The Quantified Cognition Lab

@ Utah State University, Department of Psychology

Publications

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2025 and In Press

Weichart ER & Darby KP. (2025). Overcoming the costs of selective attention: Resolving rule-uncertainty supports acquisition of generalizable memory traces. PsyArXiv preprint. [Link]

Weichart ER, Francis CS, & Sederberg PB. (2025). Parsing inhibitory and mnemonic contributions to age-related decline in cognitive flexibility. PsyArXiv preprint. [Link]

Vance JL, Darby KP, & Weichart ER. (2025). Gaze insights into partially-encoded representations of objects and categories. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47. [Link]

Bardsley E, Francis CS, Sederberg PB, & Weichart ER. (2025). The asymmetric effects of aging on between- and within-trial timescales of inhibition. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47. [Link]

Boag RJ, Innes R, Stevenson N, Bahg G, Busemeyer JR, Cox GE, Donkin C, Frank M, Hawkins G, Heathcote A, Hedge C, Lerche V, Lisburn S, Logan GD, Matzke D, Miletic S, Osth AF, Palmer T, Sederberg PB, Singmann H, Smith P, Stafford T, Steyvers M, Strickland LJG, Trueblood J, Tsetsos K, Turner BM, Usher M, van Maanen L, van Ravenzwaaig D, Vanderckhove J, Voss A, Weichart ER, Weindel G, White C, Evans NJ, Brown S, & Forstmann B. (2025). An expert guide to planning experimental tasks for evidence accumulation modeling. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8(2). [Link]

2024

Weichart E.R., Unger L., King N., Sloutsky V.M., & Turner B.M. (2024). The eyes are the window to the representation: Linking gaze to memory precision and decision weights in object discrimination tasks. Psychological Review, 131(4). 1045-1067. [PDF]

2023

Weichart, E. R. (2023). Electroencephalography: Event-related Potentials. In Kirby, E. (Ed.) Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, 1e. StackX.

Unger L., Weichart E. R., Reardon N., & Sloutsky V. (2023). Without even Trying: How Incidental Exposure Shapes Category Learning. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45. [PDF]

2022

Weichart E. R., Unger L., Sloutsky V. M., & Turner, B. M. (2022). Fixation-gated Encoding Accounts for Attention Biases during Recognition and Categorization. PsyArXiv. [Link]

Galdo, M., Weichart, E. R., Sloutsky, V. M., & Turner, B. M. (2022). The quest for simplicity in human learning: Identifying the constraints on attention. Cognitive Psychology138, 101508. [PDF]

Weichart, E. R., Evans, D. G., Galdo, M., Bahg, G., & Turner, B. M. (2022). Distributed Neural Systems Support Flexible Attention Updating during Category Learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience34(10), 1761-1779. [PDF]

Weichart, E. R., Galdo, M., Sloutsky, V. M., & Turner, B. M. (2022). As within, so without, as above, so below: Common mechanisms can support between-and within-trial category learning dynamics. Psychological Review. [PDF]

2021

Weichart, E. R., Darby, K. P., Fenton, A. W., Jacques, B. G., Kirkpatrick, R. P., Turner, B. M., & Sederberg, P. B. (2021). Quantifying mechanisms of cognition with an experiment and modeling ecosystem. Behavior Research Methods, 1-24. [PDF]

Weichart, E. R., & Sederberg, P. B. (2021). Individual differences in attention allocation during a two-dimensional inhibitory control task. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics83, 676-684. [PDF]

2020

Weichart, E. R., Turner, B. M., & Sederberg, P. B. (2020). A model of dynamic, within-trial conflict resolution for decision making. Psychological Review127(5), 749. [PDF]

Weichart, E. R., Sederberg, P. B., Sammartino, F., Krishna, V., Corrigan, J. D., & Rezai, A. R. (2020). Cognitive task performance during titration predicts deep brain stimulation treatment efficacy: Evidence From a case study. Frontiers in Psychiatry11, 30. [PDF]

2018

Palestro, J. J., Weichart, E., Sederberg, P. B., & Turner, B. M. (2018). Some task demands induce collapsing bounds: Evidence from a behavioral analysis. Psychonomic bulletin & review25, 1225-1248. [PDF]

Scharre, D. W., Weichart, E., Nielson, D., Zhang, J., Agrawal, P., Sederberg, P. B., Rezai, A. R. & Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. (2018). Deep brain stimulation of frontal lobe networks to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease62(2), 621-633. [PDF]

Theses and Dissertations

Weichart ER. (2020). Quantifying and characterizing dynamic mechanisms of cognitive control. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Virginia. Advisor: Per Sederberg. [Link]

Weichart ER. (2017). A dynamic conflict-based account of intra-trial decision-making. Masters Thesis. The Ohio State University. Advisor: Per Sederberg. [Link]

Weichart ER. (2013). Tracking performance at the crossroads of perception and memory. Senior Honors Thesis. The Ohio State University. Advisor: Per Sederberg. [Link]