Douglas J. K. Mewhort

Professor
Department of Psychology

B.A. (Hon.), University of Toronto, 1964
M.A., University of Waterloo, 1965
Ph.D., University of Waterloo, 1968

Telephone: 613-533-2883
Fax: 613-533-2499

e-mail: mewhortd at queensu.ca

Address

Department of Psychology,
Queen's University at Kingston
Kingston, Ontario
K7L 3N6

Research Interests

My research concerns human performance and how to model it. Current work centres on computational models for perception and memory with emphasis on decision and choice in speeded-performance tasks.

Other interests

I am actively involved in the development of the supercomputer centre established by a consortium of four Eastern Ontario universities Queen's, Carleton, RMC and Ottawa (link to www.HPCVL.org )

Selected Publications

Jones, M. N., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2004) Tracking Attention with the Focus-Window Technique: The Information Filter Must be Calibrated. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 36, 270-276.
Jones, M. N. & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2004). Case-sensitive letter and bigram frequency counts from large-scale English corpora. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 36, 388-396.
Jamieson, R. K., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2005). The influence of grammatical and local and organizational redundancy on implicit learning: An analysis using information theory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 31, 9-23.
Mewhort, D. J. K., & Johns, E. E. (2005). Sharpening the echo: An iterative-resonance model for short-term recognition memory. Memory, 13, 300-307.
Mewhort, D. J. K. (in press). A comparison of the randomization test with the F test when error is skewed. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments and Computers.

The Human Information Processing Lab (HIP Lab)

Last updated: January 2008