Randy Jamieson

• Psychology 2480 - Cognitive Processes
• Psychology 3340 - Design and Analysis for Psychological Experiments
• Psychology 3390 - Thinking
• Psychology 3580 - Language and Thought
• Psychology 7200 - Quantitative Methods in Psychology 1
• Psychology 7210 - Quantitative Methods in Psychology 2
• Psychology 4540/7310 - Memory Disorders
• Psychology 4540/7310 - Psychocinematics
• Psychology 4540/7310 - Computational Psychology

I am a cognitive psychologist who uses both experimental and computational methods to investigate how people and other animals learn, remember, think and know. My recent work is focused on (a) understanding the relationship between episodic and semantic memory, (b) articulating the role that memory plays in driving people’s intuitive inferences, (c) writing down a formal model of lexical retrieval, and (d) using the insights from those investigations to build cognitive technologies (e.g., psychologically grounded search engines).

• NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (Cognitive Science), McMaster University, 2007
• PhD (Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science), Queen's University, 2005
• MA (Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science), Queen's University, 2001
• BA (Specialized Honours) (Psychology), York University, 1999

Research Interests

• Human Memory
• Associative Learning
• Implicit/Unconcious Cognition
• Knowledge Representation
• Cognitive Computing
• Theoretical Modelling

• Jamieson, R. K., & Crump, M. J. C. (in press). An instance model of associative inference. American Journal of Psychology
• Guitard, D., Saint-Aubin, J., Reid, J. N., & Jamieson, R. K. (2025). An embedded computational framework of memory: Accounting for the influence of semantic information in verbal short-term memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 140: 104573.
• Reid, J. N., & Jamieson, R. K. (2023). True and false recognition in MINERVA 2: Extension to sentences and metaphors. Journal of Memory and Language, 129, 104397.
• Jamieson, R. K., Johns, B. T., Vokey, J. R., & Jones, M. N. (2022). Instance theory as a domain- general framework for cognitive psychology. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1, 174-183.
• Jamieson, R. K., Avery, J. E., Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2018). An instance theory of semantic memory. Computational Brain and Behavior, 2, 119-136.
• Jamieson, R. K., Mewhort, D. J. K., & Hockley, W. E. (2016). A computational account of the production effect: Still playing twenty questions with nature. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 154-164.
• Jamieson, R. K., Crump, M. J. C., & Hannah, S. D. (2012). An instance theory of associative learning. Learning and Behavior, 40, 61-82.
• Jamieson, R. K., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2009). Applying an exemplar model to the serial reaction time task: Anticipating from experience. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1757- 1783.

• Richard C. Tees Distinguished Leadership Award (Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science)
• Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association
• Fellow of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science
• Fellow of the Psychonomic Society
• Faculty of Arts Teaching Excellence Award: New Faculty Category (University of Manitoba)