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   Lab publications:

• Sederberg, P. B., Miller, J. F., Howard, M. W., & Kahana, M. J. (revised). Temporal contiguity between recalls predicts episodic memory performance. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
• Onyper, S. V., Zhang, Y. and Howard, M. W. (In press). Some-or-none recollection: Evidence from item and source memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
• Howard, M. W., Shankar, K. H., and Jagadisan, U. K. K. (In press). Constructing semantic representations from a gradually-changing representation of temporal context. Topics in Cognitive Science.

• Shankar, K. H., Jagadisan, U. K. K. , & Howard, M. W. (In press). Sequential learning using temporal context. Journal of Mathematical Psychology.
• Howard, M. W., Sederberg, P. B., and Kahana, M. J. (2009). Reply to Farrell & Lewandowsky: Recency-contiguity interactions predicted by the temporal context model. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 973-984.
• Howard, M. W., Jing, B., Rao, V. A., Provyn, J. P., and Datey, A. V. (2009). Bridging the gap: Transitive associations between items presented in similar temporal contexts . Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. 35, 391-407.
• Howard, M. W. (2009). Memory: Computational models. L. R. Squire (Ed), Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, volume 5, pp. 771-777. Oxford: Academic Press.
• Howard, M. W., Kahana, M. J., and Sederberg, P. B. (2008). Postscript: Distinguishing between temporal context and short-term store. Psychological Review, 115, 1125–1126.
• Kahana, M. J., Sederberg, P. B., and Howard, M. W. (2008). Putting short-term memory into context: Reply to Usher, Davelaar, Haarmann and Goshen-Gottstein (2008). Psychological Review, 115, 1119–1126.
• Sederberg, P. B., Howard, M. W., and Kahana, M. J. (2008). A context-based theory of recency and contiguity in free recall. Psychological Review, 115, 893-912.
• Kahana, M. J., Howard, M. W., and Polyn, S. M. (2008). Associative retrieval processes in episodic memory. In, H. L. Roediger (Ed), Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, Academic Press, Oxford. pp. 476–490.
• Rao, V. A. and Howard, M. W. (2008). Retrieved context and the discovery of semantic structure. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20, J.C. Platt, D. Koller,Y. Singer and S. Roweis, Eds. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
• Howard, M. W., Youker, T. E., and Venkatadass, V. (2008). The persistence of memory: Contiguity effects across several minutes. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 58–63.
• Provyn, J. P., Sliwinski, M. J., and Howard, M. W. (2007). Effects of age on contextually mediated associations in paired associate learning. Psychology and Aging, 22, 846–857.
• Manns, J. R., Howard, M. W., & Eichenbaum, H. B. (2007). Gradual changes in hippocampal activity support remembering the order of events. Neuron, 53, 530–540. [doi]
• Howard, M. W., Venkatadass, V., Norman, K. A., and Kahana, M. J. (2007). Associative processes in immediate recency, Memory & Cognition, 35, 1700–1711.
• Howard, M. W., Addis, K. M., Jing, B.  and Kahana, M. J. (2007). Semantic structure and episodic memory. Invited chapter for Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis, T. Landauer, D McNamara, S. Dennis, and W. Kintsch (eds), Laurence Erlbaum, pp 121–141.
• Siekmeier, P. J., Hasselmo, M. E., Howard, M. W., Coyle, J. (2007). Modeling of context-dependent retrieval in hippocampal region CA1: Implications for cognitive function in schizophrenia, Schizophrenia Research, 89, 177–190.
• Howard, M. W., Kahana, M. J. and Wingfield, A. (2006). Aging and contextual binding: Modeling recency and lag-recency effects with the temporal context model , Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 439–445.
• Zaromb, F. M., Howard, M. W, Dolan, E. D., Sirotin, Y. B., Tully, M., Wingfield, A., Kahana, M. J. (2006), Temporal associations and prior-list intrusions in free recall, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 32, 792–804.
• Howard, M. W., Bessette-Symons, B. A., Zhang, Y., and Hoyer, W. J. (2006). Aging selectively impairs recollection in recognition memory for pictures: Evidence from modeling and ROC curves, Psychology and Aging, 21, 96–106.
• Howard, M. W., and Natu, V. S. (2005). Place from time: Reconstructing position from the temporal context model, Neural Networks, 18, 1150–1162.
• Schwartz, G., Howard, M. W., Jing, B.  and Kahana, M. J. (2005). Shadows of the past: Temporal retrieval effects in recognition memory, Psychological Science, 16, 898–904.
• Kahana, M. J. and Howard, M. W. (2005). Spacing and lag effects in free recall of pure lists, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 159–164.
• Howard, M. W., Fotedar, M. S., Datey, A. V., and Hasselmo, M. E. (2005). The temporal context model in spatial navigation and relational learning: Toward a common explanation of medial temporal lobe function across domains, Psychological Review, 112, 75–116.
• Howard, M. W. (2004). Scaling behavior in the temporal context model, Journal of Mathematical Psychology 48, 230–238. .
• Howard, M. W., Rizzuto, D. S., Madsen, J. R., Lisman, J. E., Aschenbrenner-Scheibe, R., Schulze-Bonhage, A. and Kahana, M. J. (2003). Gamma oscillations correlate with working memory load in humans, Cerebral Cortex, 13, 1369–1374.
• Sherman, S. J., Atri, A., Hasselmo, M. E., Stern, C. E., and Howard, M. W. (2003). Scopolamine Impairs Human Recognition Memory: Data and Modeling, Behavioral Neuroscience, 117, 526–539.

• Sederberg, P. B., Kahana, M. J., Howard, M. W., Donner, E. J. and Madsen, J. R. (2003). Theta and gamma oscillations during encoding predict subsequent recall. Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 10809–10814.

• Kahana, M. J., Howard, M. W., Zaromb, F. M., and Wingfield, A. (2002). Age dissociates recency and lag recency effects in free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 28, 530–540.

• Howard, M. W. and Kahana, M. J. (2002). A distributed representation of temporal context. Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 46, 269–299.

• Howard, M. W. and Kahana, M. J. (2002). When does semantic similarity help episodic retrieval? Journal of Memory and Language, 46, 85–98.

• Howard, M. W. and Kahana, M. J. (1999). Contextual variability and serial position effects in free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 25, 923–941.

   Recent Posters (selected):

• Provyn, J. P. and Howard, M. W. Associative processes in probabilistic sequence learning, Poster presented to the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, November, 2007.
• Onyper, S. V., Zhang, Y., and Howard, M. W. (2006). Dual-process signal detection theory in item recognition: Evidence for some-or-none recollection, Poster presented to the Psychonomic Society, November, Houston, TX.
• Howard, M. W. (2006). Looking for evidence of temporal coding in episodic memory, Poster presented to Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Houston, TX.
• Howard, M. W., Youker, T. E., & Venkatadass, V. (2006). The persistence of memory: temporally defined retrieval effects observed over hundreds of seconds, Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, 366.23, Atlanta, GA.
• Provyn, J. P., Iyer, S. V., Sliwinski, M. J., & Howard, M. W. (2006). Age differences in transitive associations, Poster presented at the 39th annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, Vancouver, B.C.
• Zhang, Y., & Howard, M. W. (2006). Reconciling single-process and dual-process accounts of item recognition, Poster presented at the 39th annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, Vancouver, B.C.
• Howard, M. W. (2005). Two-process theory in recognition memory: Evidence from zROC curves and temporally-defined associations, Poster presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON.
• Howard, M. W., Natu, V. S., & Fotedar, M. S. (2004). Positional reconstruction from a distributed representation of recent trajectory, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 667.17.
• Howard, M. W. (2004). Neurobiology can provide meaningful constraints to cognitive modeling: The temporal context model as a description of medial temporal lobe function 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology.

• Howard, M. W., Hasselmo, M. E. (2003) Short-term memory and spatial navigation: a model of temporally-varying context captures features of the place code in entorhinal cortex Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 939.18.
• Howard, M. W. and Jing, B. (2003). Bridging the Gap: On the Basis of Transitive Association Psychonomic Society, 3032.