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Overview

John T. Wixted is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of neuroscience, focusing on cognitive neuroscience as the predominant subfield. Additional subfields in their work include social psychology, artificial intelligence, statistics, probability and uncertainty, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main topics addressed in Wixted's research include memory processes and influences, deception detection and forensic psychology, memory and neural mechanisms, neural and behavioral psychology studies, face recognition and perception, domain adaptation and few-shot learning, and radiology practices and education.

Wixted has published extensively in several academic venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Memory
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Journal of Vision
  • Nature Human Behaviour

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Wixted include:

  • Psychophysical scaling reveals a unified theory of visual memory strength, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Policy and procedure recommendations for the collection and preservation of eyewitness identification evidence, 2020, Law and Human Behavior
  • Measuring memory is harder than you think: How to avoid problematic measurement practices in memory research, 2022, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Science is not a signal detection problem, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Optimizing the selection of fillers in police lineups, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators in their research include Brent M. Wilson, Laura Mickes, Timothy F. Brady, Maria M. Robinson, and Mark W. Schurgin.

Best Publications

  • Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis.

    Nicholas J. Cepeda;Harold Pashler;Edward Vul;John T. Wixted

  • Recognition memory and the medial temporal lobe: a new perspective

    Larry R. Squire;John T. Wixted;Robert E. Clark;Robert E. Clark

  • The Psychology and Neuroscience of Forgetting

    John T. Wixted

  • Dual-process theory and signal-detection theory of recognition memory.

    John T. Wixted

  • The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Memory Since H.M.

    Larry R. Squire;John T. Wixted

  • Spacing Effects in Learning A Temporal Ridgeline of Optimal Retention

    Nicholas J. Cepeda;Nicholas J. Cepeda;Edward Vul;Edward Vul;Doug Rohrer;John T. Wixted

  • On the Form of Forgetting

    John T. Wixted;Ebbe B. Ebbesen

  • An analysis of social competence in schizophrenia.

    Alan S. Bellack;Randall L. Morrison;John T. Wixted;Kim T. Mueser

  • The Relationship Between Eyewitness Confidence and Identification Accuracy: A New Synthesis.

    John T. Wixted;Gary L. Wells

  • When Does Feedback Facilitate Learning of Words

    Harold Pashler;Nicholas J. Cepeda;John T. Wixted;Doug Rohrer

  • A Continuous Dual-Process Model of Remember/Know Judgments

    John T. Wixted;Laura Mickes

  • In defense of the signal detection interpretation of remember/know judgments.

    John T. Wixted;Vincent Stretch

  • Optimizing distributed practice: theoretical analysis and practical implications.

    Nicholas J Cepeda;Noriko Coburn;Doug Rohrer;John T Wixted

  • The effects of tests on learning and forgetting

    Shana K. Carpenter;Harold Pashler;John T. Wixted;Edward Vul

  • Genuine power curves in forgetting: A quantitative analysis of individual subject forgetting functions

    John T. Wixted;Ebbe B. Ebbesen

  • On the difference between strength-based and frequency-based mirror effects in recognition memory.

    Vincent Stretch;John T. Wixted

  • The Hippocampus Supports both the Recollection and the Familiarity Components of Recognition Memory

    Peter E. Wais;John T. Wixted;Ramona O. Hopkins;Ramona O. Hopkins;Larry R. Squire

  • Receiver operating characteristic analysis of eyewitness memory: comparing the diagnostic accuracy of simultaneous versus sequential lineups.

    Laura Mickes;Heather D. Flowe;John T. Wixted

  • Policy and procedure recommendations for the collection and preservation of eyewitness identification evidence.

    Gary L. Wells;Margaret Bull Kovera;Amy Bradfield Douglass;Neil Brewer

  • The medial temporal lobe and the attributes of memory

    John T. Wixted;Larry R. Squire

  • Analyzing the dynamics of free recall: An integrative review of the empirical literature.

    John T. Wixted;Doug Rohrer

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura Mickes
Laura Mickes University of Bristol
Larry R. Squire
Larry R. Squire University of California, San Diego
Doug Rohrer
Doug Rohrer University of South Florida
Ramona O. Hopkins
Ramona O. Hopkins Brigham Young University
Harold Pashler
Harold Pashler University of California, San Diego
Edward Vul
Edward Vul University of California, San Diego
Nicholas Christenfeld
Nicholas Christenfeld University of California, San Diego
Alan S. Bellack
Alan S. Bellack University of Maryland, Baltimore
Jessica K. Witt
Jessica K. Witt Colorado State University
Stephen D. Goldinger
Stephen D. Goldinger Arizona State University

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