John T. Wixted, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair
Department of Psychology
University of California at San Diego
La Jolla CA 92093-0109

858-534-3956

jwixted@ucsd.edu

I earned my Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Emory University in 1987. My research interests mainly involve signal-detection models of recognition memory and the psychology and neuroscience of forgetting, but I maintain a connection to my clinical background by teaching Abnormal Psychology on a regular basis. My Curriculum Vitae is mostly up to date, and PDFs of some of my recent publications can be found below.

• Kirwan, B., Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (in press). Activity in the medial temporal lobe predicts memory strength, whereas activity in the prefrontal cortex predicts recollection. Journal of Neuroscience.
• Mickes, L., Wais, P. E. & Wixted, J. T. (in press). Recollection is a continuous process: Implications for dual process theories of recognition memory. Psychological Science.
• Mickes, L., Wixted, J. T., Shapiro, A. & Scarff, J. M. (in press). The effects of pregnancy on memory: Recall is worse but recognition is not. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology.
• Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2008). Constructing Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROCs) with Experimental Animals: Cautionary Notes. Learning & Memory, 687-690.
• Wais, P. E., Mickes, L. & Wixted, J. T. (2008). Remember/Know Judgments Probe Degrees of Recollection. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 400-405.
• Bayley, P. J., Wixted, J. T., Hopkins, R. O. & Squire, L. R. (2008). Yes/No Recognition, Forced-choice Recognition, and the Human Hippocampus. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 505-512.

• Squire, L. R., Wixted, J. T. & Clark, R. E. (2007). Recognition memory and the medial temporal lobe: a new perspective. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 8, 872-883.
• Mickes, L, Wixted, J. T., Fennema-Notestine, C., Galasko, D., Bondi, M. W., Thal, L. & Salmon, D (2007). Progressive impairment on neuropsychological tasks in a longitudinal study of preclinical Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychology, 21, 696-705.
• Mickes, L., Wixted, J. T. & Wais, P. E. (2007). A Direct Test of the Unequal-Variance Signal-Detection Model of Recognition Memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 858-865.
• Wixted, J. T. & Carpenter, S. K. (2007). The Wickelgren Power Law and the Ebbinghaus Savings Function. Psychological Science, 18, 133-134.
• Wixted, J. T. (2007a). Dual-process theory and signal-detection theory of recognition memory. Psychological Review, 114, 152-176.
• Wixted, J. T. (2007b). Spotlighting the probative findings: A reply to Parks and Yonelinas (2007). Psychological Review, 114, 203-209.

• Wais, P., Wixted, J. T., Hopkins, R. O. & Squire, L. R. (2006). The hippocampus supports both the recollection and the familiarity components of recognition memory. Neuron, 49, 459-468.
• Singer, M. & Wixted, J. T. (2006). Effect of delay on recognition decisions: Evidence for a criterion shift. Memory & Cognition, 34, 125-137.
• Cepeda, N. J., Pashler, H., Vul, E., Wixted, J. T. & Rohrer (2006). Distribution of practice in verbal recall tasks: a meta-analysis of the effects of time on recall. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 354-380.

• Wixted, J. T. (2005). A theory about why we forget what we once knew. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 6-9.
• Pashler, H., Cepeda, N., Wixted, J. T. & Rohrer, D. (2005). When does feedback facilitate learning words? Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 3-8.
• Rohrer, D., Taylor, K, Pashler, H., Wixted, J. T., Cepeda, N. J. (2005). The effect of overlearning on long-term retention. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19, 361-374.

• Wixted, J. T. (2004). The psychology and neuroscience of forgetting. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 235-269.
• Wixted, J. T. (2004). On common ground: Jost's (1897) law of forgetting and Ribot's (1881) law of retrograde amnesia. Psychological Review, 111, 864-879.
• Wixted, J. T. & Stretch, V. (2004). In defense of the signal-detection interpretation of Remember/Know judgments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 616-641.
• Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2004). Recall and recognition are equally impaired in patients with selective hippocampal damage. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 58-66..
• Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2004). Recall, recognition and the hippocampus: A reply to Yonelinas et al. (2004). Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 401-406.

• Morrell, H., Gaitan, S. & Wixted, J. T. (2002). On the nature of the decision axis in signal detection-based models of recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 1095-1110.
• Wixted, J. T., & Gaitan, S.(2002). Cognitive theories as reinforcement history surrogates: The case of likelihood ratio models of human recognition memory. Animal Learning & Behavior, 30, 289-305.
• Kelley, R., & Wixted, J. T. (2001). On the nature of associative information in recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 701-722.
• Wixted, J. T., & Stretch, V. (2000). The case against a criterion-shift account of false memory. Psychological Review, 107, 368-376.
• Gaitan, S., & Wixted, J. T. (2000). The role of "nothing" in memory for event duration in pigeons. Animal Learning & Behavior, 28, 147-161.
• Stretch, V., & Wixted, J. T. (1998). On the difference between strength-based and frequency-based mirror effects in recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 24, 1379-1396.
  
• Wixted, J. T. & Ebbesen, E. (1997). Genuine power curves in forgetting. Memory & Cognition, 25, 731-739.
• Wixted, J. T. (1992). Subjective memorability and the mirror effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 681-690.
• Wixted, J. T. & Ebbesen, E. (1991). On the form of forgetting. Psychological Science, 2, 409-415.

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