-23.
Jamieson, R. K., Thompson, W. F., Cuddy, L. L., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2003). Do conjunction errors in auditory recognition imply feature migration? Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57, 125-130.
Jamieson, R. K., & Cuddy, L. L. (2001). Song memory: Are text and tune asymmetrically related in recognition memory? Canadian Acoustics, 29, 112-113.

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