Justin Kantner

Program affiliation: Cognition and brain sciences

Supervisors: Dr. Stephen Lindsay

Research interests

My primary research interests are in the domain of human memory. Much of my work has focused on understanding the cognitive operations that underlie judgments of recognition, with projects examining the factors that influence response bias, the role of top-down constraint in guiding recognition judgments, and the effects of feedback on recognition accuracy. Other projects with which I’ve been involved have ranged from more theoretical to more applied in nature. These include the effects of feedback on overconfidence in estimation from general knowledge, the impact of listening to music while studying on subsequent exam performance, the cognitive consequences of memory for future intentions, and the role of photographs in influencing judgments of truth through cognitive fluency. With Jim Tanaka, I have pursued a second area of interest in distinctiveness processing and the effects of category learning on object perception through both behavioral and ERP studies.

Awards

Erich and Shelley Mohr Fellowship in Psychology
University of Victoria Exceptional Merit Award
Indiana University Cognitive Science Fellowship
Purdue University John M. Hadley Award

Representative publications and presentations

Kantner, J., & Lindsay, D. S. (in press). Can corrective feedback improve recognition memory? Memory & Cognition.

Lindsay, D. S., & Kantner, J. (in press). A search for influences of feedback on recognition of music, poetry, and art. In P. Higham and J. Leboe (Eds.), Constructions of Remembering and Metacognition: Essays in honor of Bruce Whittlesea. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Warren, C. M., Breuer, A., Kantner, J., Fiset, D., Blais, C., & Masson, M. E. J. (2009). Target-distractor interference in the attentional blink implicates the Locus Coeruleus-Norepinephrine System. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 1106-1111.

Kantner, J. (2009). Studying with music: Is the irrelevant speech effect relevant? In M. Kelley (Ed.), Applied Memory. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Nosofsky, R. M., & Kantner, J. (2006). Exemplar similarity, study-list homogeneity, and short-term perceptual recognition. Memory & Cognition, 34, 112-124.