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Attended but unseen: Visual attention is not sufficient for visual awareness (2007)
Journal Article
Kentridge, R., Nijboer, T., & Heywood, C. (2008). Attended but unseen: Visual attention is not sufficient for visual awareness. Neuropsychologia, 46(3), 864-869. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.11.036

Does any one psychological process give rise to visual awareness? One candidate is selective attention—when we attend to something it seems we always see it. But if attention can selectively enhance our response to an unseen stimulus then attention c... Read More about Attended but unseen: Visual attention is not sufficient for visual awareness.

Q-cgi: new techniques to assess variation in perception applied to facial attractiveness (2007)
Journal Article
Burt, D., Kentridge, R., Good, J., Perrett, D., Tiddeman, B., & Boothroyd, L. (2007). Q-cgi: new techniques to assess variation in perception applied to facial attractiveness. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 274(1627), 2779-2784. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.1037

We present novel methods for assessing variation in the perception of subjective cues based on a fusion of Q-methodology with computer graphics techniques. Participants first Q-sort face stimuli based upon a subjective quality; a randomization-based... Read More about Q-cgi: new techniques to assess variation in perception applied to facial attractiveness.

Object onset and parvocellular guidance of attentional allocation (2005)
Journal Article
Cole, G., Kentridge, R., & Heywood, C. (2005). Object onset and parvocellular guidance of attentional allocation. Psychological Science, 16(4), 270-274. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.01527.x

The parvocellular visual pathway in the primate brain is known to be involved with the processing of color. However, a subject of debate is whether an abrupt change in color, conveyed via this pathway, is capable of automatically attracting attention... Read More about Object onset and parvocellular guidance of attentional allocation.

Covert processing of visual form in the absence of area LO (2004)
Journal Article
Kentridge, R., Heywood, C., & Milner, A. (2004). Covert processing of visual form in the absence of area LO. Neuropsychologia, 42(11), 1488-1495. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.03.007

The patient D.F., who suffers from severe visual form agnosia, has been found to have a bilateral lesion of area LO, an area known to be intimately involved in the perception of object shape. Despite her perceptual impairment, however, D.F. retains r... Read More about Covert processing of visual form in the absence of area LO.

Visual salience in the change detection paradigm: The special role of object onset (2004)
Journal Article
Cole, G., Kentridge, R., & Heywood, C. (2004). Visual salience in the change detection paradigm: The special role of object onset. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30(3), 464-477. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.30.3.464

The relative efficacy with which appearance of a new object orients visual attention was investigated. At issue is whether the visual system treats onset as being of particular importance or only 1 of a number of stimulus events equally likely to sum... Read More about Visual salience in the change detection paradigm: The special role of object onset.

Color perception. (2003)
Book Chapter
Kentridge, R., Heywood, C., & Davidoff, J. (2003). Color perception. In M. Arbib (Ed.), Handbook of brain theory & neural-networks (2nd Edition) ( 230-233). Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press

Blindsight. (2003)
Book Chapter
Kentridge, R. (2003). Blindsight. In L. Nadel (Ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Cognitive Science (Volume 1) ( 390-397). Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com]

Attentional capture by colour and motion in cerebral achromatopsia (2003)
Journal Article
Cole, G., Heywood, C., Kentridge, R., Fairholm, I., & Cowey, A. (2003). Attentional capture by colour and motion in cerebral achromatopsia. Neuropsychologia, 41(13), 1837-1846. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0028-3932%2803%2900184-2

Cerebral achromatopsia is a rare condition in which damage to the ventromedial occipital area of the cortex results in the loss of colour experience. Nevertheless, cortically colour-blind patients can still use wavelength variation to perceive form a... Read More about Attentional capture by colour and motion in cerebral achromatopsia.

Detectability of onsets versus offsets in the change detection paradigm (2003)
Journal Article
Cole, G., Kentridge, R., Gellatly, A., & Heywood, C. (2003). Detectability of onsets versus offsets in the change detection paradigm. Journal of Vision, 3(1), 22-31. https://doi.org/10.1167/3.1.3

The human visual system is particularly sensitive to abrupt onset of new objects that appear in the visual field. Onsets have been shown to capture attention even when other transients simultaneously occur. This has led some authors to argue for the... Read More about Detectability of onsets versus offsets in the change detection paradigm.