Peer-Reviewed Publications

Johns, B. T., Dye, M., & Jones, M. N. (in press). Estimating the Prevalence and Diversity of Words in Written Language. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Supplementary Materials.

Qui, M. & Johns, B. T. (in press). Semantic diversity in paired-associate learning: Further evidence for the information accumulation perspective of cognitive aging. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., & Jones, M. N. (in press). The continued importance of theory: Lessons from big data approaches to cognition. In Woo, S. E., Proctor, R., and Tay, L. (Eds.) Big Data Methods for Psychological Research: New horizons and Challenges, APA Books.

Taler, V., Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (in press). A large scale semantic analysis of verbal fluency across the aging spectrum: Data from the Canadian longitudinal study on aging. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.

Johns, B. T., Mewhort, D. J. K., & Jones, M. N. (2019). The role of negative information in distributional semantic learning. Cognitive Science, 43, e12730.

Johns, B. T. & Jamieson, R. K. (2019). The influence of time and place on lexical behavior: A distributional analysis. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 2438-2453. Supplementary Materials.

Johns, B. T. & Dye, M. (2019). Gender bias at scale: Evidence from the usage of personal names. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 1601-1618. Supplementary Materials.

Johns, B. T., Jones, M. N., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2019). Using experiential optimization to build lexical representations. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26, 103-126.

Johns, B. T. (2019). Mining a crowdsourced dictionary to understand consistency and preference in word meanings. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 268 (14 pages).

Jamieson, R. K., Avery, J. E., Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2018). An instance theory of semantic memory. Computational Brain & Behavior, 1, 119-136.

Johns, B. T., & Jamieson, R. K. (2018). A large-scale analysis of variance in written language. Cognitive Science, 42, 1360-1374.

Johns, B. T., Taler, V., Pisoni, D. B., Farlow, M. R., Hake, A. M., Kareken, D. A., Unverzagt, F. W., & Jones, M. N. (2018). Cognitive modeling as an interface between brain and behavior: Measuring the semantic decline in mild cognitive impairment. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 117-126.

Jamieson, R. K., Avery, J. E., Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2018). An instance theory of distributional semantics. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, J. Zhu, & T. T. Rogers (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Jones, M. N., Dye, M., & Johns, B. T. (2017). Context as an organizational principle of the lexicon. In B. Ross (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation.

Johns, B. T., Mewhort, D. J. K., & Jones, M. N. (2017). Small worlds and big data: Examining the simplification assumption in cognitive modeling. In Jones, M. N. (Ed.) Big Data in Cognitive Science: From Methods to Insights, Taylor & Francis.

Johns, B. T., Dye, M. W., & Jones, M. N. (2016). The influence of contextual diversity on word learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 4, 1214-1220.

Johns, B. T., Sheppard, C., Jones, M. N., & Taler, V. (2016). The Role of Semantic Diversity in Lexical Organization across Aging and Bilingualism. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 703 (11 pages).

Johns, B. T., Jones, M. N., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2016). Experience as a free parameter in the cognitive modeling of language. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Dye, M., Johns, B. T., Jones, M. N., & Ramscar, M. (2016). The structure of names in memory: Deviations from uniform entropy impair memory for linguistic sequences. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., Crump, M. J. C., Jones, M. N., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2016). The combinatorial power of experience. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Chubala, C. M., Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2016). Applying an exemplar model to the implicit rule-learning task: Implicit learning of semantic structure. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69, 1049-1055.

Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2015). Generating structure from experience: A retrieval-based model of sentence processing. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69, 233-251. [Winner of 2015 CPA/CSBBCS Best Article Award]

Johns, B. T., Dye, M., Jones, M. N. (2014). The influence of contextual variability on word learning. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Johns, B. T., Jones, M. N., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2014). A continuous source reinstatement model of true and illusory recollection. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2014). Generating structure from experience: The role of memory in language. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Taler, V., Johns, B. T., Young, K., Sheppard, C., & Jones, M. N. (2013). A computational analysis of semantic structure in bilingual fluency. Journal of Memory and Language, 69, 607-618.

Johns, B. T., Taler, V., Pisoni, D. B., Farlow, M. R., Hake, A. M., Kareken, D. A., Unverzagt, F. W., & Jones, M. N. (2013). Using cognitive models to investigate the temporal dynamics of semantic memory impairments in the development of Alzheimer’s disease. In the Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM).

Johns, B. T., Jones, M. N., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2012). A synchronization account of false recognition. Cognitive Psychology, 65, 486-518.

Johns, B. T., Gruenenfelder, T. M., Pisoni, D. B., & Jones, M. N. (2012). Effects of word frequency, contextual diversity, and semantic distinctiveness on spoken word recognition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132:2, EL74-EL80.

Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2012). Perceptual Inference through global lexical similarity. Topics in Cognitive Science, 4, 103-120.

Jones, M. N., Johns, B. T., & Recchia, G. (2012). The role of semantic distinctiveness in lexical organization. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 115-124.

Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. M. (2011). Construction in semantic memory: Generating perceptual representations with global lexical similarity. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [Marr Prize for Best Student Paper]

Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2010). Evaluating the random representation assumption of lexical semantics in cognitive models. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 662-672.

Mewhort, D. J. K., Johns, B. T., & Kelly, M. (2010). Applying the permutation test to factorial designs. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 366-372.

Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2010). Are random representations accurate approximations of lexical semantics? In S. Ohisson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Cognitive Science Society. Austin TX: CSS.

Mewhort, D. J. K., Kelly, M., & Johns, B. T. (2009). Randomization tests and the unequal-N/unequal-variance problem. Behavior Research Methods, 41, 664-667.

Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2009). False recognition through semantic amplification.In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 2795-2800). Austin TX: CSS.

Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2009). Simulating false recall as an integration of semantic search and recognition. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 2511-2516). Austin TX: CSS.

 Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2008). Predicting word-naming and lexical decision times from a semantic space model. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 279). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Recchia, G., Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2008). Context repetition benefits are dependent on context redundancy. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 267). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.