Gordon Logan

Gordon D. Logan ( Academic web site of Gordon Logan )

Centennial Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University

Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37203
USA

E-mail: gordon.logan (at) vanderbilt.edu

Education

1975	Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, McGill University
1972	M.Sc. in Experimental Psychology, University of Alberta
1969	B.A. in Psychology, University of Alberta

Research Interests

- Attention
- Executive Control
- Automaticity and Skill Acquisition
- Mental Arithmetic
- Spatial Cognition
- Attention Deficits in Hyperactive Children

Lab Members

Julie Delheimer (research assistant)
Darryl Schneider (graduate student)
Frederick Verbruggen (postdoctoral fellow)

Postdoctoral Positions Available

Three or more postdoctoral positions are available in Gordon Logan's laboratory beginning between June 1 and October 1, 2007.
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Publications

View the complete list of publications (1975 - present)

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Most recent publications (2006 - present) are listed below:

Verbruggen, F., Logan, G. D., Liefooghe, B., & Vandierendonck, A. (in press). Short-term aftereffects of response inhibition: Repetition priming or between-trial control adjustments? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Boucher, L., Stuphorn, V., Logan, G. D., Schall, J. D., & Palmeri, T. J. (in press). Stopping eye and hand movements: Are the processes independent? Perception & Psychophysics.

Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (in press). Executive functions: Task switching. To appear in L. Squire (Ed.), New encyclopedia of neuroscience. Oxford: Elsevier.

Logan, G. D., Schneider, D. W., & Bundesen, C. (in press). Still clever after all these years: Searching for the homunculus in explicitly-cued task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. [Abstract] [Article (PDF)]

Schachar, R., Logan, G. D., Chen, S., Ickowiz, A., & Barr, C. (in press). Restraint and cancellation: Multiple inhibition deficits in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.

Emeric, E. E., Brown, J. W., Boucher, L., Carpenter, R. H. S., Hanes, D. P., Harris, R., Logan, G. D., Mashru, R. N., Paré, M., Pouget, P., Stuphorn, V., Taylor, T. L., & Schall, J. D. (in press). Influence of history on countermanding saccade performance in humans and macaque monkeys. Vision Research.

Logan, G. D. (in press). What it costs to implement a plan: Plan-level and task-level contributions to switch costs. Memory & Cognition.

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. [Article (PDF)]

Boucher, L., Palmeri, T. J., Logan, G. D., & Schall, J. D. (2007). Inhibitory control in mind and brain: An interactive race model of countermanding saccades. Psychological Review, 114, 376-397.

Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2007). Defining task-set reconfiguration: The case of reference point switching. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 118-125. [Article (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. [Abstract] [Article (PDF)]

Xiong, M. J., Logan, G. D., & Franks, J. J. (2006). Testing the semantic differential as a model of task processes with the implicit association test. Memory & Cognition, 34, 1452-1463.

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. [Abstract] [Article (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. [Abstract] [Article (PDF)]

Watter, S., & Logan, G. D. (2006). Parallel response selection in dual-task situations. Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 254-277.

Logan, G. D. (2006). Out with the old, in with the new: More valid measures of switch cost and retrieval time in the task span procedure. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 139-144. [Abstract] [Article (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. [Abstract] [Article (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. [Abstract] [Article (PDF)]

Honors

2005	ISI Highly Cited Researcher
2003	Fellow, American Psychological Society
2001	Fellow, Division 3 (Experimental) of the American Psychological Association
2000-present	Centennial Chair in Psychology, Vanderbilt University
1997-98	Psi Chi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
1997	Fellow, Society of Experimental Psychologists
1995-96	Graduate Student Organization Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Advising, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois
1984-89	Member, Geseleschaft für Unendliche Versuche
1980-84	Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada University Research Fellowship
1972-74	National Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarship

Professional Affiliations

1997-present	Society of Experimental Psychologists
1995-present	Association for Psychological Science
1995-2001	Midwestern Psychological Association
1979-present	Psychonomic Society
1976-present	American Psychological Association

Pictures

2006	Ph.D. Summer School, Bernried, Germany [Picture - ninth from the right]
2005	Society of Experimental Psychologists, Tampa, FL, USA [Picture - fifth from the right]
2005	Conference on the Place of Inhibitory Processes in Cognition, Arlington, TX, USA [Picture - third from the left]
2005	International Conference on Attentional Control, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan (1) [Picture - fifth from the left]
2005	International Conference on Attentional Control, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan (2) [Picture - second from the left]
2004	Leiden, The Netherlands [Picture - fifth from the left]
2004	Ohlstadt, Germany (1) [Picture]
2004	Ohlstadt, Germany (2) [Picture - second from the left]
2003	Society of Experimental Psychologists, St. Louis, MO, USA [Picture - middle of fourth row]
2003	EPOS Workshop, Amsterdam [Picture - wearing brown jacket]
2003	Munich Symposium on Visual Search, Germany (1) [Picture]
2003	Munich Symposium on Visual Search, Germany (2) [Picture - first row standing, third from right]
2002	International Symposium on Executive Functions in Konstanz, Germany [Picture - last row, first from the right]
2002	Stroopfest, Nashville, TN, USA [Picture - second from the right]
2001	KNAW, Amsterdam [Picture - front row, tenth from the left]
2001	BASICS, Banff, AB, Canada [Picture - back row, fourth from the left]
2000	Attention & Performance 19, Germany [Picture - front row, seventh from the left]
1998	Society of Experimental Psychologists, Laguna Beach, CA, USA [Picture - first on the left]
1998	Attention & Performance 18, United Kingdom [Picture - second row, seventh from the left]
1990	Attention & Performance 14, Ann Arbor, MI, USA [Picture - front row, third from the right]
1980	Attention & Performance 9, Great Britain [Picture - front row, fourth seated from the left]
1968	Downtown in Edmonton, AB, Canada [Picture - second from the left]

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