Dr Matthew Dry

• Qualifications

  1. Doctor of Philosophy, University of Adelaide, School of Psychology, 2007: “Comparing Models of Symmetry Perception”. Supervisors: A/Prof D. Vickers, A/Prof M. Lee, Dr N. Burns, Dr S. Dennis.

  2. Bachelor of Arts (Honours Psychology, First Class), University of Adelaide, 2002.

  3. Bachelor of Arts (Drama Studies), University of Adelaide, 1997.

• Publications

  Connell, S., Freeling, B., Doubleday, Z., Dry, M., & Semmler, C. (2021). Better writing in scientific publications builds reader confidence and understanding. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1-8.

   

  Tape, N., Branson, V., Dry, M., & Turnbull, D. (2021). The impact of psychological well-being and ill-being on academic performance: a longitudinal and cross-sectional study. Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 1-9.

   

  Comley, R. E., & Dry, M. J. (2020). Acute behavioral tolerance to alcohol.. Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology, 28(1), 112-129.

   

  Comley, R. E., & Dry, M. J. (2020). Acute tolerance to alcohol-induced impairment in cognitive performance.. Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology, 28(6), 11 pages.

   

  Branson, V., Palmer, E., Dry, M. J., & Turnbull, D. (2019). A holistic understanding of the effect of stress on adolescent well-being: a conditional process analysis. Stress and Health, 35(5), 626-641.

   

  Branson, V. M., Dry, M. J., Palmer, E., & Turnbull, D. (2019). The Adolescent Distress-Eustress Scale: Development and Validation. SAGE Open, 9(3), 14 pages.

   

  Jarrad, T., Dry, M., Semmler, C., Turnbull, D., & Chur-Hansen, A. (2019). The psychological distress and physical health of Australian psychology honours students.. Australian Journal of Psychology, 54(4), 302-310.

   

  Branson, V., Turnbull, D., Dry, M. J., & Palmer, E. (2019). How do young people experience stress? A qualitative investigation of the indicators of distress and eustress in adolescents. International Journal of Stress Management, 26(3), 321-329.

   

  Nikoloudakis, I. A., Crutzen, R., Vandelanotte, C., Quester, P., Dry, M., Skuse, A. J., . . . Short, C. E. (2018). Can you elaborate on that? Addressing participants’ need for cognition in computer-tailored health behavior interventions. Health Psychology Review, 12(4), 437-254.

   

  Dry, M., Due, C., Powell, C., Chur-Hansen, A., & Burns, N. R. (2018). Assessing the utility of an online adaptive learning tool in a large undergraduate psychology course.. Psychology Teaching Review, 24(2), 24-37.

   

  Dry, M., & Fontaine, E. (2014). Fast and efficient discrimination of traveling salesperson problem stimulus difficulty. The Journal of Problem Solving, 7(1), 84-97.

  Dry, M., Preiss, A., & Wagemans, J. (2012). Clustering, randomness, and regularity: spatial distributions and human performance on the Traveling Salesperson Problem and Minimum Spanning Tree Problem. The Journal of Problem Solving, 4(1), 1-17.

   

  Dry, M.J., Burns, N. R., Nettelbeck, T., Farquharson, A.L., White, J.M. (2012). Dose related effects of alcohol on cognitive functioning. PLoS ONE 7(11): e50977. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050977

  Yi, S. K. M., Steyvers, M., Lee, M. D., & Dry, M. J. (2012). Wisdom of the Crowds in Combinatorial Problems. Cognitive Science, 36 (3), 452-470

  Dry, M. J., Preiss, K., & Wagemans, J. (2012). Clustering, randomness and regularity: Spatial distributions and human performance on the Traveling Salesperson Problem and Minimum Spanning Tree Problem. The Journal of Problem Solving, 4 (1), 1-17.

  Navarro, D. J., Dry, M. J., & Lee, M. D. (2012). Sampling assumptions in inductive generalization. Cognitive Science, 36, 187-223.

  Verheyen, S., De Deyne, S., Dry, M. J., & Storms, G. (2011). Uncovering contrast categories in categorization with a probabilistic threshold model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37 (6), 1515-1531.

  Verheyen, S., Stukken, L., De Deyne, S., Dry, M. J., & Storms, G. (2011). The generalized polymorphous concept account of graded structure in abstract categories. Memory & Cognition, 39 (6), 1117-1132.

  Vanpaemel, W., Verbeemen, T., Dry, M. J., Storms, G., & Verguts, T. (2010). Geometric and featural representations in semantic concepts. Memory & Cognition, 38, 962-968.

  Dry, M. J. & Storms, G. (2010). Features of graded category structure: generalizing the family resemblance and polymorphous concept models. Acta Psychologica, 133, 244-255.

  Dry, M.J., Kogo, N., Putzeys, T., & Wagemans, J. (2010) Image descriptions in early and mid-level vision: What kind of model is this and what kind of models do we really need? British Journal of Psychology, 101, 27-32.

  Dry, M. J. & Storms, G. (2009). Similar, but not the same: A comparison of the utility of directly-rated and feature-based similarity measures for generating spatial models of conceptual data.  Behaviour Research Methods, 41, 889-900.

  Dry, M. J., Navarro, D. J., Preiss, K., & Lee, M. D. (2009). The perceptual organization of point constellations. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1151-1156). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

  Stukken, L., Verheyen, S., Dry, M. J., & Storms, G. (2009). A new investigation of the nature of abstract categories. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2438-2443). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

  Dry, M. J. (2008). Using relational structure to detect symmetry: a Voronoi tessellation based model of symmetry perception. Acta Psychologica, 128, 75-90.

  De Deyne, S., Verheyen, S., Ameel, E., Vanpaemal, W., Dry, M. J., Vorspoels, W. and Storms, G. (2008). Exemplar by feature applicability matrices and other Dutch normative data for semantic concepts. Behaviour Research Methods, 40, 1030-1048.

  Dry, M. J. & Storms, G. (2008). Comparing the utility of pairwise and feature-derived similarity measures for generating spatial representations of semantic concepts. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2267-2272). Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society

  Navarro, D.J, Lee, M. D., Dry, M.J, & Schultz, B. (2008). Extending and testing the Bayesian theory of generalization. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1746-1751). Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society.

  Dry, M. J., Lee, M. D., Vickers, D., & Hughes, P. (2006). Human performance on visually presented travelling salesperson problems with varying numbers of nodes. Journal of Problem Solving, 1, 20-32.

  Lee, M. D., & Dry, M. J. (2006). Decision making and confidence given uncertain advice. Cognitive Science, 30, 1081-1096.

  Vickers, D., Lee, M. D., Dry, M., Hughes, P., & McMahon, J. A. (2006). The aesthetic appeal of minimal structures: Judging the attractiveness of solutions to travelling salesperson problems. Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 32-42.

  Dry, M. J. (2005). Mirror symmetry perception:  Effect of proximity to the central axis. In B. G. Bara, L. W. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 612-617). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

  Vickers, D., Lee, M. D., Dry, M. J., & Hughes, P. (2003). The roles of the convex hull and the number of potential intersections in performance on visually presented travelling salesperson problems. Memory & Cognition, 31, 1094-1104.

   

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 29 Mar 2022

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