University of New South Wales - School of Psychology

Research Areas: Concept formation and categorisation; Reasoning and decision-making; The development of memory; Eyewitness memory and suggestibility in children; Forensic interviewing with children; Information processing in children with developmental disabilities.

Academic Career:

PhD, 1991, UNSW

Selected Publications:

Hayes, B. K., & Thompson, S. (in press). Causal relations and feature similarity in children’s inductive reasoning, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Hayes, B. K. (2006). Knowledge, development and category learning, The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 46, 37-78.
Hayes, B. K. & Heit, E. (2004). Why learning and development can lead to poorer recognition memory. Trends in Cognitive Science, 8, (8), 337-339.
Hayes, B. K. & Younger, K. (2004). Category-use effects in children. Child Development, 75, 1-14.
Hayes, B. K., Foster, K., & Gadd, N. (2003). Prior knowledge and subtyping effects in children's category learning. Cognition, 88, 177-199.

Courses:

PSYC3321: Cognitive Development
PSYC4063: Psychology 4B

Contact Details:

Office: Mathews, Room 713
Telephone: (61-2) 9385-3713
Fax: (61-2) 9385-3641
Email: B.Hayes@unsw.edu.au