Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Dyson, B. J., Na, E & Zhang, Y. (in review). How simple games help us to understand decision-making.

Dyson, B. J. (2024). Post-loss speeding or post-win slowing? An empirical note on the interpretation of decision-making time as a function of previous outcome. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. PsyArXiv.

Dyson, B. J. & Baik, L. (2024). The scientification of games: Analysing the card game Ghost Blitz through the lens of Cognitive Psychology. Analog Game Studies, 11: 1. PsyArXiv.

Zhang, Y., Huynh, T. & Dyson, B. J. (2023). Deliberately making miskates: Behavioural consistency under win maximization and loss maximization conditions. Science of Learning, 8: 55. PsyArXiv. Behind The Paper Blog Post.

Dyson, B. J. (2023). Assessing the replicability of Cognitive Psychology during remote experiential learning via mobile phone technology. Collabra: Psychology, 9: 88320. PsyArXiv.

Sullivan, M. D., Kudus, F., Dyson, B. J. & Spaniol, J. (2023). Adult age differences in the temporal dynamics of motivated attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35, 421-438. bioRxiv.

Dahal, R., MacLellan, K., Vavrek, D. & Dyson, B. J. (2022). Assessing behavioural profiles following neutral, positive and negative feedback. PLoS One, 17: 17: e0270475.

Sundvall, J. & Dyson, B. J. (2022). Breaking the bonds of reinforcement: Effects of trial outcome, rule consistency and rule complexity against exploitable and unexploitable opponents. PLoS One, 17: e0262249.

Dyson, B. J. & Asad, A. (2021). Testing a micro-genesis account of longer-form reinforcement learning (win-calmness and loss-restlessness). Science of Learning, 6: 19. PsyArXiv. Behind The Paper Blog Post.

Ward, J., Baykova, R., Dyson, B. J., Chew, J., Schreiter, M-L, Sherman, M. (2021). A distinct electrophysiological signature for synaesthesia that is independent of individual differences in sensory sensitivity. Cortex, 139, 249-266.

Dyson, B. J. (2021). Variability in decision-making speed and quality against exploiting and exploitable opponents . Scientific Reports, 11: 2859. PsyArXiv.

Yang, L., Gallant, S. N., Wilkins, L. K., & Dyson, B. (2020). Cognitive and psychosocial outcomes of self-guided executive function training and low-intensity aerobic exercise in healthy older adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 12: 576744.

Srihaput, V., Craplewe, K. & Dyson, B. J., (2020). Switching competitors reduces win-stay but not lose-shift behaviour: The role of outcome-action association strength on reinforcement learning. Games, 11: 25. PsyArXiv.

Dyson, B. J., Musgrave, C. Rowe, C. & Sandhur, R. (2020). Behavioural and neural interactions between objective and subjective performance in a Matching Pennies game. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 147, 128-136. biorxiv.

Dyson, B. J., Steward, B. A., Meneghetti, T. & Forder, L. (2020). Behavioural and neural limits in competitive decision making: The roles of outcome, opponency and observation. Biological Psychology, 149: 107778. biorxiv.

Dyson, B. J. (2019). Behavioural isomorphism, cognitive economy and recursive thought in non-transitive game strategy. Games, 10: 32.

Dyson, B. J. (2018). Turning play into research: The accidental study of competitive decision-making. The Cognitive Psychology Bulletin, 3, 10.

Dyson, B. J., Sundvall, J., Forder, L. & Douglas, S. (2018). Failure generates impulsivity only when outcomes cannot be controlled. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44, 1483-1487.

Dyson, B. J., Forder, L. & Sundvall, J. (2018). Does the brain’s reward response occur even without actual reward? A response to Fielding, Fu & Franz (2017). Journal of Gambling Studies, 34, 953-861.

Williams, R. S., Kudus, F., Dyson, B. J. & Spaniol, J. (2018). Transient and sustained incentive effects on electrophysiological indices of cognitive control in younger and older adults. Cognitive and Affective Behavioral Neuroscience, 18, 313-330.

Wilbiks, J. M. P. & Dyson, B. J. (2018). The contribution of perceptual factors and training on varying audio-visual integration capacity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44, 871-884.

Dyson, B. J. (2017). Serial dependence in audition: Fast, free and featureless? Trends in Cognitive Science, 21, 819-820.

Gallant, S., Dyson, B. J. & Yang, L. (2017). Local context effects during emotional item directed forgetting in younger and older adults. Memory, 25, 1129-1138.

Williams, R. S., Biel, A. L., Dyson, B. J. & Spaniol, J. (2017). Age differences in gain- and loss-motivated attention. Brain and Cognition, 111, 171-181.

Wilbiks, J. M. P. & Dyson, B. J. (2016). The dynamics and neural correlates of audio-visual integration capacity as determined by temporal unpredictability, proactive interference, and SOA. PLoS One, 11: e0168304.

Forder, L. & Dyson, B. J. (2016). Behavioural and neural modulation of win-stay but not lose-shift strategies as a function of outcome value in Rock, Paper, Scissors. Scientific Reports, 6: 33809.

Dyson, B. J., Wilbiks, J. M. P., Sandhu, R., Papanicolaou, G. & Lintag, J. (2016). Negative outcomes evoke cyclic irrational decisions in Rock, Paper, Scissors. Scientific Reports, 6: 20479.

Gallant, S. & Dyson, B. J. (2016). Neural modulation of item directed forgetting by valence and arousal: An event-related potential study. Brain Research, 1648, 306-316.

Sandhu, R & Dyson, B. J. (2016). Cross-modal perceptual load: the impact of modality and individual differences. Experimental Brain Research, 234, 1279-1291.

Williams, R. S., Biel, A. L., Wegier, P., Lapp, L. K., Dyson, B. J. & Spaniol, J. (2016). Age differences in the Attention Network Test: Evidence from behavior and event-related potentials. Brain and Cognition, 102, 65-79.

Chan, Z. & Dyson, B. J. (2015). The effects of association strength and cross-modal correspondence on the development of multimodal stimuli. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 77, 560-570.

Dyson, B. J. (2015). Using published trial schematics to assess a brief (spatial) history of time: Questioning the graphical depiction of experimental procedures. Timing and Time Perception, 3, 317-322.

Dyson, B. J. Vickers, K. Cowan, S., Tassone, A. & Turtle, J. (2015). Evaluating the use of Facebook to increase student engagement and understanding in lecture-based classes. Higher Education, 69, 303-313.

Edell, M. & Dyson, B. J. (2014). The influence of personality factors on short-term mood repair with drawing production. Canadian Art Therapy Association Journal, 27, 1-8.

McLean, C., Want, S. & Dyson, B. J. (2015). The role of similarity, sound and awareness in the appreciation of visual artwork via motor simulation. Cognition, 137, 174-181.

Sandhu, R., & Dyson, B. J. (2013). Modality and task switching interactions using bi-modal and bivalent stimuli. Brain and Cognition, 82, 90-99.

Ugland, C., Dyson, B. J. & Field, A. (2013). An ERP study of the interaction between verbal information and conditioning pathways to fear. Biological Psychology, 92, 69-81.

Wilbiks, J. M. & Dyson, B. J. (2013b). The influence of previous environmental history on audio-visual binding occurs during visual-weighted but not auditory-weighted environments. Multisensory Processes, 26, 561-568.

Wilbiks, J. M. & Dyson, B. J. (2013a). Effects of temporal asynchrony and stimulus magnitude on competitive audio–visual binding. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 75, 1883-1891.

Wilkinson, A. J., Yang, L. & Dyson, B. J. (2013). Modulating younger and older adults’ performance in ignoring pictorial information during a word matching task. Brain and Cognition, 83, 351-359.

Dyson, B. J. & Alain, C. (2012). Task, time and context as potential mediators of repetition priming effects. Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 248-249.

Sandhu, R. & Dyson, B. J. (2012). Reevaluating visual and auditory dominance through task switching costs and congruency analyses. Acta Psychologica, 140, 111-118.

Dyson, B. J. (2011). The advantage of ambiguity? Early neural responses to multi-stable percepts correlate with the degree of perceived instability. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5, 73, 1-12.

Dyson, B. J. (2010a). Trial after trial: Processing consequences as a function of repetition and change in multi-dimensional sound. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 1770-1788.

Dyson, B. J. (2010b). “She’s a waterfall”: Motion after-effect and perceptual design in video games involving virtual musicianship. Perception, 39, 131-132.

Dyson, B. J. & Cohen, R. (2010). Translations: Effects of viewpoint, feature, naming and context on identifying repeatedly copied drawings. Perception, 39, 157-172.

Dyson, B. J., Dunn, A. & Alain, C. (2010). Ventral and dorsal streams as modality-independent phenomena. Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 64-65.

Dyson, B. J. & Quinlan, P. T. (2010). Decomposing the Garner interference paradigm: Evidence for dissociations between macro- and micro-level performance. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics,72, 1676-1691.

Parkinson, J. M., Dyson, B. J. & Khurana, B. (2010). One line at a time: The neural correlates of temporal stroke order. Experimental Brain Research, 201, 575-586.

Ross, B., Snyder, J., Aalto, M., McDonald, K. L., Dyson, B. J., Schneider, B. & Alain, C. (2009). Effects of tonal duration on neuromagnetic brain activity revisited. NeuroImage, 47, 678-687.

Dyson, B. J. (2008). Assessing small-scale interventions in large-scale teaching: A general methodology and preliminary data. Active Learning in Higher Education, 9, 265-282.

Dyson, B. J. & Alain, C. (2008a). Is a change as good as a rest? Effects of inter-trial contingency and task on concurrent sound segregation. Brain Research, 1189, 135-144.

Dyson, B. J. & Alain, C. (2008b). It all sounds the same to me: Behavioural and ERP correlates of repeating and changing complex acoustic stimuli. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 329-343.

Dyson, B. J. & Ishfaq, F. (2008). Auditory memory can be object-based. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15, 409-412.

Dyson, B. J., Alain, C. & He. Y. (2005a). Effect of visual attentional load on auditory scene analysis. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 319-338.

Dyson, B. J., Alain, C. & He, Y. (2005b). I’ve heard it all before: Perceptual invariance represented by early cortical auditory evoked responses. Cognitive Brain Research, 23, 457-460.

Dyson, B. J. & Quinlan, P. T. (2004). Stimulus processing constraints in audition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30, 1117-1131.

Dyson, B. J. & Alain, C. (2004). Representation of concurrent auditory objects in human auditory cortex. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, 280-289.

Dyson, B. J. & Quinlan, P. T. (2003). Feature and conjunction processing in the auditory modality. Perception and Psychophysics, 65, 254-272.

Dyson, B. J. & Quinlan, P. T. (2002). Within- and between-dimensional processing in the auditory modality. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 1483-1498.

BOOKS

Quinlan, P. T. & Dyson, B. J. (2008). Cognitive Psychology. Pearson: UK.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Dyson, B. J. (2014). Practice, expertise, and aging. In S. K. Whitbourne (Ed.) The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Adulthood and Aging. Wiley: New York.

Alain, C., Arnott, S. R. & Dyson, B. J. (2014). Varieties of auditory attention. In K. Ochsner and S. Kosslyn (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience. Oxford University Press.

Dyson, B. J. (2010c). Auditory organisation. In C. Plack (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Auditory Science: Hearing. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

Dyson, B. J. (2009). Aesthetic appreciation of pictures. In B. Goldstein (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Perception. Sage: UK.

Alain, C., Dyson, B. J. & Snyder, J. (2006). Aging and the perceptual organisation of sounds: a change of scene? In P. M. Conn (Ed.) Handbook of Models for Human Aging (pages 759-769). Elsevier: CA.