Category: Publications
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New Publication in Teaching of Psychology
Research conducted in the cognitive ctrl lab has recently been published in Teaching of Psychology. In this paper, we find a reduction in student engagement in sections of introduction to psychology where a technology-ban was implemented compared to sections where students are free to use technology. You can access the paper here.
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Chapter to be published in Essays from E-xcellence in Teaching
In response to the increased use of personal technologies, such as laptops and cell phones in the classroom, instructors have begun to implement technology bans. The purpose of this essay is to review the evidence in favor of a technology ban, describe recent results which suggest a ban can be harmful to students’ engagement in…
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New Publication in Acta Psychologica
According to existing theories of context-driven control, participants unconsciously implement multiple control settings within a single task. In our paper entitled “Properties of Context-driven Control Revealed through the Analysis of Sequential Congruency Effects,” we find that sequential congruency effects (the reduction in the congruency effect following incongruent relative to congruent trials) are present within but…
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Prof. Hutcheon receives Early Career Psychologist Poster Award at STP Annual Conference
For work done in collaboration with undergraduate research assistants Aileen Lian and Anna Richard, Prof. Hutcheon received the Early Career Psychologist Poster Award at the Society for Teaching Psychology Annual Conference on Teaching. The poster entitled “The impact of a technology ban on student’s perceptions and performance in Introduction to Psychology” presented results from a…
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New Publication – Limits on the Generalizability of Context-Driven Control
Context-driven control refers to the finding that participants are able to implement multiple attentional settings within a single task. Elsewhere, attentional settings have been shown to differ along various dimensions including location, font type, and gender. A recent paper published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology by members of the Cognitive Ctrl Lab identifies…
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