Recognizing a stimulus as previously encountered is a crucial everyday life skill and a
critical task motivating theoretical development in models of human memory. Although there …

Recent advancements in Bayesian modeling have allowed for likelihood-free posterior
estimation. Such estimation techniques are crucial to the understanding of simulation-based …

Almost all organisms live in environments that have been altered, to some degree, by
human activities. Because behaviour mediates interactions between an individual and its …

How should we measure metacognitive (“type 2”) sensitivity, ie the efficacy with which
observers' confidence ratings discriminate between their own correct and incorrect stimulus …

Detection Theory: A User's Guide is an introduction to one of the most important tools for the
analysis of data where choices must be made and performance is not perfect. In these …

Signal detection theory is one of psychology's most well-known and influential theoretical
frameworks. However, the conceptual hurdles that had to be overcome before the theory …

The dual-process theory of recognition memory holds that recognition decisions can be
based on recollection or familiarity, and the remember/know procedure is widely used to …

Metacognitive monitoring and control must be accurate and efficient in order to allow self-
guided learners to improve their performance. Yet few examples exist in which allowing …

In mammals respiratory-locked hippocampal rhythms are implicated in the scaffolding and
transfer of information between sensory and memory networks. These oscillations are …

Face recognition memory is often tested by the police using a photo lineup, which consists of
one suspect, who is either innocent or guilty, and five or more physically similar fillers, all of …