Nicole King

My research centers on extending cognitive models to integrate mechanisms of selective attention and incomplete memory traces. Through comprehensive computational modeling, I aim to elucidate how features are sampled and contribute to individual differences in cognition. Utilizing eye-tracking within dynamically tailored experimental paradigms, I investigate the evolving role of attention in memory formation and the development of cognitive biases.

• Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Research Award – Ohio State University (2024) Summer fellowship to analyze learning behaviors across developmental groups, with a focus on older adults
• Waller Endowment Summer Research Scholarship – OSU Department of Psychology (2023) Awarded for promising summer research in psychology
• Klein Award for Research & Service (2022) Recognizes extraordinary dedication to psychological research and community engagement
• Marilyn Shaw Award for Research Promise (2021) Awarded to the senior psychology major with the greatest potential for a creative and productive research career
• Henry Rutgers Scholar Award (2021) Recognizes outstanding senior thesis research among graduating seniors
• Paul Robeson Scholar (2021) Awarded for successful completion of a senior thesis at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences
• Dorothy and David Cooper Scholarship (2020) Competitive summer research fellowship supporting independent work in psychology

• King, N., Wan, Q., Ralston, R. W., Sloutsky, V. M., Turner, B. M., & Unger, L. (in prep). Learning in the context of partial information.
• Zhao, B., Wang, Y., King, N., Turner, B. M., & Kvam, P. D. (in prep). Differences in evidence representations give rise to the illusion of collapsing choice boundaries.
• Weichart, E. R., Unger, L., King, N., Sloutsky, V. M., & Turner, B. M. (2024). "The eyes are the window to the representation": Linking gaze to memory precision and decision weights in object discrimination tasks. Psychological Review, 131(4), 1045–1067.

• King, N. C., Turner, B., Sloutsky, V. (2025, July). Piecing together the past: How partial encoding affects recall. Abstract published at MathPsych / ICCM 2025. Available at https://mathpsych.org/presentation/1819
• Zhao, B., Wang, Y., King, N. C., Turner, B., & Kvam, P. (2025, July). Collapsing boundary illusion: Disentangling evidence representations and decision boundaries in evidence accumulation models. Abstract published at MathPsych / ICCM 2025. Available at https://mathpsych.org/presentation/1798
• King, N. C., Turner, B., Sloutsky, V., Wan, Q., Unger, L., & Ralston, R. (2024, July). Learning in the context of partial information. Abstract published at MathPsych / ICCM 2024. Available at https://mathpsych.org/presentation/1393
• King, N. C., Turner, B., Sloutsky, V., Wan, Q., Unger, L., & Ralston, R. (2024, May). Learning in the context of partial information. Abstract published at Midwest Cognitive Science Conference 2024.
• King, N., Hemmer, P. (2021, May). Assessing difficulty, scriptedness, and natural action sequences for scripts. 13th Annual Perceptual & Cognitive Science Forum, New Brunswick, NJ.
• Sommer, J., King, N. C., Hemmer, P., & Musolino, J. (2020, July). Are supernatural concepts epiphenomenal? Paper presented at Virtual MathPsych/ICCM 2020. Available at https://mathpsych.org/presentation/179
• Sommer, J., King, N., Hemmer, P., & Musolino, J. (2019, November). Are supernatural concepts a cognitive epiphenomenon? Paper presented at the 2019 Annual Psychonomics Society Convention, Montreal, Canada.