Emeritus Professor Graeme Halford
Emeritus Professor
School of Psychology
McElwain Building (24A)
Level 1, Room 104
Level 1, Room 104
Book Chapters
Halford, Graeme S., Andrews, Glenda and Wilson, William H. (2015). Relational processing in reasoning: the role of working memory. In Aidan Feeney and Valerie A. Thompson (Ed.), Reasoning as Memory (pp. 34-52) Hove, East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press. doi:10.4324/9781315819525
Halford, Graeme S. and Andrews, Glenda (2010). Information-processing models of cognitive development. In The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development, Second edition (pp. 697-722) : Wiley-Blackwell. doi:10.1002/9781444325485.ch27
Halford, G. S., Phillips, S., Wilson, W. H., McCredden, J., Andrews, G., Birney, D. P., Baker, R. and Bain, J. (2007). Relational processing is fundamental to the central executive and it is limited to four variables. In Naoyuki Osaka, Robert Logie and Mark D'Esposito (Ed.), The cognitive neuroscience of working memory: Behavioural and neural correlates (pp. 261-280) Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198570394.003.0016
Halford, G S and Andrews, G. (2006). Reasoning and problem solving. In D. Kuhn, R.S. Siegler and W. Damon and R.M. Lerner (Ed.), Handbook of child psycholology, Volume 2, Cogniton, perception, and language 6th ed. (pp. 557-608) New Jersey USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Halford, G. S. (2005). Development of thinking. In Keith J. Holyoak and Robert G. Morrison (Ed.), Cambridge handbook of thinking and reasoning (pp. 529-558) Cambridge, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press.
Halford, G. S. and Wilson, W. H. (2002). Creativity, relational knowledge and capacity: Why are humans so creative?. In T Dartnell (Ed.), Creativity, Cognition, and Knowledge: an Interaction (pp. 153-180) Westport, Connecticut, USA: Praeger.
Halford, G. S. (2002). Information-processing models of cognitive development. In U Goswami (Ed.), Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development (pp. 555-574) Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
Hartel, C. E., Neal, A., Halford, G. S. and Hartel, G. F. (2000). A new approach to mental workload measurement in air traffic control. In Andrew R. Lowe and Brent J. Hayward (Ed.), Aviation Resource Management: Proceedings of the Fourth Australian Aviation Psychology Symposium 2nd ed. (pp. 297-304) Vermont, USA: Ashgate Publishing Company.
Hartel, C. E., Neal, A., Halford, G. S. and Hartel, G. F. (2000). Cognitive determinants of expert decision making in air traffic control. In Brent J Hayward and Andrew R Lowe (Ed.), Aviation Resource Management 2nd ed. (pp. 297-304) Aldershot, United Kingdom: Ashgate.
Halford, G. S. (1999). The properties of representations used in higher cognitive processes: Developmental implications. In Sigel, I. E. (Ed.), The Development of Mental Representation: Theories and Applications (pp. 147-168) Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum.
Journal Articles
Halford, Graeme S. and Hine, Trevor J. (2016) Fundamental differences between perception and cognition aside from cognitive penetrability. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39 . doi:10.1017/S0140525X15002526
Cutmore, Tim R.H., Halford, Graeme S., Wang, Ya, Ramm, Brentyn J., Spokes, Tara and Shum, David H.K. (2015) Neural correlates of deductive reasoning: An ERP study with the Wason Selection Task. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 98 3: 381-388. doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.07.004
Hansell, Narelle K., Halford, Graeme S., Andrews, Glenda, Shum, David H. K., Harris, Sarah E., Davies, Gail, Franic, Sanja, Christoforou, Andrea, Zietsch, Brendan, Painter, Jodie, Medland, Sarah E., Ehli, Erik A., Davies, Gareth E., Steen, Vidar M., Lundervold, Astri J., Reinvang, Ivar, Montgomery, Grant W., Espeseth, Thomas, Pol, Hilleke E. Hulshoff, Starr, John M., Martin, Nicholas G., Le Hellard, Stephanie, Boomsma, Dorret I., Deary, Ian J. and Wright, Margaret J. (2015) Genetic basis of a cognitive complexity metric. PLoS One, 10 4: 1-19. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123886
Andrews, Glenda, Halford, Graeme S., Chappell, Mark, Maujean, Annick and Shum, David H. K. (2014) Planning following stroke: a relational complexity approach using the Tower of London. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8 DEC: . doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.01032
Cocchi, Luca, Halford, Graeme S., Zalesky, Andrew, Harding, Ian H., Ramm, Brentyn J., Cutmore, Tim, Shum, David H. K. and Mattingley, Jason B. (2014) Complexity in relational processing predicts changes in functional brain network dynamics. Cerebral Cortex, 24 9: 2283-2296. doi:10.1093/cercor/bht075
Halford, Graeme S. and Andrews, Glenda (2014) Three-year-olds' theories of mind are symbolic but of low complexity. Frontiers in Psychology, 5 JUN: 1-2. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00682
Birney, DP, Halford, GS and Andrews, G (2006) Measuring the influence of complexity on rational reasoning - The development of the latin square task. Educational And Psychological Measurement, 66 1: 146-171. doi:10.1177/0013164405278570
Boag, C., Neal, A., Loft, S. and Halford, G. S. (2006) An analysis of relational complexity in an air traffic control conflict detection task. Ergonomics, 49 14: 1508-1526. doi:10.1080/00140130600779744
Halford, Graeme S., Baker, Rosemary, McCredden, Julie E. and Bain,John D. (2005) How many variables can humans process?. Psychological Science, 16 1: 70-76. doi:10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.00782.x
Halford, G. S. and Andrews, G (2004) The development of deductive reasoning: How important is complexity?. Thinking & Reasoning, 10 2: 113-121. doi:10.1080/13546780442000033
Andrews, Glenda, Halford, Graeme S., Bunch, Katie M., Bowden, Darryl and Jones, Toni (2003) Theory of mind and relational complexity. Child Development, 74 5: 1476-1499. doi:10.1111/1467-8624.00618
Chalmers, KA and Halford, GS (2003) Young children's understanding of oddity: reducing complexity by simple oddity and "most different" strategies. Cognitive Development, 18 1: 1-23. doi:10.1016/S0885-2014(02)00140-5
Halford, Graeme S., Andrews, Glenda, Dalton, Cherie, Boag, Christine and Zielinski, Tracey (2002) Young children's performance on the balance scale: The influence of relational complexity. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 81 4: 417-445. doi:10.1006/jecp.2002.2665
Birney, D. and Halford, G. S. (2002) Cognitive complexity of suppositional reasoning: An application of the relational complexity metric to the knight-knave task. Thinking and Reasoning, 8 2: 109-134.
Halford, G. S., Andrews, G. and Jensen, I. (2002) Integration of category induction and hierarchical classification: One paradigm at two levels of complexity. Journal of Cognition and Development, 3 2: 143-177. doi:10.1207/S15327647JCD0302_2
Andrews, G. and Halford, G. S. (2002) A cognitive complexity metric applied to cognitive development. Cognitive Psychology, 45 2: 153-219. doi:10.1016/S0010-0285(02)00002-6
Andrews, G. and Halford, G. S. (1999) Complexity effects are found in all relative-clause sentence forms. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22 1: 95-95. doi:10.1017/S0140525X99221784
Halford, Graeme S., Bain, John D., Maybery, Murray T. and Andrews, Glenda (1998) Induction of Relational Schemas: Common Processes in Reasoning and Complex Learning. Cognitive Psychology, 35 3: 201-245. doi:10.1006/cogp.1998.0679
Halford G.S., Wilson W.H. and Phillips S. (1998) Processing capacity defined by relational complexity: Implications for comparative, developmental, and cognitive psychology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21 6: 803-864. doi:10.1017/S0140525X98001769
Halford, Graeme S. (1997) What are the transition processes in cognitive development?. New Ideas in Psychology, 15 3: 211-215. doi:10.1016/S0732-118X(97)10002-2
Halford G.S. (1989) Cognitive processing capacity and learning ability: An integration of two areas. Learning and Individual Differences, 1 1: 125-153. doi:10.1016/1041-6080(89)90012-5
Halford G.S., Maybery M.T. and Bain J.D. (1988) Set-size effects in primary memory: An age-related capacity limitation?. Memory & Cognition, 16 5: 480-487. doi:10.3758/BF03214229
Halford G.S., Maybery M.T. and Bennet D. (1985) The role of strategies in the development of memory span assessed by running probes. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 8 3: 301-312. doi:10.1177/016502548500800305
Halford G.S. and Kelly M.E. (1984) On the basis of early transitivity judgments. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 38 1: 42-63. doi:10.1016/0022-0965(84)90018-3
Halford G.S. (1984) Can young children integrate premises in transitivity and serial order tasks?. Cognitive Psychology, 16 1: 65-93. doi:10.1016/0010-0285(84)90004-5
Clark, Lesley A. and Halford, Graeme S. (1983) Does cognitive style account for cultural differences in scholastic achievement?. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 14 3: 279-296. doi:10.1177/0022002183014003002
Halford G.S. (1980) A learning set approach to multiple classification: Evidence for a theory of cognitive levels. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 3 4: 409-422. doi:10.1177/016502548000300404
Halford G.S. (1980) Children's Construction of Three-Dimensional Patterns. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 3 1: 47-59. doi:10.1177/016502548000300105
Halford G.S. and Wilson W.H. (1980) A category theory approach to cognitive development. Cognitive Psychology, 12 3: 356-411. doi:10.1016/0010-0285(80)90014-6
Conference Papers
Andrews, G., Halford, G. S. and Birney, D. P. (2004). Quantifying the complexity of relative clause and cleft sentences. In: M. Innes, J. Halberstadt and R. O'Shea, Australian Journal of Psychology: Combined Abstracts of 2004 Australian Psychology Conferences. 31st Conference of the Australasian Exerimental Psychology Society, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ, (102-102). 16-18 April 2004.
Jones, T. J., Halford, G. S. and McFarland, K. A. (2004). Executive functions and relational complexity in normally developing children. In: K. Haaland, Journal of the International Neropsychological Society. 2004 Annual Meeting of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment and the International Neuropsychological Society, Sheraton Brisbane Hotel, (33-33). 7-10 July 2004.
Fogarty, D. and Halford, G. S. (2004). The assessment of phonological and semantic memory processes: Neuropsychological comparisons of brain injury patients and healthy controls. In: K. Haaland, Journal of the International Neropsychological Society. 2004 Annual Meeting of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment and the International Neuropsychological Society, Sheraton Brisbane Hotel, (50-51). 7-10 July 2004.
Jones, T. J., Halford, G. S., McFarland, K. A. and McGill, J. (2004). Executive functions and relational processing deficits in children with PKU. In: K. Haaland, Journal of the International Neropsychological Society. 2004 Annual Meeting of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment and the International Neuropsychological Society, Sheraton Brisbane Hotel, (41-41). 7-10 July 2004.
Boag, C., Neal, A., Goodwin, G. and Halford, G. S. (2001). Risk management using human factors technology: Using mental workload to predict performance. In: W. Noble, Australian Journal of Psychology Combined Abstracts of 2001 Australian Psychology Conferences. 4th Australian Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference, Sydney, NSW, (72-72). 21-24 June 2001.
Halford, G. S. and Andrews, G. (2000). Processing limits can be defined by rational complexity. In: XXVII International Congress of Psychology. XXVII International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, (). 23 - 28 July 2000.
Phillips, S., Halford, G. S. and Hiraki, K. (2000). Infant A-not-B errors: A case for conceptual dynamics. In: 17th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society. JCSS2000, Shizuoka, (198-199). 30 June - 3 July 2000.
Halford, G. S. (2000). Analysis of complexity in cognitive tasks. In: A. Garton, Australian Journal of Psychology. 34th Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society, Canberra, (85). 3 - 7 October 2000.
Boag, C., Hartel, C. E., Halford, G. S. and Neal, A. (1999). A new approach for the measurement and management of workload. In: Proceedings of the Third Australian Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference: Australian Journal of Psychology. Third Australian Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference, Brisbane, (61-62). 26-27 June, 1999.
Wilson, W. H. and Halford, G. S. (1999). Robustness of tensor product networks using distributed representations. In: T. Downs, M. Frean and M. Gallagher, Proceedings of the Ninth Australian Conference on Neural Networks. ACNN'98, Brisbane, (47-51). 11-13 February 1998.
Wilson, W. H., Halford, G. S. and Phillips, S. (1999). The properties of higher cognitive processes and how they can be modelled in neural nets. In: R. Heath, B. Hates, A. Heathcote and C. Hooker, Dynamical Cognitive Science: Proceedings of the Fourth Australasian Cognitive Science Conference. Cog Sci 97, Newcastle, (1-7). 26-28 September 1997.
Halford, G. S., Wilson, W. H. and Phillips, S. (1999). A conceptual complexity metric based on representational rank. In: R. Heath, B. Hayes, A. Heathcote and C. Hooker, Dynamical Cognitive Science: Proceedings of the Fourth Australasian Cognitive Science Conference. Cog Sci 97, Newcastle, (1-9). 26-28 September 1997.