Selected Publications and Conference Presentations
(listed by date)

  • Morrison, R.G. (in press). Analogical Reasoning: Models of Development. In H. Pashler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the mind. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. download PDF
  • Doumas, L.A.A., Morrison, R.G., & Richland, L.E. (2009). The development of analogy: Task learning and individual differences. Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3133-3138). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., Reber, P., & Paller, K.A. (2009). Dissociation of category-learning mechanisms via brain potentials. Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3076-3081). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., Reber, P., & Paller, K.A. (2009, March). Electrophysiological dissociation of category learning mechanisms. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., & Cho, Soohyun. (2008). Neurocognitive process constraints on analogy: What changes to allow children to reason like adults? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 391-192..download PDF
  • Krawczyk, D. C., Morrison, R. G., Viskontas, I., Holyoak, K. J., Chow, T. W., Mendez, M., Miller, B.L., & Knowlton, B. J. (2008). Distraction during relational reasoning: The role of prefrontal cortex in interference control. Neuropsychologia, 46, 2020-2032..download PDF
  • Doumas, L.A.A., & Morrison, R.G. (2007, November). Modeling process differences in implicit and explicit category learning:  A symbolic-connectionist approach. Poster presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, California. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., Doumas, L.A.A., & Richland, L. (2007, November). Cross Cultural Cognitive Differences in Analogical Reasoning:  A Computational Account. Poster presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, California. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., Doumas, L.A.A., & Richland, L. (2007, November). Inhibition vs. Relational Knowledge constraints in Children’s Analogical Reasoning: A symbolic-connectionist approach. Poster presented at the Fifth Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Santa Fe, New Mexico. download PDF
  • Lu, H., Morrison, R.G., Hummel, J.E., & Holyoak, K.J. (2006). Role of gamma-band synchronization in priming of form discrimination for multi-object displays. Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance, 32, 610-617. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., Doumas, L.A.A., & Richland, L.E. (2006). The development of analogical reasoning in children:  A computational account.  Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.  Mahwah, NJ:  Erlbaum. download PDF
  • Richland, L.E., Morrison, R.G., & Holyoak, K.J. (2006). Children’s development of analogical reasoning: Insights from scene analogy problems. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 94, 249–273. download PDF
  • Thomspon, G., Morrison, R.G., Holyoak, K.J. & Clark, T.K. (2006). Evaluation of an online analogical patient simulation program.  Proceedings of the Nineteenth IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, (pp. 623-628).  Los Alamitos, CA:  IEEE Computer Society. download PDF
  • Holyoak, K.J., & Morrison, R.G. (Eds.) (2005).  Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning.  Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. download PDF
  • Holyoak, K.J., & Morrison, R.G. (2005).  Thinking and reasoning:  A readers guide.  In K.J. Holyoak & R.G. Morrison (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning.  (pp. 1-9). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G. (2005).  Thinking in working memory.  In K.J. Holyoak & R.G. Morrison (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (pp. 457-473).  Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., & Bergman, C.E. (2005, May). Analogy into the world: Cuing learning in everyday life using narrative film.  Poster presented at the Teaching Institute of the 17th Annual American Psychological Society Conference, Los Angeles, CA. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., Krawczyk, D., Holyoak, K.J., Hummel, J.E., Chow, T., Miller, B., & Knowlton, B.J. (2004). A neurocomputational model of analogical reasoning and its breakdown in frontotemporal dementia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 260-271.download PDF
  • Viskontas, I.V., Morrison, R.G., Holyoak, K.J., Hummel, J.E., &  Knowlton, B.J.,  (2004) Relational integration, inhibition and analogical reasoning in older adults. Psychology and Aging, 19, 581-591. download PDF
  • Krawczyk, D., Morrison, R.G., Holyoak, K.J., Chow, T.W., Mendez M., & Knowlton, B.J., (2003, April). The role of prefrontal cortex in inhibiting competing perceptual and semantic information in relational reasoning. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY. download PDF
  • Morrison, R. G., & Holyoak, K. J. (2003). Problem solving. In M. Aminoff & R. Daroff (Eds.), The encyclopedia of the neurological sciences (Vol. I, pp 60-63) . San Diego: Academic Press. download PDF
  • Krawczyk, D., Morrison, R.G., Holyoak, K.J., Chow, T.W., Miller, Bruce L., & Knowlton, B.J., (2002, April). Analogical reasoning and inhibition in prefrontal cortex. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., Holyoak, K.J., & Truong, B. (2001). Working memory modularity in analogical reasoning. Proceedings of the TwentyFourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 663-668).   Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., Macdonald, J.W., & Bjork, R.A. (2001, November). Active suppression in the management of working memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., & Wallace, B.  (2001). Imagery vividness, creativity, and the visual arts. Journal of Mental Imagery, 25, 135-152. download PDF
  • Spellman, B.A., Holyoak, K.J., & Morrison, R.G. (2001).  Analogical priming via semantic relations.  Memory & Cognition, 29. 383-393. download PDF