Publications.

Journal Articles

• Curley, T., Morris, M., & Borghetti, L. (2024). Gamma power as an index of sustained attention in simulated vigilance tasks. Topics in Cognitive Science, 16(1), 113–128. doi:10.1111/tops.12700.
• Hertzog, C., Curley, T., & Dunlosky, J. (2021). Are age differences in recognition-based retrieval monitoring an epiphenomenon of age differences in memory? Psychology & Aging, 36, 186–199. doi:10.1037/pag0000595.
• Toppino, T., Heslin, K., Curley, T. et al. (2021). Why do learners ignore expected feedback in mkaing metacognitive decisions about retrieval practice? Memory & Cognition, 49, 1–13. doi:10.3758/s13421-021-01171-4.
• Castro, N., Curley, T., & Hertzog, C. (2020). Category norms with a cross-sectional sample of adults in the United States: Consideration of cohort, age, and historical effects on semantic categories. Behavior Research Methods, 53, 898–917. doi:10.3758/s13428-020-01454-9.
• Bauchwitz, B., Curley, T., Kwan, C., Niehaus, J., Pugh, C., & Weyhrauch, P. (2019). Modeling framework used to analyze and describe junctional tourniquet skills. Journal of Military Medicine, 184, 347-360. doi:10.1093/milmed/usy348.

Book Chapters

• Hertzog, C. & Curley, T. (2019). Metamemory and Cognitive Aging. Book chapter for The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology, Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.377.

Conference Presentations and Proceedings

• Borghetti, L., Fisher, C., Stevens, C., Houpt, J., Curley, T., Blaha, L., & Chadderdon, G. (July, 2023). Using neural networks to create fast and reusable approximate likelihood functions for ACT-R. In T. C. Stewart (Ed.), Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM).
• Fisher, C., Curley, T., & Stevens, C. (July, 2023). Evaluating the generalizability of diverse models of interference effects. In T. C. Stewart (Ed.), Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM).
• Curley, T. (June, 2023). Bayesian estimation of category typicality using ordered probit models. Presentation at the Virtual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology (VMP).

• Curley, T., Borghetti, L., & Morris, M. (November, 2022). Local mental effort vs. global compensation: Perspectives from a neurocognitive model of vigilant attention. Presentation at the 3rd Workshop on Mental Effort at Brown University.
• Curley, T. (November, 2022). Exploring the mechanisms of output interference during cued recall using metamemory judgments. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
• Curley, T., Borghetti, L. & Morris, M. (July, 2022). Gamma power as an index of sustained attention in simulated vigilance tasks. In T. C. Stewart (Ed.), Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM), 53–58.
• Curley, T. & Morris, M. (July, 2022). Modeling short-term fatigue decrements in the successive/simultaneous discrimination task. In T. C. Stewart (Ed.), Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM). 59–64.
• Curley, T. (April, 2022). Age equivalence in the effects of output interference during cued recall. Poster at the Cognitive Aging Conference in Atlanta, GA.
• Curley, T., Castro, N., & Hertzog, C. (April, 2022). Alternative estimates of category exemplar typicality across adulthood. Poster at the Cognitive Aging Conference in Atlanta, GA.
• Curley, T., Dunlosky, J., & Hertzog, C. (April, 2022). Distinctive encoding enhances performance, but not monitoring, during category cued recall for both young and older adults. Poster at the Cognitive Aging Conference in Atlanta, GA.

• Curley, T., Castro, N., & Hertzog, C. (November, 2020). Examining the agreement of alternative estimates of category exemplar typicality. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

• Curley, T., Castro, N., Hertzog, C. & Dunlosky, J. (May, 2019). Exploring the effects of encoding and semantic network properties on memory for related items. Poster at the 2019 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium (CEMS) in Philadelphia, PA.
• Curley, T. (January, 2019). Encoding and semantic network properties affect memory for related items. Presentation at the North Georgia Regional Memory Meeting (NGRAMM).

• Castro, N., Hertzog, C., & Curley, T. (November, 2018). Semantic network structure and level of processing: Implicit and explicit representations influence recall and recognition of items studied in the presence of categorically-related words. Poster at the 59th Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA.
• Hertzog, C., Curley, T., & Dunlosky, J. (2018). Distinctiveness-based encoding reduces age differences in high-confidence recognition errors. In Innovation in Aging, 2, 48. 10.1093/geroni/igy023.177.
• Lynn, S., Curley, T., & Weyhrauch, P. (July, 2018). Modeling perceptual judgements in believable agents: A signal detection approach. In I. Juvina, J. Houpt, & C. Myers (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 47-48). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin.
• Curley, T., Hertzog, C., & Douglass, S. (April, 2018). The effects of judgment scaling on feeling-of-knowing accuracy in younger and older adults. Poster at the Cognitive Aging Conference in Atlanta, GA.
• Curley, T. (January, 2018). Effects of distinctiveness encoding and item typicality on metacognitive retrieval monitoring. Presentation at the North Georgia Regional Memory Meeting (NGRAMM).

• Hertzog, C., Curley, T., & Dunlosky, J. (November, 2017). Effects of a distinctiveness manipulation on metacognitive retrieval monitoring. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
• Bauchwitz, B. & Curley, T. (August, 2017). Modeling junctional tourniquet skills from empirical data. Presentation at the Military Health Research Symposium (MHRSRS).

• Curley, T. & Hertzog, C. (October, 2016). Aging and feelings-of-knowing. Presentation at the Cognitive Aging Brown Bag in Atlanta, GA.

• Toscano, J. & Curley, T. (November, 2015). Statistical learning of vowel categories: a computational approach. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
• Heslin, K.A., Curley, T.M., Jackiewicz, M.K., Flowers, C.S., Phelan, H.A., & Toppino, T.C. (November, 2014). Influence of feedback on metacognitive decisions about spacing practice tests: A framing effect? Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
• Northcutt, C.A., Toth, J.P., Daniels, K.A., & Curley, T.M. (February, 2013). I’ve never been too good with names but I remember faces: Memory for faces and names. Poster at the North Carolina Cognitive Conference, Raleigh, NC
• Curley, T. & Toth, J. (March, 2012). Metacognitive accuracy for face-name pairs using a dual-process approach to judgments of learning. Poster at the Colonial Academic Alliance Undergraduate Research Conference, Norfolk, VA.

Invited Talks

• Curley, T., Blaha, L., Fallon, C., & Morris, M. (March, 2023). Age and anthropomorphism in perceptions of good digital teammates. Online research talk given for the Human-Machine Teaming (HMT) COI Speaker Series at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA.
• Curley, T. (February, 2023). GT SoP Alumnus Talk. Spoken presentation given as part of Graduate Student Recruitment weekend at the School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA.
• Curley, T. (February, 2023). Basic and applied cognitive modeling. Spoken presentation given as part of the Applied Speaker Series, hosted by the Psychology Graduate Student Council, School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA.
• Curley, T. (February, 2021). Are age differences in recognition-based retrieval monitoring an epiphenomenon of age differences in memory? Talk presented at the Cognitive Aging Brown Bag at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
• Curley, T. (March, 2020). Aging and feelings-of-knowing: Exploring the factors that can help or hinder memory judgment accuracy. Talk presented at the Cognitive Aging Brown Bag at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
• Curley, T., Castro, N., & Hertzog, C. (February, 2019). Cohort, age, and historical effects on semantic categories. Talk presented at the Cognitive Aging Brown Bag at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
• Curley, T. (March, 2018). Aging and distinctiveness encoding: Implications for metacognitive retrieval monitoring. Talk presented at the Cognitive Aging Brown Bag at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
• Hertzog, C., Curley, T., & Dunlosky, J. (November, 2017). Effects of a distinctiveness manipulation on metacognitive retrieval monitoring. Talk presented at the Cognitive Aging Brown Bag at Georgia Tech.
• Curley, T. & Hertzog, C. (October, 2016). Aging and feelings-of-knowing. Talk presented at the Cognitive Aging Brown Bag at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Other Academic Publications

• Curley, T. (2021). The effects of output interference on metamemory and cued recall accuracy in young and older adults. (Dissertation). Georgia Institute of Technology.
• Curley, T. & Bauchwitz, B. (December, 2017). Correlated changes in brain functioning and cognitive performance are marked by individual differences. Spoken presentation at the IEEE Data Bank Challenge at Charles River Analytics, Inc. in Cambridge, MA.
• Curley, T. (2016). Effects of framing practice tests as restudy on final recall. (Master’s thesis). Villanova University, Villanova, PA.
• Metacognitive accuracy for face-name pairs using a dual-process approach to judgments of learning. (Undergraduate thesis). University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC.

Content and Work in the Media

• Psychonomic Society Content: “Modeling the genius of babies: Guidelines for simulations of basic rule learning”
• Psychonomic Society Content: “Why we don’t serve ‘cheese and macaroni’: Investigating directionality of relationships between words”
• Psychonomic Society Content: “Context is everything—but what is context? Disentangling the ‘what’ from the ‘when’”
• Psychonomic Society Featurette: “Older Adults Monitor Their Memory More Than Young Adults”
• Psychonomic Society Featurette: “What Can the Science of Word Networks Tell Us About Dementia?”
• Psychonomic Society Featurette: “Worried About Your Memory? Consider Attentional Refreshing”
• Psychonomic Society Featurette: “Forgetting Isn’t Always Curvilinear”
• Psychonomic Society Featurette: “In Science, Missing the Target Is Okay”
• Psychonomic Society Featurette: “Annoying Drug Advertisements Are More Helpful Than You Think”
• Psychonomic Society Featurette: “A Roadmap for Misinformation and Perceived Truth”
• Psychonomic Society Featurette: “Can the Content of Our Emails Hinder Future Memory?”
• Psychonomic Society Featurette: “Adversarial Collaborations: Turning Disagreements Into Collaborations”
• Phys.org: “What’s a Mind Without a Body?”
• CRA Press Release: “Tourniquet Master Training”
• CRA Publication: “Modeling Junctional Tourniquet Skills from Empirical Data”