Koutstaal, W. (2012).  The Agile Mind.  New York: Oxford University Press.  [Recipient of the 2012 William James Book award from the American Psychological Association.]  (Description)   (Detailed Table of Contents)   (Chapter Overviews as pdf)   (Chapter Overviews as html)

Wen, M.-C., Butler, L. T., & Koutstaal, W. (2012/in press).  Improving insight and noninsight problem solving with brief interventions. British Journal of Psychology. (pdf)  (Abstract)

Fu, T., Koutstaal, W., Poon, L., & Cleare, A. J. (2012).  Confidence judgment in depression and dysphoria: The depressive realism vs. negativity hypotheses.  Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 43, 699-704.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Aizpurua, A., & Koutstaal, W. (2010).  Aging and flexible remembering: Contributions of conceptual span, fluid intelligence, and frontal functioning.  Psychology and Aging, 25, 193-207.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Makovski, T., Watson, L. M., Koutstaal, W., & Jiang, Y. V. (2010).  Method matters: Systematic effects of testing procedure on visual working memory sensitivity.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 1466-1479.  (Abstract)

Southwell, B. G., Gilkerson, N. D., Depue, J. B., Shelton, A. K., Friedenberg, L. M., & Koutstaal, W. (2010).  Aging and the questionable validity of recognition-based exposure measurement.  Communication Research, 37, 603-619.  (Abstract)

Denkinger, B., & Koutstaal, W. (2009).  Perceive-decide-act, perceive-decide-act:  How abstract is repetition-related decision learning?  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 742-756.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Tranter, L. J., & Koutstaal, W. (2008).  Age and flexible thinking: An experimental demonstration of the beneficial effects of increased cognitively stimulating activity on fluid intelligence in healthy older adults.  Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 15, 184-207. (pdf)  (Abstract)  

Gold, C. A., Marchant, N. L., Koutstaal, W., Schacter, D. L., & Budson, A. E. (2007).  Conceptual fluency at test shifts recognition response bias in Alzheimer's Disease: Implications for increased false recognition.  Neuropsychologia, 45, 2791-2801.  (Abstract)

Kvidera, S., & Koutstaal, W. (2008).  Confidence and decision-type under matched stimulus conditions: Overconfidence in perceptual but not conceptual decisions.  Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 21, 253-281.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W., & Cavendish, M. (2006).  Using what we know:  Consequences of intentionally retrieving gist versus item-specific information.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32, 778-791.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W. (2006).  Flexible remembering.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 84-91.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Fu, T., Koutstaal, W., Fu, C. H. Y., Poon, L., & Cleare, A. J. (2005).  Depression, confidence, and decision:  Evidence against depressive realism.  Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 27, 243-252.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Simons, J. S., Lee, A. C. H., Graham, K. S., Verfaellie, M., Koutstaal, W., Hodges, J. R., Schacter, D. L., & Budson, A. E. (2005).  Failing to get the gist:  Reduced false recognition of semantic associates in semantic dementia.  Neuropsychology, 19, 353–361.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W. (2003).  Older adults encode––but do not always use––perceptual details:  Intentional versus unintentional effects of detail on memory judgments.  Psychological Science, 14, 189-193.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W., Reddy, C., Jackson, E. M., Prince, S., Cendan, D. L., & Schacter, D. L. (2003).  False recognition of abstract versus common objects in older and younger adults:  Testing the semantic categorization account.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 499-510.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Simons, J. S., Koutstaal, W., Prince, S., Wagner, A. D., & Schacter, D. L. (2003).  Neural mechanisms of visual object priming:  Evidence for perceptual and semantic distinctions in fusiform cortex.  NeuroImage, 19, 613-626.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Wagner, A. D., & Koutstaal, W. (2002).  Priming.  In V. S. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Human Brain (Vol. 4, 27-46).  San Diego, CA:  Academic Press.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Schacter, D. L., Verfaellie, M., & Koutstaal, W. (2002).  Memory illusions in amnesic patients:  Findings and implications.  In L. R. Squire and D. L. Schacter (Eds.) Neuropsychology of Memory (3rd edition, pp. 114-129).  New York:  Guilford Press. (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W. (2001).  The edges of words.  Semiotica, 137, 57-97.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W., & Schacter, D. L. (2001).  Memory distortion and aging.  In M. Naveh-Benjamin, M. Moscovitch, and H. L. Roediger, III (Eds.), Perspectives on Human Memory and Cognitive Aging:  Essays in Honour of Fergus Craik (pp. 362-383).  Philadelphia, PA:  Psychology Press. (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W., Verfaellie, M., & Schacter, D. L. (2001).  Recognizing identical versus similar categorically related common objects:  Further evidence for degraded gist-representations in amnesia.  Neuropsychology, 15, 268-289.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W., Schacter, D. L., & Brenner, C. (2001).  Dual task demands and gist-based false recognition of pictures in younger and older adults.  Journal of Memory and Language, 44, 399-426.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W., Wagner, A. D., Rotte, M., Maril, A., Buckner, R. L., & Schacter, D. L. (2001).  Perceptual specificity in visual object priming:  Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence for a laterality difference in fusiform cortex. Neuropsychologia, 39, 184-199.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Wagner, A. D., Koutstaal, W., Maril, A., Schacter, D. L., & Buckner, R. L. (2000).  Task-specific repetition priming in left inferior prefrontal cortex.  Cerebral Cortex, 10, 1176-1184.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Dodson, C. S., Koutstaal, W., & Schacter, D. L. (2000).  Escape from illusion:  Reducing false memories.  Trends in Cognitive Science, 4, 391-397.  (Abstract)

Buckner, R. L., Koutstaal, W., Schacter, D. L., & Rosen, B. R. (2000).  Functional MRI evidence for a role of frontal and inferior temporal cortex in amodal components of priming. Brain, 123, 620-640.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Wagner, A. D., Koutstaal, W., & Schacter, D. L. (1999).  When encoding yields remembering:  Insights from event-related neuroimaging.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B, 354, 1307-1324.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W., Schacter, D. L., Galluccio, L., & Stofer, K. A. (1999).  Reducing gist-based false recognition in older adults:  Encoding and retrieval manipulations.  Psychology and Aging, 14, 220-237.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W., Schacter, D. L., Verfaellie, M., Brenner, C., & Jackson, E. M. (1999).  Perceptually based false recognition of novel objects in amnesia:  Effects of category size and similarity to category prototypes.  Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 317-341.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W., Schacter, D. L., Johnson, M. K., & Galluccio, L. (1999).  Facilitation and impairment of event memory produced by photograph review.  Memory & Cognition, 27, 478-493.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Wagner, A. D., Schacter, D. L., Rotte, M., Koutstaal, W., Maril, A., Dale, A. M., Rosen, B. R., & Buckner, R. L. (1998).  Building memories:  Remembering and forgetting of verbal experiences as predicted by brain activity.  Science, 281, 1188-1191.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Schacter, D. L., Buckner, R. L., & Koutstaal, W. (1998).  Memory, consciousness and neuroimaging. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B, 353, 1861-1878. (Abstract)

Buckner, R. L., Goodman, J., Burock, M., Rotte, M., Koutstaal, W., Schacter, D. L., Rosen, B., & Dale, A. M. (1998).  Functional-anatomic correlates of object priming in humans revealed by rapid presentation event-related fMRI.  Neuron, 20, 285-296.  (Abstract)

Buckner, R. L., Koutstaal, W., Schacter, D. L., Dale, A. M., Rotte, M., & Rosen, B. R. (1998).  Functional-anatomic study of episodic retrieval:  II.  Selective averaging of event-related fMRI trials to test the retrieval success hypothesis.  NeuroImage, 7, 163-175.  (Abstract)

Buckner, R. L., Koutstaal, W., Schacter, D. L., Wagner, A. D., & Rosen, B. R. (1998).  Functional-anatomic study of episodic retrieval using fMRI:  I.  Retrieval effort versus retrieval success.  NeuroImage, 7, 151-162.  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W., Schacter, D. L., Johnson, M. K., Angell, K. E., & Gross, M. S. (1998).  Post-event review in older and younger adults:  Improving memory accessibility of complex everyday events. Psychology and Aging, 13, 277-296.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Schacter, D. L., Norman, K. A., & Koutstaal, W. (1998).  The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memory.  Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 289-318.  Extended version reprinted in D. F. Bjorklund (Ed.), False-memory creation in children and adults:  Theory, research, and implications (2000, pp. 129-168).  Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum.  (Abstract)

Buckner, R. L., & Koutstaal, W. (1998).  Functional neuroimaging studies of encoding, priming, and explicit memory retrieval.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA, 95, 891-898.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W. (1998).  Memory for picture frames.  Empirical Studies of the Arts, 16, 47-57.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Schacter, D. L., Buckner, R. L., Koutstaal, W., Dale, A. M., & Rosen, B. R. (1997).  Late onset of anterior prefrontal activity during true and false recognition:  An event-related fMRI study.  NeuroImage, 6, 259-269. (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W., & Schacter, D. L. (1997).  Gist-based false recognition of pictures in older and younger adults.  Journal of Memory and Language, 37, 555-583.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Schacter, D. L., Koutstaal, W., & Norman, K. A. (1997).  False memories and aging.  Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1, 229-236.  (Abstract)

Schacter, D. L., Koutstaal, W., Johnson, M. K., Gross, M. S., & Angell, K. E. (1997).  False recollection induced by photographs:  A comparison of older and younger adults. Psychology and Aging, 12, 203-215.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W., & Schacter, D. L. (1997).  Intentional forgetting and voluntary thought suppression:  Two potential methods for coping with childhood trauma.  In L. J. Dickstein, M. B. Riba, & J. M. Oldham (Eds.), Review of Psychiatry: Vol. 16 (pp. II-79-II-121).  Washington, D.C.:  American Psychiatric Press.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W., & Schacter, D. L. (1997).  Inaccuracy and inaccessibility in memory retrieval: Contributions from cognitive psychology and neuropsychology.  In P. S. Appelbaum, L. A. Uyehara, & M. R. Elin (Eds.), Trauma and Memory: Clinical and Legal Controversies (pp. 93-137).  New York:  Oxford University Press.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Schacter, D. L., Norman, K. A., & Koutstaal, W. (1997).  The recovered memory debate:  A cognitive neuroscience perspective.  In M. A. Conway (Ed.), Recovered Memories and False Memories:  Debates in Psychology (pp. 63-99).  Oxford:  Oxford University Press.  (Abstract)

Schacter, D. L., Koutstaal, W., & Norman, K. A. (1996).  Can cognitive neuroscience illuminate the nature of traumatic childhood memories?  Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 6, 207-214.  Reprinted in L. M. Williams & V. L. Banyard (Eds.), Trauma and Memory (1998, pp. 257-271).  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage. (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W. (1996).  Beyond Content:  The Fate-or Function-of Contextual Information in Directed Forgetting.  Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University.  (Advisor:  Daniel L. Schacter;  Dissertation Committee Members:  Nancy Kanwisher; Steven M. Kosslyn; Michelle Leichtman; Richard J. McNally).  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W. (1995).  Review of David C. Rubin, Memory in Oral Traditions: The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting-Out Rhymes.  Harvard Graduate School Alumni Association Newsletter, Fall, 11-12.  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W. (1995).  Situating ethics and memory.  American Philosophical Quarterly, 32, 253-262.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W., & Rosenthal, R. (1994).  Contrast analysis in behavioral research.  In J. Brzezinski (Ed.), Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities: Vol. 39.  Probability in Theory-Building: Experimental and Non-Experimental Models of Scientific Research in Behavioral Sciences (pp. 135-173).  Amsterdam:  Rodopi.  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W. (1993).  Lowly notions:  Forgetting in William James's moral universe.  Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, 29, 609-635.  (pdf)  (Abstract)

Koutstaal, W. (1992).  Skirting the abyss: A history of experimental explorations of automatic writing in psychology.  Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 28, 5-27.  (pdf)  (Abstract)