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Cognitive Psychology

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#353

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PhD Psychology Stanford University
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According to Wikipedia, Geoffrey Loftus is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington. He specializes in memory and attention, and his most recent research focuses on face perception and hindsight bias. Loftus received a B.A. in experimental psychology from Brown University in 1967 and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Stanford University in 1971, where his advisor was Richard C. Atkinson. He subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship under the mentorship of George Sperling in 1972, and he joined the faculty of the University of Washington shortly thereafter, where he has remained since. He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the 1995–1996 academic year. Geoff Loftus was married to fellow psychologist Elizabeth Loftus from 1968 to 1991. They are now divorced, but remain close colleagues. Geoff Loftus retired from full-time professorship in July, 2017, primarily to focus on his legal work. He still regularly testifies as an expert witness.

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Geoffrey Loftus's Published Works

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Using confidence intervals in within-subject designs (1994) (2523)
Cognitive determinants of fixation location during picture viewing. (1978) (890)
On the permanence of stored information in the human brain. (1980) (542)
Some facts about “weapon focus” (1987) (465)
Psychology Will Be a Much Better Science When We Change the Way We Analyze Data (1996) (387)
On interpretation of interactions (1978) (346)
Eye fixations and recognition memory for pictures (1972) (303)
Eye fixations and memory for emotional events. (1991) (297)
Evaluating forgetting curves. (1985) (274)
Accounts of the confidence-accuracy relation in recognition memory (2000) (264)
Mind at Play; The Psychology of Video Games (1983) (200)
The functional visual field during picture viewing. (1980) (168)
A picture is worth a thousandp values: On the irrelevance of hypothesis testing in the microcomputer age (1993) (163)
Why is it easier to identify someone close than far away? (2005) (141)
Human Memory (2019) (121)
Two types of information in picture memory. (1975) (116)
Standard errors and confidence intervals in within-subjects designs: Generalizing Loftus and Masson (1994) and avoiding the biases of alternative accounts (2012) (112)
The "saw-it-all-along" effect: demonstrations of visual hindsight bias. (2004) (109)
Picture perception: effects of luminance on available information and information-extraction rate. (1985) (107)
On the time course of perceptual information that results from a brief visual presentation. (1992) (107)
On the Tyranny of Hypothesis Testing in the Social Sciences (1991) (103)
Hindsight bias from 3 to 95 years of age. (2011) (102)
Sensory and cognitive components of visual information acquisition. (1994) (99)
Atkinson & Hilgard s Introduction to Psychology (2015) (97)
Linear theory, dimensional theory, and the face-inversion effect. (2004) (88)
On the Relations among Different Measures of Visible and Informational Persistence (1998) (87)
Encoding and use of detail information in picture recognition. (1979) (78)
How much is an icon worth? (1985) (78)
Essence Of Statistics (1982) (76)
Why Figures with Error Bars Should Replace p Values Some Conceptual Arguments and Empirical Demonstrations (2015) (73)
OF EXPERIMENTAL DATA (2001) (71)
Hindsight bias and developing theories of mind. (2007) (67)
Perceptual and conceptual masking of pictures. (1984) (65)
Analysis, Interpretation, and Visual Presentation of Experimental Data (2002) (64)
Effect of incentive on storage and retrieval processes (1970) (61)
How different spatial-frequency components contribute to visual information acquisition. (2004) (59)
Cognitive science and the law (2007) (59)
Differential Acquisition Rates for Different Types of Information from Pictures (1983) (57)
We Saw It All Along (2004) (55)
A theory of visual information acquisition and visual memory with special application to intensity-duration trade-offs. (1994) (53)
The Role of Rehearsal in Long-Term Memory Performance. (1976) (52)
Essence of statistics, 2nd ed. (1988) (50)
Short-Term Memory Factors in Ground Controller/Pilot Communication (1979) (49)
Response time versus accuracy in human memory (1999) (45)
COMPARISON OF RECOGNITION AND RECALL IN A CONTINUOUS MEMORY TASK (1971) (44)
Tachistoscopic simulations of eye fixations on pictures. (1981) (44)
Conceptual masking: How one picture captures attention from another picture (1988) (41)
Global and local vision in natural scene identification (2011) (39)
Immediate free recall and three-week delayed recognition (1970) (39)
Consistency and Confoundings: Reply to Slamecka (1985) (36)
Providing a sensory basis for models of visual information acquisition (1993) (34)
Atkinson and Hilgard's introduction to psychology : Smith and Nolen-Hoesema and Fredrickson and Loftus, 14th edition (2007) (33)
Effects of Visual Degradation on Eye-Fixation Duration, Perceptual Processing, and Long-Term Visual Memory (1992) (32)
Comprehending compass directions (1978) (32)
Learning-forgetting independence, unidimensional memory models, and feature models: comment on Bogartz (1990). (1990) (32)
Components of Short-Term Proactive Interference ~ (1975) (31)
Why is it difficult to see in the fog? How stimulus contrast affects visual perception and visual memory (2004) (30)
21 – Eye Fixations on Text and Scenes1 (1983) (30)
Sensory and Perceptual Storage (1996) (27)
Understanding natural scenes: Contributions of image statistics (2017) (26)
Retrieval of words from subordinate and superordinate categories in semantic hierarchies (1970) (25)
A front end to a theory of picture recognition (1999) (25)
Data analysis as insight: Reply to Morrison and Weaver (1995) (24)
The phenomenology of spatial integration: Data and models (1989) (22)
Acquisition of information from rapidly presented verbal and nonverbal stimuli (1974) (19)
Confidence–accuracy relations for faces and scenes: Roles of features and familiarity (2012) (18)
Applications of multiprocess models for memory to continuous recognition tasks (1969) (17)
MATLAB and graphical user interfaces: Tools for experimental management (2000) (16)
Object identification in preschool children and adults. (2005) (16)
Changes in Memory Structure and Retrieval over the Course of Instruction. (1974) (14)
Johannes Kepler’s computer simulation of the universe: Some remarks about theory in psychology (1985) (12)
Different confidence-accuracy relationships for feature-based and familiarity-based memories. (2011) (12)
CHAPTER 9 – Picture Memory Methodology (1982) (12)
An IBM XT-compatible, computer-based, slide-projector laboratory (1988) (11)
The continuing persistence of the icon (1983) (10)
A model for conceptual processing of naturalistic scenes. (1993) (8)
Binocular information acquisition and visual memory. (1998) (8)
General software for an on-line eye-movement recording system (1975) (8)
On-line eye movement recorders: The good, the bad, and the ugly (1979) (8)
On Worthwhile Icons: Reply to Di Lollo and Haber (1985) (8)
An Apple II-based slide-projector laboratory (1984) (7)
A simple, intuitive method for computing confidence intervals in within-subject designs: Generalizing Loftus & Masson (1994) and avoiding biases of alternative accounts (2012) (7)
Extraction of Information From Complex Visual Stimuli: Memory Performance and Phenomenological Appearance (1988) (7)
Comparison of set-size effects in visual search and memory (1997) (6)
Memory for events occurring under anesthesia. (1985) (6)
Observations Evaluating Forgetting Curves (2001) (6)
Games as teaching tools (1985) (6)
What can a perception-memory expert tell a jury? (2010) (6)
Conjunction Faces Alter Confidence-Accuracy Relations for Old Faces (2017) (4)
Recognition memory as influenced by number of reinforcements and type of test (1969) (4)
Multidimensional models and iconic decay: Reply to di Lollo and Dixon. (1992) (3)
PLE: A high-level multiprogramming language for psychology (1978) (3)
Remembering emotional events-differential attention versus special mechanism (1989) (3)
Statistical evaluation of clinical effectiveness (1977) (3)
Visual perception: the shifting domain of discourse (1980) (2)
The effect of expectation and available processing time on recognition of sequences of naturalistic scenes (1992) (2)
Postdictions of 20-year predictions about the state of computer technology in psychology (and one or two other matters) (1991) (2)
Size illusion, distance illusion, and terrestrial passage: comment on reed. (1985) (1)
Standard errors and confidence intervals in within-subjects designs: Generalizing Loftus and Masson (1994) and avoiding the biases of alternative accounts (2012) (1)
FAMILIAR OLD WINE: GREAT NEW BOTTLE (2004) (1)
Information-acquisition rate, short-term memory, and cognitive equivalence: reply to Sperling. (1986) (1)
Familiar Old Wine: Great New Bottle@@@Statistics as Principled Argument (1997) (1)
What do we know about facial cognition? What should we do with this knowledge? (2003) (1)
Primes speed up visual information acquisition rate (1986) (1)
VISTO: An open-source device to measure exposure time in psychological experiments (2021) (1)
Au th or ' s pe rs on al co py Cognitive science and the law (2007) (0)
On the Permanence of Information Stored in the Human Brain (2016) (0)
Elizabeth F. Loftus: The Early Years (2007) (0)
Notices and Announcements (1997) (0)
The Null Hypothesis (2009) (0)
North-Holland 123 MEMORY FOR EVENTS OCCURRING UNDER ANESTHESIA (2002) (0)
A random sampling model of visual information acquisition (1992) (0)
Top-down guidance from a bottom-up theory (1982) (0)
The Last Thing (2017) (0)
Broadbent's Maltese cross memory model: Something old, something new, something borrowed, something missing (1984) (0)
COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY An Apple II-based slide-projector laboratory (1985) (0)
Item-specific effects in recognition failure: Reasons for rejection of the Tulving-Wiseman function (2010) (0)
COGNITION, EXPERT TESTIMONY, AND THEORIES OF LEGALLY RELEVANT EVENTS (2010) (0)
The Joy of Secondary Sources. (1989) (0)
10 Response Time versus Accuracy in Human Memory (2014) (0)
Long-Term Memory for Meaningful Material (2019) (0)
A method for influencing the color acceptance behavior (1995) (0)
Recall of short word lists presented visually at fast rates: Effects of phonological similarity and word length (2010) (0)
Irrelevant speech eliminates the word length effect (2010) (0)
An apparatus for feeding sheets (1994) (0)
Corrigendum to “VISTO: An open-source device to measure exposure time in psychological experiments” (2021) (0)
Thanks to our guest reviewers (1985) (0)
A method of imaging a printing form on a printing form cylinder in a printing unit of a rotary printing machine with an inking unit (1995) (0)
Confidence–accuracy relations for faces and scenes: Roles of features and familiarity (2012) (0)
Notices and Announcements (1997) (0)
Short-Term Store (2019) (0)
Repeated writing facilitates children's memory for pseudocharacters and foreign letters (2010) (0)
Elizabeth f loftus (2013) (0)
Cleaning device for printing units of rotary printing presses (1995) (0)
A research framework for investigating information acquisition and loss. (1988) (0)
"Hindsight bias from 3 to 95 years of age": Correction to Bernstein et al. (2011). (2011) (0)

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