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  • Kmiecik, M., & Morrison, R.G. (2013). Semantic Distance Modulates the N400 Event-Related Potential in Verbal Analogical Reasoning. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
  • McCarthy, S., Molony, J. & Morrison, R.G. (2013). Insight follows incubation in the Compound Remote Associates Task. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. download PDF.
  • Morrison, R. G. (in press). Problem solving. In M. Aminoff & R. Daroff (Eds.), The encyclopedia of the neurological sciences (2nd Edition). San Diego: Academic Press. download PDF.
  • Morrison, R.G. (2013). Analogical Reasoning: Models of Development. In H. Pashler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the mind. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. download PDF
  • Sweis, B.M., Bharani, K.L. & Morrison, R.G.  (2012). The time course of inhibition in analogical reasoning:  An event-related potential approach. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. download PDF
  • Knowlton, B.J., Morrison, R.G., Hummel, J.E., & Holyoak, K.J. (2012). A neurocomputational system for relational reasoning. Trends in Cognitive Science, 16(7), 373-381 .doi.: 10.1016/j.tics.2012.06.002  download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., & Knowlton, B.J. (2012). Cognitive neuroscience of higher cognition. In K.J. Holyoak & R.G. Morrison (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (pp. 67-89). New York: Oxford University Press. download PDF
  • Holyoak, K.J., & Morrison, R.G. (2012). Thinking and reasoning:  A reader's guide. In K.J. Holyoak & R.G. Morrison (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (pp. 1-7). New York: Oxford University Press. download PDF
  • Holyoak, K.J., & Morrison, R.G. (2012). Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning. New York:  University Press. download PDF
  • Bharani, K., Chihade, D., Nuechterlein, K., Weintraub, S., Paller, K.A., Reber, P.J., & Morrison, R.G.  (2011, April). Electrophysiology of rule-based category learning as a function of age.  Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. download PDF
  • Nikitin, S., & Morrison, R.G. (2011, April). Analogical Reasoning in Human Prefrontal Cortex:  An Event-Related Potential Approach. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., Doumas, L.A.A., & Richland, L.E. (2011). A computational account of children's analogical reasoning:  Balancing inhibitory control in working memory and relational representation. Developmental Science, 14(3), 516-529. download PDF
  • Richland L.E., Chan, T-K., Morrison, R.G., & Au, T.K-F. (2010). Young children’s analogical reasoning across cultures: Similarities and differences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 105, 146-153. download PDF
  • Richland, L.E., & Morrison, R.G. (2010). Is analogical reasoning just another measure of executive functioning? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4, 180. download PDF
  • Doumas, L. A. A., Morrison, R. G., & Richland, L. E. (2010).  Differences in development of analogy across cultures: A computational account.  Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 2338-2343). Mahwah, NJ:  Erlbaum. download PDF
  • Doumas, L.A.A., Morrison, R.G., & Richland, L.E. (2009). The development of analogy: Task learning and individual differences. Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society  (pp. 3133-3138). Mahwah, NJ:  Erlbaum. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., Reber, P., & Paller, K.A. (2009). Dissociation of category-learning mechanisms via brain potentials. Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3076-3081). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., & Cho, Soohyun. (2008). Neurocognitive process constraints on analogy: What changes to allow children to reason like adults? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 391-192. download PDF
  • Krawczyk, D. C., Morrison, R. G., Viskontas, I., Holyoak, K. J., Chow, T. W., Mendez, M., Miller, B.L., & Knowlton, B. J. (2008). Distraction during relational reasoning: The role of prefrontal cortex in interference control. Neuropsychologia, 46, 2020-2032. download PDF
  • Doumas, L.A.A., & Morrison, R.G. (2007, November). Modeling process differences in implicit and explicit category learning:  A symbolic-connectionist approach. Poster presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, California. download PDF
  • Lu, H., Morrison, R.G., Hummel, J.E., & Holyoak, K.J. (2006). Role of gamma-band synchronization in priming of form discrimination for multi-object displays. Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance, 32, 610-617. download PDF
  • Richland, L.E., Morrison, R.G., & Holyoak, K.J. (2006). Children’s development of analogical reasoning: Insights from scene analogy problems. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 94, 249–273. download PDF
  • Thomspon, G., Morrison, R.G., Holyoak, K.J. & Clark, T.K. (2006). Evaluation of an online analogical patient simulation program.  Proceedings of the Nineteenth IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, (pp. 623-628).  Los Alamitos, CA:  IEEE Computer Society. download PDF
  • Holyoak, K.J., & Morrison, R.G. (Eds.) (2005).  Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning.  Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
  • Holyoak, K.J., & Morrison, R.G. (2005).  Thinking and reasoning:  A readers guide.  In K.J. Holyoak & R.G. Morrison (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning.  (pp. 1-9). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
  • Morrison, R.G. (2005).  Thinking in working memory.  In K.J. Holyoak & R.G. Morrison (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (pp. 457-473).  Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., & Bergman, C.E. (2005, May). Analogy into the world: Cuing learning in everyday life using narrative film.  Poster presented at the Teaching Institute of the 17th Annual American Psychological Society Conference, Los Angeles, CA. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., Krawczyk, D., Holyoak, K.J., Hummel, J.E., Chow, T., Miller, B., & Knowlton, B.J. (2004). A neurocomputational model of analogical reasoning and its breakdown in frontotemporal dementia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 260-271. download PDF
  • Viskontas, I.V., Morrison, R.G., Holyoak, K.J., Hummel, J.E., &  Knowlton, B.J.,  (2004) Relational integration, inhibition and analogical reasoning in older adults. Psychology and Aging, 19, 581-591. download PDF
  • Morrison, R. G., & Holyoak, K. J. (2003). Problem solving. In M. Aminoff & R. Daroff (Eds.), The encyclopedia of the neurological sciences (Vol. I, pp 60-63) . San Diego: Academic Press. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., Holyoak, K.J., & Truong, B. (2001). Working memory modularity in analogical reasoning. Proceedings of the TwentyFourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 663-668).   Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., Macdonald, J.W., & Bjork, R.A. (2001, November). Active suppression in the management of working memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL. download PDF
  • Morrison, R.G., & Wallace, B.  (2001). Imagery vividness, creativity, and the visual arts. Journal of Mental Imagery, 25, 135-152. download PDF
  • Spellman, B.A., Holyoak, K.J., & Morrison, R.G. (2001).  Analogical priming via semantic relations.  Memory & Cognition, 29, 383-393. download PDF
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