Outputs (5)

Covert Attention Beyond the Range of Eye-movements: Evidence for a Dissociation between Exogenous and Endogenous orienting (2018)
Journal Article
Casteau, S., & Smith, D. (2020). Covert Attention Beyond the Range of Eye-movements: Evidence for a Dissociation between Exogenous and Endogenous orienting. Cortex, 122, 170-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.11.007

The relationship between covert shift of attention and the oculomotor system has been the subject of numerous studies. A widely held view, known as Premotor Theory, is that covert attention depends upon activation of the oculomotor system. However, r... Read More about Covert Attention Beyond the Range of Eye-movements: Evidence for a Dissociation between Exogenous and Endogenous orienting.

Light social drinkers are more distracted by irrelevant information from an induced attentional bias than heavy social drinkers (2018)
Journal Article
Knight, H. C., Smith, D. T., Knight, D. C., & Ellison, A. (2018). Light social drinkers are more distracted by irrelevant information from an induced attentional bias than heavy social drinkers. Psychopharmacology, 235(10), 2967-2978. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-018-4987-4

It is well established that alcoholics and heavy social drinkers show a bias of attention towards alcohol-related items. Previous research suggests that there is a shared foundation of attentional bias, which is linked to attentional control settings... Read More about Light social drinkers are more distracted by irrelevant information from an induced attentional bias than heavy social drinkers.

Spatial Working Memory in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (2018)
Journal Article
Smith, D., & Archibald, N. (2020). Spatial Working Memory in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. Cortex, 122, 115-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.07.004

The neural and cognitive mechanisms of spatial working memory are tightly coupled with the systems that control eye-movements but the precise nature of this coupling is not well understood. In particular, there are very few neuropsychological studies... Read More about Spatial Working Memory in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.

The effect of offset cues on saccade programming and covert attention (2018)
Journal Article
Smith, D., & Casteau, S. (2019). The effect of offset cues on saccade programming and covert attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(3), 481-490. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818759468

Salient peripheral events trigger fast, “exogenous” covert orienting. The influential premotor theory of attention argues that covert orienting of attention depends upon planned but unexecuted eye-movements. One problem with this theory is that salie... Read More about The effect of offset cues on saccade programming and covert attention.

Mental State Attributions Mediate the Gaze Cueing Effect (2018)
Journal Article
Morgan, E. J., Freeth, M., & Smith, D. T. (2018). Mental State Attributions Mediate the Gaze Cueing Effect. Vision, 2(1), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/vision2010011

Understanding the mental states of our social partners allows us to successfully interact with the world around us. Mental state attributions are argued to underpin social attention, and have been shown to modulate attentional orienting to social cue... Read More about Mental State Attributions Mediate the Gaze Cueing Effect.