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Types and tokens in visual processing: a double dissociation between the attentional blink and repetition blindnessM M Chun
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 23:738-55. 1997..The implications of the double dissociation between AB and RB for theories of visual processing are discussed...- Temporal binding errors are redistributed by the attentional blinkM M Chun
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Percept Psychophys 59:1191-9. 1997..Intrusion errors in RSVP tasks reflect internal capacity limitations for binding independent features. The present results support a two-stage model of RSVP target processing... - Contextual cueing: implicit learning and memory of visual context guides spatial attentionM M Chun
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Cogn Psychol 36:28-71. 1998..The results show how implicit learning and memory of visual context can guide spatial attention towards task-relevant aspects of a scene... 
Visual working memory as visual attention sustained internally over timeMarvin M Chun
Department of Psychology, Yale University, USA
Neuropsychologia 49:1407-9. 2011..Working memory is the interface by which attentional mechanisms select and actively maintain relevant perceptual information from the external world as internal representations within the mind...- Interactions between attention and memoryMarvin M Chun
Department of Psychology, Yale University Box 208205, 2 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 17:177-84. 2007..Thus, exploring the interactions between attention and memory can provide new insights into these fundamental topics of cognitive neuroscience... - Drug-induced amnesia impairs implicit relational memoryMarvin M Chun
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 9:355-7. 2005..Importantly, midazolam impaired implicit, relational memory, whereas non-relational memory was preserved, supporting the characterization of conscious memory in terms of relational encoding... - A taxonomy of external and internal attentionMarvin M Chun
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 62:73-101. 2011..The taxonomy provides an organizing framework that recasts classic debates, raises new issues, and frames understanding of neural mechanisms... 
Memory: enduring traces of perceptual and reflective attentionMarvin M Chun
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Neuron 72:520-35. 2011....- Selecting and perceiving multiple visual objectsYaoda Xu
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 780, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 13:167-74. 2009..It provides a better understanding of the role of the different parietal areas in encoding visual objects and can explain various forms of capacity-limited processing in visual cognition such as working memory... - Attentional modulation of learning-related repetition attenuation effects in human parahippocampal cortexDo-Joon Yi
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
J Neurosci 25:3593-600. 2005..Thus, attention actively governs when neuronal activity is attenuated to repeated perceptual input, and such attention is important during both initial encoding and subsequent expression of the learned information... - Attentional facilitation throughout human visual cortex lingers in retinotopic coordinates after eye movementsJulie D Golomb
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
J Neurosci 30:10493-506. 2010.... - The contents of perceptual hypotheses: evidence from rapid resumption of interrupted visual searchJustin A Junge
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Atten Percept Psychophys 71:681-9. 2009..Our results characterize the content of perceptual search hypotheses and highlight the utility of interrupted search for studying online search processing prior to target identification... - Linking implicit and explicit memory: common encoding factors and shared representationsNicholas B Turk-Browne
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
Neuron 49:917-27. 2006..These results suggest that implicit and explicit memory are subject to the same encoding factors and can rely on similar perceptual processes and representations... - Neural dissociation of delay and uncertainty in intertemporal choiceChristian C Luhmann
Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA
J Neurosci 28:14459-66. 2008..This engagement of the so-called "default network" suggests that during intertemporal choice, decision makers simulate the impending delay via a process of prospection... - Neural fate of ignored stimuli: dissociable effects of perceptual and working memory loadDo-Joon Yi
Department of Psychology, Yale University, PO Box 208205, 2 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
Nat Neurosci 7:992-6. 2004..These dissociable effects of perceptual and working memory load clarify how task-irrelevant, unattended stimuli are processed in category-selective areas in human ventral visual cortex... - Implicit perceptual anticipation triggered by statistical learningNicholas B Turk-Browne
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
J Neurosci 30:11177-87. 2010..Overall, these findings show that future-oriented processing can arise incidentally during the perception of statistical regularities... - Attentional modulation of repetition attenuation is anatomically dissociable for scenes and facesDo-Joon Yi
Department of Psychology, Yale University, PO Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520-8205, USA
Brain Res 1080:53-62. 2006..Thus, attention actively governed when neuronal activity was attenuated to repeated perceptual input, and such attenuation was specific to the cortical regions that actively represent the attended category of stimuli... - Implicit, long-term spatial contextual memoryMarvin M Chun
Department of Psychology, Vision Research Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 29:224-34. 2003..The results have implications for understanding the neural substrate of spatial contextual learning, which may depend on an intact medial temporal lobe system that includes the hippocampus (Mi. M. Chun & E. A. Phelps, 1999)... - The neural fate of consciously perceived and missed events in the attentional blinkRene Marois
Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 530 Wilson Hall, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Neuron 41:465-72. 2004..These results suggest that medial temporal cortex permits rapid categorization of the visual input, while the frontal cortex is part of a capacity-limited attentional bottleneck to conscious report... - Neural evidence of statistical learning: efficient detection of visual regularities without awarenessNicholas B Turk-Browne
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 21:1934-45. 2009..Overall, our findings help elucidate the underlying nature of statistical learning... - Concurrent working memory load can facilitate selective attention: evidence for specialized loadSoojin Park
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Have, CT 06520, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 33:1062-75. 2007..A specialized load account is proposed to describe the dissociable effects of working memory load on selective processing depending on whether the load overlaps with targets or with distractors... - Dissociating task performance from fMRI repetition attenuation in ventral visual cortexYaoda Xu
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8205, USA
J Neurosci 27:5981-5. 2007..Thus, although repetition attenuation and performance are often correlated, they can be dissociated, suggesting that attenuation in ventral visual areas reflects stimulus-specific processing independent of task demands... - Visual grouping in human parietal cortexYaoda Xu
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:18766-71. 2007..These results are discussed within a neural object file framework, which argues for distinctive neural mechanisms supporting object individuation and identification in visual perception... - Enhanced visual motion perception in major depressive disorderJulie D Golomb
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
J Neurosci 29:9072-7. 2009..This finding raises the possibility that spatial suppression may represent a sensitive endophenotypic marker of trait vulnerability in MDD... - Attentional modulation of the amygdala varies with personalitySteven B Most
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Neuroimage 31:934-44. 2006.... - Visual marking: selective attention to asynchronous temporal groupsYuhong Jiang
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 28:717-30. 2002..Visual marking is based on temporal asynchrony between new and old items, which allows segregation of these items into 2 temporal groups. Attention is then selectively applied to 1 group... - Attentional rubbernecking: cognitive control and personality in emotion-induced blindnessSteven B Most
Department of Psychology, Yale University, Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 12:654-61. 2005..Participants lower in harm avoidance were able to reduce emotion-induced blindness under conditions designed to facilitate the ignoring of the emotional stimuli. Those higher in harm avoidance were unable to do so... - Dissociable neural mechanisms supporting visual short-term memory for objectsYaoda Xu
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8205, USA
Nature 440:91-5. 2006..VSTM capacity is therefore determined both by a fixed number of objects and by object complexity... - Inhibition of return to occluded objectsDo Joon Yi
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8205, USA
Percept Psychophys 65:1222-30. 2003..Our findings are in line with prior studies that have demonstrated similar perceptual/attentional effects for occluded objects, as well as for visible objects... - Shape-specific perceptual learning in a figure-ground segregation taskDo Joon Yi
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Vision Res 46:914-24. 2006..Our results suggest that perceptual training increases the involvement of early sensory neurons in the segmentation of trained shapes, and that successful segmentation requires perceptual skills beyond shape recognition alone... - Robustness of the retinotopic attentional trace after eye movementsJulie D Golomb
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
J Vis 10:19.1-12. 2010.... - Refreshing and integrating visual scenes in scene-selective cortexSoojin Park
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 22:2813-22. 2010..Thus, RSC activity associated with refreshing may provide a mechanism for integrating multiple views in the mind... - A common parieto-frontal network is recruited under both low visibility and high perceptual interference conditionsRene Marois
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Vanderbilt University, 111 21st Ave, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Neurophysiol 92:2985-92. 2004..The overlap of activated areas between the two perceptual manipulations suggests that a single parieto-frontal network is summoned under both perceptual visibility and interference conditions... - The native coordinate system of spatial attention is retinotopicJulie D Golomb
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
J Neurosci 28:10654-62. 2008.... - Visual marking: dissociating effects of new and old set sizeYuhong Jiang
Department of Psychology, Yale University, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 28:293-302. 2002..Experiment 3 shows that this reduction may be restricted to paradigms that use temporal segregation cues. Studies should vary old and new set size orthogonally to avoid missing a visual marking effect where one may be present... - Beyond the edges of a view: boundary extension in human scene-selective visual cortexSoojin Park
Department of Psychology, Yale University, PO Box 208205, 2 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Neuron 54:335-42. 2007..These results demonstrate that scene layout representations are extrapolated beyond the confines of the perceptual input. Such extrapolation may facilitate perception of a continuous world from discontinuous views... - Spatial constraints on learning in visual search: modeling contextual cuingTimothy F Brady
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 33:798-815. 2007..Local learning constrains how much guidance is produced by contextual cuing. The modeling and new data also demonstrate that local learning requires that the local context maintain its location in the overall global context... - Neural predictors of moment-to-moment fluctuations in cognitive flexibilityAndrew B Leber
Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:13592-7. 2008..These results reveal distinct neural mechanisms underlying fluctuations in cognitive flexibility... - Effects of scene inversion on change detection of targets matched for visual salienceTodd A Kelley
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
J Vis 3:1-5. 2003..Thus, scene context influences the deployment of attention and change-detection performance, and this top-down influence may be disrupted by scene inversion... - Different roles of the parahippocampal place area (PPA) and retrosplenial cortex (RSC) in panoramic scene perceptionSoojin Park
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Neuroimage 47:1747-56. 2009..These complementary functions of the PPA and RSC enable both specific and integrative representations of scenes across several viewpoints... - The dark side of visual attentionMarvin M Chun
Department of Psychology, Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience and Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, 531 Wilson Hall, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 12:184-9. 2002..Also, new results have revealed how attentional deployment is optimized by non-visual factors such as behavioral set, past experience, and emotional salience... - Perceptual grouping in change detectionYuhong Jiang
Department of Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Percept Psychophys 66:446-53. 2004..Our results suggest that some relational grouping cues are represented in change detection even when they are task irrelevant... - Concurrent working memory load can reduce distractionSo-Yeon Kim
Department of Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:16524-9. 2005..The results highlight how dissociable components of WM interact with perception and executive control... - Visual attention in deaf and normal hearing adults: effects of stimulus compatibilityDouglas P Sladen
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 48:1529-37. 2005..e., 1.0 degrees ) eccentricity. These findings suggest that deaf individuals may allocate their visual resources over a wider range than those with normal hearing... - Delayed attentional engagement in the attentional blinkMark R Nieuwenstein
Department of Psychonomics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 31:1463-75. 2005..The authors conclude that, during the AB, there is a delay between detection and the selection of target candidates for consolidation in short-term memory... - When a thought equals a look: refreshing enhances perceptual memoryDo Joon Yi
Department of Psychology, Yonsei University, Seodaemun gu, Seoul, South Korea
J Cogn Neurosci 20:1371-80. 2008.... - Implicit scene learning is viewpoint dependentKao-Ping Chua
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
Percept Psychophys 65:72-80. 2003..Contextual cuing and, hence, scene context learning decreased as the angular rotation from training viewpoint increased. This finding suggests that implicitly acquired representations of scene layout are viewpoint dependent... - Spatiotemporal object continuity in human ventral visual cortexDo Joon Yi
Department of Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul 120 749, Korea
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:8840-5. 2008..These results indicate that spatiotemporal continuity modulates neural representations of object identity, influencing judgments of object persistence even in the most staunchly "featural" areas of ventral visual cortex...
Research Grants
- ATTENTION AND NEURAL PLASTICITY IN HUMAN VISIONMARVIN CHUN; Fiscal Year: 2006..More broadly, the results should inform theories of visual recognition and perceptual learning, as well as clinical issues of rehabilitation and recovery from eye disease or injury. ..
- ATTENTION AND NEURAL PLASTICITY IN HUMAN VISIONMARVIN CHUN; Fiscal Year: 2007..The research has significant implications for theories of visual learning and attention, as well as clinical issues of rehabilitation and recovery from eye disease, injury, or brain damage. ..
- ATTENTION AND NEURAL PLASTICITY IN HUMAN VISIONMarvin M Chun; Fiscal Year: 2010..The research has significant implications for theories of visual learning and attention, as well as clinical issues of rehabilitation and recovery from eye disease, injury, or brain damage. ..