Memory and Attention Control Lab (Brewer)

Memory and Attention Control Lab

Keywords

Our research projects investigate human memory and attention capabilities and how they support a wide range of behaviors.

Research in the Memory and Attention Control Laboratory entails attending lab meetings, scoring cognitive data, and helping participants complete experiments. These experiments are typically conducted in the laboratory on personal computing stations.

Lab Area

Cognitive Science

Neuroscience

Lab Director

Gene A. Brewer, Ph.D

Actively Recruiting Undergraduate Researchers

Yes

https://asumaclab.com/

Email:

gene.brewer@asu.edu

Additional Contact Information:

Gene Brewer

Laboratory Director

480-955-2155

Gene A. Brewer, Ph.D.
Director

Chris Blais, Ph.D.
Research Faculty

2017

Ball, B. H. & Brewer, G. A. (2017). Proactive control processes in event-based prospective memory: Evidence from intraindividual variability and ex-gaussian analyses. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Brewer, G. A., Lau, K. K. H, Winger, K. M., Ball, B. H., & Blais, C. (2017) Examining depletion theories under conditions of within-task transfer. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(7), 988-1008.

2016

Whitehead, P. S., Brewer, G. A., Patwary, N., & Blais, C. (2016). Contingency learning is reduced for high conflict stimuli. Acta Psychologica.

Brewer, G. A., Ball, B. H., & Ware, J. M. (2016). Individual differences in working memory capacity and shooting behavior. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 5(2), 185-191.

2015

Varnum, M. E. W., Blais, C., Hampton, R. S., & Brewer, G. A. (2015). Social class affects neural empathic responses. Cult. Brain, 3(2), 122-130.

Varnum, M. E. W., Blais, C. & Brewer, G. A. (2015): Social class affects Mu-suppression during action observation, Social Neuroscience, 11(4), 449-454.

Hall, D., Cohen, A., Meyer, K.*, Varley, A.*, & Brewer, G.A. (2015). Costly Signaling Increases Trust, Even Across Religious Affiliations. Psychological Science, 16(9), 1368-1376.

Knight, J. B.*, Brewer, G. A., Ball, B. H.*, Dewitt, M.*, & Marsh, R. L. (2015). The influence of mood on the process and content of encoding future intentions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Clark-Foos, A., Brewer, G. A., & Marsh R. L. (2015). Judging the reality of others memories. Memory, 23(3), 427-436.

2014

Blais, C., Stefanidi, K.*, & Brewer, G. A. (2014). The Gratton effect remains after controlling for contingencies and stimulus repetitions. Frontiers in Cognitive Science, 5, 1-11.

Loft, S., Bowden, V.*, Ball, B. H.*, & Brewer, G. A. (2014). Fitting an ex-Gaussian function to costs in event-based prospective memory: Continuous or transient control processes? Acta Psychologica, 152, 177-182.

Mennega, S E.,* Baxter, L. C., Grunfeld, I. S.**, Brewer, G. A., Aiken, L. S., Engler-Chiurazzie, E. B., Camp, B. W., Acosta, J. I., Braden, B. B., Schaefer, K. R., Gerson, J. E., Lavery, C. N., Tsang, C. W. S., Hewitt, L. T., Kingston, M. L., Koebele, S. V., Patten, K. J., Ball, B. H., McBeath, M. K., Bimonte-Nelson, H. A. (2014). Navigating to new frontiers in behavioral neuroscience: Traditional neuropsychological tests predict human performance on a rodent-inspired radial-arm maze. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 1–12.

Ball, B. H.*, Brewer, G. A., Loft, S., Bowden, V.* (2014). Uncovering Continuous and Transient Monitoring Profiles in Event-Based Prospective Memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22, 492-499.

Cook, C.**, Ball, B. H.*, & Brewer, G. A. (2014). No effects of executive control depletion on prospective memory attention and retrieval processes. Consciousness & Cognition, 27, 121–128.

Ball, B. H.*, Klein, K.**, & Brewer, G. A. (2014). Processing fluency mediates the influence of perceptual information on monitoring learning of educationally relevant materials. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 20(4), 336–348.

Meeks, J. T., Knight, J. B.*, Brewer, G. A., Cook, G. I., & Marsh, R. L. (2014). Investigating the subjective reports of rejection processes in the word frequency mirror effect. Consciousness & Cognition, 24, 57–69.

Unsworth, N., Brewer, G.A., & Spillers, G. J.* (2013). Strategic search from long-term memory: An examination of semantic and autobiographical recall. Memory, 22(6), 687-699.

2013

Unsworth, N., Brewer, G.A., & Spillers, G. J.* (2013). Strategic search from long-term memory: An examination of semantic and autobiographical recall. Memory, 22(6), 687-699.

Corman, S. R., Ball, B. H.*, Talboom, K.*, & Brewer, G.A. (2013). Assessing Two-Mode Semantic Network Story Representations Using a False Memory Paradigm. In 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative. 32, 53-61.

Unsworth, N., Brewer, G.A., & Spillers, G. J. (2013). Focusing the search: Proactive and retroactive interference and the dynamics of free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39(6), 1742.

Ball, B. H.*, Knight, J. B.*, Dewitt, M. R.*, & Brewer, G. A. (2013). Individual differences in the delayed execution of prospective memories. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66(12), 2411-2425.

Unsworth, N., McMillan, B.D.*, Brewer, G.A., & Spillers, G.J. (2013). Individual differences in everyday retrospective memory failures. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2, 7-13.

Unsworth, N., Brewer, G.A., & Spillers, G.J. (2013). Working memory capacity and retrieval from long-term memory: The role of controlled search. Memory & Cognition, 41, 242-254.

2012

Unsworth, N., Spillers, G. J., & Brewer, G. A. (2012). Working memory capacity and retrieval limitations from long-term memory: An examination of differences in availability and accessibility. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 2397-2410.

Knight, J. B.*, Marsh, R. L., Brewer, G. A., & Clementz, B. A. (2012). Preparatory distributed cortical synchronization determines execution of some but not all future intentions. Psychophysiology, 49(9), 1155-1167.

Unsworth, N., McMillan, B., Brewer, G. A., & Spillers, G. J. (2012). Everyday attention failures: An individual differences investigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38(6), 1765-1772.

Spillers, G. J., Brewer, G. A., & Unsworth, N. (2012). Working memory and information processing. Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, 3474-3476.

Brewer, G. A. & Unsworth, N. (2012). Individual differences in the effects of retrieval from long-term memory. Journal of Memory & Language, 66(3), 407-415.

Unsworth, N., Brewer, G. A., & Spillers, G. J. (2012). Variation in cognitive failures: An individual differences investigation of everyday attention and memory failures. Journal of Memory & Language, 67, 1-16.

Unsworth, N., Spillers, G. J., & Brewer, G. A. (2012). Evidence for a noisy contextual search: Examining the dynamics of list-before-last recall. Memory, 20(1), 1-13.

Unsworth, N., Spillers, G. J., & Brewer, G. A. (2012). The role of working memory capacity in autobiographical retrieval: Individual differences in strategic search. Memory, 20(2), 167-176.

Unsworth, N., Redick, T. S., Spillers, G. J., & Brewer, G. A. (2012). Variation in working memory capacity and cognitive control: Goal maintenance and microadjustments of control. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65(2), 326-355.

Unsworth, N., Spillers, G. J., & Brewer, G. A. (2012). Dynamics of context-dependent recall: An examination of internal and external context change. Journal of Memory & Language, 66, 1-16.

2011

Johnson, K., Ball, B. H., Brewer, G. A., & Cohen, A. C. (2011). Motivational and neural systems of religion. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 1(3), 227-231.

Brewer, G. A. & Brewer, G. A. (2011). Parsing Public/Private Differences in Work Motivation and Performance: An Experimental Study. Republished in Justin B. Bullock, Hal G. Rainey and Andrew B. Whitford (eds.), Virtual Issue Exclusive: Experiments in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

Brewer, G. A., Ball, B. H., Knight, J. B., Dewitt, M., & Marsh, R. L. (2011). Divided attention interferes with fulfilling activity-based intentions. Acta Psychologica, 138, 100-105.

Unsworth, N., Brewer, G. A., & Spillers, G. J. (2011). Variation in working memory capacity and episodic memory: Examining the importance of encoding specificity. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 1113-1118.

Brewer, G. A., Spillers, G. J., McMillan, B. & Unsworth, N. (2011). Extensive Performance on the antisaccade task does not lead to negative transfer. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 923-929.

Unsworth, N., Brewer, G. A., & Spillers, G. J. (2011). Factors that influence search termination decisions in free recall: An examination of response type and confidence. Acta Psychologica, 138, 19-29.

Brewer, G. A. (2011). Analyzing response time distributions: Methodological and theoretical suggestions for prospective memory researchers. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 219, 117-124 [To be Updated].

Unsworth, N., Spillers, G. J., & Brewer, G. A., McMillan, B. (2011). Attention control and the antisaccade task. Acta Psychologica, 137, 90-100.

Brewer, G. A., Knight, J. B., Meeks, J. T., & Marsh, R. L. (2011). On the role of imagery in prospective memory. Consciousness & Cognition, 20, 901-907.

Brewer, G. A., Marsh, R. L., Clark-Foos, A., Meeks, J. T., Cook, G. I., & Hicks, J. L. (2011). A comparison of activity-based and event-based prospective memory. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24, 632-640.

Brewer, G. A., & Brewer, G. A. (2011). Experimental methods in public management research: A demonstration parsing public/private differences. Journal of Public Administration Review & Theory. 21(i). 347-362.

Knight, J. B., Meeks, J. T., Marsh, R. L., Cook, G. I., Brewer, G. A., & Hicks, J. L. (2011). An observation on the spontaneous noticing of prospective memory event-based cues. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 37 (2), 298-307.

Unsworth, N., Brewer, G. A., & Spillers, G. J. (2011). Variation in working memory capacity and forgetting over both the short and the long-term: An application of the Population Dilution model. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23 (2), 243-255.

Unsworth, N., Spillers, G. J., & Brewer, G. A. (2011). Variation in verbal fluency: A latent variable analysis of clustering, switching, and overall performance. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64 (3), 447-466.

Unsworth, N., Brewer, G. A., & Spillers, G. J. (2011). Inter- and intra individual variation in immediate free recall: An examination of serial position functions and recall initiation strategies. Memory, 19, 67-82.

2010

Suveg, C., Morelen, D., Brewer, G. A., & Thomassin, K. (2010). The emotion dysregulation model of anxiety: A preliminary path analytic examination. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 24, 924-930.

Brewer, G. A., Marsh, R. L., Clark-Foos, A., Meeks, J. T. (2010). Noncriterial recollection influences metacognitive monitoring and control processes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 1936-1942.

Unsworth, N., Brewer, G. A., & Spillers, G. J. (2010). Understanding the dynamics of correct and error responses in free recall: Evidence from externalized free recall. Memory & Cognition, 38, 419-430.

Unsworth, N. & Brewer, G. A. (2010). Variation in working memory capacity and intrusions: Differences in generation or editing? The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 22, 990-1000.

Brewer, G. A., Marsh, R. L., Meeks, J. T., Clark-Foos, A., & Hicks, J. L., (2010). The effects of free recall testing on subsequent source memory. Memory, 18, 385-393.

Brewer, G. A., Knight, J. B., Unsworth, N., Marsh, R. L. (2010). Individual differences in event-based prospective memory: Evidence for multiple processes supporting cue detection. Memory & Cognition, 38, 304-311.

Unsworth, N., Spillers, G. J., & Brewer, G. A. (2010). The contributions of primary and secondary memory to working memory capacity: An individual differences analysis of immediate free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 36, 240-247.

Unsworth, N., & Brewer , G. A. (2010). Individual differences in false recall: A latent variable analysis. Journal of Memory & Language, 62, 19-34.

2009

Unsworth, N., & Brewer, G. A. (2009). Examining the relationships among item recognition, source recognition, and recall from an individual differences perspective. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 35, 1578-1585.

Brewer, G. A. & Marsh, R. L. (2009). On the Role of Episodic Future Simulation in Encoding of Prospective Memories. Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 81-88.

Unsworth, N., Brewer, G. A., & Spillers, G. J. (2009). There is more to the working memory-fluid intelligence relationship than just secondary memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 931-937.

Marsh, R. L., Meeks, Cook, G. I., Clark-Foos, A., Hicks, J. L., Brewer, G. A. (2009). Retrieval constraints on the front end create differences in recollection on a subsequent test. Journal of Memory and Language, 61, 470-479.

Unsworth, N., Spillers, G. J., & Brewer, G. A. (2009). Examining the relations among working memory capacity, attention control, and fluid intelligence from a dual-component framework. Psychology Science Quarterly, 51, 388-402.

Marsh, R. L., Brewer, G. A., Jameson, J. P., Cook, G. I., Amir, N., Hicks, J. L., (2009). Threat related processing supports prospective memory retrieval for people with obsessive tendencies. Memory, 17, 679-686.

Fragaszy, D., Kennedy, E., Murnane, A., Menzel, C., Brewer, G. A., Johnson-Pynn, J., & Hopkins, W. (2009). Navigating two-dimensional mazes: Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and capuchins (Cebus apella) profit from experience differently. Animal Cognition, 12, 491-504.

Suveg, C., Hudson, J., Brewer, G. A., Flannery-Schroeder, E., Gosch, E., & Kendall, P. C. (2009). Cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disordered youth: Secondary outcomes from a randomized clinical trial evaluating child and family modalities. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 23, 341-349.

Clark-Foos, A., Brewer, G. A., Marsh, R. L., Meeks, J. T., & Cook, G. I. (2009). The valence of event-based prospective memory cues or the context in which they occur affects their detection. American Journal of Psychology, 122, 89-97.

2005

Bowers, J. E., et al (33 authors, with A. H. Paterson as corresponding) (2005). Comparative physical mapping links retention of microsynteny to chromosome structure and recombination in grasses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 102, 13206-13211.

Contact Us

Email:

gene.brewer@asu.edu

Additional Contact Information:

Gene Brewer
Laboratory Director
480-955-2155