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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1986 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences For his effectively combined mathematical and experimental analyses of human information processing.

Overview

Roger Ratcliff is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Neuroscience, with significant work in the subfields of Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Statistics and Probability, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and General Decision Sciences.

Themes central to their work include:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Roger Ratcliff has contributed to multiple publications with frequent venues including:

  • Psychological Review
  • Psychometrika
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
  • Psychology and Aging

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations are:

  • Gail McKoon
  • Inhan Kang
  • Yonatan Vanunu
  • Philip L. Smith
  • Cynthia Huang-Pollock

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Roger Ratcliff include:

  • "A diffusion model analysis of sustained attention in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.", 2020, Neuropsychology
  • "Improving neurocognitive testing using computational psychiatry-A systematic review for ADHD.", 2020, Psychological Bulletin
  • "Modeling evidence accumulation decision processes using integral equations: Urgency-gating and collapsing boundaries.", 2021, Psychological Review
  • "Do data from mechanical Turk subjects replicate accuracy, response time, and diffusion modeling results?", 2021, Behavior Research Methods
  • "Effects of aging in a task-switch paradigm with the diffusion decision model.", 2020, Psychology and Aging

Roger Ratcliff has also contributed to academic publishing through books, including one with Cambridge University Press titled Diffusion Process Models of Decision Making, scheduled for release in 2025.

The scientist has received several awards, notably the Troland Research Awards from the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1986 for combined mathematical and experimental analyses of human information processing, as well as being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015.

Best Publications

  • A Theory of Memory Retrieval.

    Roger Ratcliff

  • The Diffusion Decision Model: Theory and Data for Two-Choice Decision Tasks

    Roger Ratcliff;Gail McKoon

  • Methods for dealing with reaction time outliers.

    Roger Ratcliff

  • Inference during reading.

    Gail McKoon;Roger Ratcliff

  • Modeling Response Times for Two-Choice Decisions

    Roger Ratcliff;Jeffrey N. Rouder

  • Diffusion Decision Model: Current Issues and History

    Roger Ratcliff;Philip L. Smith;Scott D. Brown;Gail McKoon

  • A comparison of sequential sampling models for two-choice reaction time

    Roger Ratcliff;Philip L. Smith

  • Psychology and neurobiology of simple decisions

    Philip L Smith;Roger Ratcliff

  • Group reaction time distributions and an analysis of distribution statistics.

    Roger Ratcliff

  • A retrieval theory of priming in memory.

    Roger Ratcliff;Gail McKoon

  • Connectionist models of recognition memory: Constraints imposed by learning and forgetting functions.

    Roger Ratcliff

  • Estimating parameters of the diffusion model: Approaches to dealing with contaminant reaction times and parameter variability

    Roger Ratcliff;Francis Tuerlinckx

  • Connectionist and diffusion models of reaction time.

    Roger Ratcliff;Trisha Van Zandt;Gail McKoon

  • A Diffusion Model Account of the Lexical Decision Task

    Roger Ratcliff;Pablo Gomez;Gail McKoon

  • Sequential Sampling Models in Cognitive Neuroscience: Advantages, Applications, and Extensions.

    Birte U Forstmann;Roger Ratcliff;E.-J. Wagenmakers

  • Inferences about predictable events.

    Gail McKoon;Roger Ratcliff

  • Retrieval Processes in Recognition Memory

    Roger Ratcliff;Bennet B. Murdock

  • Testing global memory models using ROC curves.

    Roger Ratcliff;Ching-fan Sheu;Scott D. Gronlund

  • A model of the go/no-go task

    Pablo Gomez;Roger Ratcliff;Manuel Perea

  • Neural representation of task difficulty and decision making during perceptual categorization: a timing diagram.

    Marios G. Philiastides;Roger Ratcliff;Paul Sajda

Frequent Co-Authors

Gail McKoon
Gail McKoon The Ohio State University
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers University of Amsterdam
Birte U. Forstmann
Birte U. Forstmann University of Amsterdam
Simon Farrell
Simon Farrell University of Western Australia
Jeffrey N. Rouder
Jeffrey N. Rouder University of California, Irvine
Michael W. Vasey
Michael W. Vasey The Ohio State University
Manuel Perea
Manuel Perea University of Valencia
Gary S. Dell
Gary S. Dell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Richard M. Shiffrin
Richard M. Shiffrin Indiana University
David A. Balota
David A. Balota Washington University in St. Louis

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