Professor Ian McLaren
Professor of Cognitive Psychology
I.P.L.McLaren@exeter.ac.uk
4697
Washington Singer 230
Washington Singer Laboratories, University of Exeter, Perry Road, Prince of Wales Road, Exeter, EX4 4QG, UK
Overview
Professor of Cognitive Psychology in the School of Psychology. My interests are broadly in the area of Learning, Memory and Cognition, in combination with Computational Modelling. I'm particularly interested in comparisons between humans and other species that attempt to identify common learning processes in each, and actively attempt to transfer research paradigms from infra-human to human and vice-versa to generate data that supports these comparisons. Recent projects I've been involved in include work on Peak-Shift (which reflects my interest in how automatic, associative processes can influence decision making), Categorisation in humans and pigeons, Sequence Learning and modelling of same using the SRN and its variants, the Perruchet Effect and Human Pavlovian Coditioning, Face Perception (particularly inversion effects), Perceptual Learning (how experience with stimuli can lead to expertise in discriminating between them) and Judgements of Recency and Frequency. Perhaps the main area I'm focussing on at the moment concerns how Cognitive Control interfaces with Associative Learning (as part of CCAL), and here I'm particularly interested in how Automaticity develops. I also work as part of the CRITICAL group on how inhibition training can be applied to a variety of impulse disorders such as gambling and over-eating. If I had to identify a theme that unifies my work at the moment, it would be that our behaviour can best be described as some synthesis of rule-based symbolic action and associatively-based experience-driven reaction. I perform experiments that seek to dissociate these processes, and construct computational models that attempt to combine them in order to predict the results of the experiments.
Qualifications
My post-school education was all at King's College, Cambridge in the UK. Here I studied Theoretical Physics as part of the Natural Sciences Tripos, then Psychology at Undergraduate level, before taking a PhD under the supervision of Stephen Monsell (co-supervised by Nick Mackintosh) in the Department of Experimental Psychology (my thesis title was Association and Representation). I'm a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, the Eastern Psychological Association (USA) and the British Psychological Society, and a member of the Experimental Psychology Society, the Psychonomic Society and the Cognitive Science society.
Career
Post-PhD I became a research Fellow at King's College in Cambridge. I then spent two years as a Lecturer at Warwick University, returned to Cambridge as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer (and Fellow and Tutor at Emmanuel College) then arrived at Exeter to take the Chair in Cognitive Psychology. Whilst at Exeter I've served as Academic Lead for Animal Behaviour, Deputy Head of School and Head of School for Psychology, and am currently Group Lead for Cognition.
Research group links
Research
Research interests
Associative Learning
Perceptual Learning
Pavlovian Conditioning in Humans and Other Animals
Inhibition Training
Dual Process Theories of Learning and Cognition
Research projects
Investigating dual process theories of learning using electrodermal conditioning in humans
Using mindfulness to extinguish conditioned fear
Application of tDCS to the control of perceptual learning and its relation to face recognition
Using tDCS in conjunction with inhibition training to address gambling and alcohol disorders
Computational modelling of the interaction between cognitive contyrol and associative learning
Research networks
Cognition
Animal Behaviour
Centre for Research into Animal Behaviour (CRAB)
Centre for Cognitive Control and Associative Learning (CCAL)
Centre for Research into Inhibition Training, Impulse Control and Associative Learning (CRITICAL)
Publications
Books
Dickinson A, McLaren IPL (2003). Associative Learning and Representation., Psychology Press.
Journal articles
Bowditch WA, Verbruggen F, McLaren IPL (In Press). Associatively-Mediated Stopping: Training Stimulus-Specific Inhibitory Control. Learning and Behavior
Verbruggen F, McLaren IPL, Chambers CD (In Press). Banishing the control homunculi in studies of action control and behaviour change. Perspectives on Psychological Science Abstract.
Leaver L, Lea S, Chow P, McLaren I (In Press). Behavioral Flexibility: a review, a model and some exploratory tests. Learning and Behavior
Wills AJ, Graham S, Koh Z, McLaren IPL, Rolland MD (In Press). Effects of Concurrent Load on Feature- and Rule-based Generalization in Human Contingency Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes Abstract.
Best M, McLaren IPL, Verbruggen F (In Press). Instructed and acquired contingencies in response-inhibition tasks. Journal of Cognition
Meier C, Lea SEG, McLaren IPL (In Press). Pigeons in Control of their Actions: Learning and Performance in Stop-Signal and Change-Signal Tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition
Lea SEG, Chow K-Y, Meier C, McLaren I, Verbruggen F (In Press). Pigeons’ performance in a tracking change-signal procedure is consistent with the independent horse-race mode. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition
Livesey EJ, McLaren IPL (In Press). Revisiting peak shift on an artificial dimension: Effects of stimulus variability on generalization. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Best M, Lawrence NS, Logan GD, McLaren IPL, Verbruggen F (In Press). Should I stop or should I go? the role of associations and expectancies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, in press Abstract. Author URL.
Graham S, Jie HL, Minn CH, McLaren IPL, Wills AJ (In Press). Simultaneous Backward Conditioned Inhibition and Mediated Conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes Abstract.
Verbruggen F, Chambers CD, Lawrence NS, McLaren IPL (In Press). Winning and losing: Effects on impulsive action. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, in press Abstract.
McCourt S, McLaren IPL, Civile C (2023). Changing face contours reduces the inversion effect and overall recognition performance. Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, 4, 100115-100115.
Civile C, McLaren I (2023). Modulating perceptual learning indexed by the Face Inversion Effect: Simulating the application of transcranial Direct Current
Stimulation (tDCS) using the MKM Model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 49, 139-150.
Civile C (2023). Using transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to selectively modulate the face inversion effect and N170 Event-Related Potentials. Perception
Civile C (2022). Investigating the Composite Effect in prototype-defined checkerboards vs. faces. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, ON: Cognitive Science Society
Civile C (2022). Manipulating the face contour affects face recognition performance leaving the Face Inversion Effect unaltered. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, ON: Cognitive Science Society.
Civile C, McLaren I (2022). Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) eliminates the Other-Race Effect (ORE) indexed by the Face Inversion Effect for own vs other-race faces. Scientific Reports Abstract.
Civile C, McLaren I (2022). Using transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to influence decision criterion in a target detection paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition
Johnson T, McLaren R, Civile C, McLaren IPL (2021). Dual processes on dual dimensions: Associative and propositionally-mediated discrimination and peak shift. In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K. Teßmar-Raible (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 3136-3142.
McLaren R, Civile C, McLaren I (2021). Latent Inhibition in Young Children: a Developmental Effect?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 47, 63-73.
McCourt S, McLaren IPL, Civile C (2021). Perceptual processes of face recognition: Single feature orientation and holistic information contribute to the face inversion effect. In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K. Teßmar-Raible (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 728-734.
Delameter A, Civile C, McLaren I (2021). Special Issue on Recent Advances in Perceptual Learning: Editorial. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 47, 1-3.
Civile C, McLaren R, Milton F, McLaren I (2021). The Effects of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Perceptual Learning for Upright Faces and its Role in the Composite Face Effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 47, 74-90.
Waguri E, McLaren R, McLaren IPL, Civile C (2021). Using prototype-defined checkerboards to investigate the mechanisms contributing to the Composite Face Effect. In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K. Teßmar-Raible (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1236-1242.
Civile C, Quaglia S, Waguri E, Ward M, McLaren R, McLaren I (2021). Using transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to investigate why Faces are and are Not Special. Scientific Reports
Civile C (2020). A novel target detection task using artificial stimuli: the effect of familiarity. Proceedings of the 42st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 3349-3355.
Civile C, Chamizo VD, Artigas A, McLaren IPL (2020). Directional cue and landmark configurations: the effect of rotating one set of landmarks relative to another. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition
Meier C, Lea SEG, McLaren IPL (2020). Measuring response inhibition with a continuous inhibitory-control task. Learning & Behavior, 48(1), 149-164.
Monsell S, McLaren I (2020). PEP Does Not Dispense with but Implements Task-Set Reconfiguration. Can it Handle Phenomena More Diagnostic of Endogenous Control?. Journal of Cognition, 3(1).
Civile C, Waguri E, Quaglia S, Wooster B, Curtis A, McLaren R, Lavric A, McLaren I (2020). Testing the effects of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on the Face Inversion Effect and the N170 Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) component. Neuropsychologia
Civile C (2020). Testing the immediate effects of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on face recognition skills. Proceedings of the 42st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1141-1147.
Milton F, McLaren IPL, Copestake E, Satherley D, Wills AJ (2020). The effect of pre-exposure on overall similarity categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 46, 65-82.
Civile C, Cooke A, Liu X, McLaren R, Elchlepp H, Lavric A, Milton F, McLaren I (2020). The effect of tDCS on recognition depends on stimulus generalization: Neuro-stimulation can predictably enhance or reduce the face inversion effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 46, 83-98.
McLaren R, McLaren IPL, Civile C (2019). Pre-exposure and learning in young children: Evidence of latent inhibition?. In A.K. Goel, C.M. Seifert, & C. Freska (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society., 2332-2337.
Haselgrove M, McLaren IPL (2019). The psychology of associative learning: Editorial. QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 72(2), 93-97. Author URL.
Bartlett M, Strivens A, Nicholson W, McLaren R, McLaren IPL (2018). A novel measure of changes in force applied to the Perruchet Effect. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1325-1331.
Civile C, McLaren R, McLaren IPL (2018). How We can Change Your Mind: Anodal tDCS to Fp3 alters human stimulus representation and learning. Neuropsychologia
McLaren IPL, McAndrew A, Angerer K, McLaren R, Forrest C, Bowditch W, Monsell S, Verbruggen F (2018). Mackintosh lecture—: Association and cognition: Two processes, one system. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Civile C, Obhi SS, McLaren IPL (2018). The Role of Experience-based Perceptual Learning in the Face Inversion Effect. Vision Research, 157, 84-88.
Civile C, Elchlepp H, McLaren RP, Galang CM, Lavric A, McLaren IPL (2018). The effect of scrambling upright and inverted faces on the N170. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Nicholson W, Verbruggen F, McLaren IPL (2018). What can Associative Learning do for Driving?. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2152-2158.
Civile C (2017). Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) and the Face Inversion Effect: Anodal stimulation at Fp3 reduces recognition for upright faces. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society., 1782-1787.
Civile C, Obhi S, McLaren IPL (2017). Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) and the Face Inversion Effect: Anodal stimulation at Fp3 reduces recognition for upright faces. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society., 1782-1787.
Meier C, Lea SEG, McLaren IPL (2016). A stimulus-location effect in contingency-governed, but not rule-based, discrimination learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 42(2), 177-186. Abstract.
Weidemann G, McAndrew A, Livesey EJ, McLaren IPL (2016). Evidence for multiple processes contributing to the Perruchet effect: Response priming and associative learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition
Verbruggen F, McAndrew A, Weidemann G, Stevens T, McLaren IPL (2016). Limits of Executive Control: Sequential Effects in Predictable Environments. Psychological Science, 27(5), 748-757. Abstract. Author URL.
Civile C, Verbruggen, McLaren, Zhao D, Ku Y, McLaren IPL (2016). Switching off perceptual learning: tDCS to left DLPFC eliminates perceptual learning in humans. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 290-296.
Meier C, Lea SEG, McLaren IPL (2016). Task-Switching in Pigeons: Associative Learning or Executive Control?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 42(2), 163-176. Abstract.
Civile C, McLaren R, McLaren IPL (2016). The face inversion effect: Roles of first-and second-order configural information. American Journal of Psychology, 129(1), 23-35. Abstract.
Yeates F, Wills AJ, Jones FW, Mclaren IPL (2015). State-Trace Analysis: Dissociable Processes in a Connectionist Network?. Cognitive Science, 39(5), 1047-1061. Abstract.
McLaren IPL, Forrest CLD, McLaren RP, Jones FW, Aitken MRF, Mackintosh NJ (2014). Associations and propositions: the case for a dual-process account of learning in humans. Neurobiol Learn Mem, 108, 185-195. Abstract. Author URL.
Stevens T, Brevers D, Chambers CD, Lavric A, McLaren IPL, Mertens M, Noël X, Verbruggen F (2014). How does response inhibition influence decision-making when gambling?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, in press Abstract.
Forrest CLD, Monsell S, McLaren IPL (2014). Is performance in task-cuing experiments mediated by task set selection or associative compound retrieval?. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 40(4), 1002-1024. Abstract. Author URL.
Civile C, Zhao D, Ku Y, Elchlepp H, Lavric A, McLaren IPL (2014). Perceptual learning and inversion effects: Recognition of prototype-defined familiar checkerboards. J Exp Psychol Anim Learn Cogn, 40(2), 144-161. Abstract. Author URL.
Civile C, Chamizo VD, Mackintosh NJ, McLaren IPL (2014). The effect of disrupting configural information on rats' performance in the Morris water maze. Learning and Motivation Abstract.
Civile C, McLaren RP, McLaren IPL (2014). The face inversion effect--parts and wholes: individual features and their configuration. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove), 67(4), 728-746. Abstract. Author URL.
Verbruggen F, Best M, Bowditch WA, Stevens T, McLaren IPL (2014). The inhibitory control reflex. Neuropsychologia, 65, 263-278. Abstract.
McLaren IPL, Dunn BD, Lawrence NS, Milton FN, Verbruggen F, Stevens T, McAndrew A, Yeates F (2014). Why decision making may not require awareness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(1), 35-36.
Verbruggen F, Adams RC, van 't Wout F, Stevens T, McLaren IPL, Chambers CD (2013). Are the effects of response inhibition on gambling long-lasting?. PLoS One, 8(7). Abstract. Author URL.
Natal SDC, McLaren IPL, Livesey EJ (2013). Generalization of Feature- and Rule-Based Learning in the Categorization of Dimensional Stimuli: Evidence for Dual Processes Under Cognitive Control. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL BEHAVIOR PROCESSES, 39(2), 140-151. Author URL.
Yeates F, Jones FW, Wills AJ, McLaren RP, McLaren IPL (2013). Modeling human sequence learning under incidental conditions. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process, 39(2), 166-173. Abstract. Author URL.
McAndrew A, Jones FW, McLaren RP, McLaren IPL (2012). Dissociating expectancy of shock and changes in skin conductance: an investigation of the Perruchet effect using an electrodermal paradigm. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process, 38(2), 203-208. Abstract. Author URL.
McLaren IPL, Forrest CL, McLaren RP (2012). Elemental representation and configural mappings: combining elemental and configural theories of associative learning. Learn Behav, 40(3), 320-333. Abstract. Author URL.
Lea SEG, McLaren IPL, Dow SM, Graft DA (2012). The cognitive mechanisms of optimal sampling. Behavioural Processes, 89, 77-85. Abstract.
McLaren IP, Wills AJ, Graham S (2011). Representation development, perceptual learning, and concept formation. Behav Brain Sci, 34(3), 141-142. Abstract.
Mclaren IPL (2009). Both rules and associations are required to predict human behaviour. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32(2), 216-217. Abstract.
Livesey EJ, McLaren IPL (2009). Discrimination and generalization along a simple dimension: Peak shift and rule-governed responding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 35
Jones FW, McLaren IPL (2009). Human sequence learning under incidental and intentional conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 35
McLaren IPL (2008). The Flexibility Thesis: a Critique-Commentary on Melchers, Shanks and Lachnit. Behavioural Processes, 77(3), 440-442.
(2007). Elemental associability changes in human discrimination learning. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, 33(2), 148-159. Abstract.
Spiegel R, McLaren IPL (2006). A hybrid cognitive-associative model to simulate human learning in the serial reaction time paradigm. Proceedings of AISB'06: Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems, 1, 74-90. Abstract.
Spiegel R, McLaren IPL (2006). Associative sequence learning in humans. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL BEHAVIOR PROCESSES, 32(2), 156-163. Author URL.
Livesey EJ, Mansi C, McLaren IPL (2006). Dual processes mediate discrimination and generalisation in humans. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada.
Le Pelley ME, Oakeshott SM, McLaren IPL (2005). Blocking and unblocking in human causal learning. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL BEHAVIOR PROCESSES, 31(1), 56-70. Author URL.
Livesey EJ, Broadhurst PJC, McLaren IPL (2005). Discrimination and generalization in pattern categorization: a case for elemental associative learning. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy.
Livesey EJ, Pearson L, McLaren IPL (2005). Spatial variability and peak shift: a challenge for elemental associative learning?. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy.
LePelley ME, Oakeshott SM, Wills AJ, IPLMcLaren (2005). The outcome specificity of learned predictiveness effects: Parallels between human causal learning and animal conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes, 31(2), 226-236.
Le Pelley ME, McLaren IPL (2004). Associative History Affects the Associative Change Undergone by Both Presented and Absent Cues in Human Causal Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 30(1), 67-73. Abstract.
Wills AJ, Suret MB, McLaren IPL (2004). The role of category structure in determining the effects of stimulus pre-exposure on categorization accuracy. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B, 57(1), 79-88.
Spiegel R, McLaren IPL (2003). Abstract and associatively based representations in human sequence learning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 358(1435), 1277-1283. Abstract.
Dickinson A, McLaren IPL (2003). Associative learning and representation: Introduction. QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY SECTION B-COMPARATIVE AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 56(1), 3-6. Author URL.
Dickinson A, McLaren IPL (2003). Associative learning and representation: Introduction. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 56 B(1), 3-6.
Spiegel R, McLaren IPL (2003). Computational Modeling of Human Performance in a Sequence Learning Experiment. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 1, 212-217. Abstract.
Trobalon JB, Miguelez D, McLaren IPL, Mackintosh NJ (2003). Intradimensional and Extradimensional Shifts in Spatial Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 29(2), 143-152. Abstract.
Le Pelley ME, McLaren IPL (2003). Learned associability and associative change in human causal learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 56 B(1), 68-79. Abstract.
Suret M, McLaren IPL (2003). Representation and discrimination on an artificial dimension. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 56 B(1), 30-42. Abstract.
Locke JEM, Suret MB, McLaren IPL (2003). Transposition and generalization on an artificial dimension. PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY, PTS 1 AND 2, 728-733. Author URL.
Suret M, McLaren IPL (2002). An associative model of human learning on an artificial dimension. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 1, 806-811. Abstract.
Spiegel R, Suret M, Le Pelley ME, McLaren IPL (2002). Analyzing state dynamics in a recurrent neural network. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 1, 834-839. Abstract.
McLaren IPL, Mackintosh NJ (2002). Associative learning and elemental representation: II. Generalization and discrimination. ANIMAL LEARNING & BEHAVIOR, 30(3), 177-200. Author URL.
Spiegel R, Le Pelley ME, Suret M, McLaren IPL (2002). Combining fuzzy rules and a neural network in an adaptive system. IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, 1, 340-345. Abstract.
Jones FW, Le Pelley ME, McLaren IPL (2002). The APECS-SRN: Towards a model of SRT sequence learning. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 1, 692-696. Abstract.
Le Pelley ME, McLaren IPL (2002). The interaction of learning and memory in associative networks. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 3, 2899-2904. Abstract.
Spiegel R, McLaren IPL (2001). A hybrid model approach to generalization in sequence learning. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 4, 2393-2398. Abstract.
Spiegel R, McLaren IPL (2001). Recurrent neural networks and symbol grounding. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 1, 320-325. Abstract.
Le Pelley ME, McLaren IPL (2001). Retrospective revaluation in humans: Learning or memory?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 54(4), 311-352. Abstract.
Le Pelley ME, McLaren IPL (2001). The mechanics of associative change. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Spiegel R, Jones FW, McLaren IPL (2001). The prediction-irrelevance problem in grammar learning. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 1, 314-319. Abstract.
McLaren IPL, Mackintosh NJ (2000). An elemental model of associative learning: I. Latent inhibition and perceptual learning. Animal Learning and Behavior, 28(3), 211-246. Abstract.
Wills AJ, Suret, M.B. McLaren, I.P.L. (2000). Categorization and the ratio rule. Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Author URL.
Le Pelley ME, Cutler DL, McLaren IPL (2000). Retrospective effects in human causality judgment. PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY, 782-787. Author URL.
Wills AJ, Reimers, S. Stewart, N. Suret, M. McLaren IPL (2000). Tests of the ratio rule in categorization. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 53A(4), 983-1011. Author URL.
McLaren IPL, Suret M (2000). Transfer along a continuum: Differentiation or association?. PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY, 340-345. Author URL.
McLaren IPL (1999). Knowledge, concepts, and categories. APPLIED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, 13(2), 188-189. Author URL.
Jones FW, McLaren IPL (1999). Rules and associations. PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY, 240-245. Author URL.
McLaren IPL (1998). Animal learning and cognition: a neural network approach. TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES, 2(6), 236-236. Author URL.
Jones FW, Wills, A.J. McLaren, I.P.L. (1998). Perceptual categorization: connectionist modelling and decision rules. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 51B(1), 33-58. Author URL.
Wills AJ, McLaren, I.P.L. (1998). Perceptual learning and free classification. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 51B(3), 235-270. Author URL.
Graham S, McLaren IPL (1998). Retardation in Human Discrimination Learning as a Consequence of Pre-exposure: Latent Inhibition or Negative Priming?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 51(2), 155-172. Abstract.
Rodrigo T, Chamizo VD, McLaren IPL, Mackintosh NJ (1997). Blocking in the spatial domain. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 23(1), 110-118. Abstract.
McLaren IPL (1997). Categorization and perceptual learning: an analogue of the face inversion effect. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology, 50(2), 257-273. Abstract.
Wills AJ, McLaren, I.P.L. (1997). Generalization in category learning: one and two category problems. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Author URL.
Wills AJ, McLaren, I.P.L. (1997). Generalization in human category learning: a connectionist explanation of differences in gradient after discriminative and non-discriminative training. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 50A(3), 607-630. Author URL.
Graham S, McLaren IPL (1997). Retardation in Human Discrimination Learning as a Consequence of Pre-exposure: Latent Inhibition or Negative Priming?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 51(2b), 155-172.
Rodrigo T, Chamizo VD, McLaren IPL, Mackintosh NJ (1996). Blocking between spatial landmarks: a test of the learning processes underlying navigation tasks. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 31(3-4), 4502-4502. Author URL.
Aitken MRF, Bennett CH, McLaren IPL, Mackintosh NJ (1996). Perceptual differentiation during categorization learning by pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 22(1), 43-50. Abstract.
McLaren IPL (1995). A better beta model of navigation. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 48, 51-55.
McLaren IPL, Bennett CH, Guttman-Nahir T, Kim K, Mackintosh NJ (1995). Prototype Effects and Peak Shift in Categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21(3), 662-673. Abstract.
MCLAREN IPL (1994). ESTIMATING RECENCY AND FAMILIARITY USING TRACE STRENGTH. BRITISH JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL & STATISTICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 47, 227-234. Author URL.
Rodrigo T, Chamizo VD, McLaren IPL, MacKintosh NJ (1994). Effects of preexposure to the Same or Different Pattern of Extra-maze Cues on Subsequent Extra-maze Discrimination. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B, 47(1), 15-26. Abstract.
McLaren IPL, Bennett C, Plaisted K, Aitken M, Mackintosh NJ (1994). Latent Inhibition, Context Specificity, and Context Familiarity. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B, 47(4), 387-400. Abstract.
MCLAREN IPL, LEEVERS HJ, MACKINTOSH NJ (1994). RECOGNITION, CATEGORIZATION, AND PERCEPTUAL-LEARNING (OR, HOW LEARNING TO CLASSIFY THINGS TOGETHER HELPS ONE TO TELL THEM APART). ATTENTION AND PERFORMANCE XV, 15, 889-909. Author URL.
MCLAREN IPL (1993). APECS - a SOLUTION TO THE SEQUENTIAL LEARNING-PROBLEM. PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY, 717-722. Author URL.
MCLAREN IPL (1993). PERCEPTUAL AND ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING - HALL,G. Q J EXP PSYCHOL-B, 46(1), 97-99.
McLaren IP, Dickinson A (1990). The conditioning connection. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 329(1253), 179-186. Abstract.
Chapters
McLaren IPL, Verbruggen (2016). Association and Inhibition. In Murphy R, Honey R (Eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning.
McLaren IPL, Carpenter KL, Civile C, Mclaren R, Zhao D, Ku Y, Milton F, Verbruggen F (2016). Categorisation and Perceptual Learning: Why tDCS to Left DLPC Enhances Generalisation. In Trobalon JB, Chamizo VD (Eds.) , Associative Learning and Cognition, Homage to Prof. N.J. Mackintosh,: University of Barcelona.
McLaren I, Verbruggen F (2015). Association, Inhibition, and Action. In (Ed) The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning, 489-514. Abstract.
McLaren IPL (2011). APECS:An Adaptively Parameterised Model of Associative Learning and Memory. In Alonso E, Mondragn E (Eds.) Computational Neuroscience for Advancing Artificial Intelligence, Medical Information Science Reference. Abstract.
Livesey EJ, McLaren IPL (2011). An elemental model of associative learning and memory. In Pothos EM, Wills AJ (Eds.) Formal Approaches in Categorization, Cambridge Univ Pr. Abstract.
McLaren IPL, Wills AJ, Graham S (2010). Attention and Perceptual Learning. In Mitchell CJ, Pelley MEL (Eds.) Attention and Learning.
Suret MB, McLaren IPL (2005). Elemental Representation and Associability: an integrated model. In Wills AJ (Ed) New Directions in Human Associative Learning.
Le Pelley ME, McLaren IPL (2005). The Role of Associative history in Human Causal Learning. In Wills AJ (Ed) New Directions in Human Associative Learning.
McLaren IPL, Green REA, Mackintosh NJ (1994). Animal learning and the implicit/explicit distinction. In Ellis NC (Ed) Implicit and explicit learning of languages, Academic Press.
McLaren IPL (1994). Representation development in associative systems. In Hogan JA, Bolhuis JJ (Eds.) Causal mechanisms of behavioural development, Cambridge University Press.
McLaren IPL, Kaye H, Mackintosh NJ (1989). An associative theory of the representation of stimuli: applications to perceptual learning and latent inhibition. In Morris RGM (Ed) Parallel Distributed Processing - Implications for Psychology and Neurobiology, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
McLaren IPL (1989). The computational unit as an assembly of neurones: an implementation of an error correcting learning algorithm. In Durbin R, Miall C, Mitchison G (Eds.) The Computing Neuron, Amsterdam: Addison-Wesley.
Conferences
Johnson T, McLaren IPL (2022). Modelling Dual-Processes in a Connectionist Network. Abstract.
Humsani SAH, Civile C, McLaren IPL (2019). The Impact of Meta-memory Judgments on Undergraduate's Learning and Memory Performance. Abstract.
Civile C, Wooster B, Curtis A, McLaren R, McLaren IPL, Lavric A (2019). Using transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to modulate the face inversion effect on the N170 ERP component. Abstract.
Bartlett M, Strivens A, Nicholson WG, McLaren R, McLaren IPL (2018). A Novel Measure of Changes in Force Applied to the Perruchet Effect. Abstract.
Nicholson WG, Verbruggen F, McLaren IPL (2018). What can Associative Learning do for Driving?. Abstract.
Wood K, McLaren RP, McLaren IPL (2017). Does Associative Memory Play a Role in Solving Physics Problems?. Cognitive Science London. 26th - 29th Jul 2017.
Wood K, McLaren RP, McLaren IPL (2017). Does Associative Memory Play a Role in Solving Physics Problems?. Abstract.
Jones FW, McLaren RP, McLaren IPL (2017). Mindfulness and Fear Conditioning. Abstract.
Jones FW, McLaren RP, McLaren IPL (2017). Mindfulness and Fear Conditioning. Cognitive Science London. 26th - 29th Jul 2017.
McAndrew A, Weidemann G, McLaren IPL (2013). Can US sensitization account for the electrodermal variant of the Perruchet effect?. Cognitive Science. 1st - 1st Jan 2013.
Meier C, Lea SEG, Forrest CLD, Angerer K, McLaren IPL (2013). Comparative Evidence for Associative Learning in Task Switching. Cognitive Science. 1st - 1st Jan 2013.
Bowditch WA, McLaren RP, McAndrew A, McLaren IPL (2013). Contextual Renewal and Awareness: Dissociating awareness within an electrodermal conditioning paradigm. Cognitive Science. 1st - 1st Jan 2013.
McLaren RP, Jones FW, Yeates F, McLaren IPL (2013). Cue Competition in Human Associative Learning. Cognitive Science. 1st - 1st Jan 2013.
McLaren IPL, Jones FW, McLaren RP, Yeates F (2013). Cue Competition in Human Incidental Learning. RLDM. 1st - 1st Jan 2013.
Yeates F, Jones FW, Wills AJ, Aitken MRF, McLaren IPL (2013). Implicit Learning: a Demonstration and a Revision of a Novel SRT Paradigm. Cognitive Science. 1st - 1st Jan 2013.
McAndrew A, Yeates F, Jones FW, Verbruggen F, McLaren IPL (2013). Modeling a reaction time variant of the Perruchet effect in humans. Cognitive Science. 1st - 1st Jan 2013.
McLaren IPL, Wood K, McLaren RP (2013). Naïve Physics - the wrong theory?. 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 1st - 1st Jan 2013.
Civile C, Elchlepp H, McLaren RP, Lavric A, McLaren IPL (2012). Face recognition and brain potentials: Disruption of configural information reduces the face inversion effect. Cognitive Science. 1st - 1st Jan 2012.
Yeates F, Jones FW, Wills AJ, Aitken MRF, McLaren IPL (2012). Implicit Learning: a Demonstration and a Novel SRT Paradigm. Cognitive Science. 1st - 1st Jan 2012.
Yeates F, Wills AJ, Jones FW, McLaren IPL (2012). State-Trace Analysis of Sequence Learning by Simple Recurrent Networks. Cognitive Science. 1st - 1st Jan 2012.
Forrest CLD, Elchlepp, Monsell, McLaren IPL (2012). Task switching without knowledge of the tasks. Cognitive Science. 1st - 1st Jan 2012.
Civile C, Elchlepp, McLaren RP, Lavric, McLaren IPL (2012). The face inversion effect and evoked brain potentials: Complete loss of configural information affects the N170. Cognitive Science. 1st - 1st Jan 2012.
Civile C, McLaren RP, McLaren IPL (2011). Perceptual learning and face recognition: Disruption of second order relational information reduces the face inversion effect. Cognitive Science. 1st - 1st Jan 2011.
McLaren IPL, Civile C (2011). Perceptual learning for a familiar category under inversion: an analogue of face inversion?. Cognitive Science. 1st - 1st Jan 2011.
Wills AJ, Barrasin TJ, McLaren IPL (2011). Working Memory Capacity and Generalization in Predictive Learning. Cognitive Science. 1st - 1st Jan 2011.
Suret M, McLaren IPL (2001). An Analogue of the Phillips Effect.
External Engagement and Impact
Awards and distinctions
Fellow of the British Psychological Society 2012
Fellow of the EPA 2012
Editorial responsibilities
Editorial board member J Exp Psy: Anim Behav Processes
Member of the ESRC Peer Review College
Teaching
I take the view that someone who's expertise is in the area of learning and memory had better be applying it to their teaching. I try to do this, and currently teach a course, The Associative Mind, that examines conventional knowledge about learning and memory from the standpoint of someone who adopts the view that symbolic and associative processes are at work in human mental life. It tries to be more than a series of lectures, incorporating demonstrations, interactive experiments, dialogue and student presentations in a free-format seminar style. The other course I teach, Animal Cognition (as part of Biological Psychology), is based on the more conventional lecture format, but differs from many other courses in the emphasis it places on comparisons between standard Comparative research and current Human Cognitive Psychology. I also teach a course on computational modelling for the Psychological Research Methods MSc.Modules
2023/24
Office Hours:
Office Hours for Term 1 in 2017/18 are:
- Mondays 13:00-14:00
- Thursdays 14:30-15:30
