Dr Sara Spotorno's Outputs (17)

What's left of the leftward bias in scene viewing? Lateral asymmetries in information processing during early search guidance (2024)
Journal Article
Spotorno, S., & Tatler, B. W. (2025). What's left of the leftward bias in scene viewing? Lateral asymmetries in information processing during early search guidance. Cognition, 254, Article 106009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.106009

Understanding how early scene viewing is guided can reveal fundamental brain mechanisms for quickly making sense of our surroundings. Viewing is often initiated from the left side. Across two experiments, we focused on search initiation for lateralis... Read More about What's left of the leftward bias in scene viewing? Lateral asymmetries in information processing during early search guidance.

Competition between emotional faces in visuospatial working memory. (2024)
Journal Article
Poncet, M., Spotorno, S., & Jackson, M. C. (2024). Competition between emotional faces in visuospatial working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001330

Visuospatial working memory (VSWM) helps track the identity and location of people during social interactions. Previous work showed better VSWM when all faces at encoding displayed a happy compared to an angry expression, reflecting a prosocial prefe... Read More about Competition between emotional faces in visuospatial working memory..

Age-related differences when searching in a real environment: The use of semantic contextual guidance and incidental object encoding (2022)
Journal Article
Ramzaoui, H., Faure, S., & Spotorno, S. (2022). Age-related differences when searching in a real environment: The use of semantic contextual guidance and incidental object encoding. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75(10), https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211064887

Top-down and bottom-up sources of eye-movement guidance during realistic scene search in Alzheimer’s disease. (2022)
Journal Article
Ramzaoui, H., Faure, S., David, R., & Spotorno, S. (2022). Top-down and bottom-up sources of eye-movement guidance during realistic scene search in Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropsychology, 36(7), https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000797

Top-down and bottom-up guidance in normal aging during scene search. (2021)
Journal Article
Ramzaoui, H., Faure, S., & Spotorno, S. (2021). Top-down and bottom-up guidance in normal aging during scene search. Psychology and Aging, 36(4), https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000485

Emotional scene processing in children and adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review (2021)
Journal Article
Leroy, A., Spotorno, S., & Faure, S. (2021). Emotional scene processing in children and adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 30(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-020-01480-0

Traitements sémantiques et émotionnels des scènes visuelles complexes : une synthèse critique de l’état actuel des connaissances (2021)
Journal Article
Leroy, A., Spotorno, S., & Faure, S. (2021). Traitements sémantiques et émotionnels des scènes visuelles complexes : une synthèse critique de l’état actuel des connaissances. L'Année psychologique, Vol. 121(1), https://doi.org/10.3917/anpsy1.211.0101

Reciprocal semantic predictions drive categorization of scene contexts and objects even when they are separate (2020)
Journal Article
Leroy, A., Faure, S., & Spotorno, S. (2020). Reciprocal semantic predictions drive categorization of scene contexts and objects even when they are separate. Scientific Reports, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65158-y

Remembering who was where: A happy expression advantage for face identity-location binding in working memory. (2018)
Journal Article
Spotorno, S., Evans, M., & Jackson, M. C. (2018). Remembering who was where: A happy expression advantage for face identity-location binding in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(9), https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000522

Alzheimer’s Disease, Visual Search, and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living: A Review and a New Perspective on Attention and Eye Movements (2018)
Journal Article
Ramzaoui, H., Faure, S., & Spotorno, S. (2018). Alzheimer’s Disease, Visual Search, and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living: A Review and a New Perspective on Attention and Eye Movements. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 66(3), https://doi.org/10.3233/jad-180043

The elephant in the room: Inconsistency in scene viewing and representation. (2017)
Journal Article
Spotorno, S., & Tatler, B. W. (2017). The elephant in the room: Inconsistency in scene viewing and representation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(10), https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000456

Fixational saccades during grating detection and discrimination (2016)
Journal Article
Spotorno, S., Masson, G. S., & Montagnini, A. (2016). Fixational saccades during grating detection and discrimination. Vision Research, 118, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2015.03.013

Disentangling the effects of spatial inconsistency of targets and distractors when searching in realistic scenes (2015)
Journal Article
Spotorno, S., Malcolm, G., & Tatler, B. (2015). Disentangling the effects of spatial inconsistency of targets and distractors when searching in realistic scenes. Journal of Vision, 15(2), https://doi.org/10.1167/15.2.12

How context information and target information guide the eyes from the first epoch of search in real-world scenes (2014)
Journal Article
Spotorno, S., Malcolm, G., & Tatler, B. (2014). How context information and target information guide the eyes from the first epoch of search in real-world scenes. Journal of Vision, 14(2), https://doi.org/10.1167/14.2.7

Semantic consistency versus perceptual salience in visual scenes: Findings from change detection (2013)
Journal Article
Spotorno, S., Tatler, B. W., & Faure, S. (2013). Semantic consistency versus perceptual salience in visual scenes: Findings from change detection. Acta Psychologica, 142(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.12.009

Change Detection in Complex Scenes: Hemispheric Contribution and the Role of Perceptual and Semantic Factors (2011)
Journal Article
Spotorno, S., & Faure, S. (2011). Change Detection in Complex Scenes: Hemispheric Contribution and the Role of Perceptual and Semantic Factors. Perception, 40(1), https://doi.org/10.1068/p6524

The right hemisphere advantage in visual change detection depends on temporal factors (2011)
Journal Article
Spotorno, S., & Faure, S. (2011). The right hemisphere advantage in visual change detection depends on temporal factors. Brain and Cognition, 77(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2011.09.003