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Evan Curtis

Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Dr. Curtis examines the fundamental processes of memory and other cognitive functions using a blend of computational and empirical methods. 

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Psychology (University of Manitoba)

Master of Cognitive Science (Carleton University)

Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Psychology (University of Manitoba)

Publications

Journal Publications

  1. Curtis, E.T., & Lebek, I. (under review). Instance theory predicts categorization decisions in the absence of categorical structure: A computational analysis of artificial grammar learning without a grammar. Memory & Cognition.
  2. Curtis, E.T., & Curtis, J.L. (2023). Shallow value weighting predicts problem gambling: A parameter estimation analysis using Cumulative Prospect Theory. The Journal of Gambling Studies (online first). doi: 10.1007/s10899-023-10218-x
  3. Curtis, E.T. (2019). Interactive processes in an instance model of memory: A computational analysis of Jacoby’s (1983) dissociation between perception and recognition. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 73(4), 288-294. doi: 10.1037/cep00001782
  4. Curtis, E.T., & Jamieson, R.K. (2019). Computational and empirical simulations of selective memory impairments: Converging evidence for a single-system account of memory dissociations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(4), 798-817. doi: 10.1177/1747021818768502
  5. Curtis, E.T., Huebner, M., LeFevre, J. (2016). The relationship between problem size and fixation patterns during addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2(2), 91-115. doi:10.5964/jnc.v2i2.17
  6. Curtis, E.T., Chubala, C.M., Spear, J., Jamieson, R.K., Hockley, W.E., Crump, M.J.C. (2016). False recognition of instruction-set lures. Memory, 24(1), 32-43. doi:10.1080/09658211.2014.982657

Encyclopedia Entries

  1. Curtis, E.T. (2018). Trace strength. In J. Vonk and T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behaviour. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1554-1
  2. Curtis, E.T. (2018). Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. In J. Vonk and T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behaviour. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1502-1

Book Reviews

  1. Cresswell, J., & Curtis, E.T. (2017). Discussing moral goods and confronting research fetish: Review of Chirkov’s (2016) “Fundamentals of Research on Culture and Psychology: Theory and Methods”. Culture & Psychology, 24(1), 96-106. doi:10.1177/1354067X17701271.
  2. Curtis, E.T., & Cresswell, J. (2016). Review of Chirkov (2016): “Fundamentals of Research on Culture and Psychology: Theory and Methods”. British Journal of Psychology, 107(4). doi:10.111/bjop.12224

Conference Presentations

  1. Curtis, E.T. (2022, July). Simulating dissociations between true and false recognition in the production effect (talk). 31st Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Sciences, Halifax, NS, Canada.
  2. Curtis, J.L., & Curtis, E.T. (2021, June). Losses loom lesser than gains: Using Cumulative Prospect Theory to predict problem gambling (poster). 30th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada (virtual).
  3. Lebek, I., & Curtis, E.T. (2021, June). Categorization without categories: Applying ATHENA to an unstructured artificial grammar task (poster). 30th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada (virtual).
  4. Curtis, E.T. (2019, June). The growing computational analysis of selective impairments in amnesia: Extending to dissociations between word-stem completion and recognition (talk). 29th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Sciences, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
  5. Curtis, E.T. (2018, July). Interactive processes in an instance-based model (poster). 28th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Sciences, St. John’s, NL, Canada
  6. Curtis, E.T. & Jamieson, R.K. (2015, July). A single-system account of selective memory impairment: Reconsolidating explicit and implicit memory (talk). 3rd International Workshop in Learning, Memory, and Attention, Granada, Spain.
  7. Curtis, E.T. & Jamieson, R.K. (2015, June). Reinterpreting selective impairments in amnesia (talk). 25th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
  8. Curtis, E.T. & Jamieson, R.K. (2014, July). A single-system account of intact 
    identification priming in memory dysfunction (poster). 24th Annual Meeting of the 
    Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Toronto, ON, Canada.
  9. Curtis, E.T., Chubala, C.M., Spear, J., Jamieson, R.K., Hockley, W.E., Crump, M.J.C. 
    (2013, Jun.). False recognition of instruction-set lures (talk). 23rd Annual 
    Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, 
    Calgary, AB, Canada.
  10. Huebner, M.G., Curtis, E.T., & LeFevre, J. (2013, Jun.). Eye tracking and simple
    arithmetic: The influence of problem size on fixation patterns across four 
    operations (talk). 23rd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, 
    Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Calgary, AB, Canada.
  11. Curtis, E.T. & Jamieson, R.K. (2012, Nov.). An instance-based account of mental arithmetic performance (poster). 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for 
    Computers in Psychology, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.
  12. Curtis, E.T., Bouskill, C., & LeFevre, J. (2012, Jun.). Eye movement differences between retrieval and procedures in simple subtraction (poster). 22nd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Kingston, ON, Canada.
  13. Curtis, E.T. & Jamieson, R.K. (2011, Jun.). Extended training biases judgments of 
    grammaticality towards exemplar similarity (poster). 21st Annual Meeting of the 
    Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Winnipeg, MB, 
    Canada.
  14. Curtis, E.T. & LeFevre, J. (2011, Jun.). Fixation patterns in single-digit multiplication (poster). 21st Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
  15. Curtis, E.T. (2010, Apr.). The role of item-specific encoding in categorization of music-like sequences (talk). University of Winnipeg Prairie Undergraduate Research Conference, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. 
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