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Curriculum Vitae
 

EDUCATION
Degree
Year Conferred
Institution
B.A. (Biology & Psychology)
M.A.   (Clinical  Psychology)
Ph.D.   (Clinical  Psychology)
1981
1984
1987
University of Calif., San Diego
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
     

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Pre-doctoral Intern, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (9/86-8/87)
  • Instructor, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (9/87-6/88)
  • Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego (7/88-6/94)
  • Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego (7/94-6/98)
  • Professor, University of California, San Diego (7/98-present, Department Chair, 2003-present)

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Outstanding Teaching Award ( Revelle College, 1992; Warren, 1993, 1996; Muir, 1996)
  • Distinguished Teaching Award (UCSD Alumni Association, 1995)
  • George A. Miller Award for the Best Article in General Psychology (APA, Division 1, 2000)
  • Elected Fellow, Society of Experimental Psychologists, 2004
  • F. J. McGuigan Lecture on Understanding the Human Mind, American Psychological Foundation (APA, 2008)
  • Elected Fellow, Association for Behavior Analysis International (2011)
  • Howard Crosby Warren Medal (Society of Experimental Psychologists, 2011)
  • Elected Fellow, Association for Psychological Science (2012)

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

  • Serial Memory in Animals (NSF, 8/89 - 7/91, $90,699)
  • Reinforcement-Based Models of DMTS Performance (NSF, 4/92 - 3/95, $196,536)
  • Signal Detection Theory and Memory for Asymmetric Events (NIMH, 9/96 - 8/99, $190,759)
  • Signal Detection Theory and Memory for Asymmetric Events (NIMH, 11/01 - 7/04, $339,920)
  • On the Nature of Recollection (NIH R01, 6/09 - 5/12, $579,376)
  • Signal-Detection Theory and Eyewitness Memory (NSF, 4/12 – 1/14, $150,000)

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

  • Editor:
    • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (1/98-1/02)
  • Associate Editor:
    • Psychological Review (1/2010 - present)
    • Cognitive Psychology (5/02-1/06)
    • Memory & Cognition (1/97-1/98)
    • Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (7/93-8/96)
  • Board of Editors:
    • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (2012-present)
    • JEP: General (2011-present)
    • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (1995-1998, 2002-present)
    • Psychological Review (2003-2010)
    • Annual Review of Psychology (2002-2006)
    • Learning & Behavior (1998-2004)
    • JEP: Learning, Memory and Cognition (1993-1994)
    • Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (1992-1994)
    • Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (1990-1993)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Psychonomic Society
  • Association for Psychological Science
  • Association for Behavior Analysis
  • Society for Neuroscience
 

PUBLICATIONS

  • Case, D. A., Fantino, E., & Wixted, J. (1985). Human observing: Maintained by negative informative stimuli only if correlated with improvement in response efficiency. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 43, 289-300.
  • McDowell, J. J, & Wixted, J. T. (1986). Variable-ratio schedules as variable-interval schedules with linear feedback loops. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 46, 315-329.
  • Williams, B. A. & Wixted, J. T. (1986). An equation for behavioral contrast. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 45, 47-62.
  • Gross, A. M., & Wixted, J. T. (1987). Oppositional behavior. In M. Hersen & V. B. Van Hasselt (Eds.), Behavioral therapy with children and adolescents: A clinical approach (pp. 301-324). New York: Wiley.
  • Gross, A. M., & Wixted, J. T. (1988). Assessment of child behavior problems. In M. Hersen & A. S. Bellack (Eds.), Behavioral assessment: A practical handbook (pp. 578-608). New York: Pergamon.
  • McDowell, J. J, & Wixted, J. T. (1988). The linear system theory's account of behavior maintained by variable-ratio schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 49, 143-169.
  • Wixted, J. T., Morrison, R. L., & Bellack, A. S. (1988). Social skills training in the treatment of negative symptoms. International Journal of Mental Health, 17, 3-21.
  • Morrison, R. L., & Wixted, J. T. (1989). Social skills training. In A. S. Bellack (Ed.), A clinical guide for the treatment of schizophrenia (pp. 237-261). New York: Plenum.
  • Wixted, J. T. (1989). Nonhuman short-term memory: A quantitative reanalysis of selected findings. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 52, 409-426.
  • Wixted, J. T. (1989). The vocabulary of remembering: A review of Kendrick, Rilling, and Denny's Theories of animal memory. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 52, 441-450.
  • Wixted, J. T., & McDowell, J. J (1989). Contributions to the functional analysis of single-trial free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15, 685-697.
  • Bellack, A. S., Morrison, R. L., Wixted, J. T., & Mueser, K. T. (1990). An analysis of social competence in schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry, 156, 809-818.
  • Morrison, R. L., Bellack, A. S., Wixted, J. T., & Mueser, K. T. (1990). Positive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia: A cluster-analytic approach. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 178, 377-384.
  • Mueser, K. T., Bellack, A. S., Morrison, R. L., & Wixted, J. T. (1990). Social competence in schizophrenia: Premorbid adjustment, social skill, and domains of functioning. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 24, 51-63.
  • Wixted, J. T. (1990). Analyzing the empirical course of forgetting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 16, 927-935.
  • Wixted, J. T., Bellack, A. S., & Hersen, M. (1990). Behavior therapy. In A. S. Bellack & M. Hersen (Eds.), Handbook of comparative treatments for adult disorders (pp. 17-33). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Wixted, J. T. (1991). Conditions and consequences of maintenance rehearsal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 17, 963-973.
  • Wixted, J. T., & Ebbesen, E. (1991). On the form of forgetting. Psychological Science, 2, 409-415.
  • Wixted, J. T. (1992). Subjective memorability and the mirror effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 681-690.
  • Wixted, J. T., Morrison, R. L., & Rinaldi, R. C. (1993). Psychiatric assessment and diagnosis: Adults. In A. S. Bellack & M. Hersen (Eds.), Handbook of behavior therapy in the psychiatric setting (pp. 73-97). New York: Plenum.
  • Wixted, J. T. (1993). A signal detection analysis of memory for nonoccurrence in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 19, 400-411.
  • Wixted, J. T., & Rohrer, D. (1993). Proactive interference and the dynamics of free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 19, 1024-1039.
  • Rohrer, D. & Wixted, J. T. (1994). An analysis of latency and interresponse time in free recall. Memory & Cognition, 22, 511-524.
  • Williams, B. A., & Wixted, J. T. (1994). Shortcomings of the behavioral competition theory of contrast: Re-analysis of McLean (1992). Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 61, 107-112.
  • Wixted, J. T., & Rohrer, D. (1994). Analyzing the dynamics of free recall: An integrative review of the empirical literature. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1, 89-106.
  • Rohrer, D., Wixted, J. T., Salmon, D. P., & Butters, N. (1995). The time course of retrieval from semantic memory and its implications for Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 21, 1127-1139.
  • McDowell, J. E., Clementz, B. A., & Wixted, J. T. (1996). Timing and amplitude during predictive saccadic tracking in schizophrenia. Psychophysiology, 33, 93-101.
  • Dougherty, D. H., & Wixted, J. T. (1996). Detecting a nonevent: Delayed presence-vs.-absence discrimination in pigeons. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 65, 81-92.
  • Hartl, J. A., Dougherty, D. H., & Wixted, J. T. (1996). Separating the effects of trial-specific and average sample stimulus duration in delayed matching-to-sample in pigeons. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 66, 231-242.
  • Wixted, J. T., & Dougherty, D. H. (1996). Memory for asymmetric events. In D. L. Medin (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning & Motivation (Vol. 35, pp. 89-126). San Diego: Academic Press.
  • Wixted, J. T., Ghadisha, H., & Vera, R. (1997). Recall latency following pure- and mixed-strength lists: A direct test of the relative strength model of free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 23, 523-538.
  • Wixted, J. T., & Ebbesen, E. (1997). Genuine power curves in forgetting. Memory & Cognition, 25, 731-739.
  • Cook, R., & Wixted, J. T. (1997). Same-different texture discrimination in pigeons: Testing competing models of discrimination and stimulus integration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 23, 401-416.
  • Wixted, J. T. (1998). Remembering and forgetting. In K. A. Lattal & M. Perone (Eds.), Handbook of human operant research methods (pp. 263-289). New York: Plenum Press.
  • Stretch, V., & Wixted, J. T. (1998). On the difference between strength-based and frequency-based mirror effects in recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 24, 1379-1396.
  • Stretch, V., & Wixted, J. T. (1998). Decision rules for recognition memory confidence judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 24, 1397-1410.
  • White, K. G., & Wixted, J. T. (1999). Psychophysics of remembering. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 71, 91-113. [2000 GEORGE MILLER AWARD]
  • Rohrer, D., Salmon, D. P., Wixted, J. T., & Paulsen, J. S. (1999). The disparate effects of Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease on semantic memory. Neuropsychology, 13, 381-388.
  • Wixted, J. T., & Stretch, V. (2000). The case against a criterion-shift account of false memory. Psychological Review, 107, 368-376.
  • Gaitan, S., & Wixted, J. T. (2000). The role of "nothing" in memory for event duration in pigeons. Animal Learning & Behavior, 28, 147-161.
  • McKenzie, C., Wixted, J. T., Noelle, D., & G. Gyudzhyan (2001). Relation between confidence in yes-no and forced-choice tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 140-155.
  • Kelley, R., & Wixted, J. T. (2001). On the nature of associative information in recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 701-722.
  • McKenzie, C. R. M., & Wixted, J. T. (2001). Participant skepticism: If you can't beat it, model it. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 424-425.
  • Stricker, J. L., Brown, G. G., Wixted, J. T., Baldo, J. V. & Delis, D. (2002). New semantic and serial clustering indices for the California Verbal Learning Test 2: Background, rationale, and formulae. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 8, 425-435.
  • Pashler, H. & Wixted, J. T. (Eds.) (2002). Stevens' handbook of experimental psychology, (3rd ed.): Volume 4: Methodology in Experimental Psychology. New York: Wiley.
  • Morrell, H., Gaitan, S. & Wixted, J. T. (2002). On the nature of the decision axis in signal detection-based models of recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 1095-1110.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Gaitan, S. (2002). Cognitive theories as reinforcement history surrogates: The case of likelihood ratio models of human recognition memory. Animal Learning & Behavior, 30, 289-305.
  • Wixted, J. T. (2003). The memoirs of an enigmatic and underappreciated memory icon. Review of Interesting Times: An encounter with the 20th Century 1924-, by George Mandler. Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 48, 149-151.
  • Wixted, J. T. (2004). The psychology and neuroscience of forgetting. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 235-269.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Gaitan, S. (2004). Stimulus salience and asymmetric forgetting in the pigeon. Learning & Behavior, 32, 173-182.
  • White, K. G., Parkinson, A. E., Brown, G. S. & Wixted, J. T. (2004). Local Proactive Interference in Delayed Matching to Sample: The Role of Reinforcement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 30, 83-95.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2004). Recall and recognition are equally impaired in patients with selective hippocampal damage. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 58-66.
  • McKenzie, C. R. M., Wixted, J. T., & Noelle, D. C. (2004). Explaining Purportedly Irrational Behavior by Modeling Skepticism in Task Parameters: An Example Examining Confidence in Forced-Choice Tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 947-959.
  • Wixted, J. T. (2004). On common ground: Jost's (1897) law of forgetting and Ribot's (1881) law of retrograde amnesia. Psychological Review,111, 864-879.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Stretch, V. (2004). In defense of the signal-detection interpretation of Remember/Know judgments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 616-641.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2004). Recall, recognition and the hippocampus: A reply to Yonelinas et al. (2004). Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 401-406.
  • Pashler, H., Cepeda, N., Wixted, J. T. & Rohrer, D. (2005). When does feedback facilitate learning words? Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 3-8.
  • Wixted, J. T. (2005). A theory about why we forget what we once knew. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 6-9.
  • Rohrer, D., Taylor, K, Pashler, H., Wixted, J. T., Cepeda, N. J. (2005). The effect of overlearning on long-term retention. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19, 361-374.
  • Singer, M. & Wixted, J. T. (2006). Effect of delay on recognition decisions: Evidence for a criterion shift. Memory & Cognition, 34, 125-137.
  • Cepeda, N. J., Pashler, H., Vul, E., Wixted, J. T. & Rohrer (2006). Distribution of practice in verbal recall tasks: a meta-analysis of the effects of time on recall. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 354-380.
  • Wais, P., Wixted, J. T., Hopkins, R. O. & Squire, L. R. (2006). The hippocampus supports both the recollection and the familiarity components of recognition memory. Neuron, 49, 459-468.
  • Wixted, J. T. (2007). Dual-process theory and signal-detection theory of recognition memory. Psychological Review, 114, 152-176.
  • Wixted, J. T. (2007). Spotlighting the probative data: Reply to Parks and Yonelinas (2007). Psychological Review, 114, 203-209.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Carpenter, S. K. (2007). The Wickelgren Power Law and the Ebbinghaus Savings Function. Psychological Science, 18, 133-134.
  • Squire, L. R., Wixted, J. T. & Clark, R. E. (2007). Recognition memory and the medial temporal lobe: a new perspective. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 8, 872-883.
  • Mickes, L, Wixted, J. T., Fennema-Notestine, C., Galasko, D., Bondi, M. W., Thal, L. & Salmon, D. (2007). Progressive impairment on neuropsychological tasks in a longitudinal study of preclinical Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychology, 21, 696-705.
  • Wixted, J. T. (2007). Signal-Detection Theory and the Neuroscience of Recognition Memory. In Nairne, J. S. (Ed) The foundations of remembering: Essays in honor of Henry L. Roediger, III (pp. 67-82). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
  • Wixted, J. T. (2007). Integrative comments: Forgetting is not the opposite of remembering. In H. L. Roediger, Y. Dudai and S. M. Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Science of Memory: Concepts (pp. 329-335). New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Mickes, L., Wixted, J. T. & Wais, P. E. (2007). A Direct Test of the Unequal-Variance Signal-Detection Model of Recognition Memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 858-865.
  • Bayley, P. J., Wixted, J. T., Hopkins, R. O. & Squire, L. R. (2008). Yes/No Recognition, Forced-choice Recognition, and the Human Hippocampus. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 505-512.
  • Wais, P. E., Mickes, L. & Wixted, J. T. (2008). Remember/Know Judgments Probe Degrees of Recollection. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 400-405.
  • Wixted, J. T. (2008). JEAB and the Skinnerian interpretation of behavior. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 89, 137-139.
  • Carpenter, S., Pashler, H., Wixted, J., & Vul, E. (2008). The effects of tests on learning and forgetting. Memory & Cognition, 36, 438-448.
  • Cepeda, N. J., Vul, E., Rohrer, D., Wixted, J. T. & Pashler, H. (2008). Spacing Effects in Learning: A Temporal Ridgeline of Optimal Retention. Psychological Science, 19, 1095-1102.
  • Cepeda, N. J., Coburn, N., Rohrer, D., Wixted, J. T., Mozer, M. C. & Pashler, H. (2009). Optimizing Distributed Practice: Theoretical Analysis and Practical Implications. Experimental Psychology, 56, 236-246.
  • Mickes, L., Wais, P. E. & Wixted, J. T. (2009). Recollection is a continuous process: Implications for dual process theories of recognition memory. Psychological Science, 20, 509-15.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2008). Constructing Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROCs) with Experimental Animals: Cautionary Notes. Learning & Memory, 15, 687-690.
  • Kirwan, B., Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2008). Activity In The Medial Temporal Lobe Predicts Memory Strength, Whereas Activity In The Prefrontal Cortex Predicts Recollection. Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 10541-10548.
  • Mickes, L., Wais, P. E. & Wixted, J. T. (2009). Recollection is a continuous process: Implications for dual process theories of recognition memory. Psychological Science, 20, 509-515.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2008). Constructing Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROCs) with Experimental Animals: Cautionary Notes. Learning & Memory, 15, 687-690.
  • Mickes, L., Wixted, J. T., Shapiro, A. & Scarff, J. M. (2009). The Effects of Pregnancy on Memory: Recall is Worse but Recognition is not. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 31, 754-761.
  • Kirwan, B., Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2008). Activity In The Medial Temporal Lobe Predicts Memory Strength, Whereas Activity In The Prefrontal Cortex Predicts Recollection. Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 10541-10548.
  • Armel, K. C., Pulido, C., Wixted, J. T. & Chiba, A. A. (2009). The smart gut: Tracking affective associative learning with measures of "liking" facial electromyography, and preferential looking. Learning and Motivation, 40, 74-93.
  • Wais, P.E., Squire, L. R. & Wixted, J. T. (2010). In search of recollection and familiarity in the hippocampus. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 109-123.
  • Jang, Y., Wixted, J. T. & Huber, D. E. (2009). Testing Signal-Detection Models of Yes/No and Two-Alternative Forced-Choice Recognition Memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 291-306.
  • Wixted, J. T. (2009). Remember/Know judgments in cognitive neuroscience: An illustration of the underrepresented point of view. Learning & Memory, 16, 406-412.
  • Mickes, L., Jacobson, M., Peavy, G., Wixted, J., Lessig, S., Goldstein, J. & Corey-Bloom, J. (2010). A Comparison of Two Brief Screening Measures of Cognitive Impairment in Huntington's Disease. Movement Disorders, 25, 2229-2233.
  • Wixted, J. T. (2010). The role of retroactive interference and consolidation in everyday forgetting (pp. 285-312). In Della Sala, S. (Ed.). Forgetting. Psychology Press, East Sussex, UK.
  • Jeneson, A., Kirwan, B., Hopkins, R. O., Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2010). Recognition memory and the hippocampus: A test of the hippocampal contribution to recollection and familiarity. Learning & Memory, 17 63-70.
  • Kirwan, B., Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2010). A demonstration that the hippocampus supports both recollection and familiarity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107, 344-348.
  • Mickes, L., Johnson, E. M. & Wixted, J. T. (2010). Continuous Recollection vs. Unitized Familiarity in Associative Recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 843-863.
  • White, K. G. & Wixted, J. T. (2010). Psychophysics of Remembering: To Bias or Not to Bias. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 94, 83-94.
  • Pryor, K. O., Reinsel, R. A., Mehta, M., Li, Y., Wixted, J. T. & Veselis, R. A. (2010). Visual P2-N2 complex and arousal at the time of encoding predict the time domain characteristics of amnesia for multiple intravenous anesthetic drugs in humans. Anesthesiology, 113, 313-326.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2010). The role of the human hippocampus in familiarity-based and recollection-based recognition memory. Behavioural Brain Research, 215, 197-208.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Mickes, L. (2010). Useful Scientific Theories are Useful: A Reply to Rouder, Pratte and Morey (2010). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17 436-442.
  • Wixted, J. T., Mickes, L. & Squire, L. R. (2010). Measuring recollection and familiarity in the medial temporal lobe. Hippocampus, 20, 1195-1205.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Mickes, L. (2010). A Continuous Dual-Process Model of Remember/Know Judgments. Psychological Review, 117, 1025-1054.
  • Mickes, L., Hwe, V., Wais, P. E. & Wixted, J. T. (2011). Strong memories are hard to scale. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140, 239-257.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2011). The medial temporal lobe and the attributes of memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15, 210-217.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2011). Confusion abounds about confounds: response to Diana and Ranganath. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15, 338-339.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2011). The familiarity/recollection distinction does not illuminate medial temporal lobe function: response to Montaldi and Mayes. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15, 340-341.
  • Song, Z., Wixted, J. T., Smith, C. & Squire, L. R. (2011). Different nonlinear functions in hippocampus and perirhinal cortex relating functional MRI activity to memory strength. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, 5783-5788.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2011). The medial temporal lobe and the attributes of memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15, 210-217.
  • Song, Z., Wixted, J. T., Hopkins, R. & Squire, L. R. (2011). Impaired capacity for familiarity after hippocampal damage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, 9655-9660.
  • Jang, Y., Wixted, J. T. & Huber, D. E. (2011). The diagnosticity of individual data for model selection: Comparing signal-detection models of recognition memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 751-757.
  • Mednick, S.C., Cai, D. J., Shuman, T., Anagnostaras, S. & Wixted, J. T. (2011). An opportunistic theory of cellular and systems consolidation. Trends in Neurosciences, 34, 504-514.
  • Squire, L. R. & Wixted, J. T. (2011). The cognitive neuroscience of human memory since H.M. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 34, 259-288.
  • Smith, C. N., Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2011). The hippocampus supports both recollection and familiarity when memories are strong. Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 15693-15702.
  • Ingram, K. M., Mickes, L. & Wixted, J. T. (2012). Recollection can be weak and familiarity can be strong. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38, 325-339.
  • Jang, Y., Mickes, L. & Wixted, J. T. (2012). Three tests and three corrections: Comment on Koen and Yonelinas (2010). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38, 513–523.
  • Jeneson, A., Wixted, J. T., Hopkins, R. O. & Squire, L. R. (2012). Visual working memory capacity and the medial temporal lobe. Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 3584 –3589.
  • Jang, Y., Wixted, J. T., Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., & Huber, D. E. (2012). Decomposing the interaction between retention interval and study/test practice: The role of retrievability. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 962-975.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Mickes, L. (2012). The field of eyewitness memory should abandon “probative value” and embrace Receiver Operating Characteristic analysis. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 275-278.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Mickes, L. (in press). On the relationship between fMRI and theories of cognition: The arrow points in both directions. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
  • Roediger, H. L., Wixted, J. T. & DeSoto, K. A. (2012). The Curious Complexity between Confidence and Accuracy in Reports from Memory. In Nadel, Lynn, and Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, (Eds.). Memory and Law (pp. 84 – 118).  New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Cai, D. J. (in press). Memory Consolidation. In S. Kosslyn & K. Ochsner (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience. Oxford University Press, New York.
  • Mickes, L., Flowe, H. D. & Wixted, J. T. (in press). Receiver operating characteristic analysis of eyewitness memory: Comparing the diagnostic accuracy of simultaneous and sequential lineups. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

  • Wais, P. & Wixted, J. T. (2005). An ROC ana;ysis of the role of the hippocampus in recollection. Paper presented at the 46th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
  • Mickes, L., Wixted, J. T. & Wais, P. (2006). A direct test of the unequal-variance signal-detection model of recognition memory. Paper presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
  • Wixted, J. T., Mickes, L. & Wais, P. (2007). Signal-detection theory: A comparison of the Direct Rating Method vs. ROC Analysis. Paper presented at the 30th annual meeting of the Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior.
  • Jang, J., Wixted, J. T. & Huber, D. E. (2007). The relationship between old/new and forced-choice recognition memory performance. Paper presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
  • Wixted, J. T. (2008). Scaling memory. Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany (July 4, 2008).
  • Wixted, J. T. (2008). Twin Peaks: Dual-Process Theory and Signal-Detection Theory of Recognition Memory. Paper presented at the Mannheim Conference on Formal Models of Memory, Judgment, and Decision Making (Mannheim, Germany, July 7, 2008).
  • Wixted, J. T. (2008). Dual Process Theory of Recognition Memory: Psychological and Neuroanatomical Considerations. F.J. McGuigan Lecture on Understanding the Human Mind, presented at the 2008 Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (Boston, August 16, 2008).
  • Wixted, J. T. (2009). On the shape of a recollection-based ROC. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Winter Conference on the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory (Park City, Utah, January 5, 2009).
  • Wixted, J. T. (2009). Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis to Explore the Nature of Recognition Memory. Invited address, 117th annual meeting of the American Psychological Association (Toronto).
  • Wixted, J. T. (2009). Strength-based and process-based accounts of medial temporal lobe function. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Chicago).
  • Wixted, J. T. & Mickes, L. (2009). A Signal-Detection-Based, Dual-Process Interpretation of Remember/Know Judgments. Paper presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Boston).
  • Wixted, J. T. (2010). Strong memories are not scalable. Paper presented at the 2010 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium (Philadelphia).
  • Wixted, J. T. & K. G. White (2010). Asymmetry in Remembering. Paper presented at the 36th annual convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis (San Antonio).
  • Wixted, J. T. (2010). Measuring recollection and familiarity in the medial temporal lobe. Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience (London, England).
  • Wixted, J. T. (2010). Measuring recollection and familiarity in the medial temporal lobe. MRC Recognition Memory Symposium, University of Bristol (Bristol, England).
  • Wixted, J. T. (2010). Sleep, consolidation and interference. Paper presented at "The cost of staying awake, or why we can't afford not to sleep: A symposium on sleep/waking, plasticity, and neuroenergetics" (Taormina, Sicily).
  • Wixted, J. T. (2011). Remember/Know judgments in free recall. Paper presented at the 2011 Meeting of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (Seattle).
  • Wixted, J.T. (2011). Recollection can be weak and familiarity can be strong. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Memory (York, England).
  • Wixted, J.T. (2011). Measuring recollection and familiarity in the hippocampus using the Remember/Know procedure. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Memory (York, England).
  • Wixted, J. T. (2012). Receiver operating characteristic analysis of eyewitness memory. Paper presented at the 2012 meeting of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (Houston).

DEPARTMENT SERVICE

  • Chair, Undergraduate Affairs Committee & Head Undergraduate Advisor (1989-1994)
  • Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee (1994/95)
  • Chair, Graduate Affairs Committee & Graduate Advisor (1995-2002)
  • Chair, Department of Psychology (2003-present)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

  • Revelle Executive Committee (1992-1994)
  • CEP Subcommittee: Dept. of Linguistics Undergraduate Program Review (1996/1997)
  • Committee on Academic Personnel (1997/1998 & 1998/1999)
  • Task Force on the Faculty Review Process (1999/2000)
  • Revelle College Provost Search Committee (2003)
  • Chair, Dean of Arts & Humanities Search Committee (2007)
  • CAPE Faculty Advisory Committee (2010/2011)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

  • 1997 APS Convention Program Committee and Proposal Reviewer (Cognitive Area)
  • 1997 APA Science Advocacy Workshop (Washington D.C.)
  • Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (Board of Directors, 1994-2002)
  • Psychonomic Society Governing Board, 2000-2005 (Chair, 2004)
  • Psychonomic Society Publications Committee, 2002-2006 (Chair, 2004-2005)
  • APA Division 3 (Experimental Psychology) Program Chair (2009)