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Overview

Richard J. Allen is a researcher primarily affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their work largely focuses on neuroscience and psychology, particularly within the domains of cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research contributions encompass various topics including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

In terms of collaborations, Richard J. Allen has frequently coauthored work with:

  • Amy Louise Atkinson
  • Amanda Waterman
  • Alan Baddeley
  • Graham J. Hitch
  • J Havelka

Their research has appeared in several recurrent publication venues, demonstrating a focus on experimental psychology and memory-related fields. These include:

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Memory
  • Memory & Cognition
  • Cortex
  • Wellcome Open Research

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Richard J. Allen are:

  • Strategic prioritisation enhances young and older adults' visual feature binding in working memory, 2020, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Can valuable information be prioritized in verbal working memory?, 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
  • Why does the probe value effect emerge in working memory? Examining the biased attentional refreshing account, 2022, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Unimodal and crossmodal working memory binding is not differentially affected by age or Alzheimer's disease., 2020, Neuropsychology
  • The multicomponent model of working memory fifty years on, 2024, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Richard J. Allen's work contributes to advancing understanding in cognitive and neural mechanisms underpinning working memory, visual processing, and memory binding, integrating findings across behavioral experiments and neuroscience methodologies.

Best Publications

  • Is the binding of visual features in working memory resource-demanding?

    Richard J. Allen;Alan D. Baddeley;Graham J. Hitch

  • Binding in visual working memory: the role of the episodic buffer.

    Alan D. Baddeley;Richard J. Allen;Graham J. Hitch

  • Working memory and binding in sentence recall

    A.D. Baddeley;G.J. Hitch;R.J. Allen

  • Is the hippocampus necessary for visual and verbal binding in working memory

    Alan Baddeley;Richard Allen;Faraneh Vargha-Khadem

  • Feature binding and attention in working memory: A resolution of previous contradictory findings:

    Richard J. Allen;Graham J. Hitch;Judit Mate;Alan D. Baddeley

  • Speech and language processing mechanisms in verbal serial recall

    Richard Allen;Charles Hulme

  • Cross-modal binding and working memory

    Richard J. Allen;Graham J. Hitch;Alan D. Baddeley

  • From short-term store to multicomponent working memory: The role of the modal model.

    Alan David Baddeley;Graham James Hitch;Richard Allen

  • Investigating the episodic buffer

    Alan Baddeley;Richard J Allen;Graham J Hitch

  • Are forward and backward recall the same? A dual-task study of digit recall.

    Helen L. St Clair-Thompson;Richard J. Allen

  • Executive and perceptual attention play different roles in visual working memory: evidence from suffix and strategy effects

    Yanmei Hu;Graham J Hitch;Alan D Baddeley;Ming Zhang

  • Evidence for Two Attentional Components in Visual Working Memory

    Richard J. Allen;Alan D. Baddeley;Graham J. Hitch

  • Attention and binding in visual working memory: Two forms of attention and two kinds of buffer storage.

    Graham James Hitch;Richard J. Allen;Alan David Baddeley

  • Binding across space and time in visual working memory.

    Paul Johan Karlsen;Richard J. Allen;Alan D. Baddeley;Graham J. Hitch

  • Executive control of stimulus-driven and goal-directed attention in visual working memory

    Yanmei Hu;Richard J Allen;Alan D Baddeley;Graham J Hitch

  • Disruption of visual feature binding in working memory

    Taiji Ueno;Taiji Ueno;Richard J. Allen;Alan D. Baddeley;Graham J. Hitch

  • A Multicomponent Model of Working Memory

    Alan Baddeley;Graham Hitch;Richard Allen

  • Memory for actions in autism spectrum disorder

    D Z Wojcik;R J Allen;C Brown;C Souchay

  • What goes through the gate? Exploring interference with visual feature binding.

    Taiji Ueno;Judit Mate;Richard J. Allen;Graham J. Hitch

  • Multiple high-reward items can be prioritized in working memory but with greater vulnerability to interference

    Richard J Allen;Taiji Ueno

  • Competition for the focus of attention in visual working memory: perceptual recency versus executive control

    Graham J. Hitch;Yanmei Hu;Richard J. Allen;Alan D. Baddeley

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan D. Baddeley
Alan D. Baddeley University of York
Graham J. Hitch
Graham J. Hitch University of York
Mark Mon-Williams
Mark Mon-Williams University of Leeds
Joni Holmes
Joni Holmes MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Susan E. Gathercole
Susan E. Gathercole University of Cambridge
Raymond C.K. Chan
Raymond C.K. Chan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Robert H. Logie
Robert H. Logie University of Edinburgh
Charles Hulme
Charles Hulme University of Oxford
Chris J. A. Moulin
Chris J. A. Moulin Grenoble Alpes University
Kate Nation
Kate Nation University of Oxford

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