After obtaining his Master's at the University of
Nijmegen, Jeroen Raaijmakers spent a year at Indiana University
on a fellowship from the Netherlands Organization of Scientific
Research with Richard M. Shiffrin. During that time, the SAM
model was developed which formed the basis for his Doctoral
Dissertation (cum laude) at the University of Nijmegen in 1979.
Until 1985 he worked as an associate professor at the
University of Nijmegen. In 1985 he moved to the TNO Institute
for Perception (now called TNO Human Factors) at Soesterberg,
first as a senior research associate and later as the head of
the Cognitive Psychology Group. In 1992 he came to the
University of Amsterdam as (full) Professor in Cognitive
Psychology. One of the activities there was the creation of a
new interuniversity Graduate Program in Experimental Psychology
of which he became the firstdirector. From 1998-2000 he has
also been the Director of Research for the Department of
Psychology. From 2006-2010, he has been the Director of the
Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam (CSCA).
He has published widely on mathematical modeling of human
memory as well as a number of other topics. In 1986 he received
the Heymans award, the early career award from the Netherlands
Institute for Psychologists. Raaijmakers has served as editor
and managing editor for Acta Psychologica, Consulting Editor
for JEP: LMC, the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,
was Member of the Advisory Council of the International
Association for The Study of Attention and Performance, Member
of the board of the Netherlands Association for Psychonomics,
and Member of the Fachbeirat (Advisory Board) of the Max Planck
Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen.
Research interests focus on the human memory, especially the
development of formal models for retrieval from long-term
memory. Most of this work has been performed in collaboration
with Richard Shiffrin from Indiana University. The initial work
focused on explicit retrieval from episodic memory but in more
recent work we have extended our approach to semantic and
implicit memory paradigms. Experimental research focused on a
number of more specific issues, including part-list cuing, bias
effects in perceptual identification and the formation of new
semantic associations.
In addition, I have an interest in a number of statistical
issues, e.g. parameter estimation methods, linear and
structural relationships, and the language-as-fixed-effect
controversy. More applied work focuses on decision making and
the early detection of dementia.
For a more detailed description (as wellas references) I refer
to my personal homepages (see the link below).
Raaijmakers, J.G.W. & Jakab, E. (2013). Rethinking inhibition theory: On the problematic status of the inhibition theory for forgetting. Journal of Memory and Language, 68, 98-122.
Raaijmakers, J.G.W. & Jakab, E. (2012). Retrieval induced forgetting without competition: Testing the retrieval-specificity assumption of the inhibition theory. Memory & Cognition, 40, 19-27.
Jakab, E., & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2009). The role of item strength in retrieval-induced forgetting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition , 35 , 607-617.
Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2008). Mathematical models of human memory. In H. L. Roediger, III (Ed.), Cognitive Psychology of Memory. Vol. 2 of Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, 4 vols. (J.Byrne Editor) , pp. 445-466. Oxford: Elsevier.
Wagenmakers, E.J.M., & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2006). Long-term priming of neighbors biases the word recognition process: Evidence from a lexical decision task. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology , 60 , 275-284.
Spaan, P.E.J., Raaijmakers, J.G.W., & Jonker, C. (2005). Early assessment of dementia: The contribution of different memory components. Neuropsychology , 19 , 629-640.
Wagenmakers, E.J.M., Steyvers, M., Raaijmakers, J.G.W., Shiffrin, R.M., Van Rijn, H., & Zeelenberg, R. (2004). A model for evidence accumulation in the lexical decision task. Cognitive Psychology , 48 , 332-367.
Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2003). Spacing and repetition effects in human memory: Application of the SAM model. Cognitive Science , 27 , 431-452.
Zeelenberg, R., Wagenmakers, E.J.M. & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2002). Priming in implicit memory tasks: Prior study causes enhanced discriminability, not only bias. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General , 131 , 38-47.
Raaijmakers, J.G.W. & Shiffrin, R.M. (2002). Models of memory. In H. Pashler & D. Medin (Eds.), Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology, Third Edition, Volume 2: Memory and Cognitive Processes . New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Pp. 43-76.
Schooler, L.J., Shiffrin, R.M., & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2001). A Bayesian model for implicit effects in perceptual identification. Psychological Review , 108 , 257-272.
Raaijmakers, J.G.W., Schrijnemakers, J.M.C. & Gremmen, F. (1999). How to deal with "The language-as-fixed-effect fallacy": Common misconceptions and alternative solutions. Journal of Memory and Language , 41 , 416-426.
Raaijmakers, J.G.W. & Shiffrin, R.M. (1992). Models for recall and recognition. Annual Review of Psychology , 43 , 205-234.
Mensink, G.J.M. & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (1988). A model for interference and forgetting. Psychological Review , 95 , 434-455.
Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (1987). Statistical analysis of the Michaelis-Menten equation. Biometrics , 43 , 793-803.
Raaijmakers, J.G.W. & J.P.M. Pieters (1987). Measurement error and ANCOVA: Functional and structural relationship approaches. Psychometrika , 52 , 521-538.
Raaijmakers, J.G.W. & Shiffrin, R.M. (1981). Search of associative memory. Psychological Review , 88 , 93-134.
Raaijmakers, J.G.W. & Shiffrin, R.M. (1980). SAM: A theory of probabilistic search in associative memory. In G.H. Bower (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation: Advances in research and theory. Vol. 14 (Pp. 207-262). New York: Academic Press.
For downloadable PDF-files of most of these publications,
see my personal web pages (click link below).
I have included a few hard-to-obtain papers on a separate page
(click the PDFs tab above).
Raaijmakers, J.G.W. & Shiffrin, R.M. (1980). SAM: A theory of probabilistic search in associative memory. In G.H. Bower (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation: Advances in research and theory. Vol. 14 (Pp. 207-262). New York: Academic Press.
Raaijmakers, J.G.W. & Shiffrin, R.M. (1981). Search of associative memory. Psychological Review, 88, 93-134.
Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (1982). A note on the measurement of primary memory capacity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 8, 343-352.
Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (1987). A formal model for associative memory. In E. Roskam & R. Suck (Eds.), Progress in mathematical psychology - I (Pp. 85-116). Amsterdam: North-Holland.
Raaijmakers, J.G.W. & J.P.M. Pieters (1987). Measurement error and ANCOVA: Functional and structural relationship approaches. Psychometrika, 52, 521-538.
Mensink, G.J.M. & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (1988). A model for interference and forgetting. Psychological Review, 95, 434-455.
Mensink, G.J.M. & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (1989). A model for contextual fluctuation. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 33, 172-186.
Shiffrin, R.M. & Raaijmakers, J. (1992). The SAM retrieval model: A retrospective and prospective. In A.F. Healy, S.M. Kosslyn & R.M. Shiffrin (Eds.), From learning processes to cognitive processes: Essays in honor of William K. Estes, Volume 2. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum. Pp. 69-86.
Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (1993). The story of the two-store model: Past criticisms, current status, and future directions. In Meyer, D.E. & Kornblum, S. (Eds.), Attention and Performance XIV: Synergies in Experimental Psychology, Artifical Intelligence, and Cognitive Neuroscience . Cambridge, M.A.: MIT Press. (Pp. 467-488).
Raaijmakers, J.G.W & Phaf, R.H. (1999). Part-list cuing revisited: Testing the sampling-bias hypothesis. In C. Izawa (Ed.), On memory: Evolution, progress and reflection on the 30th anniversary of the Atkinson-Shiffrin model. (Pp 87-104). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Raaijmakers, J.G.W. & Shiffrin, R.M. (2002). Models of memory. In H. Pashler & D. Medin (Eds.), Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology, Third Edition, Volume 2: Memory and Cognitive Processes. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Pp. 43-76.
Wagenmakers, E.J.M., Zeelenberg, R., Huber, D., Raaijmakers, J.G.W., Shiffrin, R.M., & Schooler, L.J. (2003). REMI and ROUSE: Quantitative models for long-term and short-term priming in perceptual identification. In J.S. Bowers and C.S. Marsolek (Eds.), Rethinking implicit memory. (Pp. 105-123). Oxford University Press.
Zeelenberg, R. Pecher, D., & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2003). Associative repetition priming: A selective review and theoretical implications. In J.S. Bowers and C.S. Marsolek (Eds.), Rethinking implicit memory. (Pp. 261-283). Oxford University Press.