Publications
Bowers,
J.S. & Christopher W. Pleydell-Pearce
(unpublishable).
Verbal Conditioning, Euphemisms, and Linguistic Relativity. PDF
Bowers, J.S.,
Damian, M.F., &
Bowers, J.S. (in
press). Does masked and unmasked priming
reflect Bayesian inference as implemented in the Bayesian Reader? European Journal of Cognitive
Psychology. PDF
Damian,
M. F., & Bowers, J. S. (in
press). Orthographic effects in rhyme monitoring: Are they
automatic? European
Journal of Cognitive Psychology. PDF
Bowers,
J.S. (2010). More on grandmother cells and the biological implausibility of PDP models of cognition: A reply to Plaut
and McClelland (2010) and Quian Quiroga and Kreiman (2010). Psychological
Review, 117, 300-306. PDP
Bowers, J.S. (2010). Postscript: Some final thoughts on
grandmother cells,
distributed representations, and PDP models
of cognition. Psychological Review, 117, 306-308.
PDF
Bowers, J.S., Damian, M.F., & Davis,
C.J. (2009). A fundamental limitation of
the conjunctive codes learned in PDP models of cognition: Comments on Botvinick
and Plaut (2006). Psychological Review, 116, 986-995. PDF
Bowers, J.S., Damian, M.F., & Davis,
C.J. (2009). Postscript: More problems with Botvinick and Plaut’s (2006) PDP model of short-term memory. Psychological
Review, 116, 995-997. PDF
Bowers, J.S.,
& Davis, C.J, Mattys, S.L., Damian, M.F., &
Hanley, D. (2009).
The activation of embedded words in spoken word identification is robust but
constrained: Evidence from the picture-word interference paradigm. Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 1585-1597. PDF
Bowers,
J.S. (2009). On the biological plausibility of
grandmother cells: Implications for neural network theories in psychology and
neuroscience. Psychological Review, 116, 220-251. PDF
Bowers,
J.S., &
Bowers, J.S., Mattys,
S.L., & Gage, S.H. (2009). Preserved implicit
knowledge of a forgotten childhood language. Psychological
Science, 20, 1064-1069. PDF
Damian, M.F. & Bowers, J.S. (2009).
Assessing the role of orthography in speech perception
and production. Evidence from picture-word interference tasks. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 21, 581-598. PDF
Stadthagen-Gonzalez, H.,
Damian, M. F., Pérez, M. A., Bowers, J. S., & Marín, J. (2009). Name-picture
verification as a control measure for object naming: A task analysis and norms
for a large set of pictures. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 2009, 62,
1581–1597 PDF
Bowers,
J.S. & Jones,
K.W. (2008). Detecting objects is easier than categorizing
them. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 552-557. PDF
Clay, F., Bowers, J. S., Davis, C. J., & Hanley, D. A. (2007). Teaching
adults new words: The role of practice and consolidation. Journal of
Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition, 33(5), 970-976. PDF
Davis, C. J. & Bowers, J. S.
(2006). Contrasting five theories of letter position coding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human
Perception & Performance, 32,
535-557. PDF
Havelka,
J., Bowers, J. S., & Jankovic, D. (2006). Cross-alphabet
and cross-modal long-term priming in Serbian and English. Psychonomic
Bulletin & Review, 13(5), 842-847. PDF
Bowers,
J.S.,
Bowers,
J.S.,
Bowers, J.S., & Turner, E.L.
(2005).
Masked priming is abstract in the left and right visual fields. Brain
& Language, 95, 414-422. PDF
Baqués,
J., Saiz, D. & Bowers, J.S. (2004). Does implicit memory
use working memory resources? Memory, 12, 301-313. PDF
Bowers, J.S., & Davis, C.J.
(2004).
Is speech perception modular or interactive? Trends in Cognitive Science, 8,
3-5 PDF
Davis, C.J., & Bowers, J.S.
(2004).
What do Letter Migration Errors Reveal About Letter
Position Coding in Visual Word Recognition? Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Human Perception and Performance, 30, 923-941. PDF
Stadthagen-Gonzalez, H., Bowers,
J.S., & Damian, M.F. (2004) Age of Acquisition Effects in Visual Word
Recognition: Evidence From Expert Vocabularies. Cognition, 93, B11-B26. PDF
Bowers, J.S., & Turner, E.L.
(2003).
In search of perceptual priming in a semantic classification
task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory &
Cognition, 29, 1248–1255. PDF
Damian, M.F., & Bowers, J.S.
(2003).
Effects of orthography on speech production in a form
preparation paradigm. Journal of Memory & Language, 49, 119-131.
PDF
Damian, M. F., & Bowers, J.
S. (2003).
Locus of semantic interference in picture-word interference
tasks. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10,
111-117. PDF
Franck,
J., Bowers, J.S., Frauenfelder, U., & Vigliocco, G. (2003) Orthographic influences on agreement:
A case for modality-specific form effects on grammatical encoding. Language and
Cognitive Processes, 18, 61-79. PDF
Bowers,
J.S. (2002). Challenging the widespread assumption that connectionism and
distributed representations go hand-in-hand. Cognitive Psychology, 45, 413-445.
PDF
Bowers, J.S. & Damian, M,
& Havelka, J. (2002). Can distributed
orthographic knowledge support word specific long-term priming? Apparently so. Journal of Memory and Language, 46, 24-38.
PDF
Bowers,
J.S. (2000). In defense of
abstractionist theories of word identification and repetition priming. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 7, 83-99.
PDF
Bowers,
J.S. (2000). The modality specific and non-specific components of long-term
priming are frequency sensitive. Memory & Cognition.
28, 406-414. PDF
Bowers,
J.S. (2000). Further arguments in support of localist coding
in connectionist networks. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 471.
Bowers, J.S., Mimouni,
Z., & Arguin, M. (2000). Orthography plays a
critical role in cognate priming: Evidence from French/English and
Arabic/French cognates. Memory & Cognition 28, 1289-1296. PDF
Bowers,
J.S. (1999). Priming is not all bias: Commentary on Ratcliff and McKoon (1997). Psychological Review, 106, 582-596. PDF
Bowers,
J.S. (1999). The visual categories for letters and words reside outside any informationally encapsulated perceptual system. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 368-369.
Bowers,
J. S. (1999). Grossberg and colleagues solved the hyperonym
problem over a decade ago. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 38.
Bowers,
J.S., Vigliocco, G, Stadthagen-Gonzalez,
H., &. Vinson, D. (1999). Distinguishing language from
thought: Experimental evidence that syntax is lexically rather than
conceptually represented. Psychological Science, 10, 310-315. PDF
Arguin,
M., Bub, D., & Bowers, J.S. (1998). Extent
and limits of covert lexical activation in letter-by-letter reading.
Cognitive Neuropsychology, 15, 53-92.
Bowers,
J.S. Michita, Y. (1998). An investigation into the
structure and acquisition of orthographic knowledge: Evidence from cross-script
Kanji-Hiragana priming. Psychonomic Bulletin and
Review, 5, 259-264. PDF
Bowers, J.S., Vigliocco,
G., & Haan, R. (1998). Orthographic,
phonological, and articulatory contributions to
masked letter and word priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Human Perception and Performance, 24, 1705-1719.
PDF
Arguin,
M., Bowers, J. S. & Bub, D. (1996). Contrasting
abstract orthographic processing and phonological access in letter-by-letter
reading. Brain and Cognition, 32, 190-192.
Arguin,
M., Bowers, J. & Bub, D. (1996). Implicit lexical
access in letter-by-letter reading is not mediated by the right hemisphere.
Brain and Cognition, 30, 275-277.
Bowers,
J.S. (1996). Different perceptual codes support priming for words and
pseudowords: Was Morton right all along? Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 22, 1336-1353. PDF
Bowers, J.S., Arguin,
M., & Bub, D.N. (1996). Fast
and specific access to orthographicknowledge in a
case of letter-by-letter surface alexia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 13,
525-568. PDF
Bowers, J.S., Bub,
D.N., & Arguin, M. (1996). A
characterization of the word superiority effect in a case of letter-by-letter
surface alexia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 13, 415-442. PDF
Bowers,
J.S. (1994). Does implicit memory extend to legal and illegal nonwords? Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20. 534-549. PDF
Bowers, J.S., & Mimouni, Z. (1994). Cognate priming depends upon the
orthographic overlap between prime and target. Brain & Language, 47,
444-446.
Bowers, J.S., & Schacter, D.L. (1990). Implicit memory and test
awareness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition,
15, 763-778. PDF
Book Chapters and Book Reviews:
Bowers,
J.S. (2003). An abstractionist account of masked and
long-term word priming. In
Bowers,
J.S., & Kouider, S. (2003). Developing
theories of priming with an eye on function. In J. S.
Bowers and C. Marsolek (Eds.). Rethinking Implicit Memory, pp. 19-40.
Bowers,
J.S. (2000). Review of “Converging Methods for Understanding
Bowers, J.S., & Schacter, D.L. (1993). Priming of novel information in
amnesic patients: Issues and data. In P. Graf & Masson (Eds.) Implicit
memory: New directions in cognition, development, and neuropsychology. (pp.
303-326).
Schacter, D. L., Bowers, J.S.
& Booker, J. (1989). Intention, awareness, and implicitmemory:
The retrieval intentionality criterion. In