
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
ASSOCIATE CHAIR
PHD PROGRAM COORDINATOR
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, LOWELL
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PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Publications
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Cash, D.K, Papesh, M. H., & *Harrison, A.T. (in press). False memories of familiar faces: The role of familiarity in recognition and source memory. In press at: Experimental Psychology.
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Papesh, M. H., Hout, M.C, *Del Sordo, G.C., *White, B.L., & *Mathis, A.P. (2025). Eye-tracking as a lens into expertise development in visual search. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., Vol. 9, No. 3, Article v9ETRA12
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Papesh, M. H., Cash, D. K., Guevara Pinto, J. D., & **Lomba, S. (2024). Spotting missing or wanted people: Racial biases in person prospective memory. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 9(68). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-024-00597-z
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Cash, D.K., Russell, T.D., Harrison, A.T., & Papesh, M.H. (2024). Evaluating eyewitnesses: Translating expressions of pre- and post-identification confidence. Applied Cognitive Psychology: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acp.4163
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Guevara Pinto, J.D. & Papesh, M.H. (2023). High target prevalence may reduce the spread of attention during search tasks. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, doi: 10.3758/s13414-023-02821-2
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Valdez, A.B., Papesh, M.H., Goldinger, S.D., Treiman, D.M., & Steinmetz, P.N. (2022). Encoding of race categories by single neurons in the human brain. NeuroSci, 3(3), 419-439.
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Urgolites, Z. J., Wixted, J. T., Goldinger, S. D., Papesh, M. H., Treiman, D. M., Squire, L. R., & Steinmetz, P. N. (2022). Two kinds of memory signals in neurons of the human hippocampus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(19), e2115128119. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2115128119
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Hout, M. C., Papesh, M. H., Masadeh, S., *Sandin, H., Post, P., et al. (2022). The Oddity Detection in Diverse Scenes (ODDS) database: Validated real-world scenes for studying anomaly detection. Behavioral Research Methods. 10.3758/s13428-022-01816-5
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Leonard, T., Lemme, R., Kral, C., Santiago, B., Elberts, D. O., Dewald, S., McGonagill, P., Waclawski, P., Bay, C., Koo, P. J., Papesh, M. H., Goldinger, S. D., Kodibagkar, V., Dragovich, T., Choti, M., Wang, H., Kundranda, M., & Chang, J. C. (2021). High-percentage of early resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is unidentified on abdominal CT obtained for unrelated diagnosis. Annals of Clinical Oncology, ISSN 2674-3248. https://www.sciencerepository.org/high-percentage-of-early_ACO-2021-2-103
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Papesh, M. H., Hout, M. C., Guevara Pinto, J. D., Robbins, A., & **Lopez, A. (2021). Eye movements reveal expertise development in hybrid search. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. doi: 10.3758/s13421-020-01051-3.
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*Guevara Pinto, J. D., Papesh, M. H., & Hout, M. C. (2020). The detail is in the difficulty: Challenging search facilitates rich incidental object encoding. Memory & Cognition. doi: 10.3758/s13421-020-01051-3.
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Urgolites, Z., Wixted. J. T., Goldinger, S. D., Papesh, M. H., Squire, L. R., Smith, K. A., Treiman, D. T., & Steinmetz, P. N. (2020). Spiking activity in the human hippocampus prior to encoding predicts subsequent memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(24), 13767-13770. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2001338117.
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*Moen, K. C., *Guevara Pinto, J. D., Papesh, M. H. & Meck, M. R. (2019). Not all information in visual working memory is forgotten equally. Consciousness and Cognition, 74, 102782.
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Papesh, M. H. & *Guevara Pinto, J. D. (2019). Spotting rare items makes the brain "blink" harder: Evidence from pupillometry. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81, 2635-2647.
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Papesh, M. H., Hicks, J. L., & Guevara Pinto, J. D. (2019). Retrieval dynamics of recognition and rejection. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 2328-2341.
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*Guevara Pinto, J. D. & Papesh, M. H. (2019). Incidental memory in rapid serial visual search: The role of attention allocation strategies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45, 1174-1190.
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Hicks, J. L., *Spitler, S., & Papesh, M. H. (2019). Response dynamics of event-based prospective memory retrieval. Memory & Cognition, 47, 923-935.​
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Papesh, M. H., *Heisick, L. L., & **Warner, K.M. (2018). The low-prevalence effect in unfamiliar face-matching: The roles of feedback and criterion shifting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 24, 416-430.
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*Cash, D. K., *Heisick, L. L., & Papesh, M. H. (2018). Expectancy effects in the Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. PeerJ, 6:e5229 .
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Papesh, M. H. (2018). Photo ID verification remains challenging despite years of experience. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 3:19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-018-0110-y
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Wixted. J. T., Goldinger, S. D., Squire, L. R., Kuhn, J., Papesh, M. H., Smith, K. A., Treiman, D. T., & Steinmetz, P. N. (2018). Coding of episodic memory in the human hippocampus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, 1093-1098.
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*Acklin, D.A. & Papesh, M. H. (2017). Modern speed-reading apps do not foster reading comprehension. American Journal of Psychology, 130, 183-199. doi: 10.5406/amerjpsyc.130.2.0183
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Goldinger, S. D., Papesh, M. H., Barnhart, A. B., Hansen, W. A., & Hout, M. C. (2016). The poverty of embodied cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23, 959 - 978. doi: 10.3758/s13423-015-0860-1
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Papesh, M. H., Goldiner, S. D., & Hout, M. C. (2016). Eye movements reveal fast, voice-specific priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000135
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Papesh, M. H. (2015). Just out of reach: On the reliability of the action-sentence compatibility effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, e116-e141.
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Valdez, A. B., Papesh, M. H., Treiman, D. M., Smith, K. S., Goldinger, S. D., & Steinmetz, P. N. (2015). Distributed representation of visual objects by single neurons in the human brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 5180-5186. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1958-14.2015
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Wixted, J. T., Squire, L. R., Jang, Y., Papesh, M. H., Goldinger, S. D., Smith, K. A., Treiman, D. M., & Steinmetz, P. N. (2014). Sparse and distributed coding of episodic memory in neurons in the human hippocampus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1408365111
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Papesh, M. H., & Goldinger, S. D. (2014). Infrequent identity mismatches are frequently undetected. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, XX, 1-15. doi: 10.3758/s13414-014-0630-6
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Hout, M. C., Papesh, M. H., & Goldinger, S. D. (2013). Multidimensional Scaling. WIREs Cognitive Science, 4, 93-103. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1203
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Papesh, M. H., & Goldinger, S. D. (2012). Memory in motion: Movement dynamics reveal memory strength. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19, 906-913. doi: 10.3758s/s13423-012-0281-3
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Goldinger, S. D. & Papesh, M. H. (2012). Pupil dilation reflects the creation and retrieval of memories. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21, 90-95.
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Papesh, M. H. & Goldinger, S. D. (2012). Pupil-blah-metry: Cognitive indices of attentional dynamics in delayed naming. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. doi: 10.3758/s13414-011-0263-y
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Papesh, M. H., Goldinger, S. D., & Hout, M. C. (2012). Memory strength and specificity revealed by pupillometry. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 83, 56-64. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.10.002
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Papesh, M. H. & Goldinger, S. D. (2010). A multidimensional scaling analysis of own- and cross-race face spaces. Cognition, 116, 283-288. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.05.001
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Goldinger, S. D., He, Y., & Papesh, M. H. (2009). Deficits in cross-race face learning: Insights from eye-movements and pupillometry. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 35, 1105-1122. doi: 10.1037/a0016548
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Papesh, M. H. & Goldinger, S. D. (2009). Deficits in cross-race face recognition: No evidence for encoding-based effects. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 253-262. doi: 10.1037/a0015802
Edited Volume Chapters
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Papesh, M. H. & Goldinger, S. D. (Eds.; 2024). Modern Pupillometry: Cognition, Neuroscience, and Practical Applications. Springer.
* Denotes grad student authors; ** Denotes undergraduate student authors
Other Scientific Writing
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*Del Sordo, G.C., & Papesh, M. H. (2024). Ouch! What is pain and why do we need it? Frontiers for Young Minds, doi: 10.3389/frym.2023.1221084
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*Thoksakis, A. & Papesh, M. H. (2022). Why do some people see, hear, and feel “ghosts?” Frontiers for Young Minds, doi: 10.3389/frym.2022.790073
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*Thomas, A-F. & Papesh, M. H. (2022). Why are we so scent-imental? Studying the effects of odor-evoked memories on our lives. Frontiers for Young Minds. 10:667792. doi: 10.3389/frym.2022.667792
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Guevara Pinto, J.D., Papesh, M.H., & Hout, M.C. (2021). Learning by accident: Sometimes memory errors are not totally wrong. Frontiers for Young Minds, 9:588337. doi: 10.3389/frym.2021.588337
Books
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Papesh, M. H., *Del Sordo, G.C., & Hout, M. (in press). Eye-tracking and pupillometry. In E. Chrysikou (Ed.) Cognitive Neuroscience Methods. Springer Nature.
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*Cairney, B., *Chaisson, F, & Papesh, M. H. (2024). Learning, remembering, and forgetting: Pupillometry studies of memory. In Papesh, M.H. & Goldinger, S.D. (Eds.), Modern Pupillometry: Cognition, Neuroscience, and Practical Applications. Springer Nature.
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Papesh, M. H. & Goldinger, S. D. (2015). Pupillometry and memory: External signals of metacognitive control. M. Tops, S. Koole, & G. Gendolla (Eds.), Biobehavioral Foundations of Self-Regulation.
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Papesh, M. H. & Goldinger, S. D. (2013). Recollection is fast and easy: Pupillometric studies of face memory. In B. Ross (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 59, pp. 191-222.
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Papesh, M. H., & Goldinger, S. D. (2011). Your effort is showing! Pupil dilation reveals memory heuristics. In P. Higham & J. Leboe (Eds.), Constructions of Remembering and Metacognition (pp. 215-224). Palgrave Macmillan.
