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Precision in spatial working memory examined with mouse pointing (2023)
Journal Article

The capacity of visuospatial working memory (VSWM) is limited. However, there is continued debate surrounding the nature of this capacity limitation. The resource model (Bays et al., 2009) proposes that VSWM capacity is limited by the precision with... Read More about Precision in spatial working memory examined with mouse pointing.

A presaccadic perceptual impairment at the postsaccadic location of the blindspot (2023)
Journal Article

Saccadic eye movements are preceded by profound changes in visual perception. These changes have been linked to the phenomenon of ‘forward remapping’, in which cells begin to respond to stimuli that appear in their post-saccadic receptive field befor... Read More about A presaccadic perceptual impairment at the postsaccadic location of the blindspot.

Dynamic resource allocation in spatial working memory during full and partial report tasks (2023)
Journal Article

Serial position effects are well-documented in working memory literature. Studies of spatial short-term memory that rely on binary response; full report tasks tend to report stronger primacy than recency effects. In contrast, studies that utilize a c... Read More about Dynamic resource allocation in spatial working memory during full and partial report tasks.

Oculomotor rehearsal in visuospatial working memory (2022)
Journal Article

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. It has been argued that the oculomotor system is selectivel... Read More about Oculomotor rehearsal in visuospatial working memory.

A horizontal–vertical anisotropy in spatial short-term memory (2022)
Journal Article

Visual perception and saccadic eye-movements are more precise when directed at isoeccentric locations along the horizontal compared to vertical meridian. This effect is known as horizontal-vertical anisotropy (HVA). Given that the eye-movement system... Read More about A horizontal–vertical anisotropy in spatial short-term memory.

Reduced mood variability is associated with enhanced performance during ultrarunnning (2021)
Journal Article

Ultrarunning requires extraordinary endurance but the psychological factors involved in successful ultrarunning are not well understood. One widely held view is that fluctuations in mood play a pivotal role in performance during endurance events. How... Read More about Reduced mood variability is associated with enhanced performance during ultrarunnning.

Gaze cueing, mental states, and the effect of autistic traits (2021)
Journal Article

The ability to interpret and follow the gaze of our social partners is an integral skill in human communication. Recent research has demonstrated that gaze following behaviour is influenced by theory of mind (ToM) processes. However, it has yet to be... Read More about Gaze cueing, mental states, and the effect of autistic traits.

The presence of placeholders modulates the naso-temporal asymmetry in the remote distractor effect (2021)
Journal Article

The remote distractor effect (RDE) is a well-known and robust phenomenon whereby latencies of saccades are increased when a distractor is presented simultaneously along with the saccade target. Studies of the RDE in patients with a loss of vision in... Read More about The presence of placeholders modulates the naso-temporal asymmetry in the remote distractor effect.

Spatial Attention and Spatial Short Term Memory in PSP and Parkinson’s Disease (2021)
Journal Article

Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterised by deterioration in motor, oculomotor and cognitive function. A key clinical feature of PSP is the progressive paralysis of eye movements, most notably for vertical sa... Read More about Spatial Attention and Spatial Short Term Memory in PSP and Parkinson’s Disease.

The Role of the Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Attentional Bias (2020)
Journal Article

The DLPFC is thought to be critically involved in maintaining attention away from behaviourally irrelevant information, and in the establishment of attentional control settings. These play an important role in the phenomenon of top-down bias to featu... Read More about The Role of the Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Attentional Bias.

Dispositional Goals and Academic Achievement: Refining the 2x2 Achievement Goal Model (2020)
Journal Article

On the link between attentional search and the oculomotor system: is pre-attentive search restricted to the range of eye movements? (2020)
Journal Article

It has been proposed that covert visual search can be fast, efficient, and stimulus driven, particularly when the target is defined by a salient single feature, or slow, inefficient, and effortful when the target is defined by a nonsalient conjunctio... Read More about On the link between attentional search and the oculomotor system: is pre-attentive search restricted to the range of eye movements?.

Aesthetic Appreciation and Spanish Art: Insights from Eye-Tracking (2019)
Journal Article

Eye-tracking—the process of capturing and measuring human eye movement—is becoming an increasingly prevalent tool in the cultural heritage sector to understand visual processing and audience behaviours. Yet, most applications to date have focused on... Read More about Aesthetic Appreciation and Spanish Art: Insights from Eye-Tracking.

The Limitations of Reward Effects on Saccade Latencies: An Exploration of Task-Specificity and Strength (2019)
Journal Article

Saccadic eye movements are simple, visually guided actions. Operant conditioning of specific saccade directions can reduce the latency of eye movements in the conditioned direction. However, it is not clear to what extent this learning transfers from... Read More about The Limitations of Reward Effects on Saccade Latencies: An Exploration of Task-Specificity and Strength.

Associations and Dissociations between Oculomotor Readiness and Covert Attention (2019)
Journal Article

The idea that covert mental processes such as spatial attention are fundamentally dependent on systems that control overt movements of the eyes has had a profound influence on theoretical models of spatial attention. However, theories such as Klein’s... Read More about Associations and Dissociations between Oculomotor Readiness and Covert Attention.

Visual Search in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (2018)
Book Chapter

Progressive supranuclear palsy is often considered a disease of the motor system and is characterised by a profound oculomotor impairment. The oculomotor system is also known to be fundamentally important in cognitive processes such as attention and... Read More about Visual Search in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.

Covert Attention Beyond the Range of Eye-movements: Evidence for a Dissociation between Exogenous and Endogenous orienting (2018)
Journal Article

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

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

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

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.