Dr Nathan Evans
ARC DECRA Research Fellow
School of Psychology

Publications
Journal Articles
Evans, Nathan J., Dutilh, Gilles, Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan and van der Maas, Han L.J. (2020). Double responding: a new constraint for models of speeded decision making. Cognitive Psychology, 121 101292, 101292. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2020.101292
Evans, Nathan (2020). What factors are most important in finding the best model of a psychological process?. Meta-Psychology, 4 doi: 10.15626/mp.2019.2238
Boehm, Udo, van Maanen, Leendert, Evans, Nathan J., Brown, Scott D. and Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan (2020). A theoretical analysis of the reward rate optimality of collapsing decision criteria. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 82 (3), 1520-1534. doi: 10.3758/s13414-019-01806-4
Howard, Zachary L., Evans, Nathan J., Innes, Reilly J., Brown, Scott D. and Eidels, Ami (2020). How is multi-tasking different from increased difficulty?. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 27 (5), 937-951. doi: 10.3758/s13423-020-01741-8
Lin, Hause, Saunders, Blair, Friese, Malte, Evans, Nathan J. and Inzlicht, Michael (2020). Strong effort manipulations reduce response caution: a preregistered reinvention of the ego-depletion paradigm. Psychological Science, 31 (5), 531-547. doi: 10.1177/0956797620904990
Evans, Nathan J., Trueblood, Jennifer S. and Holmes, William R. (2020). A parameter recovery assessment of time-variant models of decision-making. Behavior Research Methods, 52 (1), 193-206. doi: 10.3758/s13428-019-01218-0
Evans, Nathan J., Hawkins, Guy E. and Brown, Scott D. (2020). The role of passing time in decision-making. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition, 46 (2), 316-326. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000725
Evans, Nathan J. and Servant, Mathieu (2020). A comparison of conflict diffusion models in the flanker task through pseudolikelihood Bayes factors. Psychological Review, 127 (1), 114-135. doi: 10.1037/rev0000165
Evans, Nathan J. and Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan (2020). Evidence accumulation models: current limitations and future directions. Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 16 (2), 73-90. doi: 10.20982/tqmp.16.2.p073
Servant, Mathieu and Evans, Nathan J. (2020). A diffusion model analysis of the effects of aging in the flanker task. Psychology and Aging, 35 (6), 831-849. doi: 10.1037/pag0000546
Evans, Nathan J. (2019). A method, framework, and tutorial for efficiently simulating models of decision-making. Behavior Research Methods, 51 (5), 2390-2404. doi: 10.3758/s13428-019-01219-z
Tillman, Gabriel and Evans, Nathan J. (2019). Hierarchical Bayesian mixture models of processing architectures and stopping rules. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 92. doi: 10.1016/j.jmp.2019.04.005
Starns, Jeffrey J., Cataldo, Andrea M., Rotello, Caren M., Annis, Jeffrey, Aschenbrenner, Andrew, Bröder, Arndt, Cox, Gregory, Criss, Amy, Curl, Ryan A., Dobbins, Ian G., Dunn, John, Enam, Tasnuva, Evans, Nathan J., Farrell, Simon, Fraundorf, Scott H., Gronlund, Scott D., Heathcote, Andrew, Heck, Daniel W., Hicks, Jason L., Huff, Mark J., Kellen, David, Key, Kylie N., Kilic, Asli, Klauer, Karl Christoph, Kraemer, Kyle R., Leite, Fábio P., Lloyd, Marianne E., Malejka, Simone, Mason, Alice ... Wilson, Jack (2019). Assessing theoretical conclusions with blinded inference to investigate a potential inference crisis. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2 (4), 335-349. doi: 10.1177/2515245919869583
Crüwell, Sophia, Stefan, Angelika M. and Evans, Nathan J. (2019). Robust standards in cognitive science. Computational Brain and Behavior, 2 (3-4), 255-265. doi: 10.1007/s42113-019-00049-8
Evans, Nathan J. (2019). Assessing the practical differences between model selection methods in inferences about choice response time tasks. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26 (4), 1070-1098. doi: 10.3758/s13423-018-01563-9
Dutilh, Gilles, Annis, Jeffrey, Brown, Scott D., Cassey, Peter, Evans, Nathan J., Grasman, Raoul P. P. P., Hawkins, Guy E., Heathcote, Andrew, Holmes, William R., Krypotos, Angelos-Miltiadis, Kupitz, Colin N., Leite, Fabio P., Lerche, Veronika, Lin, Yi-Shin, Logan, Gordon D., Palmeri, Thomas J., Starns, Jeffrey J., Trueblood, Jennifer S., van Maanen, Leendert, van Ravenzwaaij, Don, Vandekerckhove, Joachim, Visser, Ingmar, Voss, Andreas, White, Corey N., Wiecki, Thomas V., Rieskamp, Joerg and Donkin, Chris (2019). The quality of response time data inference: a blinded, collaborative assessment of the validity of cognitive models. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26 (4), 1051-1069. doi: 10.3758/s13423-017-1417-2
Evans, Nathan J., Holmes, William R. and Trueblood, Jennifer S. (2019). Response-time data provide critical constraints on dynamic models of multi-alternative, multi-attribute choice. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26 (3), 901-933. doi: 10.3758/s13423-018-1557-z
Evans, Nathan J., Bennett, Aimee J. and Brown, Scott D. (2019). Optimal or not; depends on the task. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26 (3), 1027-1034. doi: 10.3758/s13423-018-1536-4
Evans, Nathan J. and Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan (2019). Theoretically meaningful models can answer clinically relevant questions. Brain, 142, 1172-1175. doi: 10.1093/brain/awz073
Annis, Jeffrey, Evans, Nathan J., Miller, Brent J. and Palmeri, Thomas J. (2019). Thermodynamic integration and steppingstone sampling methods for estimating Bayes factors: a tutorial. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 89, 67-86. doi: 10.1016/j.jmp.2019.01.005
Evans, Nathan J. and Annis, Jeffrey (2019). Thermodynamic integration via differential evolution: a method for estimating marginal likelihoods. Behavior Research Methods, 51 (2), 930-947. doi: 10.3758/s13428-018-1172-y
Evans, Nathan J. and Hawkins, Guy E. (2019). When humans behave like monkeys: feedback delays and extensive practice increase the efficiency of speeded decisions. Cognition, 184, 11-18. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.11.014
Knowles, Johanne P., Evans, Nathan J. and Burke, Darren (2019). Some evidence for an association between early life adversity and decision urgency. Frontiers in Psychology, 10. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00243
Evans, Nathan J., Steyvers, Mark and Brown, Scott D. (2018). Modeling the covariance structure of complex datasets using cognitive models: an application to individual differences and the heritability of cognitive ability. Cognitive Science, 42 (6), 1925-1944. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12627
Evans, Nathan J., Brown, Scott D., Mewhort, Douglas J. K. and Heathcote, Andrew (2018). Refining the law of practice. Psychological Review, 125 (4), 592-605. doi: 10.1037/rev0000105
Evans, Nathan J. and Brown, Scott D. (2018). Bayes factors for the linear ballistic accumulator model of decision-making. Behavior Research Methods, 50 (2), 589-603. doi: 10.3758/s13428-017-0887-5
Evans, Nathan J., Hawkins, Guy E., Boehm, Udo, Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan and Brown, Scott D. (2017). The computations that support simple decision-making: A comparison between the diffusion and urgency-gating models. Scientific Reports, 7. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-16694-7
Evans, Nathan J., Rae, Babette, Bushmakin, Maxim, Rubin, Mark and Brown, Scott D. (2017). Need for closure is associated with urgency in perceptual decision-making. Memory and Cognition, 45 (7), 1193-1205. doi: 10.3758/s13421-017-0718-z
Evans, Nathan J., Howard, Zachary L., Heathcote, Andrew and Brown, Scott D. (2017). Model flexibility analysis does not measure the persuasiveness of a fit. Psychological Review, 124 (3), 339-345. doi: 10.1037/rev0000057
Evans, Nathan J. and Brown, Scott D. (2017). People adopt optimal policies in simple decision-making, after practice and guidance. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 24 (2), 597-606. doi: 10.3758/s13423-016-1135-1