Below are selected Townsend Lab publications with available PDF documents. For a complete listing of Townsend Lab publications, click here.

Townsend, J.T., Fific, M., & Neufeld, R.W.J. (2007). Assessment of mental architecture in clinical/cognitive research. In T.A. Treat, R.R. Bootzin, T.B. Baker (Eds.), Psychological clinical science: Papers in Honor of Richard M. McFall. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.[PDF]

Townsend, J.T., Honey, C.J. (2007). Consequences of base time for redundant signals experiments. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 51, 242-265. [PDF]

Neufeld, R.W.J., Townsend, J. T., & Jetté, J. (2007). Quantitative response time technology for measuring cognitive-processing capacity in clinical studies. In R.W.J. Neufeld (Ed.), Advances in clinical cognitive science: Formal modeling and assessment of processes and symptoms. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.[PDF]

Townsend, J. T., Aisbett, J., Assadi, A., & Busemeyer, J. (2005). General recognition theory and methodology for dimensional independence on simple cognitive manifolds. In H. Colonius & E. N. Dzhafarov (Eds.), Measurement and Representation of Sensations: Recent Progress in Psychophysical Theory. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [PDF]

Townsend, J. T. & Colonius, H. (2005). Variability of the MAX and MIN statistic: A theory of the quantile spread as a function of sample size. Psychometrika, 70, 759-772.[PDF]

Townsend, J. T. & Wenger, M.J. (2004). A theory of interactive parallel processing: New capacity measures and predictions for a response time inequality series. Psychological Review, 111(4), 1003-1035. [PDF]

Townsend, J. T., Solomon, B., Wenger, M. J., & Spencer-Smith, J. B. (2001). The perfect Gestalt: Infinite dimensional Riemannian face spaces and other aspects of face cognition. Chapter in M. J. Wenger and J. T. Townsend (Eds.), Computational, Geometric and Process Issues in Facial cognition: Progress and Challenges. Erlbaum Press. [PDF]

Wenger, M. J., & Townsend (2001). Faces as gestalt stimuli: Process characteristics. Chapter in book on face perception and cognition, edited by M. J. Wenger and J. T. Townsend. Erlbaum Press. [PDF]

Wenger, M. J., & Townsend, J. T. (2000). Basic tools for attention and general processing capacity in perception and cognition. Invited article in special issue of Journal of General Psychology: Visual Attention 127(1), 67-99. (General Editor = Gavain Chastain) by M. L. Cheal (Ed.) [PDF]

Townsend, J. T. & Busmeyer, J. (1995). Dynamic representation of decision making. In R. Port and T. Van Gelder (Eds.), Mind in Motion: Dynamics, Behavior and Cognition. MIT Press. [PDF]

Townsend, J. T. & Nozawa, G. (1995). Spatio-temporal properties of elementary perception: An investigation of parallel, serial and coactive theories. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 39, 321-360. [PDF]

Busemeyer, J., & Townsend, J. T. (1993). Decision field theory: A dynamic-cognitive approach to decision making. Psychological Review, 100(3), 432-459. [PDF]

Townsend, J. T., & Schweickert, R. (1989). Toward the trichotomy method: Laying the foundation of stochastic mental networks. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 33, 309-327. [PDF]

Ashby, F. G., & Townsend, J. T. (1986). Varieties of perceptual independence. Psychological Review, 93, 154-179. [PDF]

Townsend, J. T. (1974). Issues and models concerning the processing of a finite number of inputs. In B. H. Kantowitz (Ed.), Human Information Processing: Tutorials in Performance and Cognition (pp. 133-168). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Press. [PDF]

Townsend, J. T. (1972). Some results concerning the identifiability of parallel and serial processes. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 25, 168-199. [PDF]