Dr. F. Gregory Ashby

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Department of Psychology , University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

Curator of:

Similarity measures

Author of:

Similarity measures

invitations

10 June 2007

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to author (agreed)

Office Address:

Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Phone: (805) 893-2130 / Fax: (805) 893-4303

Email: ashby@psych.ucsb.edu

Lab URL: Laboratory for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience

Education:

Ph.D., Mathematical Psychology, Purdue University, 1980

M.S., Psychology, Purdue University, 1976

B.S., Mathematics and Psychology, University of Puget Sound, 1975

Professional Experience:

1994- Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara

1988-1994 Associate Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara

1986-1988 Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara

1980-1986 Assistant Professor of Psychology, Ohio State University

1981 - 1982 Postdoctoral Fellow with William K. Estes, Harvard University

Some Publications:

Ashby, F. G. (1982). Deriving exact predictions from the cascade model. Psychological Review, 89, 599 607.

Ashby, F. G. (Ed.). (1992). Multidimensional models of perception and cognition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc..

Ashby, F. G., Alfonso-Reese, L. A., Turken, A. U., & Waldron, E. M. (1998). A neuropsychological theory of multiple systems in category learning. Psychological Review, 105, 442-481.

Ashby, F. G., Ennis, J. M., & Spiering, B. J. (2007). A neurobiological theory of automaticity in perceptual categorization. Psychological Review, 114, 632-656.

Ashby, F. G., Isen, A. M., & Turken, A. U. (1999). A neuropsychological theory of positive affect and its influence on cognition. Psychological Review, 106, 529-550.

Ashby, F. G., & Maddox, W. T. (2005). Human category learning. Annual Review of Psychology, 56, 149-178.

Ashby, F. G., & Perrin, N. A. (1988). Toward a unified theory of similarity and recognition. Psychological Review, 95, 124 150.

Ashby, F. G., Prinzmetal, W., Ivry, R., & Maddox, W. T. (1996). A formal theory of feature binding in object perception. Psychological Review, 103, 165-192.

Ashby, F. G., & Townsend, J. T. (1986). Varieties of perceptual independence. Psychological Review, 93, 154 179.

Townsend, J. T., & Ashby, F. G. (1983). Stochastic modeling of elementary psychological processes. New York: Cambridge University Press.