Dr David K Sewell
(C.V.)
Ph.D., Psychology, BA (Honors in Psychology)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Contact details:
| email: dsewell@unimelb.edu.au | |
| telephone: +61 3 8344 8156 |
My research examines the role of attention in various cognitive processes with a particular emphasis on developing and testing computational models of cognition. Current work, in collaboration with Professor Philip Smith, investigates the role of attention in the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information from visual short-term memory. I also maintain an active research program examining category learning and the representational structure of category knowledge. Recent work has investigated how different notions of attention in category learning models map onto individual differences in working memory capacity.
Professional Associations, Memberships & Awards:
- Student Teacher of the Year (2008) — Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences, The University of Western Australia
- Member of the Cognitive Science Society
Reviewing Activities
- Cognitive Science
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Selected Publications: |
Journal Articles
Sewell, D. K., Lilburn, S. D., & Smith, P. L. (under review). The fixed information capacity of visual short-term memory.
Bode, S., Sewell, D. K., Lilburn, S. D., Forte, J. D., Smith, P. L., & Stahl, J. (under review). Predicting perceptual decisions from early multivariate EEG-signals.
Sewell, D. K. & Lewandowsky, S. (in press). Attention and working memory capacity: Insights from blocking, highlighting, and knowledge restructuring. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [pdf]
Sewell, D. K. & Smith, P. L. (in press). Attentional control in visual signal detection: Effects of abrupt-onset and no-onset stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance.[pdf]
Sewell, D. K. & Lewandowsky, S. (2011). Restructuring partitioned knowledge: The role of recoordination in category learning. Cognitive Psychology, 62, 81-122. [pdf]
Sewell, D. K., Little, D. R., & Lewandowsky, S. (2011). Bayesian computation and mechanism: Theoretical pluralism drives scientific emergence. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 34, 212-213. [pdf], [target article by Jones and Love]
Smith, P. L., Ellis, R., Sewell, D. K., & Wolfgang, B. J. (2010). Cued detection with compound integration-interruption masks reveals multiple attentional mechanisms. Journal of Vision, 10, 1-28. [pdf]