Publications

 

 

Bowers, J.S. & Christopher W. Pleydell-Pearce  (unpublishable). Verbal Conditioning, Euphemisms, and Linguistic Relativity.  PDF 

 

Bowers, J.S., Damian, M.F., & Davis, C.J. (submitted). PDP networks learn local (grandmother cell) representations in order to code for multiple things at the same time.  Psychological Review PDF

 

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., & Davis, C.J. (2009) Learning representations of wordforms with recurrent networks: Comment on Sibley, Kello, Plaut, & Elman (in press).  Cognitive Science, 33, 1183-1186. PDF

 

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., Davis, C.J., & Hanley, D. (2005). Interfering Neighbours: The impact of novel word learning on the identification of visually similar words.  Cognition, 97, B45-B54.  PDF

 

Bowers, J.S., Davis, C.J., & Hanley, D. (2005). Automatic semantic activation of embedded words: Is there a “hat” in “that”? Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 131-143. PDF

 

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 S. Kinoshita and S. J. Lupker (Eds.), Masked Priming: State of the Art, pp. 39-56. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

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. Oxford University Press.

Bowers, J.S. (2000). Review of “Converging Methods for Understanding Reading and Dyslexia”, by Raymond M. Klein and Patricia A. McMullen (Eds.), MIT Press. In Trends in Cognitive Science, 4, 476.

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). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Schacter, D. L., Bowers, J.S. & Booker, J. (1989). Intention, awareness, and implicitmemory: The retrieval intentionality criterion. In S. Lewandowsky, J. Dunn, & K. Kirsner, (Eds.), Implicit memory: Theoretical issues. (pp. 47-65). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.