Publications

Preprints

Yu, K., Robinson, M. M., Vanpaemel, W., Tuerlinckx, F., and Zaman, J. (under review). Behavioral biomarker reliability can mislead mechanistic inference in precision psychiatry. OSF.

Zou, J., Zhang, C., Deng, H., Liu, Q., Wei, C., & Robinson, M. M. (under review). Controlled real-world object generation for visual memory experimentation and theory-building. OSF.

Brady, T. F. & Robinson, M. M. (under review). Predicting visual working memory errors with a priori measures of representational geometry from human and artificial systems. OSF.

Robinson, M. M., & Brady, T. F. (under review). Simple readout, complex behaviour via a generative model of confidence. OSF.

Journal publications

32. Robinson, M. M., & Brady, T. F. (accepted). Author response to “Testing the reproducibility, replicability and robustness of Robinson and Brady (2023)." Nature Human Behaviour.

31. Brady, T. F., Poungtubtim, C., & Robinson, M. M. (2026). The TCC-ensemble model predicts full feature distribution reports: Commentary on Khvostov et al., (2025). Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.

30. Yu, K., & Robinson, M. M. (2026). Prediction, risk and illusion. Computational Brain and Behavior.

29. Miao, A., Brady, T. F., & Robinson, M. M. (2026). Bridging Bayesian and representational theories of memory to predict memory bias. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

28. Robinson, M. M., Williams, J. R., Wixted, J., & Brady T. F. (2025). Zooming in on what counts as core and auxiliary: A case study on recognition models of visual working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. Psychonomic society featured content.

27. Brady, T. F., Robinson, M. M., & Williams, J. (2024). Noisy and hierarchical visual memory across timescales. Nature Reviews Psychology.

26. Robinson, M. M., DeStefano, I., Vul, E., & Brady, T. F. (2023). Local but not global graph theoretic measures of semantic networks generalize across tasks. Behavior Research Methods.

25. Robinson, M. M., DeStefano, I., Vul, E., & Brady, T. F. (2023). How do people build up visual memory representations from sensory evidence? Revisiting two classic models of choice. Journal of Mathematical Psychology.

24. Robinson, M. M., & Brady, T. F. (2023). A quantitative model of ensemble perception as summed activation in feature space. Nature Human Behavior.

23. Brady, T. F., Robinson, M. M., Williams, J. R., & Wixted, J. (2023). Measuring memory is harder than you think: How to avoid problematic measurement practices in memory research. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.

22. Robinson, M. M., & Steyvers, M. (2022). Linking computational models of two core tasks of cognitive control. Psychological Review.

21. Williams*, J., Robinson*, M. M., & Brady, T. F. (2022). There is no theory-free measure of "swaps" in visual working memory experiments. Computational Brain and Behavior.

20. Williams, J., Robinson, M. M., Schurgin, M., Wixted, J. T., & Brady, T. F. (2022). You can't count how many items people remember in working memory: The importance of signal detection-based measures for understanding change detection performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

19. Goldenberg, A., Schone, J., Huang, Z., Sweeny, T. D., Levari, D., Ong, D. C., Zaki, J., Brady, T. F., Robinson, M. M., & Gross, J. J. (2022). Amplification in the evaluation of emotional expressions over time. Nature Human Behavior.

18. Regenwetter, M., & Robinson, M. M. (2022). Reply to commentaries: Why should we worry about scientific conjunction fallacies? Decision.

17. Regenwetter, M., Robinson, M. M., & Wang, C. (2022). Four internal inconsistencies in Tverksy and Kahneman’s (1992) Cumulative Prospect Theory paper: A case study in ambiguous theoretical scope. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

16. Regenwetter, M., Robinson, M. M., & Wang, C. (2022). Are you an exception to your favorite decision theory? Behavioral decision research is a huge Linda problem! Decision.

15. Lively, Z., Robinson, M. M., & Benjamin, A. S. (2021). Memory strength reveals qualitative changes in interactions between items in visual working memory. Psychological Science.

14. Akan, M., Robinson, M. M., Mickes, L., Wixted, J. T., & Benjamin, A. S. (2020). The effect of lineup size on eyewitness identification accuracy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

13. Robinson, M. M., Benjamin, A. S., & Irwin, D. E. (2020). Is there a K in capacity? Evaluating the discrete-slot model of visual short-term memory. Cognitive Psychology.

12. Regenwetter, M., & Robinson, M. M. (2019). Tutorial: Nuisance or substance? Leveraging heterogeneity of preferences. The Spanish Journal of Psychology.

11. Robinson, M. M., & Irwin, D. E. (2019). Are there two visual short-term memory stores? A state-trace analysis. Journal of Mathematical Psychology.

10. Regenwetter, M. & Robinson, M. M. (2018). The construct-behavior gap revisited: Reply to Hertwig and Pleskac. Psychological Review.

9. Robinson, M. M., Clevenger, J., & Irwin, D. E. (2018). The action is in the task-set not in the action. Cognitive Psychology.

8. Irwin, D. E., & Robinson, M. M. (2018). How post-saccadic target blanking affects the detection of stimulus displacements across saccades. Vision Research.

7. Regenwetter, M., & Robinson, M. M. (2017). The construct-behavior gap in behavioral decision research: A challenge beyond replicability. Psychological Review.

6. Robinson, M. M., & Irwin, D. E. (2017). Conscious error perception: The impact of response interference from a secondary task. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

5. Irwin, D. E., & Robinson, M. M. (2016). Perceiving a continuous visual world across voluntary eye blinks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

4. Robinson, M. M., & Irwin, D. E. (2016). Shifts of attention bias awareness of voluntary and reflexive eye movements. Experimental Brain Research.

3. Irwin, D. E., & Robinson, M. M. (2015). Detection of stimulus displacements across saccades is capacity limited and biased in favor of the saccade target. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience.

2. Irwin, D. E., & Robinson, M. M. (2014). Perceiving stimulus displacements across saccades. Visual Cognition.

1. Robinson, M. M., & Morsella, E. (2014). The subjective effort of everyday mental tasks: Attending, assessing, and choosing. Motivation and Emotion.

Chapters

Robinson, M. M., Poehlman, T. A., & Morsella, E. (2012). The subjective aspects of agency, cognitive control, and self-regulation: Findings from the action and consciousness laboratory. Consciousness: States, Mechanisms, & Disorders.