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Ms Jessica Lee

Ms Jessica Lee

Adjunct Lecturer
Science
School of Psychology

I am currently working as an ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Psychology. My research seeks to understand how we learn and generalise simple associations in our environment. I am particularly interested in the interaction between low-level associative processes and higher-order reasoning processes. 

For more information and an up-to-date list of publications, please see my personal website: https://jessicaleephd.wordpress.com/
E-mail
jessica.lee@unsw.edu.au
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Chan YY; Lee JC; Fam JP; Westbrook RF; Holmes NM, 2024, 'The Role of Uncertainty in Regulating Associative Change', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 50, pp. 77 - 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000375
    Journal articles | 2024
    Kennedy NGW; Lee JC; Killcross S; Westbrook RF; Holmes NM, 2024, 'Prediction error determines how memories are organized in the brain', eLife, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.95849.3
    Journal articles | 2024
    Lee JC; Greenaway JK; Don HJ; Livesey EJ, 2024, 'What Makes a Stimulus Worthy of Attention: Cue–Outcome Correlation and Choice Relevance in the Learned Predictiveness Effect', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 50, pp. 1875 - 1891, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001365
    Journal articles | 2024
    Ng DW; Lee JC; Lovibond PF, 2024, 'Unidirectional rating scales overestimate the illusory causation phenomenon', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77, pp. 551 - 562, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17470218231175003
    Journal articles | 2023
    Chow JYL; Lee JC; Lovibond PF, 2023, 'Inhibitory Learning with Bidirectional Outcomes: Prevention Learning or Causal Learning in the Opposite Direction?', Journal of Cognition, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/joc.266
    Journal articles | 2023
    Chow JYL; Lee JC; Lovibond PF, 2023, 'Using Unobserved Causes to Explain Unexpected Outcomes: The Effect of Existing Causal Knowledge on Protection From Extinction by a Hidden Cause', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 50, pp. 1167 - 1185, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001306
    Journal articles | 2023
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Lee JC; Liew SX; Weidemann G; Lovibond PF; McNally GP, 2023, 'A cognitive pathway to punishment insensitivity', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120, pp. e2221634120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2221634120
    Journal articles | 2023
    Lovibond PF; Chow JYL; Lee JC, 2023, 'Retardation of Acquisition After Conditioned Inhibition and Latent Inhibition Training in Human Causal Learning', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 49, pp. 75 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000351
    Journal articles | 2023
    Mills L; Lee JC; Boakes R; Colagiuri B, 2023, 'Reduction in caffeine withdrawal after open-label decaffeinated coffee', Journal of Psychopharmacology, 37, pp. 181 - 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02698811221147152
    Journal articles | 2023
    Wong AHK; Lee JC; Engelke P; Pittig A, 2023, 'Reduction of costly safety behaviors after extinction with a generalization stimulus is determined by individual differences in generalization rules', Behaviour Research and Therapy, 160, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2022.104233
    Journal articles | 2022
    Chow JYL; Lee JC; Lovibond PF, 2022, 'Inhibitory Summation as a Form of Generalization', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48, pp. 86 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000320
    Journal articles | 2022
    Lee JC; Pelley MEL; Lovibond PF, 2022, 'Nonreactive Testing: Evaluating the Effect of Withholding Feedback in Predictive Learning', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48, pp. 17 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000311
    Journal articles | 2022
    Lovibond PF; Chow JYL; Tobler C; Lee JC, 2022, 'Reversal of Inhibition by No-Modulation Training but Not by Extinction in Human Causal Learning', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48, pp. 336 - 348, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000328
    Journal articles | 2022
    Ng DW; Lee JC; Hayes BK; Lovibond PF, 2022, 'Generalization following symmetrical intradimensional discrimination training', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48, pp. 179 - 189, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000327
    Journal articles | 2022
    Zaman J; Yu K; Lee JC, 2022, 'Individual Differences in Stimulus Identification, Rule Induction, and Generalization of Learning', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 49, pp. 1004 - 1017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001153
    Journal articles | 2021
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Lee J; Liew SX; Weidemann G; Lovibond P; McNally G, 2021, 'Punishment insensitivity in humans is due to failures in instrumental contingency learning', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.23.441174
    Journal articles | 2021
    Jean-Richard-dit-bressel P; Lee JC; Liew SX; Weidemann G; Lovibond PF; McNally GP, 2021, 'Punishment insensitivity in humans is due to failures in instrumental contingency learning', eLife, 10, pp. e69594, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.69594
    Journal articles | 2021
    Lee JC; Lovibond PF, 2021, 'Individual differences in causal structures inferred during feature negative learning', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74, pp. 150 - 165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747021820959286
    Journal articles | 2021
    Lee JC; Mills L; Hayes BK; Livesey EJ, 2021, 'Modelling generalisation gradients as augmented Gaussian functions', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74, pp. 106 - 121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747021820949470
    Journal articles | 2021
    Lee JC, 2021, 'Second-Order Conditioning in Humans', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.672628
    Journal articles | 2021
    Lovibond PF; Lee JC, 2021, 'Inhibitory causal structures in serial and simultaneous feature negative learning', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74, pp. 2165 - 2181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17470218211022252
    Journal articles | 2021
    Zenses AK; Lee JC; Plaisance V; Zaman J, 2021, 'Differences in perceptual memory determine generalization patterns', Behaviour Research and Therapy, 136, pp. 103777, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2020.103777
    Journal articles | 2020
    Lovibond PF; Lee JC; Hayes BK, 2020, 'Stimulus Discriminability and Induction as Independent Components of Generalization', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 46, pp. 1106 - 1120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000779
    Journal articles | 2019
    Fam J; Lee JC, 2019, 'Peer mentoring: A move towards addressing inequality between PhDstudents', Neuroanatomy and Behaviour, 1, pp. e8 - e8, http://dx.doi.org/10.35430/nab.2019.e8
    Journal articles | 2019
    Lee JC; Lovibond PF; Hayes BK; Navarro DJ, 2019, 'Negative evidence and inductive reasoning in generalization of associative learning', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148, pp. 289 - 303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000496
    Journal articles | 2019
    Lee JC; Lovibond PF; Hayes BK, 2019, 'Evidential diversity increases generalisation in predictive learning', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, pp. 2647 - 2657, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747021819857065
    Journal articles | 2018
    Lee JC; Hayes BK; Lovibond PF, 2018, 'Peak shift and rules in human generalization', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 44, pp. 1955 - 1970, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000558
    Journal articles | 2018
    Lee JC; Livesey EJ, 2018, 'Rule-based generalization and peak shift in the presence of simple relational rules', PLoS ONE, 13, pp. e0203805, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203805
    Journal articles | 2017
    Lee JC; Livesey EJ, 2017, 'The effect of encoding conditions on learning in the prototype distortion task', Learning and Behavior, 45, pp. 164 - 183, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-016-0252-z
    Journal articles | 2016
    Bezzina L; Lee JC; Lovibond PF; Colagiuri B, 2016, 'Extinction and renewal of cue-elicited reward-seeking', Behaviour Research and Therapy, 87, pp. 162 - 169, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2016.09.009
    Journal articles | 2016
    Lee JC; Beesley T; Livesey EJ, 2016, 'Sequential effects and sequence learning in a three-choice serial reaction time task', Acta Psychologica, 170, pp. 168 - 176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.08.004
    Journal articles | 2013
    Weidemann G; Best E; Lee JC; Lovibond PF, 2013, 'The role of contingency awareness in single-cue human eyeblink conditioning', Learning and Memory, 20, pp. 363 - 366, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.029975.112
    Journal articles | 2012
    Lee JC; Livesey EJ, 2012, 'Second-Order Conditioning and Conditioned Inhibition: Influences of Speed versus Accuracy on Human Causal Learning', PLoS ONE, 7, pp. e49899, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049899
  • Preprints | 2025
    Lee JC; Chow J; Lovibond P, 2025, Occasion setting in humans: Norm or exception?, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wxhrk
    Preprints | 2024
    Kennedy N; Lee J; Killcross S; Westbrook F; Holmes N, 2024, Prediction error determines how memories are organized in the brain: a study of Pavlovian fear extinction in rats, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.16.575867
    Preprints | 2024
    Kennedy NGW; Lee JC; Killcross S; Westbrook RF; Holmes NM, 2024, Prediction error determines how memories are organized in the brain, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.95849
    Preprints | 2023
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Lee J; Liew SX; Weidemann G; Lovibond P; McNally G, 2023, A cognitive pathway to punishment insensitivity, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qw534
    Preprints | 2023
    Lee JC; Schlegelmilch R, 2023, The role of perception in generalization: Commentary on Zaman, Yu, & Verheyen (2023), http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wmvyn
    Preprints | 2023
    Schlegelmilch R; Wills A; Lee JC, 2023, Is generalization general? A comparison of predictive and category learning and the influence of response format and framing, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/eakwz
    Preprints | 2021
    Lee JC; Le Pelley M; Lovibond P, 2021, Nonreactive testing: Evaluating the effect of withholding feedback in predictive learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4myz3
    Preprints | 2020
    Zaman J; Lee JC, 2020, To perceive or not to perceive? Individual differences in perception predict rule induction and response generalization, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/89ncb
    Preprints | 2020
    Zenses A-K; Lee JC; Zaman J, 2020, Differences in perceptual memory influence generalization patterns, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tc8f5
    Preprints | 2019
    Lee JC; Lovibond P; Hayes B; Navarro D, 2019, Negative evidence and inductive reasoning in generalization of associative learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/umven

  • Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. From known to unknown: Individual differences in associative generalisation. (DE210100292, AUD$380868)

  • 2022 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Star
  • 2020 Dean's Staff Excellence Award (in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion)