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Andy J. Wills, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
Psychology Plymouth University, Plymouth, England, United Kingdom 
Area:
categorization, learning
Website:
http://www.willslab.co.uk
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Year Citation  Score
2023 Longman C, Milton F, Wills A. EXPRESS: Transfer of strategic task components across unique tasks that share some common structures. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 17470218231221046. PMID 38053315 DOI: 10.1177/17470218231221046  0.654
2022 Hollins TJ, Seabrooke T, Inkster A, Wills A, Mitchell CJ. Pre-testing effects are target-specific and are not driven by a generalised state of curiosity. Memory (Hove, England). 1-15. PMID 36475537 DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2022.2153141  0.795
2022 Spicer SG, Mitchell CJ, Wills AJ, Blake KL, Jones PM. Theory protection: Do humans protect existing associative links? Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Learning and Cognition. 48: 1-16. PMID 35143242 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000314  0.814
2021 Inkster AB, Milton F, Edmunds CER, Benattayallah A, Wills AJ. Neural correlates of the inverse base rate effect. Human Brain Mapping. PMID 34826165 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25729  0.773
2021 Schlegelmilch R, Wills AJ, von Helversen B. A cognitive category-learning model of rule abstraction, attention learning, and contextual modulation. Psychological Review. PMID 34516152 DOI: 10.1037/rev0000321  0.446
2021 Seabrooke T, Mitchell CJ, Wills AJ, Inkster AB, Hollins TJ. The benefits of impossible tests: Assessing the role of error-correction in the pretesting effect. Memory & Cognition. PMID 34363196 DOI: 10.3758/s13421-021-01218-6  0.781
2021 Jones PM, Mitchell CJ, Wills AJ, Spicer SG. Similarities and differences: Comment on Chan et al. (2021). Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Learning and Cognition. 47: 216-217. PMID 34264726 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000277  0.776
2020 Wills AJ, Ellett L, Milton F, Croft G, Beesley T. A dimensional summation account of polymorphous category learning. Learning & Behavior. PMID 32170595 DOI: 10.3758/S13420-020-00409-6  0.742
2019 Spicer SG, Mitchell CJ, Wills AJ, Jones PM. Theory protection in associative learning: Humans maintain certain beliefs in a manner that violates prediction error. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Learning and Cognition. PMID 31556642 DOI: 10.1037/Xan0000225  0.814
2019 Milton F, McLaren IPL, Copestake E, Satherley D, Wills AJ. The effect of preexposure on overall similarity categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Learning and Cognition. PMID 31545630 DOI: 10.1037/Xan0000226  0.687
2019 Wills AJ, Edmunds CER, Le Pelley ME, Milton F, Newell BR, Dwyer DM, Shanks DR. Dissociable learning processes, associative theory, and testimonial reviews: A comment on Smith and Church (2018). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. PMID 31410739 DOI: 10.3758/S13423-019-01644-3  0.815
2019 Seabrooke T, Mitchell CJ, Wills AJ, Waters JL, Hollins TJ. Selective effects of errorful generation on recognition memory: the role of motivation and surprise. Memory (Hove, England). 1-13. PMID 31369344 DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2019.1647247  0.391
2019 Seabrooke T, Hollins TJ, Kent C, Wills AJ, Mitchell CJ. Learning from failure: Errorful generation improves memory for items, not associations Journal of Memory and Language. 104: 70-82. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jml.2018.10.001  0.415
2018 Sambrook TD, Hardwick B, Wills AJ, Goslin J. Model-free and model-based reward prediction errors in EEG. Neuroimage. PMID 29758337 DOI: 10.1016/J.Neuroimage.2018.05.023  0.441
2018 Lea SEG, Pothos EM, Wills AJ, Leaver LA, Ryan CME, Meier C. Multiple feature use in pigeons' category discrimination: The influence of stimulus set structure and the salience of stimulus differences. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Learning and Cognition. 44: 114-127. PMID 29683693 DOI: 10.1037/Xan0000169  0.435
2018 Edmunds CER, Milton F, Wills AJ. Due Process in Dual Process: Model-Recovery Simulations of Decision-Bound Strategy Analysis in Category Learning. Cognitive Science. PMID 29570837 DOI: 10.1111/Cogs.12607  0.786
2017 Edmunds CER, Wills AJ, Milton F. Initial training with difficult items does not facilitate category learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 1-30. PMID 28847234 DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2017.1370477  0.722
2017 Longman CS, Milton F, Wills AJ, Verbruggen F. Transfer of learned category-response associations is modulated by instruction. Acta Psychologica. PMID 28454893 DOI: 10.1016/J.Actpsy.2017.04.004  0.72
2017 Wills AJ, O'Connell G, Edmunds CER, Inkster AB. Chapter Three - Progress in Modeling Through Distributed Collaboration: Concepts, Tools and Category-Learning Examples Psychology of Learning and Motivation. 66: 79-115. DOI: 10.1016/Bs.Plm.2016.11.007  0.308
2016 Lawson R, Chang F, Wills AJ. Free classification of large sets of everyday objects is more thematic than taxonomic. Acta Psychologica. 172: 26-40. PMID 27863296 DOI: 10.1016/J.Actpsy.2016.11.001  0.308
2016 Milton F, Bealing P, Carpenter KL, Bennattayallah A, Wills AJ. The Neural Correlates of Similarity- and Rule-based Generalization. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 1-17. PMID 27575389 DOI: 10.1162/Jocn_A_01024  0.712
2016 Le Pelley ME, Mitchell CJ, Beesley T, George DN, Wills AJ. Attention and Associative Learning in Humans: An Integrative Review. Psychological Bulletin. PMID 27504933 DOI: 10.1037/Bul0000064  0.69
2016 O'Connell G, Myers CE, Hopkins RO, McLaren RP, Gluck MA, Wills AJ. Amnesic Patients Show Superior Generalization in Category Learning. Neuropsychology. PMID 27442451 DOI: 10.1037/Neu0000301  0.458
2016 Carpenter KL, Wills AJ, Benattayallah A, Milton F. A Comparison of the neural correlates that underlie rule-based and information-integration category learning. Human Brain Mapping. PMID 27199090 DOI: 10.1002/Hbm.23259  0.725
2015 Maes E, De Filippo G, Inkster AB, Lea SE, De Houwer J, D'Hooge R, Beckers T, Wills AJ. Feature- versus rule-based generalization in rats, pigeons and humans. Animal Cognition. PMID 26188712 DOI: 10.1007/S10071-015-0895-8  0.809
2015 Wills AJ, Inkster AB, Milton F. Combination or Differentiation? Two theories of processing order in classification. Cognitive Psychology. 80: 1-33. PMID 26057479 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cogpsych.2015.04.002  0.767
2015 Hogarth L, He Z, Chase HW, Wills AJ, Troisi J, Leventhal AM, Mathew AR, Hitsman B. Negative mood reverses devaluation of goal-directed drug-seeking favouring an incentive learning account of drug dependence. Psychopharmacology. PMID 26041336 DOI: 10.1007/S00213-015-3977-Z  0.367
2015 Edmunds CE, Milton F, Wills AJ. Feedback can be superior to observational training for both rule-based and information-integration category structures. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 68: 1203-22. PMID 25397975 DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.978875  0.71
2015 Yeates F, Wills AJ, Jones FW, McLaren IP. State-Trace Analysis: Dissociable Processes in a Connectionist Network? Cognitive Science. 39: 1047-61. PMID 25307272 DOI: 10.1111/Cogs.12185  0.745
2014 Wills AJ, Lavric A, Hemmings Y, Surrey E. Attention, predictive learning, and the inverse base-rate effect: evidence from event-related potentials. Neuroimage. 87: 61-71. PMID 24188811 DOI: 10.1016/J.Neuroimage.2013.10.060  0.422
2013 Roberts H, Watkins ER, Wills AJ. Cueing an unresolved personal goal causes persistent ruminative self-focus: an experimental evaluation of control theories of rumination. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 44: 449-55. PMID 23810947 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jbtep.2013.05.004  0.586
2013 Yeates F, Jones FW, Wills AJ, McLaren RP, McLaren IP. Modeling human sequence learning under incidental conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Behavior Processes. 39: 166-73. PMID 23586537 DOI: 10.1037/A0031922  0.773
2013 Newell BR, Moore CP, Wills AJ, Milton F. Reinstating the frontal lobes? Having more time to think improves implicit perceptual categorization: a comment on Filoteo, Lauritzen, and Maddox (2010). Psychological Science. 24: 386-9. PMID 23389424 DOI: 10.1177/0956797612457387  0.631
2013 Wills AJ, Milton F, Longmore CA, Hester S, Robinson J. Is overall similarity classification less effortful than single-dimension classification? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 66: 299-318. PMID 22897383 DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.708349  0.657
2011 Welham AK, Wills AJ. Unitization, similarity, and overt attention in categorization and exposure. Memory & Cognition. 39: 1518-33. PMID 21713562 DOI: 10.3758/S13421-011-0124-X  0.755
2011 Wills AJ, Graham S, Koh Z, McLaren IP, Rolland MD. Effects of concurrent load on feature- and rule-based generalization in human contingency learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Behavior Processes. 37: 308-16. PMID 21500927 DOI: 10.1037/A0023120  0.819
2011 Graham S, Jie HL, Chan HM, McLaren IP, Wills AJ. Simultaneous backward conditioned inhibition and mediated conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Behavior Processes. 37: 241-5. PMID 21319913 DOI: 10.1037/A0021828  0.813
2011 Goto K, Lea SE, Wills AJ, Milton F. Interpreting the effects of image manipulation on picture perception in pigeons (Columba livia) and humans (Homo sapiens). Journal of Comparative Psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983). 125: 48-60. PMID 21244138 DOI: 10.1037/A0020791  0.77
2011 McLaren IPL, Wills AJ, Graham S. Representation development, perceptual learning, and concept formation Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 34: 141-142. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X10002372  0.614
2010 Beesley T, Wills AJ, Le Pelley ME. Syntactic transfer in artificial grammar learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 17: 122-8. PMID 20081172 DOI: 10.3758/Pbr.17.1.122  0.673
2010 Hopewell LJ, Leaver LA, Lea SE, Wills AJ. Grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) show a feature-negative effect specific to social learning. Animal Cognition. 13: 219-27. PMID 19588175 DOI: 10.1007/S10071-009-0259-3  0.707
2009 Lea SE, Wills AJ, Leaver LA, Ryan CM, Bryant CM, Millar L. A comparative analysis of the categorization of multidimensional stimuli: II. Strategic information search in humans (Homo sapiens) but not in pigeons (Columba livia). Journal of Comparative Psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983). 123: 406-20. PMID 19929109 DOI: 10.1037/A0016851  0.668
2009 Wills AJ, Lea SE, Leaver LA, Osthaus B, Ryan CM, Suret MB, Bryant CM, Chapman SJ, Millar L. A comparative analysis of the categorization of multidimensional stimuli: I. Unidimensional classification does not necessarily imply analytic processing; evidence from pigeons (Columba livia), squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis), and humans (Homo sapiens). Journal of Comparative Psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983). 123: 391-405. PMID 19929108 DOI: 10.1037/A0016216  0.818
2009 Milton F, Wills AJ, Hodgson TL. The neural basis of overall similarity and single-dimension sorting. Neuroimage. 46: 319-26. PMID 19457383 DOI: 10.1016/J.Neuroimage.2009.01.043  0.701
2009 Milton F, Wills AJ. Long-term persistence of sort strategy in free classification. Acta Psychologica. 130: 161-7. PMID 19138769 DOI: 10.1016/J.Actpsy.2008.12.001  0.688
2009 Wills AJ. Prediction errors and attention in the presence and absence of feedback Current Directions in Psychological Science. 18: 95-100. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8721.2009.01616.X  0.469
2008 Milton F, Longmore CA, Wills AJ. Processes of overall similarity sorting in free classification. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance. 34: 676-92. PMID 18505331 DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.34.3.676  0.668
2008 Lea SEG, Wills AJ. Use of multiple dimensions in learned discriminations Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews. 3. DOI: 10.3819/Ccbr.2008.30007  0.507
2007 Wills AJ, Lavric A, Croft GS, Hodgson TL. Predictive learning, prediction errors, and attention: evidence from event-related potentials and eye tracking. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 19: 843-54. PMID 17488208 DOI: 10.1162/Jocn.2007.19.5.843  0.445
2006 Wills AJ, Noury M, Moberly NJ, Newport M. Formation of category representations. Memory & Cognition. 34: 17-27. PMID 16686103 DOI: 10.3758/Bf03193383  0.442
2006 Lea SE, Wills AJ, Ryan CM. Why are artificial polymorphous concepts so hard for birds to learn? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 59: 251-67. PMID 16618633 DOI: 10.1080/02724990544000031  0.688
2005 Le Pelley ME, Oakeshott SM, Wills AJ, McLaren IP. The outcome specificity of learned predictiveness effects: parallels between human causal learning and animal conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Behavior Processes. 31: 226-36. PMID 15839778 DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.31.2.226  0.824
2004 Goto K, Wills AJ, Lea SE. Global-feature classification can be acquired more rapidly than local-feature classification in both humans and pigeons. Animal Cognition. 7: 109-13. PMID 15069610 DOI: 10.1007/S10071-003-0193-8  0.687
2004 Milton F, Wills AJ. The influence of stimulus properties on category construction. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 30: 407-15. PMID 14979814 DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.30.2.407  0.652
2004 Wills AJ, Suret M, McLaren IP. Brief communication: the role of category structure in determining the effects of stimulus preexposure on categorization accuracy. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. B, Comparative and Physiological Psychology. 57: 79-88. PMID 14690850 DOI: 10.1080/02724990344000060  0.797
2000 Wills AJ, Reimers S, Stewart N, Suret M, McLaren IP. Tests of the ratio rule in categorization. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. a, Human Experimental Psychology. 53: 983-1011. PMID 11131824 DOI: 10.1080/713755935  0.793
1998 Wills AJ, McLaren IP. Perceptual learning and free classification. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. B, Comparative and Physiological Psychology. 51: 235-70. PMID 9745383 DOI: 10.1080/713932680  0.819
1998 Jones FW, Wills AJ, McLaren IP. Perceptual categorization: connectionist modelling and decision rules. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. B, Comparative and Physiological Psychology. 51: 33-58. PMID 9532961 DOI: 10.1080/713932666  0.799
1997 Wills AJ, McLaren IPL. Generalization in Human Category Learning: A Connectionist Account of Differences in Gradient after Discriminative and Non-discriminative Training Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section a: Human Experimental Psychology. 50: 607-630. DOI: 10.1080/027249897392044  0.458
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