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Caplan, J. B. and Guitard, D. (in press). Spaced repetition and list-strength in recognition memory. Memory & Cognition. [Experiment 1 Data and Model Code] [Experiment 2 Data] [Experiment 3 Data]
Danyluik, M. H., Chakravarty, S. and Caplan, J. B. (in press). EEG activity predictive of learning through feedback. Computational Brain and Behavior.
Caplan, J. B. and Guitard, D. (in press). Inverted list-strength effects in recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. [Experiment 1 Data] [Experiment 2 Data] [Model Code]

2025

Pawluk, K., Shalamberidze, T. and Caplan, J. B. (2025). Making oscillation detection more robust. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 422(110510). [BOSC scripts]
Shalamberidze, T., Nash, K. and Caplan, J. B. (2025). Rhythmic activity in resting state EEG predicts trait anxiety. Imaging Neuroscience, 3(IMAG.a.44).

2024

Loprinzi, P. D. and Caplan, J. B. (2024). Lack of effects of acute exercise intensity on mnemonic discrimination. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 78(3), 534-545. [Experimental Data]
Caplan, J. B. and Guitard, D. (2024). A feature-space theory of the production effect in recognition. Experimental Psychology, 71(1), 64-82. [Model Code]
Caplan, J. B. and Guitard, D. (2024). Stimulus duration and recognition memory: an attentional subsetting account. Journal of Memory and Language, 139(104556). [Experimental Data and Code]
Shafaghat Ardebili, A., Liu, Y. S., Caplan, J. B. (2024). The emergence of all-or-none retrieval of chunks in verbal serial recall. Memory & Cognition, 52(2), 352-372. [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 and Model Code]
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. and Moscovitch, M. (2015). Long-term recency in anterograde amnesia. PLoS ONE, 10(6), e0124084.
Caplan, J. B., Bottomley, M., Kang, P., and 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., and 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., and 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. and Caplan, J. B. (2014). Generality of a congruity effect in judgements of relative order. Memory & Cognition, 42(7), 1086-1105. [Experimental Data]
Cruikshank, L. C., Caplan, J. B., and 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., and 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., and 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., and 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., and 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., and 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., and 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., and 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. and 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. and 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., and 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., and 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., and 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., and 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., and Caplan, J. B. (2009). Precise instructions determine participants' memory search strategy in judgments of relative order in short lists. Psychonomic 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. and 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. G. 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. E., 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. P. 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. R. (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. P. and Madsen, J. R. (1999). Human theta oscillations exhibit task dependence during virtual maze navigation. Nature, 399(6738), 781-784.