Richard Schweickert
Degree: Ph.D. Michigan, 1979
Research Interests:
Human information processing and memory, mathematical models, human factors, sleep and dreams.
Recent Publications:
Schweickert, R., Fisher, D. L., & Goldstein, W. M. (2010). Additive factors and stages of mental processes in task networks. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 54, 405-414.
Fortin, C., Schweickert, R., Gaudreault, R., & Viau-Quesnel, C. (2010). Timing is affected by demands in memory search but not by task switching.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36, 580-595.
Schweickert, R. & Xi, Z. (2011) Theory of mind and metamorphoses in dreams: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The metamorphosis. In P. Leverage, H. Mancing, R. Schweickert & J. William (Eds.), Theory of Mind and Literature, West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, (pp. 219-228).
Schweickert, R., Fisher, D. L., & Sung, K. (2012). Discovering cognitive architecture by electively influencing mental processes. Singapore: World Scientific.
Fisher, D. L., Schweickert, R., Drury, C. (2012). Mathematical models in engineering psychology: Optimizing performance. In G. Salvendy (Ed.), Handbook of human factors and ergonomics, 4 th ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley (pp 997-1024).
Schweickert, R., Han, H. J., Yamaguchi, M., & Fortin, C. (2014). Estimating averages from distributions of tone durations. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 76, 605-620. DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0591-1
Schweickert, R., Fortin, C., Xi, Z., & Viau-Quesnel, C. Parallel effects of memory set activation and search on timing and working memory capacity. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, Article Number 779. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00779
Han, H. J., Schweickert, R., Xi, Z., & Viau-Quesnel, C. (2015). The cognitive social network in dreams: Transitivity, assortativity, and giant component proportion are monotonic. Cognitive Science, 1-26. DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12244.
Benham, S., Goffman, L., & Schweickert, R. (2018.) An application of network science to phonological sequence learning in children with developmental language disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61, 2275-2291.
Schweickert, R., & Zheng, X. (2018). Tree Inference: Selective influence in Multinomial Processing Trees with supplementary measures such as response time. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 86, 10-29.
Professor, Mathematical and Computational Cognitive Science
Mailing Address:
Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University
703 Third Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2081 USA
Campus Address:
Peirce Hall, Room 365A
E-mail: schweick@purdue.edu
Telephone: (765) 494-7986
Website
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