Publications

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Books

Farrell, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (in press). Computational modeling of cognition and behaviour. New book in production: Website

Lewandowsky, S., & Farrell, S. (2010). Computational Modeling in Cognition: Principles and Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Corrections, addenda, code and supplementary materials are available .

Recent publications

Wilson, M. D., Farrell, Visser, T. & Loft, S. (2018). Remembering to execute deferred tasks in simulated air traffic control: The impact of interruptions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 24, 360–379. [git repo]

Oberauer, K., Lewandowsky, S., Awh, E., Brown, G. D. A., Conway, A., Cowan, N., Donkin, C., Farrell, S., Hitch, G. J., Hurlstone, M. J., Ma, W. J., Morey, C. C., Nee, D. E., Schweppe, J., Vergauwe, E., & Ward, G.  (2018).  Benchmarks for models of short-term and working memory. Psychological Bulletin, 144, 885–958.

Udale, R., Farrell, S., & Kent, C.  (in press).  No evidence for binding of items to task-irrelevant backgrounds in visual working memory. Memory & Cognition.

Udale, R., Farrell, S., & Kent, C.  (in press).  Task demands determine comparison strategy in whole probe change detection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Ballard, T., Farrell, S., & Neal, A.  (in press).  Quantifying the Psychological Value of Goal Achievement. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Mason, A., Farrell, S., Howard-Jones, P. A., & Ludwig, C.  (in press).  The role of reward and reward uncertainty in episodic memory. Journal of Memory and Language.

Mason, A., Ludwig, C., & Farrell, S.  (2017).  Adaptive scaling of reward in episodic memory: a replication study. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 2306–2318.

Pre 2017

Ballard, T., Yeo, G., Neal, A., & Farrell, S.  (2016).  Departures from optimality when pursuing multiple approach or avoidance goals. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101(7), 1056–1066.

Farrell, S., Oberauer, K., Greaves, M., Pasiecznik, K., Lewandowsky, S., & Jarrold, C.  (2016).  A test of interference versus decay in working memory: Varying distraction within lists in a complex span task. Journal of Memory and Language, 90, 66–87.

Ez-zizi A, Farrell S, Leslie D  (2015)  Bayesian reinforcement learning in Markovian and non-Markovian tasks. In: 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence. 579-–586.

Oberauer, K., Farrell, S., Jarrold, C., & Lewandowsky, S.  (2016).  What limits working memory capacity?. Psychological Bulletin, 142, 758–799.

Farrell S, Lewandowsky S. (2015). An introduction to cognitive modelling. In: Forstmann BU, Wagenmakers E, ed.,An Introduction to Model-Based Cognitive Neuroscience. New York, NY: Springer. 3–24.

Spurgeon, J., Ward, G., Matthews, W. J., & Farrell, S.  (2014).  Can the effects of temporal grouping explain the similarities and differences between free recall and serial recall?. Memory & Cognition, 43, 469–488.

Farrell, S. (2014). Correcting the correction of conditional recency slopes. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21, 1–6.

Farrell, S. and Oberauer, K. (2014). Working memory for cross-domain sequences. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , 67, 33-44. [Unpublished manuscript reporting an additional experiment using words rather than nonwords as stimuli].

Farrell, S. and Hurlstone, M. J. and Lewandowksy, S. (2013). Sequential dependencies in recall of sequences: Filling in the blanks. Memory & Cognition, 41, 938–952.

Farrell, S. (2013). Serial Order Memory, Computational Perspectives. In H. Pashler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Mind. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Farrell, S., & Lelievre, A. (2012). The dynamics of access to groups in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38, 1659-1674.

Farrell, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2012). Response suppression contributes to recency in serial recall. Memory & Cognition, 40, 1070--1080.

Oberauer, K., Lewandowsky, S., Farrell, S., Jarrold, C., & Greaves, M. (2012). Modeling working memory: An interference model of complex span. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19, 779-819.

Oberauer, K., Farrell, S., Jarrold, C., Pasiecznik, K., & Greaves, M. (2012). Interference between maintenance and processing in working memory: The effect of item-distractor similarity in complex span. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Leaning, Memory, and Cognition, 38, 665-685.

Farrell, S. (2012). Temporal clustering and sequencing in short-term memory and episodic memory. Psychological Review, 119, 223--271. [Errata applying to particulars of model description][Simulation code].

Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., Farrell, S., & Brown, G. D. A. (2012). Models of cognition and constraints from neuroscience: A case study involving consolidation. Australian Journal of Psychology, 64, 37-45.

Ludwig, C. J. H., Farrell, S., Ellis, L. A., Hardwicke, T., & Gilchrist, I. D. (2012). Context-gated statistical learning and its role in visual-saccadic decisions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 41,, 150-169.

Wagenmakers, E.-J., van der Maas, H. L. J., & Farrell, S. (2012). Abstract concepts require concrete models: Why cognitive scientists have not yet embraced nonlinearly-coupled, dynamical, self-organized critical, synergistic, scale-free, exquisitely context-sensitive, interaction-dominant, multifractal, interdependent brain-body-niche systems. Topics in Cognitive Science, 4,, 87-93.

Farrell, S. (2011). Social influence benefits the wisdom of individuals in the crowd. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Letter to the editor) . [Comment on Lorenz, J., Rauhut, H., Schweitzer, F., & Helbing, D. (2011). How social influence can undermine the wisdom of crowd effect. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, 9020-9025.]

Farrell, S., Wise, V., & Lelievre, A. (2011). Relations between timing, position and grouping in short-term memory. Memory & Cognition, 39, 573-587.

Farrell, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2010). Computational models as aids to better reasoning in psychology. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 329-335.

Farrell, S., Ludwig, C. L., Ellis, L. A., & Gilchrist, I D. (2010). The influence of environmental statistics on inhibition of saccadic return. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 929-934. [Erratum applying to Equation 1] [Data]

Farrell, S. (2010). Dissociating conditional recency in immediate and delayed free recall: A challenge for unitary models of recency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 324-347.

Ludwig, C. J. H., Farrell, S., Ellis, L. A., & Gilchrist, I. D. (2009). The mechanism underlying inhibition of saccadic return. Cognitive Psychology, 59, 180-202.

Farrell, S. & Lelievre, A. (2009). Is scanning in probed order recall articulatory?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1843-1858.

Farrell, S. & Lelievre, A. (2009). End anchoring in short-term order memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 60, 209-227.

Farrell, S. & Ludwig, C. J. H. (2008). Bayesian and maximum likelihood estimation of hierarchical response time models. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15,1209-1217

Farrell, S. & Lewandowsky, S. (2008). Empirical and theoretical limits on lag-recency in free recall.Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 1236-1250.

    Initial submission of Farrell & Lewandowsky lag-recency limits paper, which presents some further explorations of the model and simulations relevant to Howard & Kahana's reply.

Lewandowsky, S. & Farrell, S. (2008). Short-term memory: New data and a model. The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 49, 1-48.

Farrell, S. (2008). Multiple roles for time in short-term memory: Evidence from serial recall of order and timing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 128-145. [data]

Lewandowsky, S., & Farrell, S. (2008). Phonological similarity in serial recall: Constraints on theories of memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 429-448.

Farrell, S., & McLaughlin, K. (2007). Short-term recognition memory for serial order and timing. Memory & Cognition, 35, 1724-1734. [data]

Unterhalter, G., Farrell, S., & Mohr, C. (2007). Selective memory biases for words reflecting gender-specific body image concerns. Eating Behaviors, 8, 382-389.

Farrell, S. (2006). Mixed-list phonological similarity effects in delayed serial recall. Journal of Memory and Language, 55,  587-600. [data]

Farrell, S., Wagenmakers, E.-J., & Ratcliff, R. (2006). 1/f noise in human cognition: Is it ubiquitous, and what does it mean? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 737-741.

    Code for above paper--feel free to use, cite Farrell, Wagenmakers, & Ratcliff paper if you do [matlab code][R code].
    Unpublished report of benchmarking simulations comparing Thornton & Gilden's (2005) spectral classifier to the ARFIMA method.

Farrell, S., Ratcliff, R., Cherian, A., & Segraves, M. (2006). Modeling unidimensional categorization in monkeys. Learning & Behavior, 34, 86-101.

Wagenmakers, E.-J., Farrell, S., & Ratcliff, R. (2005). Human cognition and a pile of sand: A discussion on serial correlations and self-organized criticality. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 134, 108-116.

Wagenmakers, E.-J., Farrell, S., & Ratcliff, R. (2004). Estimation and interpretation of 1/f noise in human cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 579-615.

Farrell, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2004). Modelling transposition latencies: Constraints for theories of serial order memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 51, 115-135. [data]

Wagenmakers, E-J., Farrell, S., & Ratcliff, R. (2004). Naive nonparametric bootstrap model weights are biased. Biometrics, 60, 281-283.

Wagenmakers, E-J., & Farrell, S. (2004). AIC model selection using Akaike weights. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 192-196

Farrell, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2003). Dissimilar items benefit from phonological similarity in serial recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 838-849.

Farrell, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2002). An endogenous model of ordering in serial recall. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9, 59-79. [matlab code]

Farrell, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2000). A connectionist model of complacency and adaptive recovery under automation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 395-410.

Farrell, S., and Lewandowksy, S. (2000). The case against distributed representations: Lack of evidence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 476-477.

Lewandowsky, S., & Farrell, S. (2000). A redintegration account of the effects of speech rate, lexicality, and word frequency in immediate serial recall. Psychological Research, 63, 163-173.

Miscellaneous

Farrell, S. (2003). Review of "Memory from A to Z", by Yadin Dudai (OUP). Perception, 32, 1279-1280.

Farrell, S. (2001). Similarity-sensitive encoding, redintegration, and response suppression in serial recall. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Western Australia.

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