Researchers have become increasingly aware that data-analysis decisions affect results.
Here, we examine this issue systematically for multinomial processing tree (MPT) models, a …

Whether working memory reflects a thresholded recollection process whereby only a limited
number of items are maintained in memory, or a signal detection process in which each …

Signal detection theory is one of psychology's most well-known and influential theoretical
frameworks. However, the conceptual hurdles that had to be overcome before the theory …

The ability to remember associations among components of an event, which is central to
episodic memory, declines with normal aging. In accord with the specificity principle of …

The ability to adjust bias, or preference for an option, allows for great behavioral flexibility.
Decision bias is also important for understanding cognition as it can provide useful …

Age-related deficits in associative episodic memory have been widely reported, but recent
research suggests that some of these deficits occur for highly specific but not gist …

Much recent research has aimed to establish whether visual working memory (WM) is better
characterized by a limited number of discrete all-or-none slots or by a continuous sharing of …

Abstract Effects of divided attention (DA) during encoding on later memory performance are
widely documented. However, the precise nature of these effects on underlying memory …

There is a replication crisis in science, to which psychological research has not been
immune: Many effects have proven uncomfortably difficult to reproduce. Although the …

Signal detection theory (SDT) plays a central role in the characterization of human
judgments in a wide range of domains, most prominently in recognition memory. But despite …