Understanding Michael Faraday's scientific life by diary
analysis and replication, headed by Ryan
Tweney
A few possible projects
Studying the timecourse and mental representations that are used to perform
numerical tasks--particularly simple judgments of ordinal rank
Replication of traditional serial word/letter memory tasks, but using numbers
- Instead of "Were the numbers recalled in exactly correct format?"
I am interested in "If the numbers were incorrect, were they
recalled in a way that preserves some of the information about their value?"
Serial memory for quantitative values that are NOT presented in a linguistic
or Arabic numeral format - Instead, I want to use something similar to
bargraphs
Methodology: LabVIEW as an excellent (yet
practically unknown within the field) psychological experimentation software
package
Properties of numbers that afford certain operations to be performed on
them
Memory-based sequence smoothing applied to pseudo-realistic situations (i.e.
stock traders, forecasters) - Particularly the implications of smoothing
to making binary or graded decisions
Older projects
Short paper about non-nominal memory for number. Click here
for a PDF.
Evaluating the evidence of non-nominal memory for numbers. Click here
for a slideshow of my Nov 2002 Psychonomics poster.
Investigating the phenomenon of memory-based sequence smoothing in a serial
recall task. Click here for a PDF of my master's
project.