Catherine M. Arrington
Recent Publications


Refereed Publications

Arrington, C. M. (2008). The effect of stimulus availability on task choice in voluntary task switching. Memory & Cognition, 36, 991-997. [pdf]

Arrington, C. M., Logan, G. D., & Schneider, D. W. (2007). Separating cue encoding from target processing in the explicit task-cuing procedure: Are there “true” task switch effects? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 484-502.

Arrington, C. M., & Logan, G. D. (2005). Voluntary task switching: Chasing the elusive homunculus.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 683-702.

Arrington, C. M., & Logan, G. D. (2004-b).  Episodic and semantic components of the compound-stimulus strategy in the explicit-task cuing procedure. Memory & Cognition, 32, 965-976.

Arrington, C. M., & Logan, G. D. (2004-a).  The cost of a voluntary task switch. Psychological Science, 15, 610-615.

Arrington, C. M., Altmann, E. M., & Carr, T. H. (2003). Tasks of a feather flock together: Similarity effects in task switching. Memory & Cognition, 31, 781-789.

Arrington, C. M., Carr, T. H., Mayer, A. R., & Rao, S. M. (2000). Neural mechanisms of visual attention: Object-based selection of a region in space. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12 (Suppl. 2), 106-117.

Weldon, M. K., Arrington, C. M., Runnels, P. L.,  & Wheeler, J. F. (1997). Selectivity enhancement in free-zone capillary electrophoresis using conventional ion-pairing chemistry.  Journal of Chromatography A, 758, 293-302.

 

Book Chapter

Arrington, C. M., & Carr, T. H. (2003). Attention. In B. S. Fogel, R. B. Schiffer, & S. M. Rao (Eds.), Neuropsychiatry, (2nd ed.) pp. 404-425. Philadelphia, PA: Lipincott, Williams, & Wilkins.

 

Published Abstracts

Rao, S. M., Arrington, C. M., Mayer, A. R., & Carr, T. H. (2000). Neural systems for reorienting visual attention when targets appear at unexpected locations.  NeuroImage, 11:5, S4.

Arrington, C. M., Rao, S. M., Mayer, A. R., & Carr, T. H. (1999). Brain mechanisms underlying object-based attention: How do we select a bounded region of space? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Supplement S, 68.


Recent Professional Presentations

Arrington, C. M., & Radetich, K. B.* (2008, March). Choosing the easy way: The effect of task difficulty on task choice. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Weaver, S. M., & Arrington, C. M. (2008, March). How high working memory loads affect task choice: The influence of the availability heuristic in voluntary task switching. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Arrington, C. M., & Pauker, R. L.* (2007, November). Stimulus-task binding in voluntary task switching: The role of prior experience in task choice. Paper presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

Butler, K. M., Weywadt, C., & Arrington, C. M. (2007, November). Is voluntary task switching influenced by individual differences in executive control? Poster presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA. 

Weaver, S. M., & Arrington, C. M. (2007, November). The effect of working memory load on task choice in voluntary task switching. Poster presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

Rhodes, K. M.*, & Arrington, C. M. (2007, March). The effect of task processing on task choice in voluntary task switching: Evidence from lateralized presentation of local/global stimuli.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Arrington, C. M. (2006, November). The effect of external stimulus availability of task choice in voluntary task switching. Poster to be presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX.

Arrington, C. M. (2006, August). Choices, choices: Factors influencing task choice in the voluntary task switching paradigm. Paper presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning, Hood River, OR.

Arrington, C. M., Logan, G. D., & Schneider, D. W. (2005, November). Separating cue encoding from task performance in task switching. Poster presented at the 46th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON.

Ivanoff, J., Arrington, C. M., & Gotler, A. (2005, November). Do errors betray executive control in task switching? Poster presented at the 46th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON.

 

* Lehigh University undergraduate


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