Jeremie Jozefowiez

My research currently focus on human associative learning using the "streaming" procedure originally developed by Lorraine Allan and her team at McMaster University. In this procedure, the participants are exposed to rapid flows of stimuli, each stimuli lasting around 100 ms. At the end of a flow, they have to indicate whether one of the stimuli (the outcome) can be predicted on the basis of another (the cue). Such procedure allows for a signal detection approach to associative learning. In such an approach, the subject's performance is seen as the outcome of three independent processes: the participant's subjective estimation of the predictive relation between the cue and the outcome, the noise ins this estimation, and a decision threshold that determines the participant's beliefs regarding the predictive relation between the cue and the outcome. I am currently using this approach to investigate the role of temporal variables in human associative learning as well as to illuminate various questions related to associative interference. 

Associative learning

Jozefowiez, J., Silverstein, J. W., Woltag, S., Chew, S., & Miller, R. R. (in press). Associative interference and nonreinforcement in human contingency learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Jozefowiez, J., Urcelay, G. P., & Miller, R. R. (2022). Signal detection analysis of contingency assessment: associative interference and nonreinforcement impacts cue-outcome contingency whereas cue density affects bias. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning & Cognition, 48, 190-202. 

Jozefowiez J. (2021). Individual differences in the perception of cue-outcome contingencies: a signal detection analysis. Behavioural Processes, 188, 104398.

Jozefowiez, J., Berruti, A.S., Moshchenko, Y., Peña, T., Polack, C.W., & Miller, R. R. (2020). Retroactive interference: counterconditioning and extinction with and without biologically significant outcomes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning & Cognition, 46, 443-459.

Jozefowiez, J. (2018). Associative versus predictive processes in Pavlovian conditioning. Behavioural Processes, 154, 21-26. 

Maia, S. Lefèvre, F., & Jozefowiez, J. (2018). Psychophysics of associative learning: quantitative properties of subjective contingency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning  & Cognition, 44, 67-81.

Jozefowiez, J. (2014). The many faces of Pavlovian conditioning. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 27, 526-536.

Interval timing

Jozefowiez, J., Gaudichon, C., Mekkass, F., & Machado, A. (2018). Log versus linear timing in human temporal bisection: a signal detection analysis study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning & Cognition, 44, 396-408.

Jozefowiez, J., & Machado, A. (2013). On the content of learning in interval timing: Representations or associations? Behavioural Processes, 95, 8-17.

Jozefowiez, J., Staddon, J.E.R., & Cerutti, D.T. (2009). The behavioral economics of choice and interval timing. Psychological Review, 116, 519-539.

Jozefowiez, J., Cerutti, D.T., & Staddon, J.E.R. (2005). Timing in choice experiments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31, 213-225.

Jozefowiez, J., Cerutti, D.T., & Staddon, J.E.R. (2006). Timescale invariance and Weber’s law in choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32, 229-238.

Animal metacognition

Jozefowiez, J. Staddon, J.E.R., & Cerutti, D.T. (2009). Metacognition in animals: how do we know that they know? Comparative Brain and Behavior Reviews, 4, 19-29.