Applied Psychology Program

Recent Publications and Presentations

Branaghan, R. J. (2008). What's so special about stories? A review of the relevant cognition literature. To appear in D. Andrews (Ed.). Storytelling as Instruction. Netherlands: Sense Publishing.

Branaghan, R. J. & Gray, R. (2008). Nonconscious Activation of an Elderly Stereotype Leads to Safer Driving Behavior. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors Society.

Branaghan, R. J., & Sanchez, C. (2008). Feedback, Subjective Time Estimates, and User Satisfaction. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors Society.

Branaghan, R. J., Schvaneveldt, R. W., Beringer, D., & Lamonica, J. (2008). Weather in the Cockpit. Paper presented at the Human Factors and Next Generation Air Traffic System Conference. Dallas, TX.

Branaghan, R. J., & Becker, D. V. (2007). Associative Networks Reflect Learning of Brain Anatomy Concepts. Paper presented at the Conference of the American Psychological Society, Washington, DC.

Branaghan, R. & Taylor, A. (2007). Using Associative Networks to Represent Brand Personalities. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco.

Cooke, N. J., & Salas, E. (editors; in press). The Best of Human Factors.  Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

Cooke, N. J. & Gorman, J. C. (in press).  Interaction-Based Measures of Cognitive Systems. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, Special Section on: Integrating Cognitive Engineering in the Systems Engineering Process:  Opportunities, Challenges and Emerging Approaches.

Cooke, N. J. (editor, 2008).  Special 50th Anniversary Issue of Human Factors.  Human Factors:  Golden Anniversary Special Issue, Human Factors, 50.

Cooke, N. J., & Durso, F. (2007). Stories of Modern Technology Failures and Cognitive Engineering Successes. Taylor & Francis.

Cooke, N. J., Gorman, J. C., & Winner, J. L. (2007). Team cognition. In F. Durso, R. Nickerson, S. Dumais, S. Lewandowsky, and T. Perfect, Handbook of Applied Cognition, 2nd Edition, pp. 239-268, Wiley

Gibb, R., Schvaneveldt, R. S., & Gray, R. (2008). Visual misperception in aviation: Glide path performance in a black hole environment. Human Factors, 50, 699-711.

Gray, R. (2008).  How do batters use visual, auditory, and tactile information about the success of a baseball swing?  Research Quarterly for Exercise & Sport. In press.

Gray, R. (2008). Multisensory information in the control of complex motor actions.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 244-248.

Gray, R., Geri, G.A., Akhtar, S.C. & Covas, C.M. (2008).  The role of visual occlusion in altitude maintenance during simulated flight.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance, 34, 475-488.

Gray, R. (2007). 2 D vs. 3D visual cues for altitude maintenance in low altitude flight. Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 51st Annual Meeting.

Gray, R. (2007). Predicting the effects of disability glare on driving performance. To appear in Driver Assessment 2007 Proceedings. University of Iowa Public Policy Center.

Gray, R. & Regan, D. (2007). Glare susceptibility test results correlate with temporal safety margin when executing turns across approaching vehicles in simulated low-sun conditions. Opthalmic and Physiological Optics, 27, 440-450.

Gray, R. & Beilock, S. (2007). Expertise, execution, and attentional spillover in novice and expert golfer putting. To be presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA), San Diego, CA, June 7-9, 2007.

Gray, R., Beilock, S. L., & Carr, T. M. (2007). “As soon as the bat met the ball, I knew it was gone”:  Outcome prediction, hindsight bias, and the representation and control of action in novice and expert baseball players. Psychological Bulletin & Review. In press.

Gray, R., Geri, G.A., Akhtar, S.C. & Covas, C.M. (2007).  The role of visual occlusion in altitude maintenance during simulated flight.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance. In press.

Gray, R., Mohebbi, R., & Tan. H. Z. (2008). The spatial resolution of crossmodal attention: implications for multimodal interfaces.  ACM Transactions on Applied Perception.  In press.   

Howell, W.C. (2007). Lessons learned in advocacy and public policy. Psychological Services (in press).

Jones, C. M., Young, J. J., Gray, R. Spence, C., &  Tan, H. Z. (2007).  An eyetracker study of the haptic cuing of visual attention.To appear in the Proceedings of the World Haptics Conference.

Jones, C., Gray, R., Spence, C., & Tan, H. Z. (2008). Directing visual attention with spatially informative and noninformative haptic cues.  Experimental Brain Research, 186, 659-669

Mohebbi, R. & Gray, R. (2007). Perceptual-motor control strategies for left-turn execution. Driver Assessment 2007 Proceedings. University of Iowa Public Policy Center.

Regan, D. & Gray, R. (2008).  Some unresolved questions in stereopsis, dynamic stereopsis and stereomotion.  Spatial Vision. In press.

Scott, J. J. & Gray, R. (2008). Comparison of visual, auditory and tactile warnings for rear-end collision prevention in driving. Human Factors, 50, 264-275.

Scott, J. J. & Gray, R. (2007). Comparison of driver brake reactions times to multimodal rear-end collision warnings. To appear in Driver Assessment 2007 Proceedings. University of Iowa Public Policy Center.

Scott, S. & Gray, R. (2007). Specificity of practice in baseball batting. To be presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA), San Diego, CA, June 7-9, 2007.

Sanchez, C., & Branaghan. R. (2007). The interaction of map resolution and spatial abilities on route learning. Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 51st Annual Meeting.

Schvaneveldt, R. (2007).  Outline of a contemporary model of human cognition.  Technical Report 020607.  Sandia National Laboratories.

Schvaneveldt, R. (2007).  Semantic priming phenomena for a model of human cognition. Technical Report 020107.  Sandia National Laboratories.

Schvaneveldt, R. (2007).  Cognitive models for intelligent agents.  Technical Report 010807. Sandia National Laboratories.