Gordon D Logan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1751982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon D Logan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon D |
| FAMILY NAME | Logan |
| SIGNATURE | LOGAN G D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8301-7726 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Imagine No Resources: Attention Is Selection and Normalization for Choice
For many years, research on attention has been dominated by theories based on the assumption that attention is limited in capacity. These include the limited-capacity-channel theories of Welford and Broadbent and capacity or resource theories by Moray, Posner, and Kahneman. This article challenges these theories and their many descendants by asking why capacity is limited and what role capacity plays in the computations required to perform attent…
Separating decision and motor contributions to behavioral biases induced by manipulating stimulus probability
Stimulus probability manipulations typically increase the proportion of responses associated with the more likely stimulus and reduce response times, especially when stimulus discriminability is low. Sequential sampling models primarily attribute these asymmetries to shifts in the starting point of evidence accumulation, but possible modulations at the motor execution stage and their links to upstream processing remain poorly understood. To addre…
Thoughts About the Festschrift: 50 Years? It Seems Like Yesterday
No position-specific interference from prior lists in cued recognition: A challenge for position coding (and other) theories of serial memory
Position-specific intrusions of items from prior lists are rare but important phenomena that distinguish broad classes of theory in serial memory. They are uniquely predicted by position coding theories, which assume items on all lists are associated with the same set of codes representing their positions. Activating a position code activates items associated with it in current and prior lists in proportion to their distance from the activated po…
The spotlight turned inward: The time-course of focusing attention on memory
Serial attention to serial memory: The psychological refractory period in forward and backward cued recall
Sequential sampling models without random between-trial variability: The racing diffusion model of speeded decision making
A consensus guide to capturing the ability to inhibit actions and impulsive behaviors in the stop-signal task
Response inhibition is essential for navigating everyday life. Its derailment is considered integral to numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders, and more generally, to a wide range of behavioral and health problems. Response-inhibition efficiency furthermore correlates with treatment outcome in some of these conditions. The stop-signal task is an essential tool to determine how quickly response inhibition is implemented. Despite its appar…
A consensus-based transparency checklist
We present a consensus-based checklist to improve and document the transparency of research reports in social and behavioural research. An accompanying online application allows users to complete the form and generate a report that they can submit with their manuscript or post to a public repository
Author Correction: A consensus-based transparency checklist
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper
Taking control of cognition: An instance perspective on acts of control
Cognitive control is often viewed as an ability or as an interaction between higher and lower level systems. This article takes an instance perspective, articulating the view that cognitive control is accomplished by a multiplicity of specific acts of control tailored to accomplish specific adjustments to the cognitive system in specific circumstances. Acts of control take states of the cognitive system and states of the world as inputs, perform …
Automatic and controlled response inhibition: Associative learning in the go/no-go and stop-signal paradigms.
In 5 experiments, the authors examined the development of automatic response inhibition in the go/no-go paradigm and a modified version of the stop-signal paradigm. They hypothesized that automatic response inhibition may develop over practice when stimuli are consistently associated with stopping. All 5 experiments consisted of a training phase and a test phase in which the stimulus mapping was reversed for a subset of the stimuli. Consistent wi…
Response inhibition in the stop-signal paradigm
Executive control of visual attention in dual-task situations.
A theory of executive control is presented that proposes that executive processes control subordinate processes by manipulating their parameters, reconfiguring them to respond in accord with the current task set. It adopts C. Bundesen's (1990) theory of visual attention (TVA) and R. M. Nosofsky and T. J. Palmeri's (1997) exemplar-based random walk (EBRW) as the theory of subordinate processes. It assumes that a task set is a set of TVA and EBRW p…
Development of inhibitory control across the life span
Impulsivity and Inhibitory Control
We report an experiment testing the hypothesis that impulsive behavior reflects a deficit in the ability to inhibit prepotent responses Specifically, we examined whether impulsive people respond more slowly to signals to inhibit (stop signals) than non-impulsive people In this experiment, 136 undergraduate students completed an impulsivity questionnaire and then participated in a stop-signal experiment, in which they performed a choice reaction t…
Impulsivity and inhibitory control in normal development and childhood psychopathology
Two experiments investigated the development and pathology of inhibitory control in children. Inhibitory control was investigated with the stop-signal paradigm, which is based on a formal theory of inhibition and directly measures the mechanism of inhibition. The ability to inhibit developed little after Grade 2, but subjects with attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity (ADDH) showed deficient inhibitory control. Their deficient inhibitory …
Toward an instance theory of automatization.
This article presents a theory in which automatization is construed as the acquisition of a domainspeciSc knowledge base, formed of separate representations, instances, of each exposure to the task. Processing is considered automatic if it relies on retrieval of stored instances, which will occur only after practice in a consistent environment. Practice is important because it increases the amount retrieved and the speed of retrieval; consistency…
On the ability to inhibit thought and action: A theory of an act of control.
NRC publication: Yes
Development of inhibitory control across the life span
Impulsivity and inhibitory control in normal development and childhood psychopathology
Two experiments investigated the development and pathology of inhibitory control in children. Inhibitory control was investigated with the stop-signal paradigm, which is based on a formal theory of inhibition and directly measures the mechanism of inhibition. The ability to inhibit developed little after Grade 2, but subjects with attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity (ADDH) showed deficient inhibitory control. Their deficient inhibitory …
A consensus-based transparency checklist
We present a consensus-based checklist to improve and document the transparency of research reports in social and behavioural research. An accompanying online application allows users to complete the form and generate a report that they can submit with their manuscript or post to a public repository
Taking control of cognition: An instance perspective on acts of control
Cognitive control is often viewed as an ability or as an interaction between higher and lower level systems. This article takes an instance perspective, articulating the view that cognitive control is accomplished by a multiplicity of specific acts of control tailored to accomplish specific adjustments to the cognitive system in specific circumstances. Acts of control take states of the cognitive system and states of the world as inputs, perform …
On the ability to inhibit thought and action: A theory of an act of control.
NRC publication: Yes
Toward an instance theory of automatization.
This article presents a theory in which automatization is construed as the acquisition of a domainspeciSc knowledge base, formed of separate representations, instances, of each exposure to the task. Processing is considered automatic if it relies on retrieval of stored instances, which will occur only after practice in a consistent environment. Practice is important because it increases the amount retrieved and the speed of retrieval; consistency…
Impulsivity and inhibitory control in normal development and childhood psychopathology
Two experiments investigated the development and pathology of inhibitory control in children. Inhibitory control was investigated with the stop-signal paradigm, which is based on a formal theory of inhibition and directly measures the mechanism of inhibition. The ability to inhibit developed little after Grade 2, but subjects with attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity (ADDH) showed deficient inhibitory control. Their deficient inhibitory …
Impulsivity and Inhibitory Control
We report an experiment testing the hypothesis that impulsive behavior reflects a deficit in the ability to inhibit prepotent responses Specifically, we examined whether impulsive people respond more slowly to signals to inhibit (stop signals) than non-impulsive people In this experiment, 136 undergraduate students completed an impulsivity questionnaire and then participated in a stop-signal experiment, in which they performed a choice reaction t…
Development of inhibitory control across the life span
Executive control of visual attention in dual-task situations.
A theory of executive control is presented that proposes that executive processes control subordinate processes by manipulating their parameters, reconfiguring them to respond in accord with the current task set. It adopts C. Bundesen's (1990) theory of visual attention (TVA) and R. M. Nosofsky and T. J. Palmeri's (1997) exemplar-based random walk (EBRW) as the theory of subordinate processes. It assumes that a task set is a set of TVA and EBRW p…
Automatic and controlled response inhibition: Associative learning in the go/no-go and stop-signal paradigms.
In 5 experiments, the authors examined the development of automatic response inhibition in the go/no-go paradigm and a modified version of the stop-signal paradigm. They hypothesized that automatic response inhibition may develop over practice when stimuli are consistently associated with stopping. All 5 experiments consisted of a training phase and a test phase in which the stimulus mapping was reversed for a subset of the stimuli. Consistent wi…
Response inhibition in the stop-signal paradigm
Taking control of cognition: An instance perspective on acts of control
Cognitive control is often viewed as an ability or as an interaction between higher and lower level systems. This article takes an instance perspective, articulating the view that cognitive control is accomplished by a multiplicity of specific acts of control tailored to accomplish specific adjustments to the cognitive system in specific circumstances. Acts of control take states of the cognitive system and states of the world as inputs, perform …
A consensus guide to capturing the ability to inhibit actions and impulsive behaviors in the stop-signal task
Response inhibition is essential for navigating everyday life. Its derailment is considered integral to numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders, and more generally, to a wide range of behavioral and health problems. Response-inhibition efficiency furthermore correlates with treatment outcome in some of these conditions. The stop-signal task is an essential tool to determine how quickly response inhibition is implemented. Despite its appar…
A consensus-based transparency checklist
We present a consensus-based checklist to improve and document the transparency of research reports in social and behavioural research. An accompanying online application allows users to complete the form and generate a report that they can submit with their manuscript or post to a public repository
Author Correction: A consensus-based transparency checklist
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper
Sequential sampling models without random between-trial variability: The racing diffusion model of speeded decision making
The spotlight turned inward: The time-course of focusing attention on memory
Serial attention to serial memory: The psychological refractory period in forward and backward cued recall
No position-specific interference from prior lists in cued recognition: A challenge for position coding (and other) theories of serial memory
Position-specific intrusions of items from prior lists are rare but important phenomena that distinguish broad classes of theory in serial memory. They are uniquely predicted by position coding theories, which assume items on all lists are associated with the same set of codes representing their positions. Activating a position code activates items associated with it in current and prior lists in proportion to their distance from the activated po…
Thoughts About the Festschrift: 50 Years? It Seems Like Yesterday
Imagine No Resources: Attention Is Selection and Normalization for Choice
For many years, research on attention has been dominated by theories based on the assumption that attention is limited in capacity. These include the limited-capacity-channel theories of Welford and Broadbent and capacity or resource theories by Moray, Posner, and Kahneman. This article challenges these theories and their many descendants by asking why capacity is limited and what role capacity plays in the computations required to perform attent…
Separating decision and motor contributions to behavioral biases induced by manipulating stimulus probability
Stimulus probability manipulations typically increase the proportion of responses associated with the more likely stimulus and reduce response times, especially when stimulus discriminability is low. Sequential sampling models primarily attribute these asymmetries to shifts in the starting point of evidence accumulation, but possible modulations at the motor execution stage and their links to upstream processing remain poorly understood. To addre…
Psychology (14 works) · Cognitive psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (11 works) · Cognition (10 works) · Neuroscience (7 works) · Cognitive science (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Memory and Neural Mechanisms (4 works)