Faculty Advisor
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Michael Pratte
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Area: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
My interests span midlevel cognitive domains including long and short-term memory, attention, perception, and decision making.
My approach is to study the core organizing principles of behavior that serve as invariants within these domains. This approach involves developing and testing cognitive models that capture the fundamental structures in data. Although these models are theoretically simple, they are non-linear, and must often incorporate large numbers of parameters in order to separate nuisance variability (such as from the selection of participants and items) from variability due to the core process of interest. I develop and test such models by utilizing hierarchical Bayesian techniques.
Representative Publications
Pratte, M.S. & Rouder, J.N. (in press). Hierarchical Single- and Dual-Process Models of Recognition Memory. Journal of Mathematical Psychology.
Pratte, M.S., Rouder, J.N., Morey, R.D., & Feng, C. (2010). Exploring the Differences in Distributional Properties Between Stroop and Simon Effects Using Delta Plots. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 72, 2013–2025.
Pratte, M.S., Rouder, J.N., & Morey, R.D. (2010). Separating Mnemonic Process from Participant and Item Effects in the Assessment of ROC Asymmetries. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 36, 224–232.
Rouder, J.N., Yue, Y., Speckman, P.L., Pratte, M.S., & Province, J.M. (2010). Gradual Growth vs. Shape Invariance in Perceptual Decision Making. Psychological Review. 117, 1267 – 1274.
Rouder, J.N., Pratte, M.S., & Morey, R.D. (2010). Latent Mnemonic Strengths are Latent: A Comment on Mickes, Wixted, and Wais (2007). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 17, 427 – 435.
Pratte, M.S. & Rouder, J.N. (2009). A task-difficulty artifact in subliminal priming. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71, 1276-1283.
Rouder, J.N., Speckman, P.L., Steinley, D., Pratte, M.S., & Morey, R.D. (2009). A Bootstrap Test of Shape
Invariance Across Distributions. Current methodological developments of statistics in the social sciences. 159–174. (Wiley, New York).
Morey, R.D., Pratte, M.S., & Rouder, J.N. (2008). Problematic effects of aggregation in zROC analysis and a hierarchical modeling solution. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 52, 376-388.
Rouder, J.N., Morey, R.D., Cowan, N., Zwilling, C.E., Morey, C.C., & Pratte, M.S. (2008). An Assessment of Fixed-Capacity Models of VisualWorking Memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 105, 5975-5979.
Speckman, P., Rouder, J.N., Morey, R.M., & Pratte, M.S. (2008). Delta plots and coherent distribution ordering. American Statistician, 62, 262-266.
Rouder, J.N., Morey, R.D., Speckman, P., & Pratte, M.S., (2007). Detecting Chance: A solution to the null sensitivity problem in subliminal priming. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 14, 597 - 605.