Stephen C. Dopkins

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Stephen C. Dopkins

Associate Professor of Psychology


Contact:

Office Phone: (202) 994-6315

My research explores two general questions. First, how do humans mentally represent and negotiate physical space? Second, how do humans recognize objects on the basis of previous encounters?


Spatial memory, dimensional analysis and representation, recognition memory.

Dopkins, S., Sargent, J., & Ngo, C. T. (2010). Superficial priming in episodic recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 63, 35-45.

Sargent, J., Dopkins, S., Philbeck, J., & Chichka, D. (2010). Chunking in Spatial Memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 36, 576-589.               

Sargent, J., Dopkins, S., & Philbeck, J. (2011). Dynamic category structure in spatial memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 1105-1112.

Pyoun, H. K., Sargent, J., Dopkins, S., Philbeck, J. (2013). Two-category place representations persist over body rotations. Memory & Cognition, Jun 18, 2013.