Andrew G. Baker

Associate Professor

Stewart Biological Sciences Bldg.
Room N8/9, 398-6086
andy.baker at mcgill.ca

Research Areas

Cognition-Language-Perception, Behavioral Neuroscience

Research Summary

Prof. A. G. Baker studies the mechanisms by which humans estimate the covariance between events and make causality judgments. Analogous experiments use classical and operant conditioning paradigms to clarify the mechanisms by which animals are sensitive to correlations between events. Prof. Baker is also interested in the relationship between impulsive behaviour and cognition in normal humans and those with impulsive disorders such as psychopathy and hyperactivity.

Selected References

Murphy, R. A., & Baker, A.G. (2004). A role for CS-US contingency in Pavlovian. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behaviour Processes, 30, 229-239,

Baker, A.G., Murphy, R.A. & Mehta, R. (2003). Learned irrelevance and Retrospective correlation learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 56 90-101.

Baker, A.G., Vallee-Tourangeau, F.and Murphy, R.A. (2000). Asymptotic judgment of cause in a relative validity paradigm. Memory and Cognition, 28, 466-479.

Updated: March 1, 2010
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