Geoffrey Russell Loftus

CV (Revised February 23, 2024)

Biographical Data

Born:         

December 24, 1945

Address: 

Department of Psychology, Box 351525

 

University of Washington

 

Guthrie Hall, Room 222

 

Seattle, WA 98195-1525

 

USA

Communication channels

Office phone:

(206) 605-1974

Cell phone:

(206) 605-1974

Skype:

gloftus45

email:

gloftus@uw.edu

Web site:

http://faculty.washington.edu/gloftus

   

Education

B.A.:

Brown University, Experimental Psychology, 1967

Ph.D.:

Stanford University, Experimental Psychology, 1971 (Adviser: Richard C. Atkinson)

Postdoctoral:

New York University, 1971-72 (Sponsor: George Sperling)

Employment

Warm-up

         Honeywell Corporation: computer programmer (machine-code and assembly-language), summers, 1966, 1967

         Stanford University, Department of Psychology: research assistant/teaching assistant, 1967-1971

         New York University: postdoctoral research fellow, 1971-72

Permanent

         University of Washington: assistant, associate, full, emeritus professor, 1972-present

Visiting

         Stanford University, Department of Psychology: visiting professor, summers, 1972, 1979

         National Institutes of Health: National Institute on Aging: visiting scholar, autumn, 1986

         MIT, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences: 1995-1996

Awards and Honors

Fellowships

         University Fellow, Stanford University: 1967-70

         NSF fellowship, New York University: 1971-72

         Visiting Scholar, Stanford University: autumn, 1978, summers,1979, 1980

NIMH MERIT Award 1989-1999

Research Grants

 

National Science Foundation

$31,000

6/73-5/75

Eye fixations

 

National Science Foundation

$43,500

6/75-12/77

Short-term memory

 

National Science Foundation

$37,660

1/78-5/79

Picture memory

 

National Science Foundation

$101,03

6/79-9/82

Picture memory

 

UW Grad School Research Fund

$4,962

10/79-6/80

Picture memory

 

National Science Foundation

$167,362

10/82-5/86

Visual perception

 

NIMH

$202,096

6/86-5/89

Visual perception

 

UW Royalty Research Fund

$24,000

3/96-2/97

Attention

 

NIMH

$1,082,187

6/89-8/99

Visual perception (MERIT award)

 

NIMH

$650,570

9/99-2/05

Visual perception

 

Institute for Learning and Brain Science

$75,202

3/01-6/02

Developmental perception

 

NIMH

$1,227,220

3/05-2/11

Visual perception (.pdf)

 

UW Royalty Research Fund

$35,000

3/13-2/14

Visual perception

Professional Memberships

American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)

American Psychological Society (Fellow)

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

Psychonomic Society (Publications Board 1997-2001)

Society for Computers in Psychology (President 1983-84)

Society of Experimental Psychologists

Other Professional Experience

Grant reviewing

         NIMH Basic Behavioral Processes Study Section (1983-1987)

         NIMH Cognition and Perception Study Section (2003-2007)

         Ad hoc reviewer for numerous other granting agencies in the U.S. and elsewhere

Journal editorships

         Editor: Memory & Cognition (1993-1997)

         Associate Editor, Cognitive Psychology (1975-1996; 1999-2006)

Journal editorial boards:

         JEP: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (1977-1988; 2000-2002)

         JEP: General (1977-1990)

         Psychological Science (1999-2004)

         Psychological Review (2004-2011)

Consulting work

Permitted to testify as an expert witness on perception, memory, statistics, and video-game behavior in approximately 490 civil and criminal cases (1980-present). Testimony admitted in,

Superior Courts: 65 counties in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming

Federal Courts: Anchorage, AK; Brooklyn, NY; Chicago, IL; El Paso, TX; Kansas City, MO; Newark, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; Sacramento, CA; San Francisco, CA; Springfield, MA, Tacoma WA; Tucson, AZ; Yakima, WA

U.S. Military Court: U.S. Navy, Sigonella, Italy

Canada: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Publications

Books

Loftus, G.R., & Loftus, E.F. (1976). Human Memory: The Processing of Information. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Loftus, G.R., & Loftus E.F. (1982). Essence of Statistics. Monterey: Brooks-Cole.

Loftus, G.R., & Loftus, E.F. (1983). Mind at Play: The Psychology of Video Games. New York: Basic Books.

Loftus, G.R., & Loftus, E.F. (1987). Essence of Statistics, 2nd Edition. New York: Random House.

Savageau, D. & Loftus, G.R. (1997). Places Rated Almanac. New York: McMillan.

Smith, E.E., Nolen-Hoeksema, S., Fredrickson, B., & Loftus, G.R. (2003). Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology, Fourteenth Edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Nolen-Hoeksema, S., Fredrickson, B., Loftus, G.R., & Wagenaar, W. (2009). Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology, Fifteenth Edition. London, UK: Cengage.

Nolen-Hoeksema, S., Fredrickson, B., Loftus, G.R., & Lutz, C.I., (2013). Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology, Sixteenth Edition. Andover, UK: Cengage.

Articles and Chapters

Freund, R.D., Loftus, G.R., & Atkinson, R.C. (1969). Applications of multiprocess models for memory to continuous recognition tasks. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 6, 576-594. (pdf)

Klatzky, R.L., & Loftus, G.R. (1969). Recognition memory as influenced by number of reinforcements and type of test. Psychonomic Science, 16, 302-303. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R., & Wickens, T.D. (1970). Effect of incentive on storage and retrieval processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 85, 141-147. (pdf)

Rundus, D.J., Loftus, G.R, & Atkinson, R.C. (1970). Immediate free recall and three-week delayed recognition. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 9, 684-688. (pdf)

Loftus, E.F., Freedman, J.L., & Loftus, G.R. (1970). Retrieval of words from subordinate and superordinate categories in semantic hierarchies. Psychonomic Science, 21, 235-236. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1971). Comparison of recognition and recall in a continuous memory task. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 91, 220-226. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1972). Eye fixations and recognition memory for pictures. Cognitive Psychology, 3, 525-551. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1973). Man as an information processor. Textbook chapter in M.S. Gazzaniga, Fundamentals of Psychology, New York: Academic Press.

Loftus, E.F., & Loftus, G.R. (1974). Changes in memory structure and retrieval over the course of instruction. Journal of Educational Psychology, 66, 315-318. (pdf)

Loftus G.R. (1974). Acquisition of information from rapidly presented verbal and nonverbal stimuli. Memory and Cognition, 2, 545-548. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. & Loftus, E.F. (1974). The influence of one memory retrieval on a subsequent retrieval. Memory and Cognition, 2, 467-471. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R., & Bell, S.M. (1975). Two types of information in picture memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 104, 103-113. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R., Mathews, P., Bell, S.M., & Poltrock, S. (1975). General software of an on-line eye-movement recording system. Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 7, 201-204. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R., & Patterson, K.K. (1975). Components of short-term proactive interference. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 14, 105-121. (pdf)

Dark, V.J., & Loftus, G.R. (1976). The role of rehearsal in long-term memory performance. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 15, 479-490. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1976). A framework for a theory of picture memory. In J. Senders & R. Monty (Eds.). Eye Movements and Psychological Processes. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R., & Levy, R.L. (1977). Statistical evaluation of clinical effectiveness: A reply to Bloom & Block. Social Work, 22, 504-506. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1978). On interpretation of interactions. Memory and Cognition, 6, 312-319. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1978). Comprehending compass directions. Memory and Cognition, 6, 416-422. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. & Mackworth, N.H. (1978). Cognitive determinants of fixation location during picture viewing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 4, 565-572. (.pdf)

Palmer, J.C., MacLeod, C.M. & Loftus, G.R. (1978) PLE: A high-level programming language for psychology. Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 10, 764-772. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. & Kallman, H. (1979). Encoding and use of detail information in picture recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 5, 197-211. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R., Dark, V.J. & Williams, D. (1979). Short-term memory factors in ground controller/pilot communication. Human Factors, 21, 169-181. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1979). On-line eye-movement recorders: The good, the bad, and the ugly. Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 11, 188-191. (pdf)

Loftus, E.F., & Loftus, G.R. (1980). On the permanence of stored information in the human brain. American Psychologist, 35, 409-420. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. & Loftus, E.F. (1980). Visual perception: The shifting domain of discourse. The Behavioral and Brain Processes, 3, 391-392. (pdf)

Nelson, W.W. & Loftus, G.R. (1980). The functional visual field during picture viewing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 7, 369-376. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1981). Tachistoscopic simulations of eye fixations on pictures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 7, 369-376. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1982). Top-down guidance from a bottom-up theory. (Review of Lumsden, C., & Wilson, E.O., Genes, Mind, and Culture.) The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1982). Picture memory: Data and methodology. In C.R. Puff (Ed.) Handbook of Research Methods in Human Memory and Cognition (pp. 257-285). New York: Academic Press.

Loftus, G.R. (1983). Eye fixations on scenes and text. In K. Rayner (Ed.), Eye Movements in Reading: Perceptual and Language Processes (pp. 359-376). New York: Academic Press.

Loftus, G.R. (1983). The continuing persistence of the icon. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R., Nelson, W.W. & Kallman, H.J. (1983). Differential acquisition of different kinds of information from pictures. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 35, 187-198. (.pdf)

Loftus, G.R. & Loftus, E.F. (1983). The 25-cent addiction. Science Digest, December, 82-83.

Levy, R.L., & Loftus, G.R. (1984). Compliance and memory. In J.E. Harris (Ed.) Everyday Memory, Actions and Absent-Mindedness (pp. 93-112). New York: Academic Press.

Loftus, E.F., Loftus, G.R., & Hunt, E.B. (1984). Something old, something new, something borrowed, something missing. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 73-74. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. & Ginn, M. (1984). Perceptual and conceptual processing of pictures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 10, 435-441. (.pdf)

Loftus, G.R., Gillispie, S., Tigre, R.A., & Nelson, W.W. (1984). A computerized slide-projector laboratory. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 16, 447-453. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. & Nelson, W. W. (1985). Video games as teaching tools: The computer connection. Computers in Schools.. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1985). Size illusion, distance illusion and terrestrial passage. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 114, 121-123. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R., Johnson, C.A., & Shimamura, A.P. (1985). How much is an icon worth? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 11, 1-13. (pdf)

Loftus, E.F., Schooler, J., Loftus, G.R., & Glauber, D.T. (1985). Memory for events occurring under anesthesia. Acta Psychologica, 59, 123-128. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1985). Evaluating forgetting curves. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 11, 396-405. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1985). Consistency and confoundings: Reply to Slamecka. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 11, 817-820. (pdf). See original Slamecka commentary here.

Loftus, G.R. (1985). Picture perception: Effects of luminance level on available information and information-extraction rate. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 114, 342-356. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1985). Johannes Kepler's computer simulation of the universe: Some remarks on theory in psychology. Behavior Research Methods, Instrumentation and Computers, 17, 149-156. Reprinted as, Computer simulation: Some remarks on theory in Psychology. In G. Kerens and C. Lewis (eds) Methodological and Quantitative Issues in the Analysis of Psychological Data (Potomac: Lawrence Erlbaum). (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1985). On worthwhile icons: Reply to Di Lollo and Haber. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 11, 384-388. (pdf). See original Di Lollo commentary here. See original Haber commentary here.

Loftus, G.R. (1985). Say it ain't Pittsburgh. Psychology Today, June, pp. 8-10. (.pdf)

Loftus, G.R., Nelson, W.W. & Truax, P.E. (1986). Age-related differences in visual information processing: Quantitative of qualitative? In C. Schooler and W. Schaie (Eds.) Cognitive Functioning and Social Structure over the Life Course. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1986). Information acquisition rate, short-term memory and cognitive equivalence. Reply to Sperling. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 115, 295-29; (pdf). See original Sperling commentary here.

Loftus, E.F., Loftus, G.R., & Messo, J. (1987). Some facts about "weapon focus." Law and Human Behavior, 11, 55-62. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R., Hanna, A., & Lester, L. (1988). Conceptual masking: How one picture steals attention from another picture. Cognitive Psychology, 20, 237-282. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R., & Hogden, J. (1988). Picture perception: Information extraction and phenomenological appearance. In G.H. Bower (Ed.). The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 22 (pp. 139-191). New York: Academic Press. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1988). A research framework for investigating information acquisition and loss. Canadian Psychology, 29, 379-380. (pdf)

Stoddard, P.K., & Loftus, G.R. (1988). An IBM XT-compatible, computer-based, slide-projector laboratory. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 20, 541-551. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R., & Hanna, A.M. (1989). The phenomenology of spatial integration: Data and models. Cognitive Psychology, 21, 363-397. (.pdf)

Reinitz, M.T., Wright, E., & Loftus, G.R. (1989). The effects of semantic priming on visual encoding of pictures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 118, 280-297. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1989). The joy of secondary sources. Contemporary Psychology, 34, 813-814.

Loftus, G.R. (1989). The rating game. Los Angeles Times Sunday Op-Ed page, Dec. 24 (reprinted in various newspapers around the country).

Loftus, G.R. & Bamber, D. (1990) Weak models, strong models, unidimensional models, and psychological time. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 16, 916-926. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1991). On the tyranny of hypothesis testing in the social sciences. Contemporary Psychology. 36, 102-105. (pdf)

Christianson, S., Loftus, E.F., Loftus, G.R., & Hoffman, H. (1991). Eye fixations and accuracy in detail memory of emotional versus neutral events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 17, 693-701. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1991). Postdiction of twenty-year-old predictions about the state of computers in psychology (and one or two other matters). Behavior Research Methods, Instrumentation, and Computers. 23, 112-113. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R., Duncan, J. & Gehrig, P. (1992). On the time course of perceptual information that results from a brief visual presentation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 18, 530-549. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. & Busey, T.A. (1992). Multidimensional models and iconic decay: Reply to Di Lollo and Dixon. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 18, 356-361. (pdf). See original Di Lollo and Dixon commentary here.

Loftus, G.R. , Kaufman, L., Nishimoto, T., & Ruthruff, E. (1992). Why it's annoying to look at slides with the room lights still on: Effects of visual degradation on perceptual processing and long-term visual memory. In K. Rayner (Ed) Eye Movements and Visual Cognition: Scene Perception and Reading. New York: Springer-Verlag (pp. 203-226). (pdf)

Hanna, A. & Loftus, G.R. (1992) The effect of expectation and available processing time on recognition of sequences of naturalistic scenes. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 30, 251-254. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1993). Editorial Comment. Memory & Cognition, 21, 1-3. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1993). Computer simulation: Some remarks on theory in Psychology. In G. Kerens & C. Lewis (eds.) Methodological and Quantitative Issues in the Analysis of Psychological Data. Potomac Md: Lawrence Erlbaum (pp. 477-492). (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1993). A picture is worth a thousand p-values: On the irrelevance of hypothesis testing in the computer age. Behavior Research Methods, Instrumentation and Computers, 25, 250-256 . (pdf)

Loftus, G.R., Busey, T.A., & Senders, J.W. (1993). Providing a sensory basis for models of visual information acquisition. Perception & Psychophysics, 54, 535-554. (pdf)

Hanna, A. & Loftus, G.R. (1993). A model for conceptual processing of naturalistic scenes. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 47, 548-569. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. & Ruthruff, E.R. (1994). A theory of visual information acquisition and visual memory with special application to intensity-duration tradeoffs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 20, 33-50. (pdf)

Busey, T.A. & Loftus, G.R. (1994). Sensory and cognitive components of visual information acquisition. Psychological Review, 101, 446-469. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. & Masson, M.E.J. (1994) Using confidence intervals in within-subjects designs. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1, 476-490. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (1995). Data analysis as insight. Behavior Research Methods, Instrumentation and Computers, 27, 57-59. (pdf)

Massaro, D. & Loftus, G.R. (1996). Sensory storage: Icons and echoes. In E.L. Bjork and R.A. Bjork (eds.) Handbook of Perception and Cognition, Vol. 10. New York: Academic Press, pp. 68-101.

Loftus, G.R. (1996). Psychology will be a much better science when we change the way we analyze data. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 161-171. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. & McLean, J.E. (1997). Familiar old wine: Great new bottle. American Journal of Psychology, 146-153. (pdf)

Kahana, M. and Loftus, G.R. (1997). Response accuracy and latency in human cognition: Two sides of the same coin? In R. Sternberg (Ed.) The Concept of Cognition, Cambridge: MIT Press.

Busey, T.A. & Loftus, G.R. (1998). Binocular Information acquisition and visual memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24, 1188-1214. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. & Irwin, D.E. (1998). On the relations among different measures of visible and informational persistence. Cognitive Psychology, 35, 135-199. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. & McLean, J.E. (1999). A front end to a theory of picture recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 6, 394-411. (pdf)

Busey, T.A., Tunnicliff, J., Loftus, G.R. & Loftus, E.F. (2000). Accounts of the confidence-accuracy relation in recognition memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 7, 26-48. (pdf)

Harley, E.M., & Loftus, G.R. (2000). MATLAB and graphical user interfaces: Tools for experimental management. Behavior Research Methods Instrumentation & Computers, 32, 290-296. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (2002). Analysis, interpretation, and visual presentation of data. Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology, Third Edition, Vol 4. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 339-390. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (2003). What do We Know about Facial Cognition? What Should We Do With this Knowledge? Contemporary Psychology, 48, 503-507. (pdf)

Masson, M.E.J. & Loftus, G.R. (2003). Using confidence for graphically based data interpretation. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57, 203-220. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. & Harley, E.M. (2004). How different spatial-frequency components contribute to visual information acquisition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30, 104�118. (pdf)

Bernstein, D.M., Atance, C., Loftus, G.R, & Meltzoff, A.N. (2004). We saw it all along: Visual hindsight bias in children and adults. Psychological Science, 15, 264-267. (pdf)

Harley, E.M., Dillon, A.M., & Loftus, G.R. (2004). Why it's difficult to see in the fog: How contrast affects visual perception and visual memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 197-231. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R., Oberg, M.A., & Dillon, A.M. (2004). Linear theory, dimensional theory, and the face-inversion effect. Psychological Review, 111, 835-863. (pdf)

Harley, E.M., Carlsen, K.A., & Loftus, G.R. (2004). The "Saw-it-all-along" effect: Demonstrations of visual hindsight bias. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 30 , 960-968. (pdf)

Bernstein, D.M., Loftus, G.R., & Meltzoff, A.N. (2004). Object identification in preschool children and adults. Developmental Science, 8. 151-161. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. & Harley, E.M. (2005). Why is it easier to recognize someone close than far away? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 43-65. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (2006). Elizabeth F. Loftus: The early years. In Garry, M., & Hayne, H. (Eds.). Do Justice and Let the Sky Fall: Elizabeth Loftus and her Contributions to science, law, and academic freedom., Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum. (pdf)

Bernstein, D.M., Atance, C., Meltzoff, A.N., & Loftus, G.R. (2007). Hindsight bias and developing theories of mind. Child Development, July/August, 78, 1374-1394. (pdf)

Busey, T.A. & Loftus, G.R. (2007). Cognitive science and the law: Moving science from the laboratory to the courtroom. Trends in Cognitive Science, 11, 112-117. (pdf)

Fidler, F. & Loftus, G.R. (2009). Why hypothesis testing is misunderstood: Hypotheses and Data. Zeitschrift fuer Psychologie, 217, 27-27. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (2010). The null hypothesis. Encyclopedia of Research Design: Sage Publications. (in press) (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (2010). What can a perception-memory expert tell a jury? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 143-148. (pdf)

Loftus, G.R. (2010). Processi Cognitive, testimonianza dell'esterto e teorie su eventi di pertinenza legale. Sistemi Intelligenti a. XXII, n. 2, Agosto 2. (pdf) (English Translation: Cognition, expert testimony, and theories of legally relevant events). (pdf)

Bernstein, D.M., Erdfelder, E., Meltzoff, A.N. Peria, W. &. Loftus, G.R. (2011). Hindsight bias from 3 to 95 years of age. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 37, 378-391.(.pdf)

Reinitz, M.T., Peria, W., Séguin, J.A., &. Loftus, G.R. (2011). Different confidence-accuracy relationships for feature-based and familiarity-based memories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition (in press). (pdf)

De Cesarei, A. &. Loftus, G.R. (2011). Global and local vision in natural scene identification. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review DOI 10.3758/s13423-011-0133-6. (.pdf)

Franz, V. &. Loftus, G.R. (2012). Standard errors and confidence intervals in withi-subject designs: Generalizing Loftus & Masson (1994) and avoiding biases of alternative accounts.Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, DOI 10.3758/s13423-012-0230-1. (pdf)

Reinitz, M.T., Séguin, J.A., Peria, W., &. Loftus, G.R. (2012). Confidence-accuracy relations for faces and scenes: Roles of features and familiarity. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19, 1085-1096.

Reinitz, M.T. &. Loftus, G.R. (2016). Conjunction faces alter confidence-accuracy relations for old faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition.

De Cesarei, A., Loftus, G.R., Mastria, S., & Dodispoti, M. (2017). Understanding natural scenes: Contributions of image statistics. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (in press).

De Cesarei, A., Marzocchi, M., & Loftus, G. R. (in press). VISTO: An Open-Source Device to Measure Exposure Time in Psychological Experiments. MethodsX.

 

 Invited Addresses

1972

         University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

         New York University, New York, NY

         Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

         State University of, New York, Oswego, NY

         Brown University, Providence, RI

         University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1974

         National Academy of Sciences Specialists Meeting, Princeton, NJ

1975

         University of California, Irvine, CA

         University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

         Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

         University of California, Los Angeles, CA

         University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

1976

         Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

         University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

         Interdisciplinary Conference, Jackson Hole, WY

         Advanced Projects Research Agency Conference on C3 Systems, Cambridge, MA

         Advanced Projects Research Agency Conference on Cartography, San Francisco, CA

1977

         University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

         University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

         Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

         University of California, Irvine, CA

1978

         Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA

         University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

         Swarthmore College, Swathmore, PA

         University of California, Berkeley, CA

         NASA/Ames, Mountain View, CA                                           

1980

         University of Denver, Denver, CO

1981

         University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

         Stanford University, Stanford, CA

         British Psychology Society, Plymouth, England

         Craik Society, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England

         Copenhagen University, Denmark

         Sloan Conference on Reading, Amherst, Mass.

         Yale University

1982

         University of Utah

         Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany

         NASA/Ames, Mountain View

1983

         University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

         Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany

1984

         Stanford University, Stanford, CA

         University of Toronto, Toronto, CA

         Society for Computers in Society (Presidential address), San Antonio, TX

         Arizona Public Defender's Office, Tucson, AZ

         California State College System, Courseware Conference, San Francisco, Ca

         Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

         Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

1985

         Western Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA

         Williams College, Williamstown MA

         U.S. Army Conference on C3 Systems, Fort Walton Beach, FL

         University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

         Institute for Perception, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

         Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands

         University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC

1986

         Brown University, Providence, RI

         Duke University, Durham, NC

         IBM Research Labs, Yorktown Heights, NY

         John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

         National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD

         Northwest Courseware Conference, SeaTac, WA

         Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

         SUNY, Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

         University of Delaware, Newark DE

         University of Maryland, College Park, MD

1987

         Association of Federal Public Defenders, Seattle, WA

         New York University, New York, NY

         Society for the Visually Impaired

1988

         University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

         Banff Conference on Cognitive Science, Banff, Alberta, Canada

         University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

         New York University, New York, NY

1989

         New York University, New York, NY

1990

         Amherst conference on eye movements, Amherst, MA

         Ann Arbor conference on human/machine vision, Ann Arbor, MI

         Boston University, Boston, MA

         Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands

         National Research Council meeting on vision, Irvine, CA

         Stanford University, Stanford, CA

         University of Padua, Italy

1991

         National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis Conference on Visualization and Spatial Quality, Castine, Maine

         Nuclear Regulatory Commission conference on systems for regulatory research, Livermore, CA

1992

         Child Guidance Center, Tacoma, WA

         Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR

         Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

         Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany

         Tucson Public Defender's Office, Tucson, AZ

         Spokane WA Public Defender's Office, Spokane, WA

1993

         Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

         Smith-Kettlewell Institute, San Francisco, CA

         University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

         University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

         University of Texas, Austin, TX

         Washington Defender's Association, Winthrop WA

1994

         American Psychological Association

         Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, UK

         Brown University, Providence, RI

         Stanford University, Stanford, CA

         University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland

         University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

1995

         American Psychological Society, New York, NY

         Boston University, Boston, MA

         Boston VA Medical Center, Boston, MA

         Brown University, Providence, RI

         Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

         Society of Experimental Psychologists, Phoenix, AZ

         Tufts University, Medford, MA

         Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

1996

         Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

         Dartmouth College (Kohler Memorial Lecturer), Hanover, NH

         Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

         Japanese Educational Psychology Society, Tokyo, Japan

         National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology, Tsukuba,Japan

         Northeastern University, Boston, MA

         Tsukuba University,. Tsukuba, Japan)

         University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

         Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

1997

         American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL

         Birkbeck College, London, UK

         Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

         City University, London, UK

         University of East London, London, UK

1998

         American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA

         City of Chicago Corporation Counsel's Office, Chicago, IL

         Military Prosecutors Conference, Everett Naval Base, Everett, WA

         Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

         Seattle Forensic Institute, Seattle, WA

1999

         Cities conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

2000

         Alaska Trial Lawyers Convention, Anchorage, AK

         Arizona Trial Lawyers Convention, Long Beach CA

         Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA

2001

         Society of Counsel Representing Accused Persons, Seattle, WA)

         University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

         National Science Foundation Conference on Augmented Cognition, Washington DC

         Society of Counsel Representing Accused Persons (Kent, WA)

         Public Defender's Office, Seattle, WA

2002

         Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior, Toronto (Invited Preeminent Tutorial)

         Northwest Defenders Association, Seattle, WA

         Inns of Court, Puget Sound Chapter, Tacoma WA

2003

         Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

         University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

2004

         University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

         Washington State Trial Lawyers Association, Seattle, WA

2005

         Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Wellington, New Zealand

         Honolulu Public Defender's Association, Honolulu HI

         Western Psychological Association, Portland OR

2006

         Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco Public Defender Seminar, San Mateo, CA

2008

         MIT Symposium on object recognition, Cambridge, MA

         Giessen University, Giessen, Germany

2009

         Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Kyoto, Japan

         Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

2010

         NOWCAM Conference, Bellingham, WA (Keynote speaker)

         Cook County Public Defender's conference, Oakbrook, IL

2011

         Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Annual Conference, Chelan, WA

         Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, New York, NY

2012-2013

        Inns of Court, Puget Sound Chapter, Seattle WA

        Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL

        University of Washington Edwards Lecture, Seattle, WA

2014

         Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

         Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2015

         Contra Costa County Public Defender's Office, Martinez, CA

         District of Hawaii Federal Courts Conference, Honolulu, HI

2016

         Canadian Psychological Association, annual meeting, Victoria, BC, Canada

2017

         National Seminar on Forensics Evidence and The Criminal Law, Seattle WA

         Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

2018-2021

         University of Melbourne, School of Psychological Science, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

         University of Melbourne, History and Philosophy of Science, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

         University of Sydney, School of Psychology, Sydney, NSW, Australia

      Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Chicago, IL