Rate My Professor Jeffrey Miller

Professor Jeffrey Miller is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the University of Otago, where he joined in 1994. He holds a BA from The Ohio State University and a PhD from the University of Michigan. Prior to arriving at Otago, he served as director of the Center for Human Information Processing at the University of California, San Diego. Within Otago, Miller has held leadership roles including director of the Cognitive Science Programme and head of the Psychology Department. With more than 35 years of university teaching experience, he has taught cognitive psychology and research methods courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Miller's research specializes in cognitive psychology and cognitive psychophysiology, with particular emphasis on visual perception, attention, and mathematical and statistical models and methods for analyzing psychological data. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health in the United States and the Marsden Fund in New Zealand. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (FRSNZ). Miller has authored over 140 articles in refereed journals, accumulating more than 19,000 citations and an h-index of 66. Selected key publications include 'Outlier Exclusion Procedures for Reaction Time Analysis: The Cures Are Generally Worse Than the Disease' (Behavior Research Methods, 2023), 'How Many Participants? How Many Trials? Maximizing the Power of Reaction Time Studies' (Behavior Research Methods, 2024), 'Sequential Effects on Reaction Time Distributions: Commonalities and Differences Across Paradigms' (Journal of Cognition, 2024, with A. Voormann), 'Estimating the Proportions and Latencies of Reaction Time Outliers: A Pooling Method and Case Study of Lexical Decision Tasks' (Behavior Research Methods, 2024), and 'The Temporal Dynamics of Task Processing and Choice in a Novel Multitasking Paradigm' (Psychological Research, 2024, with V. Mittelstädt et al.). He co-authored the downloadable textbook Statistical Analysis with the General Linear Model with Patricia Haden and has created numerous freely available statistical programs. His contributions have established him as a prominent expert in human perception and attention.