Edited Volumes

  • ​​Wixted, J. T. (2018).  Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, 4th Edition (Editor in Chief). With volume editors Elizabeth Phelps & Lila Davachi (Learning & Memory); John Serences (Sensation, Perception & Attention); Sharon Thompson-Schill (Language & Thought); Simona Ghetti (Developmental & Social Psychology); E. J. Wagenmakers (Methodology). New York: Wiley.
  • Wixted, J. T. (2017). Cognitive psychology of memory. Vol. 2 of Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference, 2nd edition (J. Byrne, Ed.). Oxford: Elsevier.
  • Wixted, J. T. (2004). Methodology. Vol. 4 of Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology, 3rd edition (H. Pashler, Ed.). New York: Wiley.​

Research Articles & Book Chapters
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  • Wixted, J. T. (2007). Dual-process theory and signal-detection theory of recognition memory. Psychological Review, 114, 152-176.
  • Wixted, J. T. (2007). Spotlighting the probative findings: Reply to Parks and Yonelinas (2007). Psychological Review, 114, 203-209.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Carpenter, S. K. (2007). The Wickelgren power law and the Ebbinghaus savings function. Psychological Science, 18, 133-134.
  • Squire, L. R., Wixted, J. T. & Clark, R. E. (2007). Recognition memory and the medial temporal lobe: a new perspective. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 8, 872-883.
  • Mickes, L, Wixted, J. T., Fennema-Notestine, C., Galasko, D., Bondi, M. W., Thal, L. & Salmon, D. (2007). Progressive impairment on neuropsychological tasks in a longitudinal study of preclinical Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychology, 21, 696-705.
  • Wixted, J. T. (2007). Signal-Detection Theory and the Neuroscience of Recognition Memory. In Nairne, J. S. (Ed) The foundations of remembering: Essays in honor of Henry L. Roediger, III (pp. 67-82). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
  • Wixted, J. T. (2007). Integrative comments: Forgetting is not the opposite of remembering. In H. L. Roediger, Y. Dudai and S. M. Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Science of Memory: Concepts (pp. 329-335). New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Mickes, L., Wixted, J. T. & Wais, P. E. (2007). A direct test of the unequal-variance signal-detection model of recognition memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 858-865.
2006 2005 2004
  • Wixted, J. T. (2004). The psychology and neuroscience of forgetting. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 235-269.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Gaitan, S. (2004). Stimulus salience and asymmetric forgetting in the pigeon. Learning & Behavior, 32, 173-182.
  • White, K. G., Parkinson, A. E., Brown, G. S. & Wixted, J. T. (2004). Local Proactive Interference in Delayed Matching to Sample: The Role of Reinforcement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 30, 83-95.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2004). Recall and recognition are equally impaired in patients with selective hippocampal damage. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 58-66.
  • McKenzie, C. R. M., Wixted, J. T., & Noelle, D. C. (2004). Explaining purportedly irrational behavior by modeling skepticism in task parameters: An example examining confidence in forced-choice tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 947-959.
  • Wixted, J. T. (2004). On common ground: Jost's (1897) law of forgetting and Ribot's (1881) law of retrograde amnesia. Psychological Review, 111, 864-879.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Stretch, V. (2004). In defense of the signal-detection interpretation of Remember/Know judgments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 616-641.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2004). Recall, recognition and the hippocampus: A reply to Yonelinas et al. (2004). Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 401-406.
2000 - 2003
  • Wixted, J. T. (2003). The memoirs of an enigmatic and underappreciated memory icon. Review of Interesting Times: An encounter with the 20th Century 1924-, by George Mandler. Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 48, 149-151.
  • Wixted, J. T. & Gaitan, S. (2002). Cognitive theories as reinforcement history surrogates: The case of likelihood ratio models of human recognition memory. Animal Learning & Behavior, 30, 289-305.
  • Morrell, H., Gaitan, S. & Wixted, J. T. (2002). On the nature of the decision axis in signal detection-based models of recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 1095-1110. 
  • Pashler, H. & Wixted, J. T. (Eds.) (2002). Stevens' handbook of experimental psychology, (3rd ed.): Volume 4: Methodology in Experimental Psychology. New York: Wiley.
  • Stricker, J. L., Brown, G. G., Wixted, J. T., Baldo, J. V. & Delis, D. (2002). New semantic and serial clustering indices for the California Verbal Learning Test 2: Background, rationale, and formulae. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 8, 425-435.
  • McKenzie, C. R. M., & Wixted, J. T. (2001). Participant skepticism: If you can't beat it, model it. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 424-425.
  • Kelley, R., & Wixted, J. T. (2001). On the nature of associative information in recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 701-722.
  • McKenzie, C., Wixted, J. T., Noelle, D., & G. Gyudzhyan (2001). Relation between confidence in yes-no and forced-choice tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 140-155.
  • Gaitan, S., & Wixted, J. T. (2000). The role of "nothing" in memory for event duration in pigeons. Animal Learning & Behavior, 28, 147-161.
  • Wixted, J. T., & Stretch, V. (2000). The case against a criterion-shift account of false memory. Psychological Review, 107, 368-376.
Pre-2000
  • Rohrer, D., Salmon, D. P., Wixted, J. T., & Paulsen, J. S. (1999). The disparate effects of Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease on semantic memory. Neuropsychology, 13, 381-388.
  • White, K. G., & Wixted, J. T. (1999). Psychophysics of remembering. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 71, 91-113. [2000 GEORGE MILLER AWARD]
  • Stretch, V., & Wixted, J. T. (1998). Decision rules for recognition memory confidence judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 1397-1410.
  • Stretch, V., & Wixted, J. T. (1998). On the difference between strength-based and frequency-based mirror effects in recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 1379-1396.
  • Wixted, J. T. (1998). Remembering and forgetting. In K. A. Lattal & M. Perone (Eds.), Handbook of human operant research methods (pp. 263-289). New York: Plenum Press.
  • Cook, R., & Wixted, J. T. (1997). Same-different texture discrimination in pigeons: Testing competing models of discrimination and stimulus integration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 23, 401-416.
  • Wixted, J. T., & Ebbesen, E. (1997). Genuine power curves in forgetting. Memory & Cognition, 25, 731-739.
  • Wixted, J. T., Ghadisha, H., & Vera, R. (1997). Recall latency following pure- and mixed-strength lists: A direct test of the relative strength model of free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 23, 523-538.
  • Wixted, J. T., & Dougherty, D. H. (1996). Memory for asymmetric events. In D. L. Medin (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning & Motivation (Vol. 35, pp. 89-126). San Diego: Academic Press.
  • Hartl, J. A., Dougherty, D. H., & Wixted, J. T. (1996). Separating the effects of trial-specific and average sample stimulus duration in delayed matching-to-sample in pigeons. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 66, 231-242.
  • Dougherty, D. H., & Wixted, J. T. (1996). Detecting a nonevent: Delayed presence-vs.-absence discrimination in pigeons. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 65, 81-92.
  • McDowell, J. E., Clementz, B. A., & Wixted, J. T. (1996). Timing and amplitude during predictive saccadic tracking in schizophrenia. Psychophysiology, 33, 93-101.
  • Rohrer, D., Wixted, J. T., Salmon, D. P., & Butters, N. (1995). Retrieval from semantic memory and its implications for Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 21, 1127-1139.
  • Wixted, J. T., & Rohrer, D. (1994). Analyzing the dynamics of free recall: An integrative review of the empirical literature. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1, 89-106.
  • Williams, B. A., & Wixted, J. T. (1994). Shortcomings of the behavioral competition theory of contrast: Re-analysis of McLean (1992). Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 61, 107-112.
  • Rohrer, D. & Wixted, J. T. (1994). An analysis of latency and interresponse time in free recall. Memory & Cognition, 22, 511-524.
  • Wixted, J. T., & Rohrer, D. (1993). Proactive interference and the dynamics of free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 19, 1024-1039.
  • Wixted, J. T. (1993). A signal detection analysis of memory for nonoccurrence in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 19, 400-411.
  • Wixted, J. T., Morrison, R. L., & Rinaldi, R. C. (1993). Psychiatric assessment and diagnosis: Adults. In A. S. Bellack & M. Hersen (Eds.), Handbook of behavior therapy in the psychiatric setting (pp. 73-97). New York: Plenum.
  • Wixted, J. T. (1992). Subjective memorability and the mirror effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 681-690.
  • Wixted, J. T., & Ebbesen, E. (1991). On the form of forgetting. Psychological Science, 2, 409-415.
  • Wixted, J. T. (1991). Conditions and consequences of maintenance rehearsal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 17, 963-973.
  • Wixted, J. T., Bellack, A. S., & Hersen, M. (1990). Behavior therapy. In A. S. Bellack & M. Hersen (Eds.), Handbook of comparative treatments for adult disorders (pp. 17-33). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Wixted, J. T. (1990). Analyzing the empirical course of forgetting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 16, 927-935.
  • Mueser, K. T., Bellack, A. S., Morrison, R. L., & Wixted, J. T. (1990). Social competence in schizophrenia: Premorbid adjustment, social skill, and domains of functioning. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 24, 51-63.
  • Morrison, R. L., Bellack, A. S., Wixted, J. T., & Mueser, K. T. (1990). Positive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia: A cluster-analytic approach. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 178, 377-384.
  • Bellack, A. S., Morrison, R. L., Wixted, J. T., & Mueser, K. T. (1990). An analysis of social competence in schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry, 156, 809-818.
  • Wixted, J. T., & McDowell, J. J (1989). Contributions to the functional analysis of single-trial free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15, 685-697.
  • Wixted, J. T. (1989). The vocabulary of remembering: A review of Kendrick, Rilling, and Denny's Theories of animal memory. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 52, 441-450.
  • Wixted, J. T. (1989). Nonhuman short-term memory: A quantitative reanalysis of selected findings. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 52, 409-426. Morrison, R. L., & Wixted, J. T. (1989). Social skills training. In A. S. Bellack (Ed.), A clinical guide for the treatment of schizophrenia (pp. 237-261). New York: Plenum.
  • Wixted, J. T., Morrison, R. L., & Bellack, A. S. (1988). Social skills training in the treatment of negative symptoms. International Journal of Mental Health, 17, 3-21.
  • McDowell, J. J & Wixted, J. T. (1988). The linear system theory's account of behavior maintained by variable-ratio schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 49, 143-169.
  • Gross, A. M., & Wixted, J. T. (1988). Assessment of child behavior problems. In M. Hersen & A. S. Bellack (Eds.), Behavioral assessment: A practical handbook (pp. 578-608). New York: Pergamon.
  • Gross, A. M., & Wixted, J. T. (1987). Oppositional behavior. In M. Hersen & V. B. Van Hasselt (Eds.), Behavioral therapy with children and adolescents: A clinical approach (pp. 301-324). New York: Wiley.
  • Williams, B. A. & Wixted, J. T. (1986). An equation for behavioral contrast. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 45, 47-62.
  • McDowell, J. J & Wixted, J. T. (1986). Variable-ratio schedules as variable-interval schedules with linear feedback loops. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 46, 315-329.
  • Case, D. A., Fantino, E., & Wixted, J. (1985). Human observing: Maintained by negative informative stimuli only if correlated with improvement in response efficiency. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 43, 289-300.