Associate Professor John Dunn

Room 519, Hughes Building Phone +61 (08) 8303 6096 Fax +61 (08) 8303 3770 john.c.dunn@adelaide.edu.au Personal page

Level 2 Course Coordinator

Area of Research

Cognitive Psychology.

Senior Appointments and Memberships

Australasian Mathematical Psychology Society

Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Psychonomic Society

Member of Brain and Cognition Group

Awards

Australian Psychologyical Society Division of Scientific Affairs Early Career Award, 1989

Australian Psychological Society Student Subscription, 1976

Fowler Prize in Psychology, University of Western Australia, 1976

Psychology Research Interests

Broad fields of interest: Cognitive psychology, human memory, applied decision-making, cognitive modelling, mathematical psychology, methodological issues in neuropsychology and human experimental psychology.

Particular current research interests: state-trace analysis, signal detection models of recognition memory, analysis of speech-pause cycles in spontaneous speaking and its application to rehabilitation of acquired language disorders, application of latent semantic analysis, and applied decision making.

Recent Key Publications

Kirsner, K., Dunn, J. C., Hird, K. M., & Jardine, B. (in press). The long and short of pauses in natural speech: Analysis and application to aphasia. Aphasiology.

Lautenschlager, N. T., Dunn, J. C., Bonney, K., Flicker, L., & Almeida, O. P. (in press). Latent Semantic Analysis: An improved method to measure cognitive performance in subjects of non-English-speaking-background. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology.

Dunn, J. C. (2004). Remember-know: A matter of confidence. Psychological Review, 111(2), 524-542.

Dunn, J. C. & Kirsner, K. (2003). What can we infer from double dissociations? Cortex, 39, 1-7.

Dunn, J. C. (2003). The elusive dissociation. Cortex, 39, 177-179.