Psychology

Safa Zaki

Safa Zaki
Professor of Psychology
Safa.R.Zaki@williams.edu
413-597-4594
Bronfman Science Center Rm 300
Safa Zaki's website

Education

B.A. American University (1989)
M.A. Arizona State University, Psychology (1993)
Ph.D. Arizona State University, Psychology (1996)

Areas of Expertise

Categorization, concept learning, dissociations and memory.

Courses

Note: courses with gray backgrounds are not offered this academic year.

PSYC 221 (S)

Cognitive Psychology

PSYC 322 (F)

Concepts: Mind, Brain, and Culture

Scholarship/Creative Work

Selected Publications

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  • Zaki, S.R. & Cruz, J. ( 2010). Parsimony and the triple-system theory of concepts. Brain & Behavioral Sciences, 33, 230-231.

  • Zaki, S.R. & Nosofsky, R. (2007). A high-distortion effect in the prototype-learning paradigm: Dramatic effect of category learning during test. Memory and Cognition, 35, 2088-2096.
  • Nosofsky, R. M., Stanton, R. D., & Zaki, S. R. (2005). Procedural interference in perceptual classification: Implicit learning or cognitive complexity? Memory & Cognition, 33, 1256-1271.
  • Zaki, S.R. (2005). Is categorization really intact in amnesia? A meta-analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 11, 1048–1054
  • Zaki, S.R. & Nosofsky, R. M. (2004).  False-prototype enhancement effects in dot-pattern categorization.  Memory and Cognition. 32, 390-8.
  • Zaki, S.R., Nosofsky, R.M., Stanton, R.D, and Cohen, A.L. (2003). Prototype and exemplar accounts of category learning and attention allocation: a reassessment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 29, 1160-1173
  • Zaki, S. R., Nosofsky, R.M., Ramercad, R. & Unverzagt, F. (2003).  Categorization and recognition performance in probable Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence for single-system models.  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 9, 394-406.
  • Zaki, S.R. & Nosofsky, R. M. (2001). Exemplar model accounts of typicality and blending. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 27, 1022-1041.
  • Zaki, S.R. & Nosofsky, R. M. (2001). A single-system interpretation of dissociations between recognition and categorization in a task involving object-like stimuli.  Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. 1, 344-359.
  • Zaki, S.R. & Homa, D. (1999). Concepts and transformational knowledge. Cognitive Psychology, 39, 69-115. 
  • Nosofsky, R.M. & Zaki, S.R. (1998).  Dissociations between categorization and recognition in amnesics and normal individuals: an exemplar-based interpretation.  Psychological Science, 9, 247-255.

Committees

Committee on Priorities and Resources (2011-2013)
Cognitive Science Program (2011-2012)