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Emeritus Professor Graeme Halford

Emeritus Professor
School of Psychology
McElwain Building (24A)
Level 1, Room 104
Graeme Halford

Publications

Book Chapters (10)
Journal Articles (25)
Conference Papers (12)

Book Chapters

Relational processing in reasoning: the role of working memory
Information-processing models of cognitive development
Relational processing is fundamental to the central executive and it is limited to four variables
Reasoning and problem solving
Development of thinking
Creativity, relational knowledge and capacity: Why are humans so creative?
Information-processing models of cognitive development
Cognitive determinants of expert decision making in air traffic control
A new approach to mental workload measurement in air traffic control
The properties of representations used in higher cognitive processes: Developmental implications

Journal Articles

Fundamental differences between perception and cognition aside from cognitive penetrability
Neural correlates of deductive reasoning: An ERP study with the Wason Selection Task
Genetic basis of a cognitive complexity metric
Complexity in relational processing predicts changes in functional brain network dynamics
Three-year-olds' theories of mind are symbolic but of low complexity
Measuring the influence of complexity on rational reasoning - The development of the latin square task
An analysis of relational complexity in an air traffic control conflict detection task
How many variables can humans process?
The development of deductive reasoning: How important is complexity?
Theory of mind and relational complexity
Young children's understanding of oddity: reducing complexity by simple oddity and "most different" strategies
Young children's performance on the balance scale: The influence of relational complexity
A cognitive complexity metric applied to cognitive development
Cognitive complexity of suppositional reasoning: An application of the relational complexity metric to the knight-knave task
Integration of category induction and hierarchical classification: One paradigm at two levels of complexity
Complexity effects are found in all relative-clause sentence forms
Induction of Relational Schemas: Common Processes in Reasoning and Complex Learning
What are the transition processes in cognitive development?
Cognitive processing capacity and learning ability: An integration of two areas
On the basis of early transitivity judgments
Can young children integrate premises in transitivity and serial order tasks?
Does cognitive style account for cultural differences in scholastic achievement?
A category theory approach to cognitive development
Children's Construction of Three-Dimensional Patterns
A learning set approach to multiple classification: Evidence for a theory of cognitive levels

Conference Papers

Executive functions and relational processing deficits in children with PKU
The assessment of phonological and semantic memory processes: Neuropsychological comparisons of brain injury patients and healthy controls
Quantifying the complexity of relative clause and cleft sentences
Executive functions and relational complexity in normally developing children
Risk management using human factors technology: Using mental workload to predict performance
Processing limits can be defined by rational complexity
Infant A-not-B errors: A case for conceptual dynamics
Analysis of complexity in cognitive tasks
A new approach for the measurement and management of workload
Robustness of tensor product networks using distributed representations
A conceptual complexity metric based on representational rank
The properties of higher cognitive processes and how they can be modelled in neural nets