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  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Gordon D. Logan is a researcher affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their work spans several areas within neuroscience and psychology, with a strong focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology.

Their recent publications include studies on decision making, memory, and perceptual processes. Among these are the following papers:

  • "Sequential sampling models without random between-trial variability: the racing diffusion model of speeded decision making," 2020, published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • "Serial order in perception, memory, and action," 2020, published in Psychological Review
  • "Severe violations of independence in response inhibition tasks," 2021, published in Science Advances
  • "An integrated theory of deciding and acting," 2021, published in Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "The episodic flanker effect: Memory retrieval as attention turned inward," 2021, published in Psychological Review

They have frequently collaborated with several scholars, including:

  • Gregory E. Cox
  • Simon D. Lilburn
  • Jana E. Ulrich
  • Mathieu Servant
  • Nathan J. Evans

Their research has been published repeatedly in a number of prominent venues, such as:

  • Psychological Review
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Cognitive Psychology

The main fields of study for their work include:

  • Neuroscience

Within neuroscience, they have made significant contributions to the following subfields:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Artificial Intelligence

The topics most frequently addressed in their research include:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Topic Modeling
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Child and Animal Learning Development

Gordon D. Logan has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2019 and was also inducted as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in the same year. Additionally, they have been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016.

Best Publications

  • Toward an instance theory of automatization

    Gordon D. Logan

  • On the Ability to Inhibit Thought and Action: A Theory of an Act of Control

    Gordon D. Logan;William B. Cowan

  • On the ability to inhibit thought and action: A users' guide to the stop signal paradigm

    Gordon D. Logan

  • On the ability to inhibit simple and choice reaction time responses: a model and a method

    Gordon D. Logan;William B. Cowan;Kenneth A. Davis

  • Impulsivity and Inhibitory Control

    Gordon D. Logan;Russell J. Schachar;Rosemary Tannock

  • Response inhibition in the stop-signal paradigm

    Frederick Verbruggen;Gordon D. Logan

  • A neuropsychological theory of multiple systems in category learning.

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  • Development of Inhibitory Control Across the Life Span

    Benjamin R. Williams;Jonathan S. Ponesse;Russell J. Schachar;Gordon D. Logan

  • Response inhibition in AD/HD, CD, comorbid AD/HD + CD, anxious, and control children: A meta-analysis of studies with the stop task.

    Jaap Oosterlaan;Gordon D. Logan;Joseph A. Sergeant

  • Aging and Inhibition: Beyond a Unitary View of Inhibitory Processing in Attention

    Arthur F. Kramer;Darryl G. Humphrey;John E Larish;Gordon D. Logan

  • Executive control of visual attention in dual-task situations.

    Gordon D. Logan;Robert D. Gordon

  • A consensus guide to capturing the ability to inhibit actions and impulsive behaviors in the stop-signal task

    Frederick Verbruggen;Adam R. Aron;Guido Ph Band;Christian Beste

  • Horse-race model simulations of the stop-signal procedure

    Guido P.H. Band;Maurits W. van der Molen;Gordon D. Logan

  • Models of response inhibition in the stop-signal and stop-change paradigms

    Frederick Verbruggen;Gordon D. Logan

  • The Ecological Validity of Delay Aversion and Response Inhibition as Measures of Impulsivity in AD/HD: A Supplement to the NIMH Multimodal Treatment Study of AD/HD

    Mary V. Solanto;Howard Abikoff;Howard Abikoff;Edmund Sonuga-Barke;Russell Schachar

  • Repetition priming and automaticity: Common underlying mechanisms? ☆

    Gordon D Logan

  • When it helps to be misled: Facilitative effects of increasing the frequency of conflicting stimuli in a Stroop-like task

    Gordon D. Logan;N. Jane Zbrodoff

  • Impulsivity and Inhibitory Control in Normal Development and Childhood Psychopathology

    Russell Schachar;Gordon D. Logan

  • Automatic and Controlled Response Inhibition: Associative Learning in the Go/No-Go and Stop-Signal Paradigms

    Frederick Verbruggen;Gordon D. Logan

  • Converging evidence for a fronto-basal-ganglia network for inhibitory control of action and cognition.

    Adam R. Aron;Sarah Durston;Dawn M. Eagle;Gordon D. Logan

  • Attention and automaticity in Stroop and priming tasks: theory and data.

    Gordon D Logan

  • On the ability to inhibit thought and action: general and special theories of an act of control.

    Gordon D. Logan;Trisha Van Zandt;Frederick Verbruggen;Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey D. Schall
Jeffrey D. Schall Vanderbilt University
Thomas J. Palmeri
Thomas J. Palmeri Vanderbilt University
Frederick Verbruggen
Frederick Verbruggen Ghent University
Russell Schachar
Russell Schachar University of Toronto
Rosemary Tannock
Rosemary Tannock University of Toronto
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers University of Amsterdam
Russell A. Poldrack
Russell A. Poldrack Stanford University
Claus Bundesen
Claus Bundesen University of Copenhagen
Christopher D. Chambers
Christopher D. Chambers Cardiff University
Maurits W. van der Molen
Maurits W. van der Molen University of Amsterdam

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