Publications

Alas this page is not updated as frequently as I’d like. For my most recent work please inquire via email

• Article. Vinson, D.W., Kass, A., Weatherwax, K., Takayama, L. Humans, Robots, Teaming and the Future of Work

• Journal. Vinson, D.W., Dale, R. & Jones, M. N. (2019) Decision contamination in the wild: Sequential dependencies in online review ratings. Behavior Research Methods. 51:1477–1484. doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1175-8

• Journal. Vinson, D.W., Engelan, J.,  Zwaan, R., Matlock, T., & Dale, R. (2017).  Implied motion language can influence visual spatial memory. Memory and Cognition. 45:852–862 DOI 10.3758/s13421-017-0699-y

• Commentary. Vinson, D.W., Abney, D.H., Anderson, M., Amso, D., Anderson, M. L., Chemero, T., Cutting, J.E., Dale, R., Feldman, L.B., Freeman, J., Richardson, D., Friston, K., Gallagher, S., Jordan, J.S., Mudrik, L., Ondobaka, S., Shams, L., Shiffrar, M., & Spivey, M. (in press). Perception, as you make it.  Commentary on C. Firestone & B. Scholl’s “Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for ‘top-down’ effects”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

• Journal. Vinson, D. W., Davis, J. K., Sindi, S. S., & Dale, R. (2016). Efficient n-gram analysis with cmscu. Behavior Research Methods. doi: 10.3758/s13428-016-0766-5 (external link) (or download it for free) (R tutorial)

• Commentary. Jordan, J.S., & Vinson, D.W. (2016). Conflicts everywhere! Perceptions, actions, and cognition all entail memory and reflect conflict. Commentary on E. Morsella’s “Homing in on Consciousness in the Nervous System: An Action-Based Synthesis”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

• Chapter. Vinson, D.W., & Dale, R. (2016). Social structure relates to linguistic information density. Chapter to appear in Jones, M. N. (Ed.). Big Data in Cognitive Science: From Methods to Insights. Psychology Press: Taylor & Francis. Currently under contract.

• Proceedings. Vinson, D.W., Dale, R., & Jones, M. (2016). Decision contamination in the wild: Sequential Dependencies in Yelp review ratings. In D. Grodner, D. Mirman, A. Papafragou, J. Trueswell, J. Nock, S. Arunachalam, S. Christie, & C. Norris (Eds.). Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.). Austin,TX: Cognitive Science Society.

• Journal. Vinson, D. W., Jordan, J. S., & Hund, A. M. (2015). Perceptually walking in another’s shoes: goals and memories constrain spatial Perception. Psychological Research 79(5), 1-9. doi: 10.1007/s00426-015-0714-5

• Journal. Yoshimi J. & Vinson D. W. (2015). Extending Gurwitsch’s Field Theory of Consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition. 34, 104-123.

• Journal. Abney, D.H., McBride, D.M., Conte, A. & Vinson, D.W. (2015). Response dynamics in prospective memory: Velocity profiles reflect cue focality. Psychon Bull Rev. published online. doi: 10.3758/s13423-014-0771-6

• Chapter. Vinson, D. W., Dale, R., Tabatabaeian, M, & Duran, N.D. (2015). Seeing and believing: Social influences on language processing. In Mishra, R. K., Srinivasan, N., & Huettig, F. (Eds.) Attention and Vision in Language Processing. Springer.

• Proceedings. Vinson, D. W., Jordan, J. S., & Hund, A. M.  (2015). Spatial Perception is Continuously Constrained by Goals and Memories. In R. Dale, C. Jennings, P. Maglio, T. Matlock, D. Noelle & J. Yoshimi (Eds.)  Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2493-2498). Austin,TX: Cognitive Science Society.

• Journal. Vinson, D.W., Abney, D.H., Dale, R. & Matlock, T. (2014) High-level context effects on spatial displacement: the effects of body orientation on language and memory. Front. Psychol. 5:637. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00637

• Proceedings. Vinson, D.W., & Dale, R. (2014). Valence weakly constrains the information density of messages. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane & B. Scassellati (Eds.)  Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1682-1687). Austin,TX: Cognitive Science Society. (Grand prize, Yelp Challenge) – Media

• Proceedings. Vinson, D.W., & Dale, R. (2014). An exploration of semantic tendencies in review ratings. In Science and Information Conference (SAI), 2014 (pp. 803-809). doi:10.1109/SAI.2014.6918278. IEEE

• Journal. Dale, R. & Vinson, D.W. (2013). The Observer’s Observer’s Paradox. Journal Of Experimental And Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 25(3), 303-322.

• Journal. Jordan, J.S. & Vinson, D.W. (2012). After nature: On bodies, consciousness, and causality. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 19, 229-250.

• Journal. Redding, G. M., & Vinson, D. W. (2010). Virtual and drawing structures for the Müller-Lyer illusions. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 72(5), 1350-1366.