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Peer reviewed journal publications

Hawkins, G. E., Cooper, G., & Cavallaro, J.–P. (in press). The standard relationship between choice frequency and choice time is violated in multi-attribute preferential choice. Journal of Mathematical Psychology. [data and analysis code]

Karayanidis, F., Hawkins, G. E., Wong, A. S. W., Aziz, F., McKewen, M., & Steyvers, M. (in press). Jointly modelling behavioural and EEG measures of proactive control in task-switching. Psychophysiology.

Dao, V.-H., Gunawan, D., Tran, M.-N., Kohn, R., Hawkins, G. E., & Brown, S. D. (in press). Efficient selection between hierarchical cognitive models: Cross-validation with variational Bayes. Psychological Methods. [analysis code]

Larson, J. S., & Hawkins, G. E. (2023). Speed-accuracy tradeoffs in decision making: Perception shifts and goal activation bias decision thresholdsJournal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49, 1-32. [data and analysis code]

Hawkins, G. E., Mittner, M., Forstmann, B. U., & Heathcote, A. (2022). Self-reported mind wandering reflects executive control and selective attentionPsychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 2167-2180. [data and analysis code]

Gunawan, D., Hawkins, G. E., Kohn, R., Tran, M.-N., & Brown, S. D. (). Time-evolving psychological processes over repeated decisionsPsychological Review, 129, 438-456. [analysis code]

Greenaway, K., Kalokerinos, E. K., Hinton, S., & Hawkins, G. E. (2021). Emotion experience and expression goals shape emotion regulation strategy choiceEmotion, 21, 1452-1469. [data and analysis code]

Tran, M.-N., Scharth, M., Gunawan, D., Kohn, R., Brown, S. D., & Hawkins, G. E. (2021). Robustly estimating the marginal likelihood for cognitive models via importance sampling. Behavior Research Methods, 53, 1148-1165. [analysis code]

Hawkins, G. E., & Heathcote, A. (2021). Racing against the clock: Evidence-based vs. time-based decisions. Psychological Review, 128, 222-263. [data and analysis code]

Wall, L., Gunawan, D., Brown, S. D., Tran, M.-N., Kohn, R., & Hawkins, G. E. (2021). Identifying relationships between cognitive processes across tasks, contexts, and time. Behavior Research Methods, 53, 78-95. [analysis code]

Katsimpokis, D., Hawkins, G. E., & van Maanen, L. (2020). Not all speed-accuracy tradeoff manipulations have the same psychological effect. Computational Brain & Behavior, 3, 252-268. [data and analysis code]

Evans, N. J., Hawkins, G. E., & Brown, S. D. (2020). The role of passing time in decision-making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46, 316-326. [supplementary material] [experiment, data, and analysis code]

Gunawan, D., Hawkins, G. E., Tran, M.-N., Kohn, R., & Brown, S. D. (2020). New estimation approaches for the hierarchical Linear Ballistic Accumulator model. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 96, 102368. [analysis code]

Boayue, N. M., Csifcsak, G., Aslaksen, P., Turi, Z., Antal, A., Groot, J., Hawkins, G. E., Forstmann, B., Opitz, A., Thielscher,  A., & Mittner, M. (2020). Increasing propensity to mind wander by transcranial direct current stimulation: A registered report. European Journal of Neuroscience, 51, 755-780. [experiment, data, and analysis code]

Steyvers, M., Hawkins, G. E., Karayanidis, F., & Brown, S. D. (2019). A large-scale analysis of task switching practice effects across the lifespan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116, 17735-17740. [data and analysis code]

Chandrasekaran, C., & Hawkins, G. E. (2019). CHaRTr: An R toolbox for modeling Choices and Response Times in decision-making tasks. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 328, 108432. [analysis code]

Hawkins, G. E., Mittner, M., Forstmann, B. U., & Heathcote, A. (2019). Modeling distracted performanceCognitive Psychology, 112, 48-80. [data and analysis code]

Cooper, G. J., & Hawkins, G. E. (2019). Investigating consumer decision strategies with systems factorial technologyJournal of Mathematical Psychology, 92, 102258. [supplementary material]

Dutilh, G., Annis, J., Brown, S. D., Cassey, P., Evans, N. J., Grasman, R. P. P. P., Hawkins, G. E., Heathcote, A., Holmes, W. R., Krypotos, A.-M., Kupitz, C. N., Leite, F. P., Lerche, V., Lin, Y.-S., Logan, G. D., Palmeri, T. J., Starns, J. J., Trueblood, J. S., van Maanen, L., van Ravenzwaaij, D., Vandekerckhove, J., Visser, I., Voss, A., White, C. N., Wiecki, T. V., Rieskamp, J., & Donkin, C. (2019). The quality of response time data inference: A blinded, collaborative assessment of the validity of cognitive models. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26, 1051-1069.

Hawkins, G. E., Islam, T., & Marley, A. A. J. (2019). Like it or not, you are using one value representation. Decision, 6, 237-260.

Turi, Z., Csifcsak, G., Boayue, N. M., Aslaksen, P., Antal, A., Groot, J., Hawkins, G. E., Forstmann, B., Opitz, A., Thielscher, A., & Mittner, M. (2019). Blinding is compromised for transcranial direct current stimulation at 1 mA for 20 minutes in young healthy adults. European Journal of Neuroscience, 50, 3261-3268.

Evans, N. J., & Hawkins, G. E. (2019). When humans behave like monkeys: Feedback delays and extensive practice increase the efficiency of speeded decision making. Cognition, 184, 11-18. [data and analysis code]

Csifcsak, G., Boayue, N. M., Aslaksen, P., Turi, Z., Antal, A., Groot, J., Hawkins, G. E., Forstmann, B. U., Opitz, A., Thielscher, A., & Mittner, M. (2019). Commentary: “Transcranial stimulation of the frontal lobes increases propensity of mind-wandering without changing meta-awareness”. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00130

Boehm, U., Annis, J., Frank, M. J., Hawkins, G. E., Heathcote, A., Kellen, D., Krypotos, A.-M., Lerche, V., Logan, G. D., Palmeri, T. J., Ravenzwaaij, D., Servant, M., Singmann, H., Starns, J. J., Voss, A., Wiecki, T. V., Matzke, D., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2018). Estimating across-trial variability parameters of the diffusion decision model: Expert advice and recommendations. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 87, 46-75.

Quinn, R. K., James, M. H., Hawkins, G. E., Brown, A. L., Heathcote, A., Smith, D. W., Cairns, M. J., & Dayas, C. V. (2018). Temporally specific miRNA expression patterns in the dorsal and ventral striatum of addiction-prone rats. Addiction Biology, 23, 631-642.

Hayes, B. K., Ngo, J.,Hawkins, G. E., & Newell, B. R. (2018). Causal explanation improves judgment under uncertainty, but rarely in a Bayesian way. Memory & Cognition, 46, 112-131.

Evans, N. J., Hawkins, G. E., Boehm, U., Wagenmakers, E. -J., & Brown, S. D. (2017). The computations that support simple decision-making: A comparison between the diffusion and urgency-gating models. Scientific Reports, 7, 16433. [experiment, data, and analysis code]

Kary, A., Hawkins, G. E., Hayes, B., & Newell, B. R. (2017). A Bayesian latent mixture model approach to assessing performance in stock-flow reasoning. Judgment and Decision Making, 12, 430-444. [data and analysis code]

Filmer, H. L., Varghese, E., Hawkins, G. E., Mattingley, J. B., & Dux, P. E. (2017). Improvements in attention and decision-making following combined behavioral training and brain stimulation. Cerebral Cortex, 27, 3675-3682. [supplementary material]

Hawkins, G. E., Mittner, M., Forstmann, B. U., & Heathcote, A. (2017). On the efficiency of neurally-informed cognitive models to identify latent cognitive states. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 76, 142-155.

Hawkins, G. E.*, Winkel, J.*, Ivry, R. B., Brown, S. D., Cools, R., & Forstmann, B. U. (2016). Focal striatum lesions impair cautiousness in humans. Cortex, 85, 37-45. [* equal contribution] [supplementary material]

Marley, A. A. J., Islam, T., & Hawkins, G. E. (2016). A formal and empirical comparison of two score measures for best-worst scaling. Journal of Choice Modelling, 21, 15-24.

Mittner, M., Hawkins, G. E., Boekel, W., & Forstmann, B. U. (2016). A neural model of mind wanderingTrends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 570-578.

van Maanen, L., Fontanesi, L., Hawkins, G. E., & Forstmann, B. U. (2016). Striatal activation reflects urgency in perceptual decision makingNeuroImage, 139, 294-303.

Boehm, U., Hawkins, G. E., Brown, S. van Rijn, H., & Wagenmakers, E. -J. (2016). Of monkeys and men: Impatience in perceptual decision-makingPsychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23, 738-749.

Hayes, B. K., Hawkins, G. E., & Newell, B. R. (2016). Consider the alternative: The effects of causal knowledge on representing and using alternative hypotheses in judgments under uncertaintyJournal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42, 723-739.

Hawkins, G. E., Hayes, B. K., & Heit, E. (2016). A dynamic model of reasoning and memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 155-180.

Cassey, P., Hawkins, G. E., Donkin, C., & Brown, S. D. (2016). Using alien coins to test whether simple inference is Bayesian. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42, 497-503.

Hawkins, G. E., Mittner, M., Boekel, W., Heathcote, A., & Forstmann, B. U. (2015). Toward a model-based cognitive neuroscience of mind wandering. Neuroscience, 310, 290-305.

Hawkins, G. E., Hayes, B. K., Donkin, C., Pasqualino, M., & Newell, B. R. (2015). A Bayesian latent mixture model analysis shows that informative samples reduce base rate neglectDecision, 2, 306-318. [supplementary material]

Hawkins, G. E., Wagenmakers, E. -J., Ratcliff, R., & Brown, S. D. (2015). Discriminating evidence accumulation from urgency signals in speeded decision making. Journal of Neurophysiology, 114, 40-47.

Hawkins, G. E., Forstmann, B. U., Wagenmakers, E. -J., Ratcliff, R., & Brown, S. D. (2015). Revisiting the evidence for collapsing boundaries and urgency signals in perceptual decision-making. The Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 2476-2484.

Jones, L. G., Hawkins, G. E., & Brown, S. D. (2015). Using best-worst scaling to improve psychological service delivery: An innovative tool for psychologists in organized care settingsPsychological Services, 12, 20-27.

Hawkins, G. E. (2015). Friend or foe? Perceptual categorization across species. The Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 871-872.

Hayes, B. K., Hawkins, G. E., Newell, B. R., Pasqualino, M., & Rehder, B. (2014). The role of causal models in multiple judgments under uncertainty. Cognition, 133, 611-620.

Hawkins, G. E., Marley, A. A. J., Heathcote, A., Flynn, T. N., Louviere, J. J., & Brown, S. D. (2014). The best of times and the worst of times are interchangeableDecision, 1, 192-214. [supplementary material]

Hawkins, G. E., Marley, A. A. J., Heathcote, A., Flynn, T. N., Louviere, J. J., & Brown, S. D. (2014). Integrating cognitive process and descriptive models of attitudes and preferencesCognitive Science, 38, 701-735. [supplementary material]

Hawkins, G. E., Rae, B., Nesbitt, K. V., & Brown, S. D. (2013). Gamelike features might not improve dataBehavior Research Methods, 45, 301-318.

Prince, M., Hawkins, G., Love, J., & Heathcote, A. (2012). An R package for state-trace analysisBehavior Research Methods, 44, 644-655.

Hawkins, G., Brown, S. D., Steyvers, M., & Wagenmakers, E. -J. (2012). Context effects in multi-alternative decision making: Empirical data and a Bayesian modelCognitive Science, 36, 498-516. [data and code]

Walker, A. K., Hawkins, G., Sominsky, L., & Hodgson, D. M. (2012). Transgenerational transmission of anxiety induced by neonatal exposure to lipopolysaccharide: Implications for male and female germ linesPsychoneuroendocrinology, 37, 1320-1335.

Hawkins, G. E., Brown, S. D., Steyvers, M., & Wagenmakers, E. -J. (2012). An optimal adjustment procedure to minimize experiment time in decisions with multiple alternatives. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19, 339-348.

Hawkins, G., Brown, S. D., Steyvers, M., & Wagenmakers, E. -J. (2012). Decision speed induces context effects in choiceExperimental Psychology, 59, 206-215.

Peer reviewed conference proceedings

Hayes, B. K., Hawkins, G. E., & Newell, B. R. (2015). Why do people fail to consider alternative hypotheses in judgments under uncertainty? In D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, & P. P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Hawkins, G. E., Camilleri, A. R., Heathcote, A., Newell, B. R., & Brown, S. D. (2014). Modeling probability knowledge and choice in decisions from experience. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Hayes, B. K., Newell, B. R., & Hawkins, G. E. (2013). Causal model and sampling approaches to reducing base rate neglect. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Hawkins, G., Prince, M., Brown, S., Heathcote, A. (2010). Designing state-trace experiments to assess the number of latent psychological variables underlying binary choices. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

PhD thesis

Hawkins, G. E. (2013). Quantitative approaches to multi-alternative choice. University of Newcastle, Australia.