Professor John Dunn
Head of School

Room 414, Hughes Building Phone +61 (08) 8303 5738 Fax +61 (08) 8303 3770 john.c.dunn@adelaide.edu.au Personal page

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 Centre

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

Newell, B., Dunn, J. C. & Kalish, M. (2010). The dimensionality of perceptual category learning: A state-trace analysis. Memory & Cognition, 38(5), 563-581.

Dunn, J. C. (2008). The dimensionality of the Remember-Know task: A state-trace analysis. Psychological Review, 115(2), 426-446.

Gilliland, V. & Dunn, J. C. (2008). Decision making in civil disputes: The effects of legal role, frame, and perceived chance of winning. Judgment and Decision Making, 3(7), 512-527.

Newell, B. & Dunn, J. C. (2008). Dimensions in data: Testing psychological models using state-trace analysis. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12(8), 285-290.

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