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As cognitive neuroscientists, we try to understand how mechanisms in the brain give rise to cognitive phenomena

Our lab’s specific focus is on using behavioural, computational and neuroimaging methods to understand how the brain supports learning, attention, memory and perception.

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Increasing stimulus similarity drives nonmonotonic representational change in hippocampus.

bioRxiv

Wammes, J. D.
Norman, K. A.
Turk-Browne, N. B.
Competition in Memory

Drawing and memory: Using visual production to alleviate concreteness effects.

Psychonomic bulletin & review, 28(1), 259-267

Roberts, B. R. T.
Wammes, J. D.
Drawing and Memory

Studying episodic memory using real-time fMRI

fMRI Neurofeedback, (pp. 107-130).

Wammes, J. D.
Lin, Q
Norman, K. A.
Turk-Browne, N. B.
Other

Relating visual production and recognition of objects in human visual cortex.

Journal of Neuroscience, 40(8), 1710-1721

Fan, J.E.
Wammes, J. D.
Gunn, J. B.
Yamins, D. L. K.
Norman, K. A.
Turk-Browne, N. B.
Drawing and Memory

Synthesizing images from deep neural networks to map the hierarchy of feature complexity in human visual cortex.

Journal of Vision, 20(11), 556

Wammes, J. D.
Peng, K.
Norman, K. A.
Turk-Browne, N. B.
Competition in Memory

The sound of inattention: Predicting mind wandering with automatically derived features of instructor speech.

International conference on artificial intelligence in education, 204-215

Gliser, I.
Mills, C.
Bosch, N.
Smith, S.
Smilek, D.
Wammes, J.D.
Zoning Out

Synthesizing images with deep neural networks to manipulate representational similarity and induce representational change.

Journal of Vision, 19(10), 202d-202d

Wammes, J. D.
Norman, K. A.
Turk-Browne, N. B.
Competition in Memory

Relating visual production and recognition of objects in human visual cortex.

bioRxiv, 724294

Fan, J. E.
Wammes, J. D.
Gunn, J. B.
Yamins, D. L.
Norman, K. A.
Turk-Browne, N. B.
Drawing and Memory
Competition in Memory

Drawing improves memory: The importance of multimodal encoding context.

Cognition, 191, 103955

Wammes, J. D.
Jonker, T. R.
Fernandes, M. A.
Drawing and Memory

Comparing the influence of doodling, drawing, and writing at encoding on memory.

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73, 28-36

Meade, M. E.
Wammes, J. D.
Fernandes, M. A.
Drawing and Memory

Disengagement during lectures: Media multitasking and mind wandering in university classrooms.

Computers & Education, 132, 76-89

Wammes, J. D.
Ralph, B. C. W.
Mills, C.
Bosch, N.
Duncan, T. L.
Smilek, D.
Zoning Out

Task preparation as a mnemonic: The benefits of drawing (and not drawing).

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 25, 2365-2372.

Wammes, J. D.
Roberts, B. R.
Fernandes, M. A
Drawing and Memory

Drawing enhances item information but undermines sequence information in memory.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 45, 689-699.

Jonker, T. R.
Wammes, J. D.
MacLeod, C. M.
Drawing and Memory

Drawing as an encoding tool: Memorial benefits in younger and older adults.

Experimental Aging Research, 44, 369-396.

Meade, M. E.
Wammes, J. D.
Fernandes, M. A.
Drawing and Memory

The surprisingly powerful influence of drawing on memory.

Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27, 302-308.

Fernandes, M. A.
Wammes, J. D.
Meade, M. E.
Drawing and Memory

Creating a recollection-based memory through drawing.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44, 734-751.

Wammes, J. D.
Meade, M. E.
Fernandes, M. A.
Drawing and Memory

Quantifying classroom instructor dynamics with computer vision. In C. Rosé, R. Martínez-Maldonado, H. U. Hoppe, R. Luckin, M. Mavrikis, K. Porayska-Pomsta, … B. du Boulay (Eds.)

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2018). (pp. 30-42).

Bosch, N.
Mills, C.
Wammes, J. D.
Smilek, D.
Zoning Out

On the Clock: Evidence for the Rapid and Strategic Modulation of Mind Wandering.

Psychological Science, 29, 1247-1256.

Seli, P.
Carriere, J.
Wammes, J. D.
Risko, E. F.
Schacter, D. L.
Smilek, D.
Zoning Out

Learning terms and definitions: Drawing and the role of elaborative encoding.

Acta Psychologica, 179, 104-113.

Wammes, J. D.
Meade, M. E.
Fernandes, M. A
Drawing and Memory

The residual protective effects of enactment.

Cognition, 184, 87-101.

Wammes, J. D.
Fernandes, M. A
Multitasking

Examining the influence of lecture format on degree of mind wandering.

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 174-184.

Wammes, J. D.
Smilek, D.
Zoning Out

Wandering minds and wavering goals: Examining the relation between mind wandering and grit in everyday life, the laboratory, and the classroom.

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 120-132.

Ralph, B. C. W.
Wammes, J. D.
Barr, N.
Smilek, D.
Zoning Out

Autobiographical and episodic memory deficits in mild traumatic brain injury.

Brain and Cognition, 111, 112-126.

Wammes, J. D.
Good, T. J.
Fernandes, M. A.

Interfering with free recall of words: Detrimental effects of phonological competition.

Neuropsychologia, 90, 59-71.

Fernandes, M. A
Wammes, J. D.
Priselac, S.
Moscovitch, M.
Multitasking

Mind wandering during lectures I: Changes in rates across an entire semester.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 2, 13-32.

Wammes, J. D.
Boucher, P. O.
Seli, P.
Cheyne, J. A.
Smilek, D.
Zoning Out

Mind wandering during lectures II: Relation to academic performance.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 2, 33-48.

Wammes, J. D.
Seli, P.
Cheyne, J. A.
Boucher, P. O.
Smilek, D.
Zoning Out

The drawing effect: Evidence for reliable and robust memory benefits in free recall.

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69, 1752-1776.

Wammes, J. D.
Meade, M. E.
Fernandes, M. A.
Drawing and Memory

Interfering with memory for faces: The cost of doing two things at once.

Memory, 24, 184-203.

Wammes, J. D.
Fernandes, M. A.
Multitasking

Representation of linguistic information determines its susceptibility to memory interference.

Brain Sciences, 3, 1244-1260.

Fernandes, M. A.
Wammes, J. D.
Hsiao, J. H.
Multitasking

Integrating words that refer to typical sequences of events.

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 106-114.

Khalkhali, S.
Wammes, J. D.
McRae, K.

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