Curriculum Vitae

CAREN M. ROTELLO

Last updated: March 1, 2010

 

 

Department of Psychology                                 caren@psych.umass.edu

University of Massachusetts                              FAX:  (413)545-0996

Amherst, MA 01003-7710

(413)545-1543

 

 

Positions Held

 

2006-present     Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

2000-2006         Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

1993-2000         Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

 

 

Education

 

Ph.D., Psychology, 1993, Stanford University

B.S. with Distinction, Psychology (Highest Honors) and Mathematics, 1989, University of Michigan

 

 

Grant Activity

 

Federal support (PI:  Caren Rotello): Total $2,387,438

National Science Foundation Collaborative Research Grant (BCS-0616979; Co-PI:  Evan Heit), 8/15/06-8/14/09, UMass Total Costs (Years 1-3):  $152,353

National Institutes of Health Grant (R01 MH60274; Co-I for years 3-10:  Neil A. Macmillan):  4/1/07-3/31/11,  Total costs (Years 7-10): $915,633;

1/03-12/06, Total costs (Years 3-6) $648,839;

6/00-5/02, Total costs (Years 1-2) $189,202

Department of Interior Grant (NBCH1050007; Co-PIs:  Andrew Cohen, Kyle Cave), 3/29/05-3/28/06, Total Costs:  $432,820

National Science Foundation POWRE Grant (SBR-9753136),

1/98-6/00, Total costs $48,591

 

Training Grant

Training in Applied and Basic Cognition and Development.  Grant T32 MH16745 from the National Institute of Mental Health (1982-2009).  Director/PI, 2008-2009. Total costs (Year 25): $160,252

 

Other support

Unilever Corporation Grant, PIs Keith Rayner, Caren M. Rotello, and Susan A. Duffy,       total costs approximately $21,600, 1/00-

Faculty Research Grant, $5185, University of Massachusetts, 2/99-1/01

Faculty Research Grant, $4576, University of Massachusetts, 4/97-3/98

Healey Endowment Grant, $5000, University of Massachusetts, 1994

 

Professional Activities

 

Associate Editor

            Cognitive Psychology (Jan. 2010 - present)

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (Jan. 2006- Dec. 2009)

Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition (Sept. 2002- Dec. 2005)

 

Standing Member, Grant review panel

National Institutes of Health: Cognition and Perception (July 2007 - June 2011)

 

Editorial Board Member 

Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition (1993-1999; 2006-present)

            Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (Jan. 2003 - present)

Psychological Review (July 2003 - present)

 

Ad Hoc Grant reviewer: 

National Science Foundation:  Cognition & Perception, October 2006, April 2007

National Science Foundation:  Perception, Action, & Cognition, November 2007

National Institutes of Health: Biobehavioral and Behavioral Processes panel (BBBP-4), February 2003

National Institutes of Health: Aging, Modeling, and Cognition (ZRG1 SSS-R), June 2003

National Institutes of Health: Aging, Memory, and Cognitive Processes (ZRG1 SSS-R 03), December 2003

National Institutes of Health:  Fellowships in Language, Memory, and Cognition (ZRG1 BBBP-D 21), March 2004.
National Institutes of Health: Cognition Perception and Language Fellowships (ZRG1 F12A-20 L), November 2004.
National Institutes of Health:  Special Topics in Cognition, Perception, Language and Communication (BBBP-D (02) M), March 2005.
National Institutes of Health:  Special Emphasis Panel/Scientific Review Group 2006/05 (ZRG1 BBBP-D), February 2006.

United-States – Israel Binational Science Foundation, Spring 2000, Spring 2002

 

 

Publications

 

Dube, C., Rotello, C. M., & Heit, E.  (in press).  Assessing the belief bias effect with ROCs: It’s a response bias effect. Psychological Review.

Kapucu, A., Macmillan, N. A., & Rotello, C. M. (in press).  Positive and negative remember judgments and ROCs in the plurals paradigm:  Evidence for alternative decision strategies.  Memory & Cognition. [NIHMSID:  168260]

Heit, E., & Rotello, C. M. (in press).  Relations between inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Wong, M., & Rotello, C. M. (2010).  Semantic transparency affects memory conjunction errors.  Memory & Cognition, 38, 47-56. [NIHMSID: 127949]

Rotello, C.M., & Heit, E. (2009). Modeling the effects of argument length and validity on inductive and deductive reasoning.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 1317-1330.

Masson, M. E. J., & Rotello, C. M.  (2009).  Sources of bias in the Goodman-Kruskal gamma coefficient measure of association:  Implications for studies of metacognitive processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 509-527.

Evans, K., Rotello, C. M., Li, X., & Rayner, K. (2009).  Scene perception and memory revealed by eye movements and ROC analyses: Does a cultural difference truly exist?  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 276-285. [PMCID: PMC2668147]

Heit, E., & Rotello, C. M. (2008).  Modeling two kinds of reasoning.  Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1831-1836. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. 

Hautus, M., Macmillan, N. A., & Rotello, C. M. (2008).  Toward a complete decision model of item and source recognition.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 889-905.

Cohen, A. L., Rotello, C. M., & Macmillan, N. A. (2008).  Evaluating models of remember-know judgments:  Complexity, mimicry, and discriminability.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 906-926.

Kapucu, A., Rotello, C. M., Ready, R. E., & Seidl, K. N. (2008).  Response bias in ‘remembering’ emotional stimuli:  A new perspective on age differences.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 34, 703-711.

Rotello, C. M., & Zeng, M. (2008).  Analysis of RT distributions in the remember-know paradigm.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 825-832.

Rotello,  C. M., Masson, M. E. J., & Verde, M. F. (2008).  Type I error rates and power analyses for single-point sensitivity measures. Perception & Psychophysics, 70, 389-401.

Rayner, K., Miller, B., & Rotello, C. M. (2008).  Eye movements when looking at print advertisements: The goal of the viewer matters.  Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22, 697-707.

Cave, K. R., Cohen, A. L., Rotello, C. M., McCaffrey, A, Ross, M. G., Zeng, M., Zivot, M., Li, X., & Chang, K. (2008). Using eye movements to understand complex visual comparisons. In K. Rayner, D. Shen, X. Bai, & G. Yan (Eds.), Cognitive and Cultural Influences on Eye Movements (pp. 141-156), Tianjin People's Press/Psychology Press.

Rotello, C. M., & Macmillan, N. A. (2008).  Response bias in recognition memory. In A. S. Benjamin & B. H. Ross (Eds.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Skill and Strategy in Memory Use, Vol. 48 (pp. 61-94). London: Academic Press.

Dougal, S., & Rotello, C. M. (2007).  “Remembering” emotional words is based on response bias, not recollection.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 423-429.

Verde, M. F., & Rotello, C. M. (2007).  Memory strength and the decision process in recognition memory. Memory & Cognition, 35, 254-262.

Rotello, C. M., Macmillan, N. A., Hicks, J. L., & Hautus, M. (2006).  Interpreting the effects of response bias on remember-know judgments using signal-detection and threshold models. Memory & Cognition, 34, 1598-1614.

Rotello, C. M., & Macmillan, N. A. (2006).  Remember-know models as decision strategies in two experimental paradigms.  Journal of Memory & Language,55, 479-494.

Verde, M. F., Macmillan, N. A., & Rotello, C. M. (2006).  Measures of sensitivity based on a single hit rate and false-alarm rate:  The accuracy, precision, and robustness of d', Az, and A'.  Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 643-654.

Macmillan, N. A., & Rotello, C. M. (2006).  Deciding about decision models of remember and know judgments:  A reply to Murdock.  Psychological Review,113, 657-665.

Heit, E., & Rotello, C. M. (2005).  Are there two kinds of reasoning?  Proceedings of the Twenty-five Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 923-928. Mahwah, NJ:  Erlbaum.

Rotello, C. M., Macmillan, N. A., Reeder, J. A., & Wong, M. (2005). The remember response:  Subject to bias, graded, and not a process-pure indicator of recollection. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 865-873.

Macmillan, N. A., Rotello, C. M., & Verde, M. F. (2005). On the importance of models in interpreting remember-know experiments: Comments on Gardiner et al.’s (2002) meta-analysis.  Memory, 13, 607-621.

Verde, M. F., & Rotello, C. M. (2004).  Strong memories obscure weak memories in associative recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 1062-1066.

Macmillan, N. A., Rotello, C. M., Miller, J. O. (2004).  The sampling distributions of Gaussian ROC statistics.  Perception & Psychophysics, 66, 406–421.

Rotello, C. M., Macmillan, N. A., & Reeder, J. A. (2004).  Sum-Difference Theory of Remembering and Knowing:  A Two-Dimensional Signal Detection Model.  Psychological Review, 111, 588–616.

Verde, M. F., & Rotello, C. M. (2004).  ROC curves show that the revelation effect is not a single phenomenon.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 560-566.

Verde, M. F., & Rotello, C. M. (2003).  Does familiarity change in the revelation effect? Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 739-746.

Pollatsek, A., & Rotello, C. M. (2002).  Attention, perception, and memory.  Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). Oxford, U.K. [http://www.eolss.net]

Rayner, K., Rotello, C. M., Stewart, A. J., Keir, J., & Duffy, S. A. (2001).  Integrating text and pictorial information:  Eye movements when looking at print advertisements.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Applied, 7, 219-226.

Rotello, C. M. (2000).  Recall processes in recognition memory.  In D. L. Medin (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 40 (pp. 183-221).  San Diego, CA:   Academic Press.

Rotello, C. M., & Heit, E. (2000).  Associative recognition:  A case of recall-to-reject processing. Memory and Cognition, 28, 907-922.

Rotello, C. M., Macmillan, N. A., & Van Tassel, G. (2000). Recall-to-reject in recognition:  Evidence from ROC curves. Journal of Memory and Language, 43, 67-88.

Stern, E. R., & Rotello, C. M. (2000).  Memory characteristics of recently imagined events and real events experienced previously.  American Journal of Psychology, 113, 569-590.

Dougal, S., & Rotello, C. M. (1999).  Context effects in recognition.  American Journal of Psychology, 112, 277-295. 

Rotello, C. M. (1999).  Metacognition and memory for nonoccurrence.  Memory, 7, 43-63.

Rotello, C. M., & Heit, E. (1999).  Two-process models of recognition memory:  Evidence for Recall-to-reject? Journal of Memory and Language, 40, 432-453.

Catrambone, R., Jones, C. M., Jonides, J., & Seifert, C. (1995).  Reasoning about curvilinear motion:  Using principles or analogy.  Memory & Cognition, 23, 368-373.

Jones, C. M. (1994).  Construction of a mental model.  In R. F. Lorch, Jr., & E. J. O'Brien (Eds.), Sources of Coherence in Reading, (pp. 335-352).  Hillsdale, NJ:  Erlbaum.

Jones, C. M., & Heit, E. (1993).  An evaluation of the total similarity principle:  Effects of similarity on frequency judgments.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 19, 799-812.

Jonides, J., & Jones, C. M. (1992).  Direct coding for frequency of occurrence.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 368-378.

 

 

Submitted manuscripts

 

Bruno, D., Kapucu, A., & Rotello, C. M. (under revision).  Recognition of emotional stimuli: A study of the liberal response rate to negative items.  Manuscript under revision.

 

Recent Conference Presentations

 

Hautus, M. J., Rotello, C. M., & Macmillan, N. A. (April, 2010).  Tests of a model for source and item recognition memory.  Paper to be presented at the 2010 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium.  Philadephia, PA.
Bruno, D., Kapucu, A., & Rotello, C. M. (November, 2009).  Recognition memory for emotional stimuli:  Response bias or distribution shift?  Paper presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Boston, MA.
Dube, C., Rotello, C. M., & Heit, E. (November, 2009).  Assessing the belief bias effect with ROCs:  It’s a response bias effect.  Paper presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Boston, MA.

Hautus, M. J., Rotello, C. M., & Macmillan, N. A. (November, 2009).  Tests of a model for source and item recognition memory.  Paper presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Boston, MA.

Rotello, C. M. (January, 2009).  Modeling source memory.  Paper presented at the 2009 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium.  West Palm Beach, FL.
Heit, E., & Rotello, C. M. (November, 2008). Multidimensional models of inductive and deductive reasoning.  Paper presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Chicago, IL.

Wong, M., & Rotello, C. M. (November, 2008). Semantic transparency affects memory conjunction errors.  Paper presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Chicago, IL.

Rotello, C. M. (2008, July). Toward a complete decision model of item and source recognition.  Invited paper presented at the international conference on Formal Models of Memory, Judgment, and Decision Making.  Mannheim, Germany.

Heit, E., & Rotello, C. M. (2008, July).  Modeling two kinds of reasoning.  Presented at the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.  Washington, DC.

Chang, K., Rotello, C. M., Li, X., & Rayner, K.  (2008, May). Scene perception and memory revealed by eye movements and ROC analysis: Does a cultural difference truly exist?  Paper presented at the 2008 meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Naples, FL.

Cohen, A. L., Rotello, C. M., & Macmillan, N. A. (2008, January).  Mimicry in models of remember-know judgments. Paper presented at the 2008 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium.  Tampa, FL.

Cohen, A. L., Rotello, C. M., & Macmillan, N. A. (2007, November).  Mimicry in models of remember-know judgments. Paper presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Long Beach, CA..

Hautus, M., Macmillan, N. A., & Rotello, C. M. (2007, November).  Toward a complete decision model of item and source recognition.  Paper presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Long Beach, CA.

Kapucu, A., Rotello, C. M., Ready, R. E., & Seidl, K. N. (2007, November).  Response bias in ‘remembering’ emotional stimuli:  A new perspective on age differences.  Paper presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Long Beach, CA..

Masson, M. E. J., & Rotello, C. M. (2007, November).  Bias in the gamma coefficient as a measure of metacognitive accuracy.  Paper  presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Long Beach, CA.

Rotello,  C. M., Masson, M. E. J., & Verde, M. F. (2007, November,).  Type I error rates and power analyses for single-point sensitivity measures. Paper presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Long Beach, CA.

Rotello,  C. M., Masson, M. E. J., & Verde, M. F. (2007, July).  Type I error rates and power analyses for single-point sensitivity measures. Paper presented at the joint the joint meeting of the Psychonomic Society and the Experimental Psychology Society.  Edinburgh, Scotland.

Kapucu, A., Macmillan, N. A., & Rotello, C. M. (2006, November).  Negative remembering. Paper presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.  Houston, TX.

Rotello, C. M., & Zeng, M. (2006, November).  Analysis of RT distributions in the remember-know paradigm.  Paper presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.  Houston, TX.

Cave, K.R., Cohen, A., Rotello, C., McCaffrey, A., Zeng, M., Li, X., Zivot, M., Chang, K., & Ross, M. (2006, June). Using eye movements to understand complex visual comparisons. Second China International Conference on Eye Movements. Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, P.R.China.

Dougal, S. & Rotello, C. M. (2005, November).  "Remembering" emotional words is based on response bias not recollection. Paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.  Toronto, Canada.

Heit, E., & Rotello, C. M. (2005, November). Signal detection analyses of deductive and inductive reasoning. Paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.  Toronto, Canada.

Verde, M. F., & Rotello, C. M. (2005, November).   Memory strength and the decision process in recognition memory.  Paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.  Toronto, Canada.

Verde, M. F., & Rotello, C. M. (2004, November).  Strength-based and Retrieval-based interference in cued recall.  Paper presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.  Minneapolis, MN.

Rotello, C. M., Macmillan, N. A., Wong, M., & Gordon, R. R. (2004, November).  On the flexibility of remember-know decision bounds.  Paper presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.  Minneapolis, MN.

Rotello, C. M. (2004, July).  On the flexibility of remember-know decision bounds.  Paper presented at the Annual Summer Interdisciplinary Conference.  Cavalese, Italy.

 

 

Recent Invited Talks

 

Rotello, C. M. (2009, September). Modeling source memory. Invited presentation at Yale University.  New Haven, CT.

Rotello, C. M. (2009, September). Assessing the belief bias effect with ROCs: It’s a response bias effect. Invited colloquium presented at Yale University.  New Haven, CT.

Rotello, C. M. (2008, May).  Decision processes in remembering and knowing:  Model-based investigations of recognition memory.  Invited colloquium presented at Syracuse University.  Syracuse, NY.

Rotello, C. M. (2007, October).  Decision processes in remembering and knowing:  Model-based investigations of recognition memory.  Invited colloquium presented at University of California – Los Angeles.  Los Angeles, CA.

Rotello, C. M. (2006, October).  ROC curves:  Windows onto mental processes.  Invited colloquium presented at Indiana University.  Bloomington, IN.

Rotello, C. M.  (2006, February). Remember-Know:  No evidence for dual-process. Invited colloquium presented at the Memory Disorders Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine.  Boston, MA.

Rotello, C. M. (2004, April).  Understanding remembering and knowing:  A two-dimensional signal detection model.  Invited colloquium presented at New York University.  New York, NY.

 

 

Ad Hoc Journal Reviews

 

Psychological Review ▫ Cognitive Psychology ▫ Journal of Experimental Psychology:  General ▫ Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition ▫ Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied ▫ Journal of Memory and Language ▫   Psychonomic Bulletin & Review ▫ Memory ▫ Memory & Cognition ▫ Contemporary Educational Psychology ▫ American Journal of Psychology ▫ Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers ▫ European Journal of Cognitive Psychology  ▫ Acta Psychologica ▫ Neuropsychologia ▫ Consciousness & Cognition ▫ Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology ▫ Journal of Mathematical Psychology

 

 

Departmental Service

 

1994-1995; 2001-2002    Member, Human Subjects Committee

1995-1996                     Member, Cognitive Faculty Search Committee

1995-2000                     Member, Graduate Studies Committee

1997-1998                     Co-organizer, Five College Seminars in Cognitive Science

1998-2000                     Chair, Five College Seminars in Cognitive Science

2000 (Fall)                    Member, Computer Network Committee

2001-2002                     Member, Committee on Statistics Instruction

2003-2005                     Member, Block Grant Committee

2002-2003                     Member, Human Subjects Population Committee

2002-2003                     Chair, Cognitive Faculty Search Committee

2003-2004                     Member, Cognitive Faculty Search Committee

2004-2005                     Co-Chair, Cognitive & Developmental Faculty Search Committee

2002-2005; 2009-2010    Member, Executive Committee

2002-2005                     Head of Cognitive Area

2002-2005                     Head of Division II (Cognitive & Developmental)

2004-present                 Mentor to three junior faculty members

2005-2006                     Chair, Human Subjects Committee

2005-2006                     Member, Cognitive & Developmental Faculty Search

2006-2009                     Participant & Mentor, Mutual Mentoring Initiative

2006-2007; 2008-2009    Member, Department Personnel Committee

2007-2008                     Chair, Cognitive Faculty Search Committee

2008-2009                     Chair, Cognitive Faculty Search Committee

2009-2010                     Chair, Department Personnel Committee

 

 

University Service

 

1999 (Fall)                    Faculty Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences Information and Advising Center

 

2010-2012                                          Member, University Research Council

 

 

Courses Taught

 

Undergraduate

240(H)              Statistics in Psychology, regular and Honors sections

315(H)              Cognitive Psychology, regular and Honors sections

391                   Seminar on the repressed/recovered memory debate

 

Graduate

618                   ABCD II:  Applied, basic, cognitive & developmental psychology

640 & 641         Statistical Inference in Psychology I & II

891                   Seminars on (in various years) mathematical models of memory, the time-course of judgment, the interpretation of response probability and reaction time data, and signal detection theory

893                   Cognitive seminar

 

Nominated for Distinguished Teaching Award, 1999-2000

 

 

Professional Memberships

 

Psychonomic Society

Association for Psychological Science

American Psychological Association