Data and Code
Most of our recent projects have publicly available annonymized data and analysis code.
Papers
- Thompson J, O’Camb JW, Barrett RCA, Harrison S, Blair MR (2023) . PLoS ONE 18(12): e0295037. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295037
- Donald Homa, Mark Blair; The American Journal of Psychology 1 December 2023; 136 (4): 367–390. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/19398298.136.4.04
- Barrett, R. C. A., Poe, R., O'Camb, J. W., Woodruff, C., Harrison, S. M., Dolguikh, K., Chuong, C., Klassen, A. D., Zhang, R., Joseph, R. B., & Blair, M. R. (2022). Comparing virtual reality, desktop-based 3D, and 2D versions of a category learning experiment. PloS one, 17(10), e0275119. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275119
- Barnes, J., Blair, M. R., Walshe, R. C., & Tupper, P. F. (2022) LAG-1: A dynamic, integrative model of learning, attention, and gaze. PLoS ONE 17(3): e0259511. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259511
- Dolguikh, K., Tracey, T., & Blair, M. R. (2021) The ubiquity of selective attention in the processing of feedback during category learning. PLoS ONE 16(12): e0259517. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0259517
- McColeman, C., Thompson, J., Anvari, N., Azmand, S., Barnes, J., Barrett, R. C. A., Byliris, R., Chen, Y., Dolguikh, K., Fischler, K., Harrison, S., Hayre, R. S., Poe, R., Swanson, L., Tracey, T., Volkanov, A., Woodruff, C., Zhang, R., & Blair, M. (2020). . Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. Vol 82, pp. 2434–2447. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02019-w
- Thompson, J. J., McColeman, C. M., Blair, M. R., & Henrey, A. J. (2019) Classic motor chunking theory fails to account for behavioural diversity and speed in a complex naturalistic task. PLoS ONE 14(6): e0218251. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218251
- Homa, D., Blair, M., McClure, S. M., Medema, J., & Stone, G. (2019). Memory & Cognition, 47(3), 395-411.
- Thompson, J., Leung, B., Blair, M. R., & Taboada M. (2017) . Knowledge-Based Systems 137: 149-162.
- Jenkins, G., Barnes, J. I., Tupper, P., & Blair, M. R. (2017). . In Noelle, D. C., Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshimi, J., Matlock, T., Jennings, C. D., & Maglio, P. P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 588-593). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
- Thompson, J. J., McColeman, C. M., Stepanova, E. R., & Blair, M. R. (2017). Topics in Cognitive Science, 9(2), 467-484.
- McColeman, C., Barrett, R., & Blair, M. R. (2017). Proceedings of Human Computer Interaction International 2017.
- Barnes, J.I., Blair, M.R., Tupper, P., & Walshe, R.C. (2015). In Noelle, D. C., Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshimi, J., Matlock, T., Jennings, C. D., & Maglio, P. P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 148-153). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Paper.
- McColeman, C. M., & Blair, M. R. (2014). . In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2627-2632). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
- Barnes, J. I., McColeman, C. M., Stepanova, E., Blair, M. R., & Walshe, R. C. (2014). RLAttn: An actor-critic model of eye movements during category learning. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1892-1897). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Paper.
- Thompson J. J., Blair M. R., Henrey A. J. (2014) PLoS ONE 9(4): e94215. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094215
- McColeman, C. M., Barnes, J., Chen, L., Meier, K., Walshe, R. C., & Blair, M. (2014). . PLoS ONE (9)1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083302
- Thompson J.J., Blair M.R., Chen L., & Henrey A.J. (2013) PLoS ONE 8(9): e75129. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0075129 – /
- McColeman, C. M., & Blair, M. R. (2013) . Visual Cognition. doi:10.1080/13506285.2013.844965
- McColeman, C. M., & Blair, M. R. (2013) The Influence of Salient Distractors over the Course of a Category Learning Task. Journal of Vision,13(9),506-506.
- Chen, L., Meier K. M., Blair, M. R., Watson, M. R., & Wood, M. J. (2013). Temporal characteristics of overt attentional behaviour during category learning. Attention Perception & Psychophysics, 75 (2), 244-256.
- Meier, K.M., & Blair, M. R. (2012). Waiting and weighting: Information sampling is a balance between efficiency and error-reduction. Cognition, 126 (2), 319-325.
- Watson, M. R., Blair, M. R., Kozik, P., Akins, K. A., & Enns, J. T. (2012). Grapheme-color synaesthesia benefits rule-based category learning. Consciousness and Cognition, 21(3), 1533-1540.
- McColeman, C. M., Ancell, A. J., & Blair, M. B. (2011). A tale of two processes: Categorization accuracy and attentional learning dissociate with imperfect feedback. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp.1661-1666). Boston, MA: Cognitive Science Society.
- Meier, K. M., & Blair, M. R. (2011). Beyond probability gain: Information access strategies in category learning. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp.1394-1399). Boston, MA: Cognitive Science Society.
- Blair, M. R., Walshe, C., Barnes, J. I., & Chen, L. (2011). Rethinking the role of error in attentional learning. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp.1649-1654). Boston, MA: Cognitive Science Society.
- Wood, M. J., & Blair, M. (2011)..Memory & Cognition, 39 (4). 666-674.
- Wood, M. J., Fry., M., & Blair, M. R. (2010). The price is right: A high information access cost facilitates category learning. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp.236-241). Portland, OR: Cognitive Science Society.
- Blair, M., & Somerville, S. C. (2009). The Importance of Differentiation in Young Children’s Acquisition of Expertise. Cognition 112, 259–280.
- Blair, M. R., Chen, L. C., Meier, K. M., Wood, M. J., Watson, M. R., & Wong, U. (2009). The Impact of Category Type and Working Memory Span on Attentional Learning in Categorization. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3127-3132). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
- Blair, M. R., Watson, M. R., & Meier, K. M. (2009). Errors, efficiency, and the interplay between attention and category learning. Cognition. 112, 330-336. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2009.04.008
- Blair, M. R., Watson, M. R., Walshe, R. C., & Maj, F. (2009). Extremely selective attention: Eye-tracking studies on dynamic attentional allocation to stimulus features. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35(5), 1196-1206. doi:10.1037/a0016272
- Watson, M. & Blair, M. (2008).Attentional Allocation During Feedback: Eyetracking Adventures on the Other Side of the Response. In B.C. Love, K.McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.) Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 345-350). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
- Homa, D. L., Proulx, M., Blair, M. (2008). The Modulating Influence of Category Size on the Classification of Exception Patterns. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 61, 425–443.
- Goldstone, R., Rogosky, B., Pevtzow, R., & Blair, M. (2005). Perceptual and Semantic Reorganization during Category Learning. In H. Cohen, & C. Lefebvre (eds), The handbook of categorization (pp. 652-678). Oxford: Elsevier.
- Hockema, S. A., Blair, M. R., & Goldstone, R. L. (2005). Differentiation for novel dimensions. In B. Bara, L. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 953-958). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Blair, M., & Homa, D. (2005). Integrating Novel Dimensions to Eliminate Category Exceptions: When More Is Less. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition. 31, 258-271.
- Blair, M. (2004). Error-reduction and simplicity: opposing goals in classification learning. In K. D. Forbus, D. Gentner, & T. Regier (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 126-131). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Blair, M., & Homa, D. (2003). . Memory & Cognition, 31, 1293-1301.
- Blair, M., & Homa, D. (2001). Memory & Cognition, 29, 1153-1164.
Presentations
- Dolguikh, K., Barnes, J. I., Tracey, T., & Blair, M. R. (2019). How time spent on feedback influences learning and gaze in categorization training. In In A.K. Goel, C.M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.) Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society. Paper
- Dolguikh, K., Barnes, J. I., Tracey, T., & Blair, M. R. (2019). Time spent on feedback influecnes learning and gaze. Northwest Conference on Cognition and Memory, Victoria, BC. Poster
- Dolguikh, K., Barnes, J. I., McColeman, C. M., Chen, Y., Boorman, N., & Blair, M. R. (2018). Time on feedback during learning. Northwest Conference on Cognition and Memory, Vancouver, BC. Poster
- Harrison, S. Barrett, R. C. A., Thompsons, J. J., & Blair, M. (2018 Mar). Effects of Task Complexity Fluctuations on Fixation Duration During Information Acquisition in a Dynamic Expertise Domain. Poster session presented at the Northwest Cognition and Memory Conference, Richmond, BC.
- Azmand, S. J., Harrison, S., Swanson, L., Meijerhof, S., Dolguikh, K. & Blair, M. R. (2017). The Impact of Skill on Fixation Duration in a High-Speed Game. Northwest Conference on Cognition and Memory at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV.
- Anvari, N., Zhang, R., Hayre R., Volkanov A., Poe R., Mak Y., & Blair, M.R. (2017). Perceptual Costs of Reacting to New Visual Environments in a Dynamic Video Game. Northwest Conference on Cognition and Memory at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV.
- Chen, Y., Barrett, R., Byliris, R., Tracey, T., Fischler, K., McColeman, C., & Blair, M. R. (2017). Efficient Information Access in a Dynamic Visual Environment. Northwest Conference on Cognition and Memory at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV.
- Blair, M. R., Barnes, J. I., Walshe, R. C., & Tupper, P. (2016). Tempus, a New Model of Learning and Attention in Categorization that Is Active, Neural and Temporal. Talk given at the 57th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Boston, MA.
- Thompson, J. J., McColeman, C. M., Blair, M. B., & Henrey, A. J. (2016). The Diversity of Motor Sequencing In Skilled Video Game Performance. Presented at the Northwest Conference on Cognition and Memory, Vancouver, BC.
- McIntyre, D. L., Harrison, S. M., Wang H., Barnes J. I. & Blair, M. R. (2016). How are covert attention and learning related? Northwest Conference on Cognition and Memory at the University of British Columbia. .
- Barnes, J. I., Blair, M. R., Tupper, P. & Walshe, R. C. (2015). A dynamic neural field model of selfregulated eye movements during category learning. In Noelle, D. C., Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshimi, J., Matlock, T., Jennings, C. D., & Maglio, P. P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 148-153). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. .
- McColeman, C. M. & Blair, M. R. (2014). The importance of task relevance in predicting saccade velocity. Canadian Psychological Association Annual Convention.
- Barnes, J. I., McColeman, C. M., Stepanova, E., Blair, M. R. & Walshe, R. C. (2014). RLAttn: An actor-critic model of eye movements during category learning. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1892-197). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. .
- Barnes, J. I. (2014). Associations Between Population Coded Information Open Up The Possibility Of Category Fields. Paper presented at the 75th Annual Canadian Psychological Association Convention. Vancouver, Canada. .
- Barnes, J. I. (2014). Barnes, J. I., & Blair, M. R. (2014). The Influence of Space and Relevance on Eye Movement Distributions. Northwest Conference on Cognition and Memory at the University of Victoria. .
- Barnes, J. I., Walshe, R. C., Tupper, P. F., & Blair, M. R. (2013) A dynamic neural field model of eye movements during category learning tasks. Learning to Attend, Attending to Learn: Neurological, Behavioural, and Computational Perspective.
- Thompson, J., Blair, M. R., & Henrey, A. J. Analysis of telemetry data suggests cognitive motor decline at 24 years. 75th Annual Canadian Psychological Association Convention, Vancouver, 2014.
- Blair, M. R., Thompson, J., Chen, L., & Henrey, A. J. Telemetric video game data cast doubt on the presumption that skill development is an orderly process. 75th Annual Canadian Psychological Association Convention, Vancouver, 2014.
- Thompson, J., & Blair, M. B. (2014). Basic Science With Clear Applications: Video-game Telemetry Data Enables a New Drosophilia for the Cognitive Sciences. Paper presented at Games User Research workshop at the 2014 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
- Thompson, J., Blair, M. B., & Henrey, A. J. Analysis of telemetry data suggests cognitive motor decline at 24 years. 75th Annual Canadian Psychological Association Convention, Vancouver, 2014.
- Blair, M. B., Thompson, J., Chen, L., & Henrey, A. J. (2014). Telemetry data and machine learning techniques allow for a new methodology in the study of expertise, and cast doubt on an old one. Association for Psychological Science annual conference, San Francisco.
- Thompson, J., Blair, L., & Henrey, A. J. (2014). Age-related slowing on a real world task after 24: results from the analysis of video game telemetry data. Poster at Association for Psychological Science annual conference, San Francisco.
- Barnes, J. I., Blair, M. R., Tupper, P. F., & Walshe, R. C. (2013) Adult Category Learning Differences Predicted by a Dynamic Neural Field Theory Account of Information Sampled from the Fovea. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Member abstract/
- Chen, L., Meier, K., Blair, M. R., Watson, M. (2012). Temporal characteristics of information access in categorization tasks. Northwest Cognition and Memory, Vancouver, BC.
- McColeman, C. M., & Blair, M. R. (2012). Salience, similarity & categorization. Northwest Cognition and Memory, Vancouver, BC.
- McColeman, C. M., Ancell, A. J., & Blair, M. R. (2011). The effect of probabilistic feedback on attentional learning. Northwest Cognition and Memory, Vancouver, BC. –
- Barnes, J. I., Blair, M. R., Walshe, R. C., Chen, L., & McColeman, C. M. (2011). Modeling the relationship between error and attention. Northwest Cognition and Memory, Vancouver, BC. –
- McColeman, C. ., Ancell, A. J., & Blair, M. B. (2011). A tale of two processes: Categorization accuracy and attention dissociate with imperfect feedback. 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA.
- Meier, K. M., & Blair, M. R. (2011). Eye-tracking and mouse-tracking reveal information access strategies in category learning. Northwest Cognition and Memory, Vancouver, BC. –
- Blair, M. R., Meier, K. M., & Fry, M. D. (2010). Eyetracking, working memory, and category learning. Symposium presentation at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, OR. –
- Wood, M. J., Fry, M. D., & Blair, M. R., (2010). The Price is Right: A High Information Access Cost Facilitates Category Learning. 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, OR. –
- Watson, M. R. (2010). Over and underestimating the importance of error processing in categorization. Symposium presentation at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, OR. –
- Chen, L., Meier, K. M., Wood, M. J., & Blair, M. R. (2009). Attention Optimization in Rule-based and Information Integration Category Learning. Northwest Cognition and Memory, Victoria, BC. –
- Blair, M. R., & Watson, M. R. (2008). Attentional Allocations During Feedback In Category Learning. Presentation accepted for delivery at the Psychonomic Society. –
- Walshe, R. C., Blair, M. R., Malhi, L., & Wood, M. J. (2008). Eye tracking reveals error free optimization of attention that violates the assumptions of many theories of category learning. Northwest Cognition and Memory, Seattle WA. –
- Watson, M. R., & Blair, M. R. (2008). Eye tracking studies of attentional allocation during feedback. Northwest Cognition and Memory, Seattle WA. –
- Wood, M. J., Chen, L., & Blair, M. R. (2008). Space aliens and eye-trackers: A study of selective attention and memory for category exemplars. Northwest Cognition and Memory, Seattle WA. –
- Blair, M. R., Watson, M. R., Maj, F., & Walshe, R. C. (2007). Extremely Selective Attention: Eye-tracking Studies on Dynamic Attentional Allocation to Stimulus Features. Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA. –
- Walshe, R. C., Maj, F., Shimell, J., Watson, M. R., Smith, S., & Blair, M. (2007). Eyetracking reveals patterns of selective attention that violate assumptions of many theories of category learning. Northwest Cognition and Memory, Burnaby, B.C., Canada. –