Dr Matthew Dry
Room 513, Hughes Building |
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Area of Research
Cognition, Visual Perception, Psychopharmacology
Senior Appointments and Memberships
Cognitive Science Society
Awards
Frank Dalziel Prize : best PhD thesis in University of Adelaide School of Psychology, 2007.
Psychology Research Interests
My research interests fall broadly within the area of cognitive psychology. I am interested in the processes involved in human performance on difficult problem solving tasks such as the travelling salesman problem; the perception of structure in simple visually presented stimuli; models of decision-making; models of categorization; the representation of conceptual information in semantic memory; and the effects of drugs such as methadone, buprenorphine, alcohol, and stimulants on cognitive functioning.
Recent Key Publications
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. (2008). Using relational structure to detect symmetry: a Voronoi tessellation based model of symmetry perception. Acta Psychologica, 128, 75-90.
