Jim Grange

Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology

Keele University

Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology at Keele University, UK, where I am also currently serving as Head of School. I joined Keele in 2010 after completing my PhD at Bangor University under the supervision of Dr George Houghton.

The mission of my lab’s work is to conduct fundamental research to understand cognitive control processes, and to then use this knowledge to tackle applied and clinical questions.

Interests

Cognitive Control Processes
Cognition in Clinical & Ageing Populations
Computational Modelling
Scientific Reproducibility

Education

PhD in Cognitive Psychology, 2010

Bangor University, UK
MSc in Psychological Research, 2007

Bangor University, UK
BSc in Psychology, 2006

Bangor University, UK

Current Projects

Click on my research interests to see the current projects my lab is working on

Cognitive Control Processes

How do we control out attention to external stimuli and internal goals?

Computational Cognitive Models

Applying theoretical models to understand cognition in basic & applied settings

Cognition in Clinical & Ageing Populations

Using our understanding of healthy cognition to probe cognition in clinical & ageing populations

Scientific Reproducibility & Replication

How reproducible are scientific findings? How can we improve reproducibility?

Publications

Grange, J.A., Kedra, P., & Walker, A. (2018). The effect of practice on inhibition in task switching: Controlling for episodic retrieval. Acta Psychologica, in press.

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Grange, J.A. (2018). Does task activation in task switching influence inhibition or episodic interference?. Experimental Psychology, in press.

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Schuch, S., & Grange, J.A (2018). Increased cognitive control after task conflict? Investigating the n–3 effect in task switching. Psychological Research, in press.

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Grange, J.A., & Becker, R (2018). The effect of aging on response congruency in task switching: A meta-analysis.. Journals of Gerentology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences, in press.

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Martini, A., Dal Lago, D., Edelstyn, N.M.J., Grange, J.A., & Tamburin, S. (2018). Impulse control disorder in Parkinson’s disease: A meta-analysis of cognitive, affective, and motivational correlates. Frontiers in Neurology, 9: 654.

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Lakens, D., Adolfi, C., …Grange, J.A.…, & Zwaan, R (2018). Justify your alpha. Nature Human Behavior, 2, 168–171.

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Martini, A., Ellis, S.J., Grange, J.A., Tamburin, S., Dal Lago, D., Vianello, G., & Edelstyn, N.M.J (2018). Risky decision-making and affective features of impulse control disorder in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Neural Transmission, 125, 131–143.

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Kowalczyk, A.W., & Grange, J.A (2017). Inhibition in task switching: The reliability of the n−2 repetition cost. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 2419–2433.

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Grange, J.A., Kowalczyk, A.W., & O’Loughlin, R (2017). The effect of episodic retrieval on inhibition in task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 43, 1568–1583.

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Stephens, R., Holloway, K., Grange, J.A., Jones, K., & Owen, L (2017). Does familial risk for alcohol use disorder predict alcohol hangover?. Psychopharmacology, 234, 1795–1802.

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Edelstyn, N.M.J., Grange, J.A., Ellis, S.J, & Mayes, A.M (2016). A deficit in familiarity-driven recognition in a right-sided mediodorsal thalamic lesion patient. Neuropsychology, 30, 213–224.

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Grange, J.A (2016). Temporal distinctiveness in task switching: Assessing the mixture-distribution assumption.. Frontiers in Cognition, 7, 251.

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Grange, J.A (2016). flankr: An R package implementing computational models of attentional selectivity. Behavior Research Methods, 48, 528–541.

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Anderson, C.J., Bahnik, S., …Grange, J.A.…, & Zuni, K (2016). Response to a comment on 'Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science'. Science, 351, 1037.

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Grange, J.A., Stephens, R., Jones, K., & Owen, L (2016). The effect of alcohol hangover on choice response time. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 30, 654–661.

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Grange, J.A (2016). Time for insulting reviews to stop. The Psychologist, 29, 158.

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Open Science Collaboration (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349, 943.

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Schuch, S., & Grange, J.A (2015). The effect of n–3 on n–2 repetition costs in task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 41, 760–767..

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Grange, J.A., & Juvina, I (2015). The effect of practice on n–2 repetition costs in set switching. Acta Psychologica, 154, 14–25..

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Grange, J.A., & Cross, E (2015). Can time-based decay explain temporal distinctiveness effects in task switching?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, 19–45..

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Grange, J.A., & Houghton, G. (Eds.) (2014). Task switching and cognitive control. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

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Grange, J.A., & Houghton, G (2014). Task switching and cognitive control: An introduction. In J.A. Grange & G. Houghton (Eds.), Task switching and cognitive control, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

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Grange, J.A., & Houghton, G (2014). Models of cognitive control in task switching. In J.A. Grange & G. Houghton (Eds.), Task switching and cognitive control, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

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Stephens, R., Grange, J.A., Jones, K., & Owen, L (2014). A critical analysis of alcohol hangover research methodology for surveys or studies of effects on cognition.. Psychopharmacology, 231, 2223–2236.

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Brandt, M.J, IJzerman, H., Dijksterhuis, A., Farach, F., Geller, J., Giner-Sorolla, R., Grange, J.A., Perugini, M., Spies, J., & van ’t Veer, A (2014). The replication recipe: What makes for a convincing replication?. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 50, 217–224..

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Grange, J.A (2013). What's all this business about Bayes?. PsyPAG Quarterly, 89, 12–13.

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Open Science Collaboration (2013). The Reproducibility Project: A model of large-scale collaboration for empirical research on reproducibility. In V. Stodden, F. Leisch, & R. Peng (Eds.), Implementing Reproducible Computational Research (A Volume in the R Series), New York, NY: Taylor & Francis..

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Grange, J.A., Juvina, I., & Houghton, G (2013). On costs and benefits of n–2 repetitions in task switching: Towards a behavioural marker of cognitive inhibition.. Psychological Research, 77, 211–222.

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Open Science Collaboration (2012). An open, large-scale, collaborative effort to estimate the reproducibility of psychological science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 657–670.

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Grange, J.A., Lody, A., & Bratt, S (2012). Cost–benefit and distributional analyses of accessory stimuli. Psychological Research, 76, 626–633.

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Houghton, G., & Grange, J.A (2011). CDF-XL: Computing cumulative distribution frequencies of reaction time data in Excel. Behavior Research Methods, 43, 1023–1032.

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Grange, J.A., & Houghton, G (2011). Task preparation and task inhibition: A comment on Koch, Gade, Schuch, & Philip (2010). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 211–216.

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Grange, J.A (2011). Control of working memory contents during task switching. In E.S.Levin (Ed.), Working Memory: Capacity, Development, & Improvement Techniques. New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers..

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Grange, J.A., & Houghton, G (2010). Heightened conflict in cue–target translation increases backward inhibition in set switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 36, 1003–1009.

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Grange, J.A., & Houghton, G (2010). Cue-switch costs in task-switching: Cue priming or control processes?. Psychological Research, 74, 481–490.

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Grange, J.A., & Houghton, G (2009). Temporal cue–target overlap is not essential for backward inhibition in task switching. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 2069–2080.

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Houghton, G., Pritchard, R., & Grange, J.A (2009). The role of cue–target translation in backward inhibition of attentional set. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 35, 466–476.

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CV

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Blog Posts

Jun 16, 2018 19 min read

Update to trimr: A response time trimming package in R

In 2015, I published my first ever R package: “trimr: An implementation of common response time trimming methods”. To date, this package has had over 5,600 downloads from CRAN, which is unbelievable! 3 years is a long time for a package, so I thought it was time to update the package, fix some bugs, and implement some additional functionality. To this end, I have spent some time over the past few days working on a new release.

Apr 28, 2018 2 min read

A new website

I have spent the past day or so transporting my acedemic website from Wordpress to the current website, which is written using the (superb!) R package ‘blogdown’. I made the change for a variety of reasons: I am now able to use R for most things—analysis, simulations, writing papers using papaja and now my website—making my workflow more efficient (and high on the nerd-scale). I could never really get my wordpress site to look sleek and professional.

Contact

j.a.grange@keele.ac.uk
+44 (0)1782 733389
School of Psychology, Dorothy Hodgkin Building, Keele University, Keele, ST5 5BG, United Kingdom
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