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National Ranking
3745

Psychology

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Overview

Neil W. Mulligan is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and psychology, with a particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work addresses various topics within the fields of memory and cognition. Main areas of research include:

  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Cognitive Functions and Memory
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Psychological and Educational Research Studies

Neil W. Mulligan has contributed to several peer-reviewed journals with a notable number of publications in the following venues:

  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition (6 publications)
  • Memory (4 publications)
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (3 publications)
  • UNC Libraries (3 publications)
  • Journal of Educational Psychology (2 publications)

Frequent collaborators include Zachary L. Buchin, Pietro Spataro, Clelia Rossi-Arnaud, John Thomas West, and Daniele Saraulli.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Neil W. Mulligan showcase research on memory and attentional processes, including:

  • The attentional boost effect and source memory, 2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
  • Immersion, presence, and episodic memory in virtual reality environments, 2021, Memory
  • Retrieval-based learning and prior knowledge, 2022, Journal of Educational Psychology
  • The attentional boost effect enhances the recognition of bound features in short-term memory, 2020, Memory
  • Levels of retrieval and the testing effect, 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

Best Publications

  • The Role of Attention During Encoding in Implicit and Explicit Memory

    Neil W. Mulligan

  • Divided attention and indirect memory tests.

    Neil W. Mulligan;Marilyn Hartman

  • Measuring the bases of recognition memory: An investigation of the process-dissociation framework

    Neil W. Mulligan;Elliot Hirshman

  • Attention and implicit memory tests: The effects of varying attentional load on conceptual priming

    Neil W. Mulligan

  • Easily perceived, easily remembered? Perceptual interference produces a double dissociation between metamemory and memory performance

    Miri Besken;Neil W. Mulligan

  • Memory for actions: Enactment and source memory

    Susan L. Hornstein;Neil W. Mulligan

  • Divided attention can enhance memory encoding: the attentional boost effect in implicit memory.

    Pietro Spataro;Neil W. Mulligan;Clelia Rossi-Arnaud

  • The effects of perceptual interference at encoding on organization and order: investigating the roles of item-specific and relational information.

    Neil W. Mulligan

  • Self-Generation and Memory

    Neil W. Mulligan;Jeffrey P. Lozito

  • Perceptual interference improves explicit memory but does not enhance data-driven processing.

    Elliot Hirshman;Neil Mulligan

  • Generation and hypermnesia.

    Neil W. Mulligan

  • Speed-Accuracy Trade-Offs and the Dual Process Model of Recognition Memory

    Neil Mulligan;Elliot Hirshman

  • Inhibition and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults.

    Janet M. Ossmann;Neil W. Mulligan

  • The effects of perceptual interference at encoding on implicit memory, explicit memory, and memory for source.

    Neil W. Mulligan

  • Memory for actions: self-performed tasks and the reenactment effect.

    Neil W. Mulligan;Susan L. Hornstein

  • The effects of list composition and perceptual fluency on judgments of learning (JOLs)

    Jonathan A. Susser;Neil W. Mulligan;Miri Besken

  • Generation and Memory for Contextual Detail.

    Neil W. Mulligan

  • Perceptual fluency, auditory generation, and metamemory: analyzing the perceptual fluency hypothesis in the auditory modality.

    Miri Besken;Neil W. Mulligan

  • The negative testing effect and multifactor account.

    Daniel J. Peterson;Neil W. Mulligan

  • Attention and perceptual priming in the perceptual identification task.

    Neil W. Mulligan;Susan L. Hornstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Katherine A. Rawson
Katherine A. Rawson Kent State University

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