John T. West, PhD
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Under Review

West, J. T., Wagner, R. L., Broderick, M. L., Seo, M. S., Dennis, N. A. (under review). Comparing different frontal processes as predictors of older individuals’ false memory in a “cage match” between neuropsychological assessments, cortical thickness, neural activation, and representational distinctiveness. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7s2gb_v1

2026

West, J. T., Luchini, S. A., Beaty, R. E., Dennis, N. A. (2026). Are creative people more susceptible to false memory? Evidence for age- and task-related differences. Creativity Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2026.2703186

West, J. T., Mulligan, N. W., Lindquist, K. A. (2026). Putting emotional memories in context: Psychological constructionism as a novel paradigm for emotional memory research. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 21. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916261425152

West, J. T., Dubec, L., Wagner, R. L., & Dennis, N. A. (2026). Exploring the neural underpinnings of semantic and perceptual false memories. Neuropsychologia, 221, 109332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109332

2025

West, J. T., Mulligan, N. W., Bornstein, B. H. (2025). Four (and a half) preregistered failures to replicate the weapon focus effect in online samples. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 32, 48-64. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000469

West, J. T., Wagner, R. L., Steinkrauss, A., & Dennis, N. A. (2025). Investigating the cognitive correlates of semantic and perceptual false memory in older and younger adults: A multi-group latent variable approach. Journal of Memory and Language, 142, 104625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2025.104625

Dennis, N., Overman, A., Carpenter, C., Becker, A., West, J. T., & Chase, S. (2025). The Otter and the cleaver: Exploring the neural underpinnings of unitization using the Gestalt principle of proximity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 37, 2409-2429. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.a.78

Turney, I. C., Steinkrauss, A. C., Wagner, R. L., Chamberlain, J. D., West, J. T., Hakun, J. G., Ross, L. A., Kirchhoff, B. A., & Dennis, N. A. (2025). Neural effects of memory training to reduce false memories in older adults: Univariate and multivariate analyses. Neurobiology of Aging, 147, 187-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2024.12.007

2024

West, J. T., Kuhns, J. M., Touron, D. R., & Mulligan, N. W. (2024). Increased metamemory accuracy with practice does not require practice with metamemory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 78, 1280-1302. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241269322

2023

Mulligan, N. W., Spataro, P., & West, J. T. (2023). Memory and attention: A double dissociation between memory encoding and memory retrieval. Cognition, 238, 105509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105509

2022

Mulligan, N. W., Buchin, Z. L., & West, J. T. (2022). Attention, the testing effect, and retrieval-induced forgetting: Distraction dissociates the positive and negative effects of retrieval on subsequent memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48, 1905-1922. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001097

2021

West, J. T., & Mulligan, N. W. (2021). Investigating the replicability and boundary conditions of the mnemonic advantage for disgust. Cognition and Emotion, 35, 753-773. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1863187

2020

Mulligan, N. W., Buchin, Z. L., & West, J. T. (2020). Assessing why the testing effect is moderated by experimental design. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46, 1293-1308. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000787

2019

West, J. T., & Mulligan, N. W. (2019). Prospective metamemory, like retrospective metamemory, exhibits underconfidence with practice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45, 2224-2238. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000708

 

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