LEE AVERELL
| Position |
Associate Lecturer PhD Candidate |
| Faculty / Division | Faculty of Science and Information Technology School of Psychology |
| Telephone | +61 2 4921 6959 |
| lee.averell@newcastle.edu.au | |
| Location | Aviation Building Room AVG23 Callaghan |
| Research Interests | Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling
The functional form of the forgetting curve Model section in random effects models Choice RT modelling Recognition Memory Confidence choice RT relationship |
| Teaching Interests |
Advanced Statistics and Research Methodology Cognitive modelling Cognition Language and Memory |
| Research Groups | - The Newcastle Cognition Lab - Human Experimental and Applied Dynamics (HEAD) Research Group |
Publications
Journal Articles
Under Review
Richards, J.A., Johnson, M., Rutherford, A., Averell, L., Beehag, N. (2012) Investigating the Effect of Graphic Smoking Related Health Imagery on Health
Knowledge, Anxiety and Perceived Threat British Journal of Health Psychology 
Averell, L., Prince, M., Heathcote, A. (2013) Fundamental causes of variability in recognition memory. Journal of Memory and Language
In Print
2013
Sominsky, L., Fuller, E., Bondarenko, E., Ong, L., Averell, L., Nalivaiko, E., Dunkley, P., Dickson, P., Hodgson, D. (2013) Functional Programming of the Autonomic Nervous System by Early Life Immune Exposure: Implications for Anxiety. PloS one 8 (3), e57700
2011
Averell, L., Heathcote, A. (2011) The form of the forgetting curve and the fate of memories. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 55, 23-35.
2009
Donkin, C., Averell, L., Brown, S.D., & Heathcote, A. (2009) Getting more from accuracy and response time data: Methods for fitting the Linear Ballistic Accumulator model. Behavior Research Methods, 41, 1095-1110 
Conference Publications
Averell, L., Heathcote, A. (2009) Long term implicit and explicit memory for briefly studied words. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. ISBN 978-0-9768318-5-3
Averell, L., Heathcote, A. (2010) Posterior distribution analysis of the retention of briefly studied words. In W.Christensen, E. Schier, and J. Sutton (Eds.), ASCS09: Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (pp. 5-11). Sydney: Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science. DOI: 10.5096/ASCS20092
http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/news/conferences/2009/ASCS2009/html/averell.html