Gordon Logan

Gordon D. Logan ( Academic web site of Gordon Logan )

Centennial Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University

Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37203
USA

E-mail: gordon.logan (at) vanderbilt.edu

Education

1975	Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, McGill University
1972	M.Sc. in Experimental Psychology, University of Alberta
1969	B.A. in Psychology, University of Alberta

Research Interests

- Attention
- Executive Control
- Automaticity and Skill Acquisition
- Mental Arithmetic
- Spatial Cognition
- Attention Deficits in Hyperactive Children

Lab Members

Matt Crump (postdoctoral fellow)
Julie Delheimer (research assistant)
Xingshan Li (postdoctoral fellow)
Darryl Schneider (graduate student)
Frederick Verbruggen (postdoctoral fellow)

New Postdoctoral Opportunities

April 22, 2008

I have two postdoctoral positions available in my lab beginning this summer. Please circulate this notice to anyone you think may be qualified. I have funding for two years of support, but we will hire post docs on a yearly basis and evaluate their performance annually.

I expect the post docs to work collaboratively with me on one of the following topics. Ideal candidates will have successful records of publications, skills in programming, conducting, analyzing, and interpreting experimental data, and skills in theorizing about data, including development of computational models among other abilities.

1. Executive control in switching attention and switching between tasks

This project continues my work on models of the processes that underlie task switching performance, contrasting formal implementations of top-down and bottom-up processing (e.g., Logan & Bundesen, 2003, JEP:HPP; Schneider & Logan, 2005, JEP:G), and moving them in new directions.

2. Executive control in the implementation of plans

This project addresses how people work through a list of tasks that they keep in memory, analyzing the interactions between short-term and long-term memory on the one hand and online control processes and subordinate, task-level processes on the other (e.g., Logan, 2004, JEP:G; Schneider & Logan, 2006, JEP:G). A major goal is to integrate theory and data from the literature on serial memory with theory and data from the literature on online performance.

3. Executive processes in the inhibition of thought and action

This project addresses control processes that regulate the deliberate inhibition of voluntary actions in the stop-signal task and tasks like it (e.g., Logan & Cowan, 1984, Psych Review), analyzing the nature of the processes that underlie successful stopping and the control adjustments that change the balance between stopping and going on successive trials. This project involves collaboration with Jeff Schall and Tom Palmeri.

Please have interested parties contact me by email at gordon.logan@vanderbilt.edu, including a curriculum vitae and names of people who can provide letters of recommendation.

STOP-IT

The stop-signal paradigm is a useful tool for investigating response inhibition. Gordon Logan, Frederick Verbruggen, and Michael Stevens have developed a free program, called STOP-IT, for running the stop-signal task. STOP-IT can be installed on computers running Windows 2000/XP and it is available under the GNU General Public License.

Download the program here: STOP-IT (1.5 MB)

The main advantage of STOP-IT is that it is a precompiled executable; for basic use, there is no need for additional programming. STOP-IT is accompanied by an analyzing program, called ANALYZE-IT. ANALYZE-IT can also be used out of the box and it is automatically installed during the installation of STOP-IT. This analyzing program allows users to estimate stop-signal reaction time (SSRT) for every subject and it will calculate the means for all dependent variables of interest.

If you use STOP-IT, the authors would appreciate a citation to the following paper on the program:

Verbruggen, F., Logan, G. D., & Stevens, M. A. (2008). STOP-IT: Windows executable software for the stop-signal paradigm. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 479-483. [Article (PDF)]

Publications

View the complete list of publications (1975 - present)

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Most recent publications (2007 - present) are listed below:

Verbruggen, F., & Logan, G. D. (in press). Automatic and controlled response inhibition: Associative learning in the go/no-go and stop-signal paradigms. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [Article (PDF)]

Li, X., & Logan, G. D. (in press). Object-based attention in Chinese readers of Chinese words: Beyond Gestalt principles. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Verbruggen, F., & Logan, G. D. (in press). Proactive adjustments of response strategies in the stop-signal paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. [Article (PDF)]

Verbruggen, F., & Logan, G. D. (in press). Aftereffects of goal shifting and response inhibition: A comparison of the stop-change and dual-task paradigms. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. [Article (PDF)]

Verbruggen, F., & Logan, G. D. (in press). Long-term aftereffects of response inhibition: Memory retrieval, task goals, and cognitive control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. [Article (PDF)]

Verbruggen, F., Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (in press). How to stop and change a response: The role of goal activation in multi-tasking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. [Article (PDF)]

Verbruggen, F., Logan, G. D., & Stevens, M. A. (2008). STOP-IT: Windows executable software for the stop-signal paradigm. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 479-483. [Article (PDF)]

Verbruggen, F., Logan, G. D., Liefooghe, B., & Vandierendonck, A. (2008). Short-term aftereffects of response inhibition: Repetition priming or between-trial control adjustments? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 413-426. [Article (PDF)]

Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (in press). Executive functions: Task switching. To appear in L. Squire (Ed.), New encyclopedia of neuroscience. Oxford, England: Elsevier.

Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2007). Retrieving information from a hierarchical plan. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 1076-1091. [Article (PDF)]

Aron, A. R., Duston, S., Eagle, D. M., Logan, G. D., Stinear, C. M., & Stuphorn, V. (2007). Converging evidence for a fronto-basal-ganglia system for inhibitory control of action and cognition. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 11860-11864.

Boucher, L., Stuphorn, V., Logan, G. D., Schall, J. D., & Palmeri, T. J. (2007). Stopping eye and hand movements: Are the processes independent? Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 785-801.

Camalier, C. R., Gotler, A., Murthy, A., Thompson, K. G., Logan, G. D., Palmeri, T. J., & Schall, J. D. (2007). Dynamics of saccade target selection: Race model analyses of double step and search step saccade production in human and macaque. Vision Research, 47, 2187-2211.

Logan, G. D. (2007). The role of memory in the control of action. In E. Moresella, J. A. Bargh, & P. M. Gollwitzer (Eds.). The psychology of action, Volume 2: Mechanisms of human action. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Logan, G. D., Schneider, D. W., & Bundesen, C. (2007). Still clever after all these years: Searching for the homunculus in explicitly cued task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33, 978-994. [Article (PDF)]

Schachar, R., Logan, G. D., Chen, S., Ickowiz, A., & Barr, C. (2007). Restraint and cancellation: Multiple inhibition deficits in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 35, 229-238.

Emeric, E. E., Brown, J. W., Boucher, L., Carpenter, R. H. S., Hanes, D. P., Harris, R., Logan, G. D., Mashru, R. N., Paré, M., Pouget, P., Stuphorn, V., Taylor, T. L., & Schall, J. D. (2007). Influence of history on countermanding saccade performance in humans and macaque monkeys. Vision Research, 47, 35-49.

Logan, G. D. (2007). What it costs to implement a plan: Plan-level and task-level contributions to switch costs. Memory & Cognition, 35, 591-602.

Arrington, C. M., Logan, G. D., & Schneider, D. W. (2007). Separating cue encoding from target processing in the explicit task-cuing procedure: Are there "true" task switch effects? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 484-502. [Article (PDF)]

Boucher, L., Palmeri, T. J., Logan, G. D., & Schall, J. D. (2007). Inhibitory control in mind and brain: An interactive race model of countermanding saccades. Psychological Review, 114, 376-397. [Article (PDF)]

Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2007). Defining task-set reconfiguration: The case of reference point switching. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 118-125. [Article (PDF)]

Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2007). Task switching versus cue switching: Using transition cuing to disentangle sequential effects in task-switching performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 370-378. [Article (PDF)]

Honors

2005	ISI Highly Cited Researcher
2003	Fellow, American Psychological Society
2001	Fellow, Division 3 (Experimental) of the American Psychological Association
2000-present	Centennial Chair in Psychology, Vanderbilt University
1997-98	Psi Chi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
1997	Fellow, Society of Experimental Psychologists
1995-96	Graduate Student Organization Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Advising, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois
1984-89	Member, Geseleschaft für Unendliche Versuche
1980-84	Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada University Research Fellowship
1972-74	National Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarship

Professional Affiliations

1997-present	Society of Experimental Psychologists
1995-present	Association for Psychological Science
1995-2001	Midwestern Psychological Association
1979-present	Psychonomic Society
1976-present	American Psychological Association

Pictures

2007	Vanderbilt View (January 2008 issue), Nashville [Picture]
2006	Ph.D. Summer School, Bernried, Germany [Picture - ninth from the right]
2005	Society of Experimental Psychologists, Tampa, FL, USA [Picture - fifth from the right]
2005	Conference on the Place of Inhibitory Processes in Cognition, Arlington, TX, USA [Picture - third from the left]
2005	International Conference on Attentional Control, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan (1) [Picture - fifth from the left]
2005	International Conference on Attentional Control, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan (2) [Picture - second from the left]
2004	Leiden, The Netherlands [Picture - fifth from the left]
2004	Ohlstadt, Germany (1) [Picture]
2004	Ohlstadt, Germany (2) [Picture - second from the left]
2003	Society of Experimental Psychologists, St. Louis, MO, USA [Picture - middle of fourth row]
2003	EPOS Workshop, Amsterdam [Picture - wearing brown jacket]
2003	Munich Symposium on Visual Search, Germany (1) [Picture]
2003	Munich Symposium on Visual Search, Germany (2) [Picture - first row standing, third from right]
2002	International Symposium on Executive Functions in Konstanz, Germany [Picture - last row, first from the right]
2002	Stroopfest, Nashville, TN, USA [Picture - second from the right]
2001	KNAW, Amsterdam [Picture - front row, tenth from the left]
2001	BASICS, Banff, AB, Canada [Picture - back row, fourth from the left]
2000	Attention & Performance 19, Germany [Picture - front row, seventh from the left]
1998	Society of Experimental Psychologists, Laguna Beach, CA, USA [Picture - first on the left]
1998	Attention & Performance 18, United Kingdom [Picture - second row, seventh from the left]
1990	Attention & Performance 14, Ann Arbor, MI, USA [Picture - front row, third from the right]
1980	Attention & Performance 9, Great Britain [Picture - front row, fourth seated from the left]
1968	Downtown in Edmonton, AB, Canada [Picture - second from the left]

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