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Reflexive joint attention depends on lateralized cortical connectionsA Kingstone
2136 West Mall, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B C V6T 1Z4, Canada
Psychol Sci 11:159-66. 2000....
Taking a real look at social attentionAlan Kingstone
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Curr Opin Neurobiol 19:52-6. 2009..In doing so one can maintain the link between lab research and the phenomena it seeks to understand. Instances of lab failures that are offset by a cognitive ethology approach are presented and discussed...- The eyes have it!: an fMRI investigationAlan Kingstone
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Brain Cogn 55:269-71. 2004..However, the neural systems subserving the two forms of orienting were not equivalent-with the STS being engaged exceptionally when the fixation stimulus was perceived as eyes... - Cognitive Ethology: a new approach for studying human cognitionAlan Kingstone
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
Br J Psychol 99:317-40. 2008..We discuss how Cognitive Ethology can complement lab-based investigations, and we show how its levels of description and explanation are distinct from what is typically employed in lab-based research... - Orienting attention in aging and Parkinson's disease: distinguishing modes of controlAlan Kingstone
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 24:951-67. 2002..Together our study supports the thesis that it is crucial to isolate and investigate different modes of attentional control... - Inhibition of return is composed of attentional and oculomotor processesA Kingstone
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Percept Psychophys 61:1046-54. 1999..Together, the data indicate that IOR is composed of both an oculomotor component and an attentional component... 
Monsters are people tooJ Levy
Lord Byng Secondary School, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Biol Lett 9:20120850. 2013..These findings demonstrate that the eyes, and not the middle of the head, are being targeted by the oculomotor system...- Cued shifts of attention and memory encoding in partial report: a dual-task approachB Giesbrecht
Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Q J Exp Psychol A 54:695-725. 2001..It is argued that encoding information into memory and response selection for the first task both require general-purpose processing. The results are discussed in terms of the functional relationship between attention and memory... - Inhibition of return in location- and identity-based choice decision tasksJ Pratt
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Percept Psychophys 59:964-71. 1997..Overall, the results are consistent with the attentional, not the motor, explanation of inhibition of return... - Cognitive Ethology and exploring attention in real-world scenesDaniel Smilek
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
Brain Res 1080:101-19. 2006..This new approach, which we call Cognitive Ethology, focuses on understanding how attention operates in everyday situations and what people know and believe about attention... - Taking the high road on subcortical transferMichael B Miller
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Brain Cogn 57:162-4. 2005..This capacity of disconnected hemispheres to switch control of the response hand can create the illusion of subcortical transfer of higher-order information and must be taken into account in studies with split-brain patients... - Integrating motion information across sensory modalities: the role of top-down factorsSalvador Soto-Faraco
ICREA and Parc Científic de Barcelona Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Prog Brain Res 155:273-86. 2006.... - Attention to arrows: pointing to a new directionJelena Ristic
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 59:1921-30. 2006.... - Seeing trees OR seeing forests in simultanagnosia: attentional capture can be local or globalKirsten A Dalrymple
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Neuropsychologia 45:871-5. 2007..Capture likely occurs because of a pathological restriction and/or rigidity of attention, but the type of capture depends upon the competitive balance between global and local salience... - Eyes are special but not for everyone: the case of autismJelena Ristic
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 24:715-8. 2005.... - Visual attention and the semantics of space: beyond central and peripheral cuesBradley S Gibson
Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Psychol Sci 17:622-7. 2006..The theoretical utility of this new distinction is discussed in the context of recent evidence suggesting that a variety of central cues can elicit reflexive orienting... - Fixation offset and stop signal intensity effects on saccadic countermanding: a crossmodal investigationSharon Morein-Zamir
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, V6T 1Z4 Vancouver, Canada
Exp Brain Res 175:453-62. 2006..The results provide new insights into the mechanisms of inhibition and help resolve previous inconsistencies in the literature... - On audiovisual spatial synergy: the fragility of the phenomenonSalvador Soto-Faraco
Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Percept Psychophys 67:444-57. 2005..The implication is that individuals can select inputs from different modalities from different locations more easily than previously had been thought... - Modularity and intersection of "what", "where" and "how" processing of visual stimuli: a new method of FMRI localizationRon Borowsky
Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Science, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, S7N 5A5
Brain Topogr 18:67-75. 2005.... - Spatial orienting of tactile attention induced by social cuesSalvador Soto-Faraco
Icrea and Parc Cientific de Barcelona, Spain
Psychon Bull Rev 12:1024-31. 2005..This is the first demonstration that social attention cues have consequences that reach beyond their own sensory modality... - Predictability influences stopping and response controlSharon Morein-Zamir
Psychology Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 33:149-62. 2007..These findings contrast with the established view that stopping is insensitive to expectancies. In addition, when trade-offs are prevented, these results confirm that stopping is representative of other response adjustment measures... - Social attention and real-world scenes: the roles of action, competition and social contentElina Birmingham
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 61:986-98. 2008..Our study also suggests a simple and surreptitious methodology for studying social attention to real-world stimuli in a range of populations, such as those with autism spectrum disorders... - Turning the world around: patterns in saccade direction vary with picture orientationTom Foulsham
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
Vision Res 48:1777-90. 2008..This demonstrates that a horizon bias is robust and affected by both the distribution of features and more global representations of the scene layout... - Attentional SNARC: there's something special about numbers (let us count the ways)Michael D Dodd
Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68516, USA
Cognition 108:810-8. 2008.... - Taking a long look at action and time perceptionAmelia R Hunt
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 34:125-36. 2008..Moreover, voluntary action is neither necessary nor sufficient for overestimation effects. These results lead to a new interpretation of chronostasis based on the role of attention and memory in time estimation... - Brain responses to biological relevanceChristine M Tipper
University of British Columbia
J Cogn Neurosci 20:879-91. 2008.... - Attentional control and reflexive orienting to gaze and arrow cuesJelena Ristic
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106 9660, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 14:964-9. 2007..These data support the hypothesis that eye direction and arrow direction trigger similar reflexive shifts in spatial attention, but that the attention effect triggered by eye direction is more strongly reflexive... - Inhibition of return: unraveling a paradoxElina Birmingham
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Psychon Bull Rev 14:957-63. 2007..The farther the target location is away, the less similar it is to the cued location, and thus the less inhibition it receives... - In sight, out of mind: the role of eye movements in the rapid resumption of visual searchWieske van Zoest
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Percept Psychophys 69:1204-17. 2007.... - The time course of attentional and oculomotor capture reveals a common causeAmelia R Hunt
Psychology Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 33:271-84. 2007.... - Measuring online volitional response control with a continuous tracking taskSharon Morein-Zamir
University of British Columbia, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
Behav Res Methods 38:638-47. 2006..Experiment 2 examines some of the issues that can be addressed using the new task. These results demonstrate the usefulness and potential of the task for gauging response control within the context of the stopping literature... - The number line effect reflects top-down controlJelena Ristic
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Psychon Bull Rev 13:862-8. 2006..Together, these data indicate that the spatial representations and attentional orienting related to the perception of digits are both fragile and flexible and depend critically on the top-down spatial mental sets adopted by individuals... - Classification images of two right hemisphere patients: a window into the attentional mechanisms of spatial neglectSteven Shimozaki
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Brain Res 1080:26-52. 2006.... - Does gaze direction really trigger a reflexive shift of spatial attention?Chris Kelland Friesen
Department of Psychology, College of Science and Mathematics, North Dakota State University, P O Box 5075, Fargo, ND 58105 5075, USA
Brain Cogn 57:66-9. 2005..In both cases the facilitation effect was the same, demonstrating conclusively that the observed orienting is attributable to the reflexive effects of the gaze cue... - Taking control of reflexive social attentionJelena Ristic
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Cognition 94:B55-65. 2005..But top-down mechanisms are ineffective once IT involvement has been triggered. That is, once a stimulus has been seen as having eyes, it continues to be seen that way, and accordingly, the social attention effect persists... - Time estimation: the effect of cortically mediated attentionAnthony Chaston
Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta, Canada T6G 2E9
Brain Cogn 55:286-9. 2004..And as the engagement of attention increased so did the underestimation of time. These findings provide strong support for an attentional model of prospective time estimation that is subserved by cortical brain mechanisms... - Hemispheric performance in object-based attentionMonica A Valsangkar-Smyth
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Psychon Bull Rev 11:84-91. 2004..However, contrary to previous research, it appears that it is the right hemisphere, and not the left hemisphere, that is preferentially biased for committing object-based attention to elements in the visual environment... - Attentional effects of counterpredictive gaze and arrow cuesChris Kelland Friesen
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, ND, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 30:319-29. 2004..The authors suggest that because there is a neural architecture specialized for processing eyes, gaze-triggered attention is more strongly reflexive than orienting to arrows... - Integration of competing saccade programsAmelia R Hunt
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 19:206-8. 2004..The other states that the strongest activation wins. We show that an eye movement is executed according to the strongest activation, with the competition being staged at a common subcortical site... - Covert and overt voluntary attention: linked or independent?Amelia R Hunt
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 18:102-5. 2003..Our study is consistent with general theories of attention that assume bottom-up (reflexive) processes and top-down (voluntary) processes converge on a common neural architecture... - Inhibition of return: Dissociating attentional and oculomotor componentsAmelia R Hunt
U British Columbia, Dept of Psychology, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 29:1068-74. 2003..These 2 distinct components should be considered and studied separately, as well as in relation to each other, if a comprehensive theory of IOR is to be achieved. ((c) 2003 APA, all rights reserved).. - Auditory capture of vision: examining temporal ventriloquismSharon Morein-Zamir
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 17:154-63. 2003..The results suggest a 'temporal ventriloquism' phenomenon analogous to spatial ventriloquism... - Visual masking during the attentional blink: tests of the object substitution hypothesisBarry Giesbrecht
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 29:238-58. 2003..Although masking by object substitution was observed, it did not interact with the AB. An alternative hypothesis is proposed stating that mostly early-stage visual processes mediate the masking effects that are critical to the AB... - Covert and overt orienting to gaze direction cues and the effects of fixation offsetChris Kelland Friesen
Depatment of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Neuroreport 14:489-93. 2003..This is consistent with the view that gaze-triggered orienting is a unique form of reflexive orienting that depends crucially on cortical processes... - A crossmodal attentional blink between vision and touchSalvador Soto-Faraco
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Psychon Bull Rev 9:731-8. 2002..The contrast between our visuotactile results and those of previous audiovisual studies is discussed, as are the implications for current theories of the AB... - Why are antisaccades slower than prosaccades? A novel finding using a new paradigmBettina Olk
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Neuroreport 14:151-5. 2003..The remaining difference is attributed to the reallocation of covert attention from the target location towards the opposite antisaccade location... - Abrupt onsets and gaze direction cues trigger independent reflexive attentional effectsChris Kelland Friesen
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Cognition 87:B1-10. 2003..These findings strongly suggest that reflexive attention to gaze direction and reflexive inhibition to an abrupt onset are independent processes, and that gaze direction does not produce IOR at the gazed-at location... - Are eyes special? It depends on how you look at itJelena Ristic
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Psychon Bull Rev 9:507-13. 2002..Together, these data provide important insight into the nature of the representations of directional stimuli involved in reflexive attentional orienting... - Right hemisphere involvement in the attentional blink: evidence from a split-brain patientBarry Giesbrecht
Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Brain Cogn 55:303-6. 2004..However, the AB was more severe when the second target was presented to the RH. Our results are consistent with the notion that the right hemisphere plays a critical, but not unique, role in limited-capacity visual processing... - Seeing the light: Adapting luminance reveals low-level visual processes in the attentional blinkBarry Giesbrecht
Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Brain Cogn 55:307-9. 2004..Consistent with the involvement of low-level neural mechanisms, the AB effect interacted with adapting luminance such that an AB was revealed only under photopic (light adapted) viewing conditions... - Congruency effects between auditory and tactile motion: extending the phenomenon of cross-modal dynamic captureSalvador Soto-Faraco
Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 4:208-17. 2004..The implications of these results are discussed in light of current findings regarding the representation of tactile and auditory space... - Mislocalizations of touch to a fake handErin L Austen
School of Human Kinetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 4:170-81. 2004..These findings indicate that the available sensory information is used flexibly to incorporate the rubber glove into the body schema... - Attentional capture modulates perceptual sensitivityJan Theeuwes
Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Psychon Bull Rev 11:551-4. 2004..In line with earlier claims, it is argued that the capture of attention by the irrelevant singleton causes a reduced sensory input at the target location... - The effect of hemispatial neglect on the perception of centreBettina Olk
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Brain Cogn 55:365-7. 2004..The results are in agreement with and provide the first clear evidence of an enlarged perceptual zone of indifference in patients with hemispatial visual neglect... - Can semantic information be transferred between hemispheres in the split-brain?Marcia Grabowecky
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Brain Cogn 55:310-3. 2004..Our results indicate that any semantic interaction between the split hemispheres is not reliable. As such our study adds to the growing literature indicating that subcortical transfer of semantic information is more illusory than real... - Multisensory executive functioningAmelia R Hunt
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Brain Cogn 55:325-7. 2004..Current theories of executive function must be adapted to account for this finding. We also suggest that the present paradigm is amenable to future research aimed at determining precisely how modalities are linked within a task set... - The ventriloquist in motion: illusory capture of dynamic information across sensory modalitiesSalvador Soto-Faraco
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, BC, V6T 1Z4, Vancouver, Canada
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 14:139-46. 2002.... - Tactile "capture" of auditionAnne Caclin
University of Oxford, England
Percept Psychophys 64:616-30. 2002..Directing attention to the tactile modality did not increase the bias of sound localization toward synchronous tactile stimulation. These results provide the first demonstration of the tactile capture of audition... - Influence of inter-item symmetry in visual searchAlexa B Roggeveen
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Spat Vis 17:443-64. 2004..Possible reasons for the unequal contributions of target-distractor and distractor-distractor relations are discussed... - Modulation of antisaccades by transcranial magnetic stimulation of the human frontal eye fieldBettina Olk
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, International University Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Cereb Cortex 16:76-82. 2006..This result is interpreted in terms of a modulation of saccade inhibition to the contralateral visual field due to disruption of processing in the FEF... - Is inhibition of return a reflexive effect?Christine Tipper
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Cognition 97:B55-62. 2005..We argue that an intimate link between fronto-parietal regions and the superior colliculus provide a functional neural mechanism for this volitional effect to impact IOR... - Separable routes to human memory formation: dissociating task and material contributions in the prefrontal cortexGagan S Wig
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, HB 6207 Moore Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 16:139-48. 2004..These results demonstrate a posterior/anterior dichotomy in the frontal cortex that underlies separable code-based routes to human memory formation... - Flexible and abstract resolutions to crossmodal conflictsChrista Lynn Donovan
University of British Columbia, Canada
Brain Cogn 56:1-4. 2004..More importantly, they suggest that interactions between modalities can span to abstract levels of same/different representations... - New reflections on visual search: Interitem symmetry matters!Wieske van Zoest
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4
Psychol Sci 17:535-42. 2006..This finding is strong support for the view that visual search is guided by an analysis that considers interitem relations... - Functional localization and double dissociations: the relationship between internal structure and behaviorDavid A Medler
Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Brain Cogn 57:146-50. 2005.... - Metacognition and change detection: do lab and life really converge?Daniel Smilek
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont, Canada N2L 3G1
Conscious Cogn 17:1056-61. 2008..We also discuss how this dialogue illustrates the need for psychological studies to be grounded in measurements taken from real world situations rather than laboratory experiments or questionnaires... - Metacognitive errors in change detection: missing the gap between lab and lifeDaniel Smilek
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Conscious Cogn 16:52-7; discussion 58-62. 2007..We suggest several reasons why change detection findings like Beck et al.'s do not generalize to real world situations. More broadly, we suggest a possible way to bridge the gap between lab and life... - Compatibility effects in stopping and response initiation in a continuous tracking taskSharon Morein-Zamir
Psychology Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 59:2148-61. 2006..These findings indicate that stopping, like response initiation, is influenced by stimulus-response properties such as compatibility. This in turn suggests that stopping is governed by constraints similar to those of other behaviours...