Journal articles from the Visual Cognition Research Group
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Recent Journal Articles
  • Bacigalupo, F., & Luck, S. J. (2015). The allocation of attention and working memory in visual crowding. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27, 1180-1193.
  • Barry, R.A., Graf-Estes, K., and Rivera, S.M. (2015). Domain general learning: Infants use social and non-social cues when learning object statistics. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(551). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00551 
  • Erickson, M. A., Hahn, B., Leonard, C. J., Robinson, B. M., Gray, B., Luck, S. J., & Gold, J. M. (2015). Impaired working memory capacity is not caused by failures of selective attention in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 41, 366-373.
  • Gaspelin, N., Leonard, C. J., & Luck, S. J. (in press). Direct Evidence for Active Suppression of Salient-but-Irrelevant Sensory Inputs. Psychological Science.
  • Gallego, P., Burris, J. and Rivera, S.M. (2014). Visual motion processing deficits in infants with the fragile X premutation. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 6(1):29. doi: 10.1186/1866-1955-6-29.
  • Geng, J.J., (2014). Attentional mechanisms of distractor suppression. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23(2) 147-153.
  • Geng, J.J., Blumenfeld, Z, Tyson, T.L., Minzenberg, M.J. (2015). Pupil diameter reflects uncertainty in attentional selection during visual search. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
  • Henderson, J. M., & Choi, W. (2015). Neural correlates of fixation duration during real-world scene viewing: Evidence from fixation-related (FIRE) fMRI. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(6), 1137–1145.
  • Henderson, J. M., Choi, W., Luke, S. G., & Desai, R. H. (2015). Neural correlates of fixation duration in natural reading: Evidence from fixation-related fMRI. NeuroImage, 119, 390-397.
  • Henderson, J. M., Hayes, T. R., Rehrig, G., & Ferreira, F. (2018). Meaning guides attention during real-world scene description. Scientific Reports, 8, 13504.
  • Kim, S.Y., Tassone, F, Simon, T.J. and Rivera, S.M. (2014).  Altered neural activity in the ‘when’ pathway during temporal processing in fragile X premutation carriers. Behavioral Brain Research. 261:240-8. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.12.044.
  • Leonard, C. J., Balestreri, A., & Luck, S. J. (2015). Interactions between space-based and feature-based attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41, 11-16.
  • Owen, E.R., Baumgartner, H.A., and Rivera, S.M. (2013). Using infrared eye-tracking to explore ordinal numerical processing in toddlers with fragile X syndrome.   Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 5(1) doi:10.1186/1866-1955-5-1.
  • Peacock, C., Hayes, T. R., & Henderson, J. M. (2019). Meaning guides attention during scene viewing, even when it is irrelevant. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81, 1, 20-34.
  • Pokorny, J., Hatt, N.V., Colombi, C., Vivanti, G., Rogers, S.J. and Rivera, S.M. (2015). The action observation system when observing hand actions in autism and typical development. Autism Research, 8(3). doi: 10.1002/aur.1445
  • Ramey, M. M., Yonelinas, A. P., & Henderson, J. M. (2019). Conscious and unconscious memory differentially impact attention: Eye movements, visual search, and recognition processes. Cognition, 185, 71-82.
  • Sawaki, R., Luck, S. J., & Raymond, J. E. (in press). How attention changes in response to incentives. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
  • Stankevich, B. & Geng, J.J., (2014) The modulation of reward priority by top-down knowledge. Visual Cognition, 76(8), 2315-2320.
  • Wang, J.Y., Hessl, D., Schneider, A., Tassone, F., Hagerman, R.J and Rivera, S.M. (2013). Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome: Influence of the FMR1 gene on motor fiber tracts in males with normal and premutation alleles. JAMA Neurology, 70(8), 1022-1029. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2013.2934.
Key Journal Articles
  • Barry, R.A., Graf-Estes, K., and Rivera, S.M. (2015). Domain general learning:  Infants use social and non-social cues when learning object statistics. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(551). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00551
  • DiQuattro, N.E. and Geng J.J. (2011). Contextual knowledge configures attentional control networks. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(49):18026-35.
  • Gallego, P., Burris, J. and Rivera, S.M. (2014). Visual motion processing deficits in infants with the fragile X premutation. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 6(1):29. doi: 10.1186/1866-1955-6-29
  • Geng, J.J. and DiQuattro, N.E. (2010). Attentional capture by a perceptually salient non-target facilitates target processing through inhibition and rapid-rejection. Journal of Vision, 10(6):5. 
  • Geng, J.J. and Behrmann, M. (2002).  Probability cueing of target location facilitates visual search implicitly in normal participants and patients with hemispatial neglect. Psychological Science. 13(6) 520-5.
  • Geng, J.J., and Vossel, S. (2013). Re-evaluating the role of TPJ in attentional control: contextual updating? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 37(10 Pt 2):2608-20. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.08.010.
  • Henderson, J. M., & Hollingworth, A. (1999). High-Level Scene Perception. Annual Review of Psychology, 50, 243-271.
  • Henderson, J. M. (2003). Human gaze control during real-world scene perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 498-504.
  • Henderson, J. M., & Hayes, T. R. (2017). Meaning-based guidance of attention in scenes as revealed by meaning maps. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 743-747. 
  • Kim, S.Y., Tassone, F, Simon, T.J. and Rivera, S.M. (2014).  Altered neural activity in the ‘when’ pathway during temporal processing in fragile X premutation carriers. Behavioral Brain Research. 261:240-8. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.12.044.
  • Kim, S.Y., Burris, J., Bassal, F., Koldewyn, K., Chattarji, S., Tassone, F., Hessl, D. and Rivera, S.M. (2012). Fear-specific amygdala function in children and adolescents on the fragile X spectrum: A dosage response of the FMR1 gene. Cerebral Cortex, 11, doi:10.1093/cercor/bhs341.
  • Leonard, C.J., Kaiser, S.T., Robinson, B.M., Kappenman, E.S., Hahn, B., Gold, J. M., & Luck, S. J. (2012). Toward the neural mechanisms of reduced working memory capacity in schizophrenia. Cerebral Cortex, 23, 1582-1592.
  • Luck, S. J., & Vogel, E. K. (1997). The capacity of visual working memory for features and conjunctions. Nature, 390, 279-281.
  • Nuthmann, A., Smith, T. J., Engbert, R., & Henderson, J. M. (2010). CRISP: A computational model of fixation durations in scene viewing. Psychological Review, 117, 382-405.
  • Pokorny, J., Hatt, N.V., Colombi, C., Vivanti, G., Rogers, S.J. and Rivera, S.M. (2015). The action observation system when observing hand actions in autism and typical development. Autism Research, 8(3). doi: 10.1002/aur.1445
  • Sawaki, R., & Luck, S. J. (2010). Capture versus suppression of attention by salient singletons: Electrophysiological evidence for an automatic attend-to-me signal. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 72, 1455-1470.
  • Torralba, A., Oliva, A., Castelhano, M. S., & Henderson, J. M. (2006). Contextual guidance of eye movements and attention in real-world scenes: The role of global features in object search. Psychological Review, 113, 766-786.
  • Woodman, G. F., & Luck, S. J. (1999). Electrophysiological measurement of rapid shifts of attention during visual search. Nature, 400, 867-869.
  • Zhang, W., & Luck, S. J. (2008). Discrete fixed-resolution representations in visual working memory. Nature, 453, 233-235.