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| M E MassonSummaryAffiliation: University of Victoria Country: Canada Publications
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Conceptually driven encoding episodes create perceptual misattributionsM E Masson
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Acta Psychol (Amst) 98:183-210. 1998....
A tutorial on a practical Bayesian alternative to null-hypothesis significance testingMichael E J Masson
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Room A234, Cornett Building, P O Box 3050 STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 3P5, Canada
Behav Res Methods 43:679-90. 2011..This method also obviates admonitions never to speak of accepting the null hypothesis. An Excel worksheet for computing the Bayesian analysis is provided as supplemental material...- Sources of bias in the Goodman-Kruskal gamma coefficient measure of association: implications for studies of metacognitive processesMichael E J Masson
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 35:509-27. 2009..A distribution-specific variant of G, called G-sub(c), is introduced to show why this bias arises. The findings imply that caution is needed when using G as a measure of accuracy, and alternative measures are recommended... - Language-based access to gestural components of conceptual knowledgeMichael E J Masson
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 61:869-82. 2008..Our findings elucidate the types of motor representations that are directly linked to the meaning of words referring to manipulable objects in sentences... - Task set persistence modulates word reading following resolution of picture-word interferenceMichael E J Masson
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Mem Cognit 35:2012-8. 2007..Modulation of word reading, therefore, appears to be the result of interference from a persistent picture-naming task set, cued by a stimulus configuration that invites execution of both competing tasks... - When words collide: facilitation and interference in the report of repeated words from rapidly presented listsMichael E J Masson
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, PO Box 3050 STN CSC, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 3P5
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 30:1279-89. 2004..The sensitivity of the effects of repetition to postlist cues supports a construction rather than an encoding inhibition account of repetition blindness... - Using confidence intervals for graphically based data interpretationMichael E J Masson
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Can J Exp Psychol 57:203-20. 2003..These graphical techniques lend themselves to a natural and straightforward assessment of statistical power... - Modulation of word-reading processes in task switchingMichael E J Masson
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
J Exp Psychol Gen 132:400-18. 2003..The modulation effect was replicated using phoneme detection instead of word naming but not with lexical decision or visual comparison, implicating a phonological encoding process... - Bias in masked word identification: unconscious influences of repetition primingMichael E J Masson
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Psychon Bull Rev 9:773-9. 2002..These results provide strong evidence that the bias effect is not mediated by conscious recollection... - Priming of reach and grasp actions by handled objectsMichael E J Masson
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, P O Box 3050 STN CSC, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3P5, Canada
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 37:1470-84. 2011..This constraint suggests that rotated objects evoke motor representations only when they afford the potential to be readily positioned for functional action... - The influence of selection for response on repetition priming of word identificationM E Masson
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Can J Exp Psychol 53:381-93. 1999..These results suggest that priming effects are strongest when study tasks require an item to be selected as the basis for an overt response, even though the information on which study and test responses are based may be different... - Taking the "text" out of context effects in repetition priming of word identificationM E Masson
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, P O Box 3050, Victoria, BC, V8W 3P5 Canada
Mem Cognit 28:1090-7. 2000..We conclude that presenting a target in context prevents it from being encoded and responded to as distinctively as when presented in isolation... - When lust is lost: orthographic similarity effects in the encoding and reconstruction of rapidly presented word listsM E Masson
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 26:1005-22. 2000.... - Masked priming of words and nonwords in a naming task: further evidence for a nonlexical basis for primingM E Masson
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Mem Cognit 27:399-412. 1999..We suggest that masked primes can enhance target identification by contributing to the construction of an orthographic or a phonological representation of the target, regardless of the target's lexical status... - Covert operations: orthographic recoding as a basis for repetition priming in word identificationMichael E J Masson
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 28:858-71. 2002..Priming on perceptually based word identification tests that results from a generate study episode may be largely due to orthographic recoding of the target rather than to conceptual processing... - More than meets the eye: context effects in word identificationM E Masson
University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Mem Cognit 26:1245-69. 1998..The model also predicts results with two other analytic methods that have been used to argue for priming effects on perceptual encoding... - Repetition proportion biases masked priming of lexical decisionsGlen E Bodner
Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Mem Cognit 34:1298-311. 2006..The increased costs and benefits of repetition priming when RP is higher implicate a context-sensitive mechanism that constrains accounts of masked priming... - Beyond binary judgments: prime validity modulates masked repetition priming in the naming taskGlen E Bodner
Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
Mem Cognit 32:1-11. 2004..8 rather than .2 of the trials involved repetition (vs. unrelated) primes. Prime validity effects are consistent with a memory recruitment view of priming but may be difficult to explain using activation-based mechanisms... - Target-distractor interference in the attentional blink implicates the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine systemChristopher M Warren
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Psychon Bull Rev 16:1106-11. 2009..Consistent with our modification of the LC-NE account, this result suggests a temporarily enhanced LC-NE system response to increased target-distractor interference... - Grasping beer mugs: on the dynamics of alignment effects induced by handled objectsDaniel N Bub
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, PO Box 3050 STN CSC, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3P5, Canada
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 36:341-58. 2010.... - On the nature of hand-action representations evoked during written sentence comprehensionDaniel N Bub
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, P O Box 3050 STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W3P5, Canada
Cognition 116:394-408. 2010..These results provide evidence that representations of object-related hand actions are evoked as part of sentence processing. In addition, we discuss the conditions that elicit context-specific evocation of motor representations... - Long-term repetition priming of briefly identified objectsAndreas T Breuer
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 35:487-98. 2009.... - The bicycle illusion: sidewalk science informs the integration of motion and shape perceptionMichael E J Masson
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 35:133-45. 2009..The bicycle illusion provides a unique opportunity for studying the interactions between shape and motion perception... - I'd know that face anywhere!Vincenza Gruppuso
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Psychon Bull Rev 14:1085-9. 2007.... - Evocation of functional and volumetric gestural knowledge by objects and wordsDaniel N Bub
University of Victoria, Department of Psychology, P O Box 3050 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3P5
Cognition 106:27-58. 2008..We discuss the implication of these results for theories of action evoked by objects and words, and for interpretation of functional imaging results... - Gesturing and naming: the use of functional knowledge in object identificationDaniel N Bub
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Psychol Sci 14:467-72. 2003..Preliminary evidence, however, indicates that gestures evoked by the volumetric shape of an object do contribute to object naming... - Cognitive control in children: stroop interference and suppression of word readingDaniel N Bub
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Psychol Sci 17:351-7. 2006..We propose that greater Stroop interference among younger children is not due to lack of ability to suppress word reading, but instead is the result of a failure to consistently maintain the task set of color naming... - Beyond spreading activation: an influence of relatedness proportion on masked semantic primingGlen E Bodner
Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Psychon Bull Rev 10:645-52. 2003..These results are interpreted within a retrospective account of semantic priming in which recruitment of a prime event is modulated by prime validity... - Conscious and unconscious influences of memory for object locationJ I Caldwell
University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Mem Cognit 29:285-95. 2001..These results were closely fit by a multinomial model assuming independence between conscious and unconscious influences of memory... - Repetition blindness in rapid lists: activation and inhibition versus construction and attributionBruce W A Whittlesea
Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 31:54-67. 2005..It is proposed that repetition blindness can better be understood through the principles of construction and attribution... - Category specificity in normal episodic learning: applications to object recognition and category-specific agnosiaCindy M Bukach
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, P O Box 3050 STN CSC, Vic, BC, Canada V8W 3P5
Cogn Psychol 48:1-46. 2004.... - False memory following rapidly presented lists: the element of surpriseBruce W A Whittlesea
Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Psychol Res 69:420-30. 2005..It is proposed that the DRM effect is best understood through the principles of construction, evaluation, and attribution... - The effect of perceptual distinctiveness on the prospective and retrospective components of prospective memory in young and old adultsAnna Lisa Cohen
University of Victoria
Can J Exp Psychol 57:274-89. 2003..Results are discussed within the context of current theoretical models of prospective memory... - Type I error rates and power analyses for single-point sensitivity measuresCaren M Rotello
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 7710, USA
Percept Psychophys 70:389-401. 2008..Type I errors are minimized when the selected sensitivity measure is theoretically appropriate for the data... - Diagnostics of phonological lexical processing: pseudohomophone naming advantages, disadvantages, and base-word frequency effectsRon Borowsky
Psychology Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Mem Cognit 30:969-87. 2002..A strategy-based scaling account of the data is argued to provide a better explanation of the data than is the criterion-homogenization theory (Lupker, Brown, & Colombo, 1997)...