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The cortical representation of centrally presented words: a magnetic stimulation study (2003)
Journal Article
Lavidor, M., Ellison, A., & Walsh, V. (2003). The cortical representation of centrally presented words: a magnetic stimulation study. Visual Cognition, 10(3), 341-362. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280244000131

The right and left visual fields each project to the contralateral cerebral hemispheres. The current study aimed to investigate the extent of the functional overlap of the two hemifields along the vertical meridian. We applied repetitive transcranial... Read More about The cortical representation of centrally presented words: a magnetic stimulation study.

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.

Emotion-specific clues to the neural substrate of empathy. (2002)
Journal Article
Atkinson, A. (2002). Emotion-specific clues to the neural substrate of empathy. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x02240017

Research only alluded to by Preston & de Waal (P&deW) indicates the disproportionate involvement of some brain regions in the perception and experience of certain emotions. This suggests that the neural substrate of primitive emotional contagion has... Read More about Emotion-specific clues to the neural substrate of empathy..

The eyebrow frown: a salient social signal (2002)
Journal Article
Tipples, J., Atkinson, A., & Young, A. (2002). The eyebrow frown: a salient social signal. Emotion, 2(3), 288-296. https://doi.org/10.1037/1528-3542.2.3.288

Seven experiments investigated the finding that threatening schematic faces are detected more quickly than nonthreatening faces. Threatening faces with ∨-shaped eyebrows (angry and scheming expressions) were detected more quickly than nonthreatening... Read More about The eyebrow frown: a salient social signal.

Colour & the cortex: Wavelength processing in cortical achromatopsia. (2001)
Book Chapter
Heywood, C., Kentridge, R., & Cowey, A. (2001). Colour & the cortex: Wavelength processing in cortical achromatopsia. In B. De Gelder, E. De Haan, & C. Heywood (Eds.), Out of Mind. Varieties of Unconscious Processing: New Findings & Models ( 52-68). Oxford University Press

Attention & alerting: Cognitive processes spared in blindsight. (2001)
Book Chapter
Kentridge, R., & Heywood, C. (2001). Attention & alerting: Cognitive processes spared in blindsight. In B. De Gelder, E. De Haan, & C. Heywood (Eds.), Out of Mind. Varieties of Unconscious Processing: New Findings & Models ( 163-181). Oxford University Press

Effect of object onset on the distribution of visual attention (2001)
Journal Article
Cole, G., Gellatly, A., & Blurton, A. (2001). Effect of object onset on the distribution of visual attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27(6), 1356-1368. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.27.6.1356

There now exists considerable evidence to suggest that the appearance of a new object in the visual field captures visual attention. One of the consequences of this attentional capture is that the object initiates a redistribution of attentional reso... Read More about Effect of object onset on the distribution of visual attention.

Footedness in world soccer: an analysis of France '98 (2001)
Journal Article
Carey, D., Smith, G., Smith, D., Shepherd, J., Skriver, J., Ord, L., & Rutland, A. (2001). Footedness in world soccer: an analysis of France '98. Journal of Sports Sciences, 19(11), 855-864

Most football players and coaches agree that players are capable of learning to use both feet with equal frequency and efficiency - that is, become 'two-footed'. There is also some consensus that two-footed play is associated with skill in individual... Read More about Footedness in world soccer: an analysis of France '98.

The regional cortical basis of achromatopsia: a study on macaque monkeys and an achromatopsic patient (2001)
Journal Article
Cowey, A., Heywood, C., & Irving-Bell, L. (2001). The regional cortical basis of achromatopsia: a study on macaque monkeys and an achromatopsic patient. European Journal of Neuroscience, 14(9), 1555-1566. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.0953-816x.2001.01774.x

Previous experiments have revealed total loss of colour vision following removal of all inferior temporal cortex, a condition akin to complete cerebral achromatopsia in humans. Whether less extensive ablation genuinely impairs colour perception witho... Read More about The regional cortical basis of achromatopsia: a study on macaque monkeys and an achromatopsic patient.

Domains, brains, and evolution (2001)
Book Chapter
Wheeler, M., & Atkinson, A. (2001). Domains, brains, and evolution. In D. Walsh (Ed.), Naturalism, evolution and mind (239-266). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511563843.012

Our aim in this paper is to do some conceptual spring-cleaning. Several prominent evolutionary psychologists have argued that the human cognitive architecture consists in a large number of domain-specific features, rather than, as dissenters claim, a... Read More about Domains, brains, and evolution.

Complementary localization and lateralization of orienting and motor attention (2001)
Journal Article
Rushworth, M., Ellison, A., & Walsh, V. (2001). Complementary localization and lateralization of orienting and motor attention. Nature Neuroscience, 4(6), 656-661. https://doi.org/10.1038/88492

It is widely agreed that the right posterior parietal cortex has a preeminent role in visuospatial and orienting attention. A number of lines of evidence suggest that although orienting and the preparation of oculomotor responses are dissociable from... Read More about Complementary localization and lateralization of orienting and motor attention.

The role of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in studies of vision, attention and cognition (2001)
Journal Article
Stewart, L., Ellison, A., Walsh, V., & Cowey, A. (2001). The role of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in studies of vision, attention and cognition. Acta Psychologica, 107(1-3), 275-291. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0001-6918%2801%2900035-x

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can be conceptualized as a virtual lesion technique, capable of disrupting organized cortical activity, transiently and reversibly. The technique combines good spatial and temporal resolution and, moreover, bec... Read More about The role of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in studies of vision, attention and cognition.

Saccade target selection in visual search: the effect of information from the previous fixation (2001)
Journal Article
Findlay, J., Brown, V., & Gilchrist, I. (2001). Saccade target selection in visual search: the effect of information from the previous fixation. Vision Research, 41(1), 87-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0042-6989%2800%2900236-4

This paper reports an analysis of saccades made during a task of visual search for a colour shape conjunction. The analysis concentrates on the saccade following the first saccade, thus complementing an earlier paper where the first saccades were ana... Read More about Saccade target selection in visual search: the effect of information from the previous fixation.

Visual Field asymmetries in attention and learning (2001)
Journal Article
Ellison, A., & Walsh, V. (2001). Visual Field asymmetries in attention and learning. Spatial vision, 14(1), 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1163/156856801741323

It has been suggested that attentional resolution is greater in the lower than in the upper visual lfield. As there is no corresponding asymmetry between the areas in the primary visual cortex where the input from upper and lower visual fields is pro... Read More about Visual Field asymmetries in attention and learning.

Affective blindsight? (2000)
Journal Article
Heywood, C., & Kentridge, R. (2000). Affective blindsight?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 125-126

Consciousness: mapping the theoretical landscape (2000)
Journal Article
Atkinson, A., Thomas, M., & Cleeremans, A. (2000). Consciousness: mapping the theoretical landscape. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4(10), 372-382. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1364-6613%2800%2901533-3

What makes us conscious? Many theories that attempt to answer this question have appeared recently in the context of widespread interest about consciousness in the cognitive neurosciences. Most of these proposals are formulated in terms of the inform... Read More about Consciousness: mapping the theoretical landscape.