Current Research Interests

• General: Control of memory and attention
• Specific attention: attention capture, inattention, attentional interference
• Specific memory: short-term memory, episodic memory, semantic memory (an example)
• Also: Individual differences in working memory, computational modelling

Society membership

• Cognitive Science Society

Upcoming events

Recent publications/(multi-page)proceedings :

2007

• Davelaar, E. J. (2007). A computational study of conflict-monitoring at two levels of processing: reaction time distributional analyses and hemodynamic responses. Brain Research, xx, xx-xx.

• Davelaar, E. J. (2007). Sequential retrieval and inhibition of parallel (re)activated representations: a neurocomputational comparison of competitive queuing and resampling models. Adaptive Behavior, 15, 51-71.

2006

• Davelaar, E. J., Haarmann, H. J., Goshen-Gottstein, Y., & Usher, M. (2006). Semantic similarity dissociates short- from long-term memory: testing a neurocomputational model of list memory. Memory & Cognition, 34, 323-334.

2005

• Davelaar, E. J., Goshen-Gottstein, Y., Ashkenazi, A., Haarmann, H. J., & Usher, M. (2005). The demise of short-term memory revisited: empirical and computational investigations of recency effects. Psychological Review, 112, 3-42.

• Haarmann, H. J., Ashling, G. E., Davelaar, E. J., & Usher, M. (2005). Age-related declines in context maintenance and semantic short-term memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58, 34-53.

• Davelaar, E. J. (2005). A neurocognitive theory of attentional modulation of spread of activation. In A. Cangelosi, G. Bugmann, & R. Borisyuk (Eds.), Modeling language, cognition, and action: proceedings of the 9^th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. (pp. 217-226). Singapore: WorldScientific.

2004

• Davelaar, E. J., & Usher, M. (2004). An extended buffer model for active maintenance and selective updating. In H. Bowman, & C. Labiouse (Eds.), Connectionist models of cognition and perception II: proceedings of the 8^th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. (pp. 3-14). Singapore: WorldScientific.

• Davelaar, E. J. (2004). Semantic inhibition due to short-term retention of prime word: the prime-retention effect and a controlled center-surround hypothesis. In K. Forbus, D. Gentner, & T. Reiger (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 268-273). Chicago, IL: Cognitive Science Society.

2003

• Haarmann, H. J., Davelaar, E. J., & Usher, M. (2003). Individual differences in semantic short-term memory capacity and reading comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 320-345.

• Davelaar, E. J., & Usher, M. (2003). A neurocomputational account of short- and long-term recency effects. In R. Altermann, & D. Kirsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 288-293). Boston, MA: Cognitive Science Society.

2002

• Usher, M., & Davelaar, E. J. (2002). Neuromodulation of decision and response selection. Neural Networks, 15, 635-645.

• Davelaar, E. J., & Usher, M. (2002). An activation-based theory of immediate item memory. In J. A. Bullinaria, & W. Lowe (Eds.), Connectionist models of cognition and perception: proceedings of the 7^th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. (pp. 118-130). Singapore: WorldScientific.

Collaborators

• Jos J. Adam (University of Maastricht, Maastricht, NL)
• Michael Dougherty (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
• Henk J. Haarmann (Center for the Advanced Study of Language, USA)
• David E. Huber (University of California, San Diego, USA)
• Marius Usher (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)