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| STEVEN LUCKSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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The construct of attention in schizophreniaSteven J Luck
University of California at Davis, Davis, California, USA
Biol Psychiatry 64:34-9. 2008....- CNTRICS final biomarker selection: Control of attentionSteven J Luck
Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, 267 Cousteau Place, Davis, CA 95618, USA
Schizophr Bull 38:53-61. 2012.... - A roadmap for the development and validation of event-related potential biomarkers in schizophrenia researchSteven J Luck
Center for Mind and Brain and Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95618, USA
Biol Psychiatry 70:28-34. 2011.... - Impaired response selection in schizophrenia: evidence from the P3 wave and the lateralized readiness potentialSteven J Luck
University of California, Davis, California, USA
Psychophysiology 46:776-86. 2009..These results indicate that, at least in simple tasks, the delayed RTs observed in schizophrenia are primarily a consequence of impairments in the response selection and preparation processes that follow perception and categorization... - The translation of cognitive paradigms for patient researchSteven J Luck
Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, CA 95618, USA
Schizophr Bull 34:629-44. 2008..Finally, we present examples of 2 experiments, one of which exemplifies our recommendations regarding measurement issues and was a success and one of which was a painful but informative failure... 
Rapid development of feature binding in visual short-term memoryLisa M Oakes
University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
Psychol Sci 17:781-7. 2006..Thus, the ability to bind features and the ability to store multiple objects may both depend on a process that is mediated by posterior parietal cortex and is perhaps related to focused attention...- Discrete fixed-resolution representations in visual working memoryWeiwei Zhang
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Nature 453:233-5. 2008..Memory resolution varied over a narrow range that cannot be explained in terms of a general resource pool but can be well explained by a small set of discrete, fixed-resolution representations... 
Feature-based attention modulates feedforward visual processingWeiwei Zhang
Center for Mind and Brain, University of California Davis, 267 Cousteau Place, Davis, California 95618, USA
Nat Neurosci 12:24-5. 2009..Thus, color-based attention can operate as early as, and independently from, spatial attention...- CNTRICS final task selection: control of attentionKeith H Nuechterlein
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behaviour, University of California, LA, CA, USA
Schizophr Bull 35:182-96. 2009.... - Sudden death and gradual decay in visual working memoryWeiwei Zhang
Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, CA 95618, USA
Psychol Sci 20:423-8. 2009..Using this paradigm, we demonstrate that visual working memory representations may be retained for several seconds with little or no loss of precision, but that they may terminate suddenly and completely during this period... - The effects of electrode impedance on data quality and statistical significance in ERP recordingsEmily S Kappenman
Center for Mind and Brain and Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95618, USA
Psychophysiology 47:888-904. 2010..Thus, high electrode impedance may increase noise and decrease statistical power under some conditions, but these effects can be reduced by using a cool and dry recording environment and appropriate signal processing methods... - Capture versus suppression of attention by salient singletons: electrophysiological evidence for an automatic attend-to-me signalRisa Sawaki
Center for Mind and Brain, University of California Davis, 267 Cousteau Place, Davis, CA 95618, USA
Atten Percept Psychophys 72:1455-70. 2010.... - Impaired top-down control of visual search in schizophreniaJames M Gold
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, PO Box 21247, Baltimore, Maryland 21228, United States
Schizophr Res 94:148-55. 2007..These results extend prior studies that have focused on aspects of executive control in complex tasks and suggest that a similar underlying deficit may also impact the performance of perceptual systems... - Visual working memory as the substrate for mental rotationJoo seok Hyun
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 14:154-8. 2007..More broadly, the nature of the information being stored--not the nature of the operations performed on this information--may determine which subsystem stores the information... - The role of working memory representations in the control of attentionGeoffrey F Woodman
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240 1103, USA
Cereb Cortex 17:i118-24. 2007.... - Attention effects during visual short-term memory maintenance: protection or prioritization?Michi Matsukura
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 1407, USA
Percept Psychophys 69:1422-34. 2007..The results of the experiments were consistent with the first of these possibilities, suggesting that attention can serve to protect VSTM representations while they are being maintained... - The role of attention in the maintenance of feature bindings in visual short-term memoryJeffrey S Johnson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 1407, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 34:41-55. 2008..Contrary to this proposal, it was found that memory for bindings and memory for features were equally impaired by the search task... - Do the contents of visual working memory automatically influence attentional selection during visual search?Geoffrey F Woodman
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 33:363-77. 2007..Thus, the contents of working memory can be used in a flexible manner for facilitation or inhibition of processing... - The time course of consolidation in visual working memoryEdward K Vogel
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 1277, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 32:1436-51. 2006..The rate of consolidation was approximately 50 ms per item, which is considerably faster than previous proposals... - Intact attentional control of working memory encoding in schizophreniaJames M Gold
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 115:658-73. 2006..These findings indicate that attention is not globally impaired in SC and make it possible to delineate more precisely the nature of the specific impairment of attention in this disorder... - Localizing visual discrimination processes in time and spaceJens Max Hopf
Department of Neurology II, Otto von Guericke University, D 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
J Neurophysiol 88:2088-95. 2002..These findings indicate that the earliest measurable correlates of discriminative operations in the visual system appear as neural activity in circumscribed regions of the ventral processing stream... - Delayed working memory consolidation during the attentional blinkEdward K Vogel
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 9:739-43. 2002..These results are consistent with a fundamental limit on the consolidation of information in working memory... - Serial deployment of attention during visual searchGeoffrey F Woodman
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242 1407, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 29:121-38. 2003..These findings support models of attention that posit serial processing in demanding visual search tasks... - Perceptual organization influences visual working memoryGeoffrey F Woodman
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 1407, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 10:80-7. 2003..Thus, objects that are grouped together tend to be stored together, indicating that bottom-up perceptual organization influences the storage of information in visual working memory... - Dissociations among attention, perception, and awareness during object-substitution maskingGeoffrey F Woodman
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
Psychol Sci 14:605-11. 2003..These findings support the object-substitution hypothesis and provide new evidence that perception, attention, and awareness can be dissociated... - The development of visual short-term memory capacity in infantsShannon Ross-Sheehy
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA
Child Dev 74:1807-22. 2003..Thus, visual short-term memory capacity increases significantly across the first year of life... - Understanding awareness: one step closerSteven J Luck
Nat Neurosci 7:208-9. 2004 - Attention to features precedes attention to locations in visual search: evidence from electromagnetic brain responses in humansJens Max Hopf
Department of Neurology II, Otto von Guericke University, D 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
J Neurosci 24:1822-32. 2004.... - Visual search is slowed when visuospatial working memory is occupiedGeoffrey F Woodman
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Wilson Hall, 111 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37240 1103, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 11:269-74. 2004..These findings suggest that common mechanisms are used to process information during difficult visual search tasks and to maintain spatial information in working memory... - Impaired control of visual attention in schizophreniaRebecca L Fuller
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 115:266-75. 2006..This pattern of results indicates that the primary impairment of attention in schizophrenia lies in the control of attention and not in the selection processes that operate once attention has been directed to an object... - The speed of visual attention in schizophrenia: electrophysiological and behavioral evidenceSteven J Luck
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52242 1407, USA
Schizophr Res 85:174-95. 2006.... - The neural site of attention matches the spatial scale of perceptionJens Max Hopf
Department of Neurology II, Otto von Guericke University, D 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
J Neurosci 26:3532-40. 2006.... - Pushing around the locus of selection: evidence for the flexible-selection hypothesisEdward K Vogel
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, 97403 1227, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 17:1907-22. 2005..Thus, attention operates to select relevant information at whatever stage or stages of processing are overloaded by a particular stimulus-task combination... - Voluntazy and automatic attentional control of visual working memoryBrandon K Schmidt
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242-1407, USA
Percept Psychophys 64:754-63. 2002..An additional experiment using the abrupt-onset paradigm of Yantis and Jonides (1984) yielded similar results. Thus, visual transients may automatically influence the transfer of perceptual representations into visual working memory... - Implicit memory influences the allocation of attention in visual cortexJeffrey S Johnson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 1407, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 14:834-9. 2007..We suggest that this guidance of attention by implicit memory is important in the natural environment because it allows environmental regularities to influence perception without the intervention of limited-capacity conscious processes... - Working memory for visual features and conjunctions in schizophreniaJames M Gold
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21228, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 112:61-71. 2003..Thus, the WM impairment in schizophrenia appears to be a consequence of attentional deficits rather than a reduction in storage capacity... - Understanding the function of visual short-term memory: transsaccadic memory, object correspondence, and gaze correctionAndrew Hollingworth
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 1407, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 137:163-81. 2008..These findings demonstrate that VSTM plays a direct role in a fundamentally important aspect of visually guided behavior, and they suggest the existence of previously unknown links between VSTM representations and the occulomotor system... - Working memory consolidation is abnormally slow in schizophreniaRebecca L Fuller
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 114:279-90. 2005..Slowed consolidation may play an important and largely unrecognized role in schizophrenia...
Research Grants
- Attentional Mechanisms in Perception and Working MemorySTEVEN LUCK; Fiscal Year: 2005..abstract_text> ..
- Visual Working Memory: Representation and ProcessSTEVEN LUCK; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Visual Working Memory: Representation and ProcessSteven J Luck; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- ERPLAB: Extensible, open source software for analysis of event-related potentialsSteven J Luck; Fiscal Year: 2010..It will allow research on normal and abnormal brain function to progress more rapidly, leading to a better understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases of mind and brain. ..
- Yearly Workshop in the Event-Related Potential TechniqueSTEVEN LUCK; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Visual Working Memory: Representation and ProcessSTEVEN LUCK; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- ERPLAB: Extensible, open source software for analysis of event-related potentialsSteven J Luck; Fiscal Year: 2011..It will allow research on normal and abnormal brain function to progress more rapidly, leading to a better understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases of mind and brain. ..