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W. Matthew Collins, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at NSU's College of Psychology. He is a cognitive psychologist, member of the Psychonomic Society, and co-chair of TEDxNSU. He is an ad hoc reviewer for a number of journals and currently serves as the Director of the Undergraduate Psychology major at NSU. Dr. Collins’ research interests lie in three related areas. His primary area of research is focused on understanding how language is represented in the mind. His secondary area of research examines the relationship between language development and memory, specifically, whether memory for events can depend on having the language to describe those events. Finally, in collaboration with Dr. Leanne Boucher, he examines how body position and body activity impact various cognitive processes such as attention and memory.

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W. Matthew Collins, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at NSU's College of Psychology. He is a cognitive psychologist, member of the Psychonomic Society, and co-chair of TEDxNSU. He is an ad hoc reviewer for a number of journals and currently serves as the Director of the Undergraduate Psychology major at NSU. Dr. Collins’ research interests lie in three related areas. His primary area of research is focused on understanding how language is represented in the mind. His secondary area of research examines the relationship between language development and memory, specifically, whether memory for events can depend on having the language to describe those events. Finally, in collaboration with Dr. Leanne Boucher, he examines how body position and body activity impact various cognitive processes such as attention and memory.

Articles (18)

Journal articles written or co-written by Dr. W. Matthew Collins

A Multi-Country Test of Brief Reappraisal Interventions on Emotions during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Ke Wang, Amit Goldenberg, Charles A Dorison, et al.) Nature Human Behaviour (2021)

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested ...

A Multi-Country Test of Brief Reappraisal Interventions on Emotions during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Ke Wang, Amit Goldenberg, Charles A Dorison, et al.) Nature Human Behaviour (2021)

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested ...

Working Memory Load Selectively Influences Response Inhibition in a Stop Signal Task (Leanne Boucher, Brandi L Viparina and W. Matthew Collins) Psychological Reports (2021)

Inhibitory control is a key executive function and has been studied extensively using the stop signal task. By applying a simple race model that posits an independent race between a GO process responsible for initiation ...

Working Memory Load Selectively Influences Response Inhibition in a Stop Signal Task (Leanne Boucher, Brandi L Viparina and W. Matthew Collins) Psychological Reports (2021)

Inhibitory control is a key executive function and has been studied extensively using the stop signal task. By applying a simple race model that posits an independent race between a GO process responsible for initiation ...

Working Memory Load Selectively Influences Response Inhibition in a Stop Signal Task (Leanne Boucher, Brandi L Viparina and W. Matthew Collins) Psychological Reports (2021)

Inhibitory control is a key executive function and has been studied extensively using the stop signal task. By applying a simple race model that posits an independent race between a GO process responsible for initiation ...

Many Labs 5: Registered Replication of Förster, Liberman, and Kuschel’s (2008) Study 1 (Hans Rocha Ijzerman, Ivan Ropovik, Charles Ebersole, et al.) Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (2020)

In a test of their global-/local-processing-style model, Förster, Liberman, and Kuschel (2008) found that people assimilate a primed concept (e.g., “aggressive”) into their social judgments after a global prime (e.g., they rate a person as ...

Many Labs 5: Registered Replication of Förster, Liberman, and Kuschel’s (2008) Study 1 (Hans Rocha Ijzerman, Ivan Ropovik, Charles Ebersole, et al.) Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (2020)

In a test of their global-/local-processing-style model, Förster, Liberman, and Kuschel (2008) found that people assimilate a primed concept (e.g., “aggressive”) into their social judgments after a global prime (e.g., they rate a person as ...

Many Labs 5: Registered Replication of Förster, Liberman, and Kuschel’s (2008) Study 1 (Hans Rocha Ijzerman, Ivan Ropovik, Charles Ebersole, et al.) Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (2020)

In a test of their global-/local-processing-style model, Förster, Liberman, and Kuschel (2008) found that people assimilate a primed concept (e.g., “aggressive”) into their social judgments after a global prime (e.g., they rate a person as ...

Many Labs 5: Testing Pre-Data-Collection Peer Review as an Intervention to Increase Replicability (Charles R Ebersole, Maya B Mathur, Erica Baranski, et al.) Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (2020)

Replication studies in psychological science sometimes fail to reproduce prior findings. If these studies use methods that are unfaithful to the original study or ineffective in eliciting the phenomenon of interest, then a failure to ...

Many Labs 5: Testing Pre-Data-Collection Peer Review as an Intervention to Increase Replicability (Charles R Ebersole, Maya B Mathur, Erica Baranski, et al.) Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (2020)

Replication studies in psychological science sometimes fail to reproduce prior findings. If these studies use methods that are unfaithful to the original study or ineffective in eliciting the phenomenon of interest, then a failure to ...

Many Labs 5: Testing Pre-Data-Collection Peer Review as an Intervention to Increase Replicability (Charles R Ebersole, Maya B Mathur, Erica Baranski, et al.) Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (2020)

Replication studies in psychological science sometimes fail to reproduce prior findings. If these studies use methods that are unfaithful to the original study or ineffective in eliciting the phenomenon of interest, then a failure to ...

ManyLabs 5: Registered Replication Report of Förster, Liberman and Kuschel’s (2008) Study 1 (Version 1) (Hans Ijzerman, Ivan Ropovik, Charles R Ebersole, et al.) Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (2019)

To test their Global/Local Processing Style model, Förster, Liberman, and Kuschel found that after priming a concept (such as “aggressive”), people can assimilate that concept into their social judgments after a “global” prime (e.g., rate ...

ManyLabs 5: Registered Replication Report of Förster, Liberman and Kuschel’s (2008) Study 1 (Version 1) (Hans Ijzerman, Ivan Ropovik, Charles R Ebersole, et al.) Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (2019)

To test their Global/Local Processing Style model, Förster, Liberman, and Kuschel found that after priming a concept (such as “aggressive”), people can assimilate that concept into their social judgments after a “global” prime (e.g., rate ...

ManyLabs 5: Registered Replication Report of Förster, Liberman and Kuschel’s (2008) Study 1 (Version 1) (Hans Ijzerman, Ivan Ropovik, Charles R Ebersole, et al.) Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (2019)

To test their Global/Local Processing Style model, Förster, Liberman, and Kuschel found that after priming a concept (such as “aggressive”), people can assimilate that concept into their social judgments after a “global” prime (e.g., rate ...

The Impact of Reading at Rapid Rates on Inference Generation (W. Matthew Collins and Frances Daniel) Journal of Research in Reading (2018)

Aims Speed reading is advertised as a way to increase reading speed without any loss in comprehension. However, research on speed reading has indicated that comprehension suffers as reading speed increases. We were specifically interested ...

Who Are You? The Role of Memory in Identity (W. Matthew Collins) CAHSS Intellectual Conversations (2014)

Identity is who we are—our personalities, our abilities, our thoughts, and our memories. But without memory, do you cease to exist? By examining what we know about memory and cases of amnesia, this talk will ...

Developing fluent text processing with practice: Memorial influences on fluency and comprehension (W. Matthew Collins and B. A. Levy) Canadian Psychology (2008)

A great deal of research has examined predictors related to the development of reading fluency and reading comprehension. Whilst a number of studies support the relationship between the development of reading fluency and subsequent improvements ...

Text repetition and text integration (W. Matthew Collins and B. Levy) Memory and Cognition (2007)

Two experiments explored the levels of text representation that mediate text repetition effects, following the Raney (2003) model. The magnitude of the repetition benefit in Experiment 1 supported predictions of Raney’s model, indicating that the ...

The Impact of Music and Exercise on Learning and Memory (Rebecca Briggs, W. Matthew Collins, Stephanie D Walker, et al.) Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures (2021)

Research has demonstrated the benefits of moderate aerobic exercise on cognitive function (Coles & Tomporowski, 2008; Skriver et al., 2014). One explanation for why exercise improves cognition is arousal. Davey (1973) saw exercise as a ...

A Multi-Country Test of Brief Reappraisal Interventions on Emotions during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Ke Wang, Amit Goldenberg, Charles A Dorison, et al.) Nature Human Behaviour (2021)

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested ...

A Multi-Country Test of Brief Reappraisal Interventions on Emotions during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Ke Wang, Amit Goldenberg, Charles A Dorison, et al.) Nature Human Behaviour (2021)

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested ...

Working Memory Load Selectively Influences Response Inhibition in a Stop Signal Task (Leanne Boucher, Brandi L Viparina and W. Matthew Collins) Psychological Reports (2021)

Inhibitory control is a key executive function and has been studied extensively using the stop signal task. By applying a simple race model that posits an independent race between a GO process responsible for initiation ...

Working Memory Load Selectively Influences Response Inhibition in a Stop Signal Task (Leanne Boucher, Brandi L Viparina and W. Matthew Collins) Psychological Reports (2021)

Inhibitory control is a key executive function and has been studied extensively using the stop signal task. By applying a simple race model that posits an independent race between a GO process responsible for initiation ...

Working Memory Load Selectively Influences Response Inhibition in a Stop Signal Task (Leanne Boucher, Brandi L Viparina and W. Matthew Collins) Psychological Reports (2021)

Inhibitory control is a key executive function and has been studied extensively using the stop signal task. By applying a simple race model that posits an independent race between a GO process responsible for initiation ...

The Effect of Fidgeting on Cognition (Mckinley Alden, Anastasia Giorgoudi, C Mathews, et al.) Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures (2021)