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

• Reid, J. N., Guitard, D., & Jamieson, R. K. (accepted). MINERVA OPS: A computational framework for the representation and recognition of orthographic, phonological, and semantic associates. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
• Jamieson, R. K., & Crump, M. J. C. (2025). An instance model of associative inference. American Journal of Psychology, 138, 231-247.
• Guitard, D., Saint-Aubin, J., Reid, J. N., & Jamieson, R. K. (2025). An embedded computational framework of memory: The critical role of representations in veridical and false recall predictions. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
• Sonier, R-P., Melanson, E., Guitard, D., Jamieson, R. K. & Saint-Aubin, J. (2025). Semantic similarity is not emotional: No effect of similarity defined by valence, arousal, and dominance on short-term ordered recall. Memory & Cognition, 53, 1708-1724.
• 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., Yang, H., & Jamieson, R. K. (2023). A computational account of item-based directed forgetting for nonwords: Incorporating orthographic representations in MINERVA 2. Memory & Cognition, 51, 1785-1806.
• Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., Jones, M. N. (2023). Scalable cognitive modelling: Putting Simon’s (1969) ant back on the beach. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77, 185-201.
• 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.
• Reid, J. N., & Jamieson, R. K. (2022). A computational model of item-based directed forgetting. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76, 75-86.
• 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.

• 2022 CSBBCS Richard C. Tees Distinguished Leadership Award
• 2022 Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association
• 2022 Fellow of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science
• 2017 Students' Teacher Recognition Award
• 2014 Fellow of the Psychonomic Society
• 2013 Students' Teacher Recognition Award
• 2010 Faculty of Arts Teaching Excellence Award