Dr. Lorraine G. Allan
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour
McMaster University
Hamilton ON
CANADA L8S 4K1

905-525-9140 x23000
FAX 905-529-6225

allan@mcmaster.ca
 
http://psych.mcmaster.ca/lorraine_allan/











Modified:  November 28, 2011



Academic History


1962
 B.A. (Honour) Toronto (Psychology)
1963
 M.A. Toronto (Psychology)
1968
 Ph.D. McMaster (Psychology)


1968-1971
 Research Associate.  Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
1971 - 1975 Assistant Professor.  Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
1975 - 1981 Associate Professor.  Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
1981 - 2006
 Professor.  Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
2006 -
Professor Emeritus. Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.


1984 - 1989 Chairman.  Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
1978 Visiting Professor.  Department of Psychology, Stirling University, Bridge of Allan, Scotland.
1990 Visiting Professor.  Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tempe Arizona, USA.
1999 Green Professor.  Department of Psychology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth Texas, USA.



Awards and Honours


2011
 CAUT Award for Outstanding Service
2005
 Fellow, Society for Experimental Psychology
2004
 McMaster University Faculty Association Outstanding Service Award
2003
 McMaster University Alumni Gallery
1999 Green Professorship in Psychology, Texas Christian University



Publications
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Hannah, S. D., Allan, L. G., & Young, M. E. (accepted).  Age differences in contingency judgement linked to perceptual segregation.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Hannah, S. D., & Allan, L. G. (2011). The criterion-calibration model of cue interaction in contingency judgments. Learning & Behavior, 39, 171-190. [HannahAllan2011.pdf]

Heisz, J. J., Hannah, S. D., Shedden, J. M.,  & Allan, L. G. (2011).  Neural temporal dynamics of contingency judgment. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 4, 792-806. [Heisz etal.pdf]

Siegel, S., Allan, L. G., & Hannah, S. D. (2009). Applying Signal Detection Theory to contingency assessment. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 4, 116-134. Retrieve from  http://psyc.queensu.ca/ccbr/index.html

Hannah, S. D., Crump, M. J. C., Allan, L. G., & Siegel, S. (2009). Cue-interaction effects in contingency judgments using the streamed-trial procedure. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 103-112. [Hannah etal 2009.pdf]

Allan, L. G., Hannah, S. D., Crump, M. J. C., & Siegel, S. (2008). The psychophysics of contingency assessment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 226-243. [PDF]

Crump, M. J. C., Hannah, S. D., Allan, L. G., & Hord, L. K. (2007). Contingency judgments on the fly. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 753-761. [PDF]

Hannah, S. D., Allan, L. G., & Siegel, S. (2007). The consequences of surrendering a degree of freedom to the participant in a contingency assessment task. Behavioural Processes, 22, 265-273. [PDF]

Allan, L. G, Siegel, S., & Hannah, S.  (2007).  The sad truth about depressive realism.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 482-495.  [PDF]

Allan, L. G., Hannah, S. D., Crump, M. J. C., & Siegel, S. (2006). Psychophysics of causality: Detecting contingencies is like detecting signals (pp. 57-68).  In D. E. Kornbrot, R. M. Msetfi, & A. W. MacRae (Eds.),  Proceedings of the 22nd annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. St Albans, England. [PDF]
Allan, L. G. (Ed.). (2005). Learning of contingent relationships [Special Issue]. Learning & Behavior, 33 (2).

Allan, L. G, Siegel, S., & Tangen, J. M.  (2005).  A Signal Detection analysis of contingency data.  Learning & Behavior, 33, 250-263. [PDF]

Allan, L. G., & Tangen, J. M.  (2005).  Judging relationships between events: How do we do it?  Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 22-27. [PDF]

Tangen, J. M., Allan, L. G., & Sadeghi, H.  (2005).  Assessing (in)sensitivity to causal asymmetry: A matter of degree.  In A. J. Wills (ed.), New directions in human associative learning (pp 65-93).  NJ: Erlbaum. [PDF]

Tangen, J. M., & Allan, L. G. (2004). Cue-interaction and judgments of causality: Contributions of causal and associative processes.  Memory & Cognition, 107, 107-124. [PDF]

Allan, L. G., Tangen, J. M., Wood, R., & Shah, T. (2003). Temporal Contiguity and Contingency Judgments: A Pavlovian Analogue. Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science, 38, 214-229. [PDF]

Tangen, J. M., & Allan, L. G. (2003). The relative effect of cue interaction. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 56B, 279-300.[PDF]

Allan, L. G. (2003). Assessing Power PC. Learning and Behavior, 31, 192-204. [PDF]

Allan, L. G. (2002). Are the referents remembered in temporal bisection? Learning and Motivation, 33, 10-31. [PDF]

Allan, L. G. (2002). The location and interpretation of the bisection point. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology B, 55, 43-60. [PDF]

Allan, L. G., & Siegel, S. (2002). A signal detection analysis of the placebo effect. Evaluation & the Health Professions, 25, 410-420. [PDF]

Allan, L. G., Balsam, P., Church, R. M., & Terrace, H. (2002). John Gibbon: Obituary. American Psychologist, 57, 436-437.

Allan, L. G., Church, R. M. (2002). Introduction. Learning and Motivation: Special Issue to honour the work of John Gibbon, 33, 9. [PDF1  PDF2]

Allan, L. G. (2001). Time perception models. In N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Eds.), International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences (pp. 15696-15699). Pergamon, Oxford.

Allan, L. G., & Gerhardt, K. (2001). Temporal bisection with trial referents. Perception & Psychophysics, 63, 524-540. [PDF]

Allan, L. G. (2000). [Review of Time and the Dynamic Control of Behavior], American Journal of Psychology, 113, 455-458.

Allan, L. G. (2000). Time Perception. In A. E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychology. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Allan, L. G. (1998). The influence of Scalar Timing on human timing. Behavioural Processes, 44, 101-117.

Penney, T. B., Allan, L. G., Meck, W. H., & Gibbon, J. (1998). Memory mixing in duration bisection. In D. A. Rosenbaum & C. E. Collyer (Eds.), Timing of behavior: Neural, psychological, and computational perspectives (pp. 165 - 193). Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

Siegel, S., & Allan, L. G. (1998). Learning and Homeostasis: Drug addiction and the McCollough effect. Psychological Bulletin, 124, 230-239.[PDF]

Allan, L. G. & Siegel, S. (1997). Contingent color aftereffects: Reassessing old conclusions. Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 129-141.

Allan, L. G. & Siegel, S. (1997). Assessing a new analysis of the McCollough effect. Cognition, 64, 207-222.

Allan, L. G., Siegel, S., Eissenberg, T., & Thomas S. E. (1997). More on the associative interpretation of the indirect McCollough effect. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 50B, 332-349.

Allan, L. G., Siegel, S., Kulatunga-Moruzi, C., Eissenberg, T., & Chapman, C. A. (1997). Isoluminance and contingent color aftereffects. Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 1327-1334.

Siegel, S., & Allan, L. G. (1996). The widespread influence of the Rescorla-Wagner model. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 3, 314-321.[PDF]

Eissenberg, T., Allan, L. G., Siegel, S, & Petrov, N. (1995). An associative interpretation of the indirect McCollough effect. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 48B, 262-286.

Allan, L. G., & Gibbon, J. (1994). A new temporal illusion or the TOE once again? Perception & Psychophysics, 55, 227-229.

Siegel, S., Allan, L. G., & Eissenberg, T. (1994). Scanning and form-contingent color aftereffects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 123, 91-94.

Allan, L. G. (1993). Human Contingency Judgments: Rule-Based or Associative? Psychological Bulletin, 114, 435-448. [PDF]

Allan, L. G. & Siegel, S. (1993). McCollough effects as conditioned responses. Reply to Dodwell and Humphrey. Psychological Review, 100, 342-346.

Allan, L. G. (1992). [Review of Cognitive models of psychological time], American Journal of Psychology, 141-145.

Allan, L. G. (1992). News on the internal clock. International Journal of Psychology, 27, 21 (abstract).

Allan, L. G. (1992). The internal clock revisited. In F. Macar, V. Pouthas, & W. Friedman (Eds.), Time, cognition, and action (pp. 191-202). Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Allan, L. G., & Siegel, S., & Linders, L. M. (1992). Cue-contingent adaptation to color. Learning and Motivation, 23, 288-305.

Siegel, S., & Allan, L. G. (1992). Pairings in learning and perception: Pavlovian conditioning and contingent aftereffects. In D. Medin (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation, Vol. 28 (pp. 127-160). San Diego CA: Academic Press.

Siegel, S., Allan, L. G., & Eissenberg, T. (1992). The associative basis of contingent color aftereffects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 121, 79-94.

Allan, L. G. & Gibbon, J. (1991). Human bisection at the geometric mean. Learning & Motivation, 22, 39-58.[PDF]

Allan, L. G. & Siegel, S. (1991). Characteristics of the indirect McCollough effect. Perception & Psychophysics, 50, 249-257.

Allan, L. G., Siegel, S., Toppan, P., & Lockhead, G. R. (1991). Assessment of the McCollough effect by a shift in psychometric function. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 29, 21-24.

Siegel, S., Allan, L. G., Roberts, L., & Eissenberg, T. (1990). Spatial contingency and the McCollough effect. Perception & Psychophysics, 48, 307-312.

Allan, L. G., Siegel, S., Collins, J. C., & MacQueen, G. M. (1989). Color aftereffect contingent on text. Perception & Psychophysics, 46, 105-113.

Jacoby, L. L., Allan, L. G., Collins, J. C., & Larwill, L. K. (1988). Memory influences subjective experience: Noise judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 14, 240-247.

Goddard, M., & Allan, L. G. (1988). A critique of Alloy and Tabachnik's theoretical framework for understanding covariation assessment. Psychological Review, 95, 296-298.

Allan, L. G., & Tirimacco, N. (1987). An orientation-contingent achromatic aftereffect. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 25, 54-55.

Siegel, S., & Allan, L. G. (1987). Orientation-contingent color aftereffect: Contingency between orientation and chromatic stimuli. Perception & Psychophysics, 42, 281-285.

Gibbon, J. & Allan, L. G. (1987). Making Time. The Sciences, 2, 16.

Allan, L. G., & Siegel, S. (1986). McCollough effects as conditioned responses: Reply to Skowbo. Psychological Bulletin, 100, 388-393.

Siegel, S., & Allan, L. G. (1985). Overshadowing and blocking of the orientation-contingent color aftereffect: Evidence for a conditioning mechanism. Learning and Motivation, 16, 125-138.

Witherspoon, D., & Allan, L. G. (1985). Time judgments and the repetition effect in perceptual identification. Memory & Cognition, 13, 101-111.

Allan, L. G. (1984). Contingent aftereffects in duration judgments. In J. Gibbon & L. G. Allan (Eds.), Timing and Time Perception. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Gibbon, J., & Allan, L. G. (1984). (Eds.), Timing and Time Perception. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Allan, L. G. (1983). Magnitude estimation of temporal intervals. Perception & Psychophysics, 33, 29-42.

Allan, L. G., Darling, A. L., Hughes, R. C., & Rosenfeld, J. M. (1983). An examination of performance of first year students at an Ontario university: An admission perspective. The Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 13, 37-54.

Allan, L. G., & Jenkins, H. M. (1983). The effect of representations of binary variables on judgment of influence. Learning and Motivation, 14, 381-405.

Allan, L. G., & Hayman, C. A. G. (1982). Orientation-contingent color aftereffects: Retinal specificity. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 19, 27-30.

Kristofferson, A. B., Allan, L. G., & Campbell, F. A. (1981). On the detection of stepwise changes in a constant signal level. Perception & Psychophysics, 30, 362-371.

Allan, L. G. (1980). A note on measurement of contingency between two binary variables in judgment tasks. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 15, 147-149. [PDF]

Allan, L. G., & Jenkins, H. M. (1980). The judgment of contingency and the nature of the response alternatives. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 34, 1-11.

Hayman, C. A. G., & Allan, L. G. (1980). A reevaluation of angle-contingent color aftereffects. Perception & Psychophysics, 28, 61-67.

Allan, L. G. (1979). The perception of time. Perception & Psychophysics, 26, 340-354.

Allan, L. G. (1978). Comments on current ratio-setting models for time perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 24, 444-450.

Allan, L. G. (1978). The attention-switching model: implications for research in schizophrenia. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 14, 195-203.

Allan, L. G. (1978). The attention-switching model: Implications for research in schizophrenia. In L. C., Wynne, R. L., Cromwell, & S. Matthysse, (Eds.), The nature of schizophrenia: New approaches to research and treatment. Wiley.

Allan, L. G. (1977). The time-order error in judgments of duration. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 31, 24-31.

Allan, L. G., & Rousseau, R. (1977). Backward masking in judgments of duration. Perception & Psychophysics, 21, 482-486.

Allan, L. G. (1976). Is there a constant minimum perceptual duration? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 28, 71-76.

Allan, L. G. (1975). Second guesses and the attention-switching model for successiveness discrimination. Perception & Psychophysics, 17, 65-68.

Allan, L. G. (1975). Temporal order psychometric functions based on confidence -rating data. Perception & Psychophysics, 18, 369-372.

Allan, L. G. (1975). The relationship between judgments of successiveness and judgments of order. Perception & Psychophysics, 18, 29-36.

Allan, L. G., & Kristofferson, A. B. (1974). Judgments about the duration of brief stimuli. Perception & Psychophysics, 15, 434-440.

Allan, L. G., & Kristofferson, A. B. (1974). Psychophysical theories of duration discrimination. Perception & Psychophysics, 16, 26-34.

Allan, L. G., & Kristofferson, A. B. (1974). Successiveness discrimination: two models. Perception & Psychophysics, 15, 37-46.

Allan, L. G., Kristofferson, A. B., & Rice, M. E. (1974). Some aspects of perceptual coding of duration in visual duration discrimination. Perception & Psychophysics, 15, 83-88.

Kristofferson, A. B., & Allan, L. G. (1973). Successiveness and duration discrimination. In S. Kornblum, (Ed.), Attention and Performance IV, Academic Press.

Allan, L. G., Kristofferson, A. B., & Wiens, E. W. (1971). Duration discrimination of brief light flashes. Perception & Psychophysics, 9, 327-334.

Kinchla, R. A., & Allan, L. G. (1970). Visual movement perception: A comparison of sensitivity to vertical and horizontal movement. Perception & Psychophysics, 8, 339-405.

Kinchla, R. A., & Allan, L. G. (1969). A theory of visual movement perception. Psychological Review, 76, 537-558.

Allan, L. G. (1968). Visual position discrimination: A model relating temporal and spatial factors. Perception & Psychophysics, 4, 267-278.

Proceedings
Allan, L. G., Hannah, S. D., & Siegel. S. (2009). Signal detection, aging, and contingency assessment. In Elliott, M. A., Antonijevic, S., Berthaud, S., Mulcahy, P., Martyn, C., Bargery, B., & Schmidt, H. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Galway, Ireland.

Allan, L. G., Hannah, S. D., Crump, M. J. C., & Siegel, S. (2008). More on the psychophysics of contingency assessment. In Schneider, B. A., Ben-David, B. M., Parker, S., & Wong, W. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Toronto, Canada: The International Society for Psychophysics.

Allan, L. G., Hannah, S. D., Crump, M. J. C., & Siegel, S. (2006). Psychophysics of causality: Detecting contingencies is like detecting signals (pp. 57-68).  In D. E. Kornbrot, R. M. Msetfi, & A. W. MacRae (Eds.),  Proceedings of the 22nd annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. St Albans, England.

Allan, L. G., & Siegel, S. (2002). The placebo effect as an error. In Jose A. Da Silva, Elton H. Matsushima, & Nilton P. Ribeiro-Filho (Eds.), Proceedings of the eighteenth annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Editora Legis Summa Ltda.

Allan, L. G., Molino, T. A., & Siegel. S. (2000). Is there interocular transfer of the Achromatic McCollough Effect?. In C. Bonnet (Ed.), Fechner Day 2000: Proceedings of the sixteenth annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. Strasbourg, France: Amalgame Impression.

Allan, L. G. (1999). Understanding the bisection psychometric function. In W. Uttal and P. Killeen (Eds.), Fechner Day 99: Proceedings of the fifteenth annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona State University.

Allan, L. G. (1998). The influence of Scalar Timing on human timing research. In S. Grondin & Yves Lacoutre (Eds.), Fechner Day 98: Proceedings of the fourteenth annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. Quebec City, Canada: Universite Lavel.

Allan, L. G., Siegel, S., Thomas, J. A., & Goodison, T. (1997). An attempt to obtain an inter-sensory contingent color aftereffect. In A. Preis & Tomasz Hornowski (Eds.), Fechner Day 97: Proceedings of the thirteenth annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. Poznan Poland: Wydawnictwo Poznanskie.

Allan, L. G. (1996). More on contingent duration aftereffects. In S. C. Masin (Ed.), Proceedings of the twelfth annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. Padua Italy: University of Padua.

Allan, L. G. (1995). Psychological time: Continuous or discrete? In C.-A. Possamai (Ed.), Proceedings of the eleventh annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. Cassis, France (pp. 133-138).

Allan, L. G. (1994). Overview: Past, present, and future. Proceedings of the tenth annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. University of British Columbia.

Eissenberg, T., Allan, L. G., & Siegel, S. (1992). How indirect is the indirect McCollough effect? In G. Borg & G. Neely (Eds.), Proceedings of the eighth annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics (Supplement), 249-254. Stockholm University.

Allan, L. G., & Siegel, S., & Linders, L. M. (1991). Contingent adaptation to color. In G. R. Lockhead (Ed.), Proceedings of the seventh annual meeting of the international society for psychophysics. Duke University.