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Journal Publications

Pennycook, G., Fugelsang, J., & Koehler, D. (in press). Are we good at detecting conflict during reasoning? Cognition.

Pennycook, G., Cheyne, J., Seli, P., Koehler, D., & Fugelsang, J. (in press). Analytic cognitive style predicts religious and paranormal belief. Cognition.

Maloney, E., Waechter, S., Risko, E., & Fugelsang, J. (in press). Reducing the sex difference in math anxiety: The role of spatial processing ability. Learning and Individual Differences.

Nilsen, E., Mewhort-Buist, T., Gillis, R. & Fugelsang, J. (in press). Communicative perspective-taking performance of adults with ADHD symptoms. Journal of Attention Disorders.

MacLaren, V., Fugelsang, J., Harrigan, K.. & Dixon, M. (2012). Effects of impulsivity, reinforcement sensitivity, and cognitive style on pathological gambling symptoms among frequent slot machine players. Personality and Individual Differences, 52, 390-394. PDF

Green, A., Kraemer, D., Fugelsang, J., Gray, J., & Dunbar, K. (2012). Neurocorrelates of creativity in analogical reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 38, 264-272. PDF

Harrigan, K, Dixon, M., MacLaren, V., Collins, K., & Fugelsang, J. (2011). The maximum reward at the minimum price: Reinforcement rates and payback percentages in multi-line slot machines. Journal of Gambling Issues, 26, 11-29. PDF

Dixon, M., Harrigan, K., Jarick, M., Fugelsang, J., & Sheepy, E. (2011). Psychophysical arousal signatures of near-misses in slot machine play. International Gambling Studies 11, 393-407. PDF

MacLaren, V., Fugelsang, J., Harrigan, K., & Dixon, M. (2011). The personality of pathological gamblers: A meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 31, 1057-1067. PDF

Maloney, E., Ansari, D., & Fugelsang, J. (2011). The effect of mathematics anxiety on the processing of numerical magnitude. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 10-16. PDF

Borgmann, K., Fugelsang, J., Ansari, D., & Besner, D. (2011). Manipulation of congruency proportion reveals asymmetric processing of irrelevant physical and numerical dimensions in the size congruity paradigm. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 98-104. PDF

Ozubko, J., & Fugelsang, J. (2011). Remembering makes evidence compelling: retrieval from memory can give rise to the illusion of truth. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 37, 270-276. PDF

Dixon, M., Harrigan, K, Sandhu, R., Collins, K., & Fugelsang, J. (2010). Losses disguised as wins in video slot machines. Addiction.PDF

Fugelsang, J., & Roser, M. (2010). On the interaction between stimulus features and context in the perception of causality. The Open Psychology Journal, 3, 91-96.PDF

Maloney, E., Risko, E., Preston, F., Ansari, D., & Fugelsang, J. (2010). Challenging the reliability and validity of cognitive measures: The case of the numerical distance effect. Acta Pyschologica, 134, 154-161.PDF

Green, A., Kraemer, D., Fugelsang, J., Gray, J., & Dunbar, K. (2010). Connecting long distance: Semantic distance in analogical reasoning modulates frontopolar cortex activity. Cerebral Cortex, 20, 70-76.PDF

Maloney, E., Risko, E., Ansari, D., & Fugelsang, J. (2010). Mathematics anxiety affects counting but not subitizing during visual enumeration. Cognition, 114, 293-297.PDF

Barton, K., Fugelsang, J., & Smilek, D. (2009). Inhibiting beliefs demands attention. Thinking & Reasoning, 15, 250-267.PDF

Roser, M., Fugelsang, J., Handy, T., Dunbar, K., & Gazzaniga, M. (2009). Representations of physical plausibility revealed by event-related potentials. Neuroreport, 20, 1081-1086.PDF

Green, A., Fugelsang, J., Kraemer, D., & Dunbar, K. (2008). The micro-category account of analogy. Cognition, 106, 1004-1016.PDF

Ansari, D., Fugelsang., J., Dhital, B., Venkatraman, V. (2006). Dissociating response-conflict from numerical magnitude processing in the brain: an event related fMRI study. NeuroImage, 15, 125-137.PDF

Green, A., Fugelsang, J., Kraemer, D., Shamosh, N., & Dunbar, K. (2006). The dynamic role of prefrontal cortex in reasoning and abstract thought. Brain Research, 1096, 125-137.PDF

Green, A., Fugelsang, J., & Dunbar, K. (2006). Automatic priming of category concepts in analogy. Memory & Cognition, 34, 1414-1421.PDF

Levitt, T., Fugelsang, J., & Crossley, M. (2006). Processing speed, attentional capacity, and age-related memory change. Experimental Aging Research, 32, 263-295. PDF

Fugelsang, J., Thompson, V., & Dunbar. K. (2006). Examining the representation of causal knowledge. Thinking & Reasoning, 12, 1-30. PDF

Krendl, A., Macrae, C., Kelley, W., Fugelsang, J., & Heatherton, T. (2006). The good, the bad, and the ugly: An fMRI investigation of the functional anatomic correlates of stigma. Social Neuroscience, 1, 5-15. PDF

Fugelsang, J., Roser, M., Corballis, P., Gazzaniga, M., & Dunbar, K. (2005). Brain mechanisms underlying perceptual causality. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 41-47. PDF

Roser, M., Fugelsang, J., Dunbar, K., Corballis, P., & Gazzaniga, M. (2005). Dissociating processes supporting causal perception and causal inference in the brain. Neuropsychology, 19, 591-602. PDF

Fugelsang, J., & Dunbar, K. (2005). Brain-based mechanisms underlying complex causal thinking. Neuropsychologia, 43, 1204-1213. PDF

Fugelsang, J., & Dunbar, K. (2004). A cognitive neuroscience framework for understanding causal reasoning and the law. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society of London: Series B, 359, 1749-1754. PDF

Baird, A., & Fugelsang, J. (2004). The emergence of consequential thought: Evidence from neuroscience. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society of London: Series B, 359, 1797-1804. PDF

Fugelsang, J., Stein, C., Green, A., & Dunbar, K. (2004). Theory and data interactions of the scientific mind: Evidence from the molecular and the cognitive laboratory. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58, 132-141. PDF

Fugelsang, J., & Thompson, V. (2003). A dual-process model of belief and evidence interactions in causal reasoning. Memory & Cognition, 31, 800-815. PDF

Campbell, J. I. D., Fugelsang, J., & Hernberg, V. (2002). Effects of lexicality and distinctiveness on repetition blindness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 948-962. PDF

Fugelsang. J., & Thompson, V. (2001). Belief-based and covariation-based cues affect causal discounting. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55, 70-76. PDF

Campbell, J. I. D., & Fugelsang, J. (2001). Strategy choices for arithmetic verification: Effects of numerical format. Cognition, 80, 21-30. PDF

Fugelsang. J., & Thompson, V. (2000). Strategy selection in causal reasoning: When beliefs and covariation collide. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54, 13-32. PDF


Books


Galotti, K, Fernandes, M., Fugelsang, J., & Stolz, J. (2010). Cognitive Psychology: In and Out of the Laboratory. 1st Canadian Edition. Thomson Nelson Publishing, Toronto, ON.


Book Chapters


Collins, K., Tessler, H., Harrigan, K., Dixon, M., & Fugelsang, J. (in press). Sound in electronic gambling machines: a review of the literature and its relevance to game audio. In M. Grimshaw (ed.), Game sound Technology and player interaction: concepts and developments. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Fugelsang, J. & Dunbar, K. (2009). Brain based mechanisms underlying causal reasoning. In E. Kraft, B. Guylas, & E. Poppel (Eds.), Neural correlates of thinking (pp. 269 – 279). Berlin: Springer.

Dunbar, K., Fugelsang, J., & Stein, C. (2007). Do naive theories ever go away? Using brain and behavior to understand changes in concepts. In M. Lovett, & P. Shah (Eds.), Thinking with data (pp. 193-206). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Dunbar, K., & Fugelsang, J. (2005). Scientific thinking and reasoning. In K. Holyoak & R. Morrison (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of thinking & reasoning (pp. 705-725). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Dunbar, K., & Fugelsang, J. (2005). Causal thinking in science: How scientists and students interpret the unexpected. In M. E. Gorman, R. D. Tweney, D. Gooding, & A. Kincannon (Eds.), Scientific and technical thinking (pp. 57-79). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Fugelsang, J., & Thompson, V. (2002). Foundations of human causal reasoning. In S. Shohov (Ed.), Advances in psychology research: Vol. 12 (pp. 83-101). Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers.