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Visual perceptual load induces inattentional deafnessJames S P Macdonald
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Atten Percept Psychophys 73:1780-9. 2011..g., Lavie, Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance, 25, 596-616, 1995) to address the cross-modal effects of visual perceptual load...- On the spatial extent of attention in object-based visual selectionN Lavie
Department of Psychology, University College London, England
Percept Psychophys 58:1238-51. 1996..However, when subjects were precued to expect targets in a narrow region of the display, the object effect was eliminated, implying that object-based selection may only operate within spatially attended regions... - Distracted and confused?: selective attention under loadNilli Lavie
Department of Psychology and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Trends Cogn Sci 9:75-82. 2005.... - The role of perceptual load in visual awarenessNilli Lavie
Department of Psychology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Brain Res 1080:91-100. 2006..These results clarify the role of attention and associated frontoparietal activity in visual awareness within the framework of load theory of attention... - Load theory of selective attention and cognitive controlNilli Lavie
Department of Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
J Exp Psychol Gen 133:339-54. 2004..This theory resolves the long-standing early versus late selection debate and clarifies the role of cognitive control in selective attention... - The role of perceptual load in processing distractor facesNilli Lavie
Department of Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Psychol Sci 14:510-5. 2003..These results support the idea that face processing may be mandatory and generalize the load theory to the processing of meaningful and more complex nonface distractors... - The role of working memory in attentional captureNilli Lavie
Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, England
Psychon Bull Rev 12:669-74. 2005.... - The role of perceptual load in object recognitionNilli Lavie
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 35:1346-58. 2009..The results support load theory proposals that distracter recognition critically depends on the level of perceptual load. The implications for the role of attention in object recognition theories are discussed... - The role of perceptual load in neglect: rejection of ipsilesional distractors is facilitated with higher central loadN Lavie
Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
J Cogn Neurosci 13:867-76. 2001..Moreover, they supported our prediction that reduced perceptual capacity in neglect can lead to improved distractor rejection with just small increases in perceptual load... - Dilution: atheoretical burden or just load? A reply to Tsal and Benoni (2010)Nilli Lavie
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 36:1657-64; discussion 1665-8. 2010..We also discuss additional evidence that discounts the viability of Tsal and Benoni's dilution account as an alternative to perceptual load... - Visual feature integration and focused attention: response competition from multiple distractor featuresN Lavie
Department of Psychology, University College London, England
Percept Psychophys 59:543-56. 1997..These results accord with Treisman's claim that correct conjunction information is unavailable under conditions of inattention, and they provide new information on response-competition effects from multiple features... - Contrasting effects of sensory limits and capacity limits in visual selective attentionNilli Lavie
Department of Psychology, University College London, London, England
Percept Psychophys 65:202-12. 2003.... - The role of perceptual load in negative primingN Lavie
Department of Psychology, University College London, England
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 26:1038-52. 2000..g., N. Lavie, 1995), leaving less distractor processing to produce NP. This conclusion is consistent with recent reactive inhibition views for NP (e.g., G. Houghton, S. P. Tipper, B. Weaver, & D. I. Shore, 1996)... - The role of working memory in visual selective attentionJ W de Fockert
Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Science 291:1803-6. 2001..These findings confirm a major role for working memory in the control of visual selective attention... - Neural correlates of attentional capture in visual searchJan de Fockert
Goldsmiths College, London, UK
J Cogn Neurosci 16:751-9. 2004..These findings provide direct evidence that the frontal cortex is involved in control of interference from irrelevant but attention-capturing distractors... - High perceptual load makes everybody equal: eliminating individual differences in distractibility with loadSophie Forster
University College London, London, United Kingdom
Psychol Sci 18:377-81. 2007.... - What can functional imaging reveal about the role of attention in visual awareness?G Rees
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK
Neuropsychologia 39:1343-53. 2001..Taken together, these data suggest that distributed interactions between modality-specific posterior visual cortex and frontoparietal areas subserve both visual attention and visual awareness... - Perceptual load modulates visual cortex excitability to magnetic stimulationNeil Muggleton
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom
J Neurophysiol 100:516-9. 2008..These findings suggest that the neural mechanisms mediating the effects of perceptual load involve reduced visual cortex excitability in task-unrelated areas... - Attentional demands of perception of passive self-motion in darknessL Yardley
Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Highfield, UK
Neuropsychologia 37:1293-301. 1999.... - Harnessing the wandering mind: the role of perceptual loadSophie Forster
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Research Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, University College London, London, UK
Cognition 111:345-55. 2009..These results suggest that exhausting attentional capacity in task-relevant processing under high perceptual load can reduce processing of task-irrelevant information from external and internal sources alike... - Look here but ignore what you see: effects of distractors at fixationDiane M Beck
Department of Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 31:592-607. 2005..The authors suggest that preferential access to attention renders fixation distractors harder to ignore than peripheral distractors... - The influence of perceptual load on age differences in selective attentionE A Maylor
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, England
Psychol Aging 13:563-73. 1998.... - Modulating irrelevant motion perception by varying attentional load in an unrelated taskG Rees
Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
Science 278:1616-9. 1997..These findings fulfill the prediction that perception of irrelevant distractors depends on the relevant processing load... - Perceptual load modulates conscious flicker perceptionDavid Carmel
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
J Vis 7:14.1-13. 2007..These findings demonstrate that perceptual load influences conscious perception of temporal patterns... - Task coordination between and within sensory modalities: effects on distractionMuriele Brand-D'abrescia
University College London, London, England
Percept Psychophys 70:508-15. 2008..The results provided support for the load theory prediction that executive control load leads to greater distractor interference while highlighting the effects of task modality... - Unconscious orientation processing depends on perceptual loadBahador Bahrami
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
J Vis 8:12.1-10. 2008.... - The perceptual and functional consequences of parietal top-down modulation on the visual cortexJuha Silvanto
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, UK
Cereb Cortex 19:327-30. 2009..Our results provide a demonstration of the top-down modulation exerted by the PPC on the visual cortex and show that these effects are subject to interhemispheric competition... - Spatial attention can modulate unconscious orientation processingBahador Bahrami
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK
Perception 37:1520-8. 2008..On the basis of these findings we propose a constrained hypothesis for the difference between neuronal mechanisms of spatial attention in the presence versus absence of awareness... - Failures to ignore entirely irrelevant distractors: the role of loadSophie Forster
Department of Psychology, University College London, USA
J Exp Psychol Appl 14:73-83. 2008..These findings establish a new laboratory measure of a form of distractibility common to everyday life and highlight load as an important determinant of such distractibility... - Attentional load modulates responses of human primary visual cortex to invisible stimuliBahador Bahrami
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, Alexandra House, London, United Kingdom
Curr Biol 17:509-13. 2007..Spillover of attention to cortical representations of invisible stimuli (under low load) cannot be a sufficient condition for their awareness... - Striate cortex (V1) activity gates awareness of motionJuha Silvanto
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
Nat Neurosci 8:143-4. 2005..From the timing and pattern of effects, we infer that back-projections from extrastriate cortex influence information content in V1, but it is V1 that determines whether that information reaches awareness... - Brain mechanisms mediating auditory attentional capture in humansSusanne Watkins
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, UK
Cereb Cortex 17:1694-700. 2007.... - Auditory attentional capture: effects of singleton distractor soundsPolly Dalton
Department of Psychology, University College London, United Kingdom
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 30:180-93. 2004..However, if the singleton feature coincided with the target item, search was facilitated. These results establish the phenomenon of auditory attentional capture... - Conscious awareness of flicker in humans involves frontal and parietal cortexDavid Carmel
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, United Kingdom
Curr Biol 16:907-11. 2006.... - Stimulation of the human frontal eye fields modulates sensitivity of extrastriate visual cortexJuha Silvanto
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, United Kingdom
J Neurophysiol 96:941-5. 2006..Thus, the sensitivity of human extrastriate cortex is modulated by activity in the FEF... - The role of perceptual load in inattentional blindnessUla Cartwright Finch
Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
Cognition 102:321-40. 2007..late selection debate offered by the perceptual load theory... - Double dissociation of V1 and V5/MT activity in visual awarenessJuha Silvanto
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK
Cereb Cortex 15:1736-41. 2005..These findings demonstrate the importance of back-projections from V5/MT to V1 in awareness of real motion stimuli... - Load induced blindnessJames S P Macdonald
Department of Psychology, University College London, London, England
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 34:1078-91. 2008.... - Attentional demands of continuously monitoring orientation using vestibular informationLucy Yardley
Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Neuropsychologia 40:373-83. 2002.... - Murder, she wrote: enhanced sensitivity to negative word valenceMaha Nasrallah
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
Emotion 9:609-18. 2009..These results conclusively establish enhanced sensitivity for negative over positive words, supporting the hypothesis that negative stimuli enjoy preferential access to perceptual processing... - Making the blindsighted seeJuha Silvanto
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University College London, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, United Kingdom
Neuropsychologia 45:3346-50. 2007.... - Overriding auditory attentional capturePolly Dalton
Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, England
Percept Psychophys 69:162-71. 2007..The suggestion that hearing might act as an early warning system that would always be tuned to unexpected unique stimuli must therefore be modified to accommodate these strategy-dependent capture effects... - Processing of irrelevant visual motion during performance of an auditory attention taskG Rees
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK
Neuropsychologia 39:937-49. 2001.... - Neural correlates of change detection and change blindnessD M Beck
Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Nat Neurosci 4:645-50. 2001.... - The role of working memory in tactile selective attentionPolly Dalton
Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 62:635-44. 2009..These results establish the role of working memory in the control of tactile selective attention, demonstrating for the first time that the principles of load theory also apply to the tactile modality... - Ignoring famous faces: category-specific dilution of distractor interferenceRob Jenkins
Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
Percept Psychophys 65:298-309. 2003..Our results suggest that distractor faces act differently from other types of distractors, suffering from only face-specific capacity limits... - Recognition memory for distractor faces depends on attentional load at exposureRob Jenkins
Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QB, Scotland
Psychon Bull Rev 12:314-20. 2005..g., letter shape) can reduce face recognition, in accord with Lavie's load theory. In addition to their theoretical impact, these results may have practical implications for eyewitness testimony... - Right parietal cortex plays a critical role in change blindnessDiane M Beck
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Green Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Cereb Cortex 16:712-7. 2006..These results suggest that the right parietal cortex plays a critical role in conscious change detection... - Temporal attentional capture: effects of irrelevant singletons on rapid serial visual searchPolly Dalton
University of Oxford, Oxford, England
Psychon Bull Rev 13:881-5. 2006..The presence (vs. absence) of a color singleton lengthened response times on the size discrimination task, suggesting that irrelevant singletons can lead to a temporal attentional capture...