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Investigating the familiarity effect in texture segmentation by means of event-related brain potentials (2017)
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Becker, L., Smith, D., & Schenk, T. (2017). Investigating the familiarity effect in texture segmentation by means of event-related brain potentials. Vision Research, 140, 120-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2017.08.002

The familiarity effect (FE) refers to the phenomenon that it is easier to find an unfamiliar element on a background of familiar elements than vice versa. In this study, we examined the FE in texture segmentation while recording event-related brain p... Read More about Investigating the familiarity effect in texture segmentation by means of event-related brain potentials.

Spontaneous Perspective Taking in Humans? (2017)
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Cole, G., Atkinson, M., D’Souza, A., & Smith, D. (2017). Spontaneous Perspective Taking in Humans?. Vision, 1(17), 2-15. https://doi.org/10.3390/vision1020017

A number of social cognition studies posit that humans spontaneously compute the viewpoint of other individuals. This is based on experiments showing that responses are shorter when a human agent, located in a visual display, can see the stimuli rele... Read More about Spontaneous Perspective Taking in Humans?.

Working memory enhances target detection in the blind hemifield (2016)
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Smith, D. T., & Lane, A. R. (2016). Working memory enhances target detection in the blind hemifield. Visual Cognition, 25(1-3), 4-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2016.1244137

Visual perception can be influenced by the content of working memory. Previous studies have shown this influence can be enough to improve unconscious visual discrimination in healthy participants and conscious visual discrimination in neuropsychologi... Read More about Working memory enhances target detection in the blind hemifield.

Do humans spontaneously take the perspective of others? (2016)
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Cole, G., Atkinson, M., Le, A., & Smith, D. (2016). Do humans spontaneously take the perspective of others?. Acta Psychologica, 164, 165-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.01.007

A growing number of authors have argued that humans automatically compute the visual perspective of other individuals. Evidence for this has come from the dot perspective task in which observers are faster to judge the number of dots in a display whe... Read More about Do humans spontaneously take the perspective of others?.

Object-based attentional facilitation and inhibition are neuropsychologically dissociated (2015)
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Smith, D., Ball, K., Swalwell, R., & Schenk, T. (2016). Object-based attentional facilitation and inhibition are neuropsychologically dissociated. Neuropsychologia, 80, 9-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.11.003

Salient peripheral cues produce a transient shift of attention which is superseded by a sustained inhibitory effect. Cueing part of an object produces an inhibitory cueing effect (ICE) that spreads throughout the object. In dynamic scenes the ICE sta... Read More about Object-based attentional facilitation and inhibition are neuropsychologically dissociated.

Rewards modulate saccade latency but not exogenous spatial attention (2015)
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Dunne, S., Ellison, A., & Smith, D. (2015). Rewards modulate saccade latency but not exogenous spatial attention. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 1080. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01080

The eye movement system is sensitive to reward. However, whilst the eye movement system is extremely flexible, the extent to which changes to oculomotor behavior induced by reward paradigms persist beyond the training period or transfer to other ocul... Read More about Rewards modulate saccade latency but not exogenous spatial attention.

Altering attentional control settings causes persistent biases of visual attention (2015)
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Knight, H., Smith, D., Knight, D., & Ellison, A. (2015). Altering attentional control settings causes persistent biases of visual attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(1), 129-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2015.1031144

Attentional control settings have an important role in guiding visual behaviour. Previous work within cognitive psychology has found that the deployment of general attentional control settings can be modulated by training. However, research has not y... Read More about Altering attentional control settings causes persistent biases of visual attention.

Mental state attribution and the gaze cueing effect (2015)
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Cole, G., Smith, D., & Atkinson, M. (2015). Mental state attribution and the gaze cueing effect. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 77(4), 1105-1115. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-014-0780-6

Theory of mind is said to be possessed by an individual if he or she is able to impute mental states to others. Recently, some authors have demonstrated that such mental state attributions can mediate the “gaze cueing” effect, in which observation of... Read More about Mental state attribution and the gaze cueing effect.

The role of the oculomotor system in covert social attention (2014)
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Morgan, E., Ball, K., & Smith, D. (2014). The role of the oculomotor system in covert social attention. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 76(5), 1265-1270. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-014-0716-1

Observing a change in gaze direction triggers a reflexive shift of attention and appears to engage the eye-movement system. However, the functional relationship between social attention and this oculomotor activation is unclear. One extremely influen... Read More about The role of the oculomotor system in covert social attention.

Oculomotor preparation as a rehearsal mechanism in spatial working memory (2014)
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Pearson, D., Ball, K., & Smith, D. (2014). Oculomotor preparation as a rehearsal mechanism in spatial working memory. Cognition, 132(3), 416-428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.05.006

There is little consensus regarding the specific processes responsible for encoding, maintenance, and retrieval of information in visuo-spatial working memory (VSWM). One influential theory is that VSWM may involve activation of the eye-movement (ocu... Read More about Oculomotor preparation as a rehearsal mechanism in spatial working memory.

Functional Interaction between Right Parietal and Bilateral Frontal Cortices during Visual Search Tasks Revealed Using Functional Magnetic Imaging and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (2014)
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Ellison, A., Ball, K., Moseley, P., Dowsett, J., Smith, D., Weis, S., & Lane, A. (2014). Functional Interaction between Right Parietal and Bilateral Frontal Cortices during Visual Search Tasks Revealed Using Functional Magnetic Imaging and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation. PLoS ONE, 9(4), Article e93767. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093767

The existence of a network of brain regions which are activated when one undertakes a difficult visual search task is well established. Two primary nodes on this network are right posterior parietal cortex (rPPC) and right frontal eye fields. Both ha... Read More about Functional Interaction between Right Parietal and Bilateral Frontal Cortices during Visual Search Tasks Revealed Using Functional Magnetic Imaging and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation.

Covert visual search within and beyond the effective oculomotor range (2013)
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Smith, D., Ball, K., & Ellison, A. (2014). Covert visual search within and beyond the effective oculomotor range. Vision Research, 95, 11-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2013.12.003

Covert spatial attention is tightly coupled to the eye-movement system, but the precise nature of this coupling remains contentious. Recent research has argued that covert attention and overt eye-movements many share a common biological limit, such t... Read More about Covert visual search within and beyond the effective oculomotor range.

Oculomotor involvement in spatial working memory is task-specific (2013)
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Ball, K., Pearson, D., & Smith, D. (2013). Oculomotor involvement in spatial working memory is task-specific. Cognition, 129(2), 439-446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2013.08.006

Many everyday tasks, such as remembering where you parked, require the capacity to store and manipulate information about the visual and spatial properties of the world. The ability to represent, remember, and manipulate spatial information is known... Read More about Oculomotor involvement in spatial working memory is task-specific.

Efficacy and feasibility of home-based training for individuals with homonymous visual field defects (2013)
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Aimola, L., Lane, A. R., Smith, D. T., Kerkhoff, G., Ford, G. A., & Schenk, T. (2014). Efficacy and feasibility of home-based training for individuals with homonymous visual field defects. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 28(3), 207-218. https://doi.org/10.1177/1545968313503219

Background. Homonymous visual field defects (HVFDs) are one of the most common consequences of stroke. Compensatory training encourages affected individuals to develop more efficient eye movements to improve function. However, training is typically s... Read More about Efficacy and feasibility of home-based training for individuals with homonymous visual field defects.

Near and far space: understanding the neural mechanisms of spatial attention (2013)
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Lane, A., Ball, K., Smith, D., Schenk, T., & Ellison, A. (2013). Near and far space: understanding the neural mechanisms of spatial attention. Human Brain Mapping, 34(2), 356-366. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.21433

Visuospatial neglect is a multicomponent syndrome, and one dissociation reported is between neglect for near (peripersonal) and far (extrapersonal) space. Owing to patient heterogeneity and extensive lesions, it is difficult to determine the precise... Read More about Near and far space: understanding the neural mechanisms of spatial attention.

Saccade preparation is required for exogenous attention but not endogenous attention or IOR (2012)
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Smith, D., Schenk, T., & Rorden, C. (2012). Saccade preparation is required for exogenous attention but not endogenous attention or IOR. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38(6), 1438-1447. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027794

Covert attention is tightly coupled with the control of eye-movements but there is controversy about how tight this coupling is. The Premotor theory of attention proposes that activation of the eye-movement system is necessary to produce shifts of at... Read More about Saccade preparation is required for exogenous attention but not endogenous attention or IOR.

Inhibition of Return impairs phosphene detection (2012)
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Smith, D., Ball, K., & Ellison, A. (2012). Inhibition of Return impairs phosphene detection. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(11), 2262-2267. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00276

Efficient visual exploration requires the ability to select possible target locations via spatial attention and to deselect previously inspected locations via inhibition of return (IOR). Although a great deal is known about the effects of spatial att... Read More about Inhibition of Return impairs phosphene detection.

The Premotor theory of attention: Time to move on? (2012)
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Smith, D., & Schenk, T. (2012). The Premotor theory of attention: Time to move on?. Neuropsychologia, 50(6), 1104-1114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.01.025

Spatial attention and eye-movements are tightly coupled, but the precise nature of this coupling is controversial. The influential but controversial Premotor theory of attention makes four specific predictions about the relationship between motor pre... Read More about The Premotor theory of attention: Time to move on?.

The involvement of posterior parietal cortex and frontal eye fields in spatially primed visual search (2012)
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Lane, A., Smith, D., Schenk, T., & Ellison, A. (2012). The involvement of posterior parietal cortex and frontal eye fields in spatially primed visual search. Brain Stimulation, 5(1), 11-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2011.01.005

Background: Right posterior parietal cortex (rPPC) and frontal eye fields (FEF) are known to be involved in processing visuospatial attention. However, the functional involvement of these areas in spatial priming in complex conjunction visual search... Read More about The involvement of posterior parietal cortex and frontal eye fields in spatially primed visual search.