Currently, I'm a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin working with Dr. Russell Poldrack. Before that I was a graduate student at UT. I was stationed in Dr. Bradley Love's Lab and collaborated extensively with Drs. Alison Preston and Todd Maddox. I started this journey at York College of Pennsylvania, often considered a Best Buy (Barrons) in terms of higher education, where I received sound advice from Drs. Joshua Landau and PengKwei (Paul) Chang.

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Research

My research focuses on how quantities from formal models of cognition and formal knowledge representation can be used to understand how the mind and brain relate.

Publications

Davis, T., & Poldrack, R.A. (in revision). Pattern Similarity in Parahippocampal Predicts Perceptions of Typicality in Novel Categories.

Sanders, M., Davis, T., & Love, B.C. (under review). Are Better Examples Beautiful or Are Beautiful Examples Better? Exploring the Relationship Between Beauty and Category Structure.

Davis, T., Love, B.C., & Maddox, W.T. (in press). Age-related Declines in the Fidelity of Newly Acquired Category Representations. Learning and Memory. [ pdf ]

Davis, T., Love, B.C., & Preston, A.R. (in press).Striatal and Hippocampal Entropy and Recognition Signals in Category Learning: Simultaneous Processes Revealed by Model-based fMRI. JEP:LMC. [ pdf ]

Davis, T., Love, B.C., & Preston, A.R. (2011). Learning Exceptions to the Rule: Model-Based fMRI Reveals Specialized Representations for Surprising Category Members. Cerebral Cortex. [ pdf ]

Davis, T., & Love, B.C. (2010). Memory for Category Information is Idealized Through Contrast with Competing Options. Psychological Science, 21, 234-242. [ pdf ]

Davis, T., Love, B.C., & Maddox, W.T. (2009). Anticipatory Emotions in Decision Tasks: Covert markers of Value or Attentional Processes? Cognition, 112, 195-200.[ pdf ]

Davis, T., Love, B.C., & Maddox, W.T. (2009). Two Pathways to Stimulus Encoding in Category Learning? Memory & Cognition, 37, 394-413. [ pdf ]

Manuscripts In Preparation

Davis, T., Tschumy, T., Principe, C., Langlois, J. & Love, B.C. (in prep). Dissociating Fluency From Aesthetic Judgment: Easy to Process Doesn't Always Mean More Beautiful.