Introduction
Welcome to the academic website of Darryl W. Schneider. I conduct research on Cognitive Psychology and teach courses in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University.Curriculum Vitae (last updated December 17, 2023)
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Note: I am not currently recruiting new graduate students.
Most of my research falls under the general topics of attention and cognitive control. I have a longstanding and multifaceted interest in task switching, seeking to understand the cognitive processes that enable people to rapidly and flexibly switch between different tasks in dynamic situations. I am also interested in the relationship between alertness and cognitive control, especially in contexts requiring selective attention. My research on these topics typically involves behavioral experimentation, sometimes supplemented by computational modeling.
I was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I received my B.Sc. (Honors) in Psychology from the University of Alberta in 2003. I then moved to the United States to attend graduate school and I received my Ph.D. in Psychology from Vanderbilt University in 2008. From 2008 to 2013, I conducted postdoctoral research at Carnegie Mellon University. I have been a faculty member at Purdue University since 2013. I was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2019.
Publications
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2020-present | 2015-2019 | 2010-2014 | 2005-2009
2020-present
- Martella, A. M., Schneider, D. W., O'Day, G. M., & Karpicke, J. D. (in press). Investigating the intensity and integration of active learning and lecture. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.
- Martella, A. M., & Schneider, D. W. (in press). A reflection on the current state of active learning research. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
- [PDF] Smith, T. D., & Schneider, D. W. (2023). Description versus experience for decisions about discounts. American Journal of Psychology, 136, 21-32.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W., & Chun, H. (2021). Partitioning switch costs when investigating task switching in relation to media multitasking. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 910-917.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W. (2020). Alertness and cognitive control: Interactions in the spatial Stroop task. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 2257-2270.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W. (2019). On the role of attention in working memory for response selection in task switching. Journal of Cognition, 2(1): 34, 1-4.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W. (2019). Alertness and cognitive control: Testing the spatial grouping hypothesis. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81, 1913-1925.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W. (2019). Alertness and cognitive control: Is there a spatial attention constraint? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81, 119-136.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W. (2018). Categorization difficulty modulates the mediated route for response selection in task switching. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25, 1958-1967.
- [PDF] Proctor, R. W., & Schneider, D. W. (2018). Hick's law for choice reaction time: A review. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 1281-1299.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W. (2018). Alertness and cognitive control: Toward a spatial grouping hypothesis. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80, 913-928.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W. (2018). Alertness and cognitive control: Testing the early onset hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44, 756-766.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W. (2017). Visual selective attention with virtual barriers. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79, 1275-1281.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W. (2017). Phasic alertness and residual switch costs in task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43, 317-327.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W. (2016). Investigating a method for reducing residual switch costs in cued task switching. Memory & Cognition, 44, 762-777.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W. (2016). Perceptual and conceptual priming of cue encoding in task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42, 1112-1126.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W. (2015). Attentional control of response selection in task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41, 1315-1324.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2015). Learning a nonmediated route for response selection in task switching. Memory & Cognition, 43, 837-851.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2015). Chunking away task-switch costs: A test of the chunk-point hypothesis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22, 884-889.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W. (2015). Isolating a mediated route for response congruency effects in task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41, 235-245.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W. (2014). Modeling graded response congruency effects in task switching. Acta Psychologica, 153, 160-168.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2014). Tasks, task sets, and the mapping between them. In J. A. Grange & G. Houghton (Eds.), Task switching and cognitive control (pp. 27-44). New York: Oxford University Press.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2014). Modelling response selection in task switching: Testing the contingent encoding assumption. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67, 1074-1095.
- [PDF] Borst, J. P., Schneider, D. W., Walsh, M. M., & Anderson, J. R. (2013). Stages of processing in associative recognition: Evidence from behavior, EEG, and classification. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 2151-2166.
- [PDF] Anderson, J. R., Fincham, J. M., Schneider, D. W., & Yang, J. (2012). Using brain imaging to track problem solving in a complex state space. NeuroImage, 60, 633-643.
- Schneider, D. W., & Anderson, J. R. (2012). Modeling fan effects on the time course of associative recognition. Cognitive Psychology, 64, 127-160.
- Schneider, D. W., & Anderson, J. R. (2011). A memory-based model of Hick's law. Cognitive Psychology, 62, 193-222.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2011). Task-switching performance with 1:1 and 2:1 cue-task mappings: Not so different after all. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 405-415.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W., & Anderson, J. R. (2010). Asymmetric switch costs as sequential difficulty effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 1873-1894.
- [PDF] Logan, G. D., & Schneider, D. W. (2010). Distinguishing reconfiguration and compound-cue retrieval in task switching. Psychologica Belgica, 50, 413-433.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2010). The target of task switching. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 129-133.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W., & Dixon, P. (2009). Visuospatial cues for reinstating mental models in working memory during interrupted reading. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 161-172.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2009). Selecting a response in task switching: Testing a model of compound cue retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 122-136.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2009). Task switching. In L. R. Squire (Ed.), Encyclopedia of neuroscience (Vol. 9, pp. 869-874). Oxford: Academic Press.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W., & Verbruggen, F. (2008). Inhibition of irrelevant category-response mappings. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 1629-1640.
- [PDF] Verbruggen, F., Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2008). How to stop and change a response: The role of goal activation in multitasking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 1212-1228.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2007). Retrieving information from a hierarchical plan. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 1076-1091.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W. (2007). Task-set inhibition in chunked task sequences. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 970-976.
- [PDF] Logan, G. D., Schneider, D. W., & Bundesen, C. (2007). Still clever after all these years: Searching for the homunculus in explicitly cued task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33, 978-994.
- [PDF] Arrington, C. M., Logan, G. D., & Schneider, D. W. (2007). Separating cue encoding from target processing in the explicit task-cuing procedure: Are there "true" task switch effects? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 484-502.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2007). Task switching versus cue switching: Using transition cuing to disentangle sequential effects in task-switching performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 370-378.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2007). Defining task-set reconfiguration: The case of reference point switching. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 118-125.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2006). Hierarchical control of cognitive processes: Switching tasks in sequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135, 623-640.
- [PDF] Logan, G. D., & Schneider, D. W. (2006). Priming or executive control? Associative priming of cue encoding increases "switch costs" in the explicit task-cuing procedure. Memory & Cognition, 34, 1250-1259.
- [PDF] Logan, G. D., & Schneider, D. W. (2006). Interpreting instructional cues in task switching procedures: The role of mediator retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32, 347-363.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2006). Priming cue encoding by manipulating transition frequency in explicitly cued task switching. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 145-151.
- [PDF] Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2005). Modeling task switching without switching tasks: A short-term priming account of explicitly cued performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 134, 343-367.