Michael Young

Department: Psychology

Office location:
Department of Psychology
Life Science II 271F
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901-6502

Office Telephone Number: (618) 453-3567

Fax: (618) 453-3563

Email Address: meyoung@siu.edu

Website:
http://www.psychology.siu.edu/bcs/facultypages/young/youngHome.html

Educational Background:

PhD Psychology (Cognitive), University of Minnesota 1995

MS Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), University of Minnesota, 1991

BS Computer Science, University of Illinois, 1984

Research Interests:

Acquisition and perception of causal and temporal relationships in the environment

Comparative approaches to the study of variability discrimination

Computational models of implicit learning and induction

Recent Publications :

Beckmann JS, Young ME. (2009) The effects of stimulus dynamics on temporal discrimination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 35:525-553.

Young ME, Sutherland S. (2009) The spatiotemporal distinctiveness of direct causation. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 16:729-735.

Young ME, Nguyen N. (2009) The problem of delayed causation in a video game: Constant, varied, and filled delays. Learning and Motivation 40:298-312.

Young ME, Clark MH, Goffus A, Hoane MR. (2009) Mixed effects modeling of Morris water maze data: Advantages and cautionary notes. Learning and Motivation 40:160-177.

Young ME, Racey D. (2009) Judgments of creativity as a function of visual stimulus variability. Empirical Studies of the Arts 27:91-109.

Young ME. (2008) Nonlinear judgment analysis: Comparing policy use by those who draft and those who coach. Psychology of Sport and Exercise 9:760-774.