Papers



In press

Caplan, J. B. and Guitard, D. (in press). A feature-space theory of the production effect in recognition. Experimental Psychology. [Model Code]

Loprinzi, P. D. and Caplan, J. B. (in press). Lack of effects of acute exercise intensity on mnemonic discrimination. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. [Experimental Data]

Shafaghat Ardebili, A., Liu, Y. S., Caplan, J. B. (in press). The emergence of all-or-none retrieval of chunks in verbal serial recall. Memory & Cognition [Experimental Data]


2023

Caplan, J. B. (2023). Sparse attentional subsetting of item features and list-composition effects on recognition memory. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 116(102802).

Thomas, J. J., Caplan, J. B. (2023). Modelling constituent order despite symmetric associations in memory. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 115, 102774. [Model Code]

Thomas, J. J., Ayuno, K. C., Kluger, F. E., Caplan, J. B. (2023). The relationship between interactive‐imagery instructions and association memory. Memory & Cognition, 51, 371-390 [Experimental Data]


2022

Caplan, J. B., Chakravarty, S., and Dittmann, N. L. (2022). Associative recognition without hippocampal associations. Psychological Review. 129(6), 1249-1280 [Model Code]

Caplan, J. B., Hennies, N., Sommer, T. (2022). Competition between associations in memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(11), 2144–2167.

Caplan, J. B., Shafaghat Ardebili, A., Liu, Y. S. (2022). Chaining models of serial recall can produce positional errors. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 109, 102677. [Model Code]

Kluger, F. E., Oladimeji, D. M., Tan, Y., Brown, N. R., and Caplan, J. B. (2022). Mnemonic scaffolds vary in effectiveness for serial recall. Memory, 30(7), 869–894. [Experimental Data]

Liu, Y. S., and Caplan, J. B. (2022). Judgments of alphabetical order and mechanisms of congruity effects. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(4), 283–301. [Experimental Data and Model Code]


2021

Sahadevan, S. S., Chen, Y. Y., and Caplan, J. B. (2021). Imagery-based strategies for memory for associations. Memory, 29(10), 1275-1295.

Crawford, L., Caplan, J. B. and Loprinzi, P. D. (2021). The impact of acute exercise timing on memory interference. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 128(3), 1215–1234.

Fujiwara, E., Madan, C. R., Caplan, J. B., Sommer, T. (2021). Emotional arousal impairs association-memory: Roles of prefrontal cortex regions. Learning and Memory, 28(3), 76–81.

2020

Chakravarty, S., Chen, Y. Y. and Caplan, J. B. (2020). Predicting memory from study-related brain activity. Journal of Neurophysiology, 124(6), 2060-2075.

Liu, Y. S., Caplan, J. B. (2020). Temporal grouping and direction of serial recall. Memory and Cognition, 48(7), 1295-1315. [Experimental Data]

Caplan, J. B., Xu, K., Chakravarty, S. and Jones, K. E. (2020). Adding a bias to vector models of association memory provides item memory for free. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 97, 102358. [Model Code]

Pahwa, A., Miller, D. J., Caplan, J. B. and Collins, D. F. (2020). Performance on an associative memory test decreases 8 hours after cardiovascular exercise. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 42(3), 219-226.

2019

Burton, R. L., Lek, I., Dixon, R. A. and Caplan, J. B. (2019). Associative interference and its resolution in older and younger adults. Psychology and Aging, 34(4), 558-571.

Caplan, J. B., Legge, E. L. G., Cheng, B., and Madan, C. R. (2019). Effectiveness of the method of loci is only minimally related to factors that should influence imagined navigation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(10), 2541–2553. [Experimental Data]

Caplan, J. B., Sommer, T., Madan, C. R. and Fujiwara, E. (2019). Reduced association-memory for negative information: impact of confidence and interactive imagery during study. Cognition and Emotion, 33(8), 1745-1753.

Chakravarty, S., Fujiwara, E., Madan, C. R., Tomlinson, S. E., Ober, I. and Caplan, J. B. (2019). Value bias of verbal memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 107, 25–39. [Experimental Data]

Rodríguez Domínguez, U. and Caplan, J. B. (2019). A hexagonal Fourier model of grid cells. Hippocampus, 29, 37–45. [Supplementary materials][Featured cover]

2017

Kato, K. and Caplan, J. B. (2017). Order of items within associations. Journal of Memory and Language, 97, 81-102.

Madan, C. R., Fujiwara, E., Caplan, J. B. and Sommer, T. (2017). Emotional arousal impairs association-memory: roles of amygdala and hippocampus. NeuroImage, 156, 14–28.

Klingmüller A., Caplan, J. B. and Sommer, T. (2017). Intrusions in episodic memory: reconsolidation or interference? Learning and Memory. 24(5), 216–224.

Kato, K. and Caplan, J. B. (2017). The brain’s representations may be compatible with convolution-based memory models. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(4), 299-312.

Chen, Y. Y. and Caplan, J. B. (2017). Rhythmic activity and individual variability in recognition memory: theta oscillations correlate with performance whereas alpha oscillations correlate with ERPs. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(1), 183–202.

Burton, R. L., Lek, I. and Caplan, J. B. (2017). Associative independence revisited: competition between conflicting associations can be resolved or even reversed in one trial. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(4), 832-857.

Madan, C. R., Ludvig, E. A. And Spetch, M. L. (2017). The role of memory in distinguishing risky decisions from experience and description. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(10, 2048–2059.

2016

Caplan, J. B. and Madan, C. R. (2016). Word-imageability enhances association-memory by increasing hippocampal engagement. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28(10), 1522–1538.

2015

Talmi, D., Caplan, J. B., Richards, B. & Moscovitch, M. (2015). Long-term recency in anterograde amnesia. PLoS ONE, 10(6), e0124084.

Caplan, J. B., Bottomley, M., Kang, P., & Dixon, R. A. (2015). Distinguishing rhythmic from non-rhythmic brain activity during rest in healthy neurocognitive aging. NeuroImage, 112, 341-352.

Caplan, J. B. (2015). Order-memory and association-memory. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(3), 221-232.

Caplan, J. B., Madan, C. R., & Bedwell, D. J. (2015). Item properties may influence item-item associations in serial recall. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22(2), 483-489.

2014


Chen, Y. Y., Lithgow, K., Hemmerich, J. A., & Caplan, J. B. (2014). Is what goes in what comes out? Encoding and retrieval event-related potentials together determine memory outcome. Experimental Brain Research, 232(1), 3175-3190.

Liu , Y. S., Chan, M. & Caplan, J. B. (2014). Generality of a congruity effect in judgements of relative order. Memory & Cognition, 42(7), 1086-1105.

Cruikshank, L. C., Caplan, J. B., & Singhal, A. (2014). A perception-based ERP reveals that the magnitude of delay matters for memory-guided reaching. Experimental Brain Research, 232(7), 2087-2094.

Caplan, J. B., Boulton, K. L., & Gagné, C. L. (2014). Associative asymmetry of compound words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 40(4), 1163-1171.

Caplan, J. B., Rehani, M., & Andrews, J. C. (2014). Associations compete directly in memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(5), 955-978.

Masuda, T., Russell, M. J., Chen, Y. Y., Hioki, K., & Caplan, J. B. (2014). N400 incongruity effect in an episodic memory task reveals different strategies for handling relevant contextual information for Japanese than European Canadians. Cognitive Neuroscience, 5(1), 17-25.

2012


Cruikshank, L. C, Caplan, J. B., & Singhal, A. (2012). Human electrophysiological reflections of the recruitment of perceptual processing during actions that engage memory. Journal of Vision, 12(6), 1-13.

Legge, E. L. G., Madan, C. R., Ng, E. T., & Caplan, J. B. (2012). Building a memory palace in minutes: Equivalent memory performance using virtual versus conventional environments with the Method of Loci. Acta Psychologica, 141(3), 380-390.

Madan, C. R., Fujiwara, E., Gerson, B. C., & Caplan, J. B. (2012). High reward makes items easier to remember, but harder to bind to a new temporal context. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 6, 61.

Madan, C. R., Caplan, J. B., Lau, C. S. M., & Fujiwara, E. (2012). Emotional arousal does not enhance association-memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 66, 695-716.

Cruikshank, L. C., Singhal, A., Hueppelsheuser, M. & Caplan, J. B. (2012). Theta oscillations reflect a putative neural mechanism for human sensorimotor integration. Journal of Neurophysiology, 107(1) 65-77.

Hughes, A. M., Whitten, T. A., Caplan, J. B. & Dickson, C. T. (2012). BOSC: A Better OSCillation detection method, extracts both sustained and transient rhythms from rat hippocampal recordings. Hippocampus, 22(6), 1417-1428.

2011


Rehani, M., & Caplan, J. B. (2011). Interference and the representation of order within associations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(7), 1409-1429.

Whitten, T. A., Hughes, A. M., Dickson, C. T., & Caplan, J. B. (2011). A better oscillation detection method robustly extracts EEG rhythms across brain state changes: The human alpha rhythm as a test case. NeuroImage, 54(2), 860-874. [BOSC scripts]

2010


Madan, C. R., Glaholt, M. G., & Caplan, J. B. (2010). The influence of item properties on association-memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 63, 46-63.

Jacobs, J., Korolev, I. O., Caplan, J. B., Ekstrom, A. D., Litt, B., Baltuch, G., Fried, I., Schulze-Bonhage, A., Madsen, J. R., & Kahana, M. J. (2010). Right-lateralized brain oscillations in human spatial navigation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(5), 824-836.

2009


Chan, M., Ross, B., Earle, G., & Caplan, J. B. (2009). Precise instructions determine participants’ memory search strategy in judgments of relative order in short lists. Psychonomics Bulletin & Review, 16(5), 945-951.

Caplan, J. B. , Glaholt, M. G. and McIntosh, A. R. (2009). EEG activity underlying successful study of associative and order information. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(7), 1346-1364.

2008


Talmi, D., Anderson, A. K., Riggs, L., Caplan, J. B. and Moscovitch, M. (2008) Immediate memory consequences of the effect of emotion on attention to pictures. Learning & Memory, 15(3), 172-182.

2007


Caplan, J. B. & Glaholt, M. G. (2007). The roles of EEG oscillations in learning relational information. NeuroImage, 38(3), 604-616.

Newman, E. L., Caplan, J. B., Kirschen, M. P., Korolev, I. O., Sekuler, R. and Kahana, M. J. (2007). Learning your way around town: How virtual taxicab drivers learn to use both layout and landmark information. Cognition, 104(2), 231-253.

Caplan, J. B., McIntosh, A. R. and De Rosa, E. (2007) Two distinct functional networks for successful resolution of proactive interference, Cerebral Cortex, 17(7), 1650-1663.

2006


Caplan, J. B., Glaholt, M. G. and McIntosh, A. R. (2006). Linking associative and list memory: pairs versus triples, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 32(6), 1244-1265.

Caplan, J. B., Luks, T. L., Simpson, G. V., Glaholt, M. and McIntosh, A. R. (2006). Parallel networks operating across attentional deployment and motion processing: A multi-seed partial least squares fMRI study, NeuroImage, 29(4), 1192-1202.

2005


Caplan, J. B. (2005). Associative isolation: unifying associative and order paradigms. The Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 49}(5), 383-402.

Ekstrom, A. D., Caplan, J. B., Shattuck, K., Fried, I. and Kahana, M. J. (2005). Human hippocampal theta activity during virtual navigation, Hippocampus, 15(7), 881-889.

2004


Caplan, J. B. (2004) Unifying models of paired associates and serial learning: insights from simulating a chaining model. NeuroComputing, 58-60, 739-743.

2003


Howard, M. W., Rizzuto, D. S., Caplan, J. B., Madsen, J. R., Lisman J., Aschenbrenner-Scheibe, R., Schulze-Bonhage, A. and Kahana, M. J. (2003) Gamma oscillations correlate with working memory load in humans. Cerebral Cortex, 13}(12), 1369-1374.

Ekstrom, A. D., Kahana, M. J., Caplan, J. B., Fields, T. A., Isham, E. A., Newman, E. L. and Fried, I. (2003) Cellular networks underlying human spatial navigation. Nature, 425(6954), 184-188.

Caplan, J. B., Madsen, J. R., Schulze-Bonhage, A., Aschenbrenner-Scheibe, R., Newman, E. L. and Kahana, M. J. (2003) Human theta oscillations related to sensorimotor integration and spatial learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 23(11), 4726-4736.

2002


Kahana, M. J. and Caplan, J. B. (2002) Associative asymmetry in probed recall of serial lists. Memory & Cognition, 30(6), 841-849.

2001


Caplan, J. B., Kahana, M. J., Raghavachari, S. and Madsen, J. R. (2001) Distinct patterns of brain oscillations underlie two basic parameters of human maze learning. Journal of Neurophysiology, 86(1), 368-380.

Raghavachari, S., Kahana, M. J., Rizzuto, D. S., Caplan, J. B., Kirschen, M. P., Bourgeois, B., Madsen, J. R. and Lisman, J. E. (2001) Gating of human theta oscillations by a working memory task. Journal of Neuroscience, 21(9), 3175-3183.

2000


Caplan, J. B., Kahana, M. J., Sekuler, R., Kirschen, M. and Madsen, J. R. (2000) Task dependence of human theta: the case for multiple cognitive functions. NeuroComputing, 32-33, 659-665.

1999


Kahana, M. J., Caplan, J. B., Sekuler, R. and Madsen, J. (1999) Using intracranial recordings to study theta: Response to J. O'Keefe and N. Burgess (1999). trends in Cognitive Science, 3(11), 406-407.

Kahana, M. J., Sekuler, R, Caplan, J. B., Kirschen, M. and Madsen, J. (1999) Human theta oscillations exhibit task dependence during virtual maze navigation. Nature, 399(6738), 781-784.