publications

Below is a list of our more recent publications.

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In press

Wan, X., & Lleras, A. (in press). The Effect of Feature
Discriminability on the Inter-Trial Inhibition of Focused
Attention. Visual Cognition. Click here

Enns, J.T., Lleras, A., & Moore, C.M. (in press).
Object updating: a force for perceptual continuity and
scene stability in human vision. In R. Nijhawan (Ed.)
Problems of space and time in perception and action.
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge:MA, USA.
Click here

Mathewson, K. E., Fabiani, M., Gratton, G., Beck, D.
M., & Lleras, A. (in press). Making waves in the stream
of consciousness: Elliciting predictable oscillations in
visual awareness with pretarget entrainment at 12 Hz.
Proceedings of the Object Perception Attention and
Memory Workshop, Boston, MA, Nov. 19, 2009.
Visual Cognition. Click here

2009

Lleras, A., Levinthal, B. R., & J., & Kawahara, J. (2009). The remains of the trial: Goal-determined inter-trial suppression of selective attention. In Narayanan Srinivasan, editors: Progress in Brain Research, Vol 176, ATTENTION, Narayanan Srivanasan. The Netherlands: Elsevier, 2009, 195-213. ERRATUM: in Figure 4 (page 202), the labels on the two bars are reversed: "Target previewed" should read "Distractor previewed" and vice-versa. Click here

Lleras, A., & Enns, J. T. (2009). Focused spatial attention is independent of rapid resumption of an interrupted search. Perception & Psychophysics, 71,
565-577. Click here.

Lleras, A., Kawahara, J., & Levinthal, B. R. (2009). Past rejections lead to future misses: Selection-related inhibition produces blink-like misses of future (easily detectable) events. Journal of Vision,9(3):26,1-12. Click here

Ambinder, M. S., & Lleras, A. (2009). Temporal tuning and attentional gating: two distinct attentional mechanisms on the perception of rapid serial visual events. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 71, 1495-1506. Click
here

Thomas, L. E., & Lleras, A. (2009a). Covert shifts of attention function as an implicit aid to insight. Cognition, 111, 168-174. Click here

Thomas, L. E., & Lleras, A. (2009b). Inhibitory tagging in an interrupted visual search. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. Click here

Thomas, L. E., & Lleras, A. (2009c). Swinging into thought: directed movement guides insight in problem solving. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16,719-723. Click here

2008

Lleras, A., Kawahara, J., Wan, X. I., Ariga, A. (2008). Inter-trial inhibition of focused attention in pop-out search. Perception & Psychophysics, 70, 114-131. ERRATUM: in Figure 5, page 126, there is a missing "0" on every value on the x axis. Values should read: 0, 100, 200, 300, 400 (ms), rather than 0, 10, 20, 30 and 40. Click here

Enns, J.T., & Lleras, A. (2008). What's next? New evidence for prediction in human vision. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 327-333. Click here

Shin, E., Wan, X. I., Fabiani, M., Gratton, G., & Lleras, A. (2008). Electrophysiological evidence of feature-based inhibition of focused attention across consecutive trials. Psychophysiology, 45, 804-811.
Click here

Levinthal, B. R., & Lleras, A. (2008a). Inter-trial inhibition of attention to features is modulated by task relevance. Journal of Vision, 8(15), 1-15. Click here

Levinthal, B. R., & Lleras, A. (2008b). Context-free inhibition: attentional biases transfer strongly across temporal and spatial search tasks. Visual Cognition, 16, 1119-1123. Click here

2007

Bennett, J. D., Lleras, A., Oriet, C., & Enns, J. T. (2007). A Negative Compatibility Effect in Priming of Emotional Faces. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 908-912. Click here

Levinthal, B. R., & Lleras, A. (2007).The unique contributions of retinal size and perceived size on change detection. Proceedings of the Object Perception Attention and Memory Workshop, Long Beach, CA, Nov. 15, 2007. Visual Cognition, 15, 101-105. Click here

Lleras, A., Rensink, R. A., & Enns, J. T. (2007). Consequences of display changes during interrupted visual search: rapid resumption is target specific. Perception & Psychophysics, 69(6), 980-993. Click here

Thomas, L. E., Lleras, A. (2007). Moving eyes and moving thought: on the spatial compatibility between eye movements and cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 663-668. Click here

van Zoest, W., Lleras, A., Kingstone, A., & Enns, J. T. (2007). In sight, out of mind: the role of eye movements in the rapid resumption of visual search. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 1204-1217. Click here

von Mühlenen, A., & Lleras, A. (2007). No-onset looming motion guides spatial attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception &
Performance, 33, 1297-1310. Click here

2006

Lleras, A., & Moore, C. M. (2006). What you see is what you get: Functional equivalence of a perceptually filled-in surface and a physically presented stimulus. Psychological Science, 17, 876-881. Click here

Lleras, A., & Enns, J. T. (2006). How Much Like a Target can a Mask Be? Geometric, Spatial, and Temporal Similarity in Priming -- A Reply to Schlaghecken and Eimer. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135, 495-500. Click here

Simons, D., Lleras, A., Martinez-Conde, S, Slichter, D., Caddigan, E., & Nevarez, G. (2006). Induced visual fading of complex images.
Journal of Vision. Journal of Vision, 6, 1093-1101. Click here

Thomas, L. E., Ambinder, M. S., Hsieh, B., Levinthal, B., Crowell, J. A., Irwin, D. E., Kramer, A. F., Lleras, A., Simons, D. J., Wang, R. F. (2006). Fruitful Visual Search: Inhibition of Return in a Virtual Foraging Task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 891-895. Click here

Enns, J. T., Lleras, A., & Di Lollo, V. (2006). Three aspects of visual masking are informed by reentrant modeling: object substitution, feature migration, and action priming. Invited chapter in B. Breitmeyer and H. Ogmen (Eds.) The First Half Second. (pp: 127-147). MIT press. Cambridge, MA. Click here

2005

Lleras, A., Rensink, R. A., & Enns, J. T. (2005). Rapid resumption of interrupted visual search: new insights on the interaction between vision and memory. Psychological Science, 16, 684-688. Click here
Lleras, A., & Enns, J. T. (2005). Updating a cautionary tale of masked priming: a reply to Klapp (2005). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 134, 436-440. Click here

Moore, C. M., & Lleras, A. (2005). On the role of object representations in substitution masking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 1171-1180. Click here

2004

Lleras, A., & Enns, J. T. (2004). Negative Compatibility or Object Updating? A Cautionary Tale of Mask-Dependent Priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133, 475-493. Click here

Lleras, A., & von Mühlenen, A. (2004). Spatial context and top-down strategies in visual search. Spatial Vision, 17, 465-482. Click here

Lleras, A., Moore, C. M., & Mordkoff, J. T. (2004). Looking for the source of the Simon Effect: evidence for multiple codes. American Journal of Psychology, 117, 531-542. Click here

Moore, C. M., Lleras, A., Grosjean, M., & Marrara, M. T. (2004). Using inattentional blindness as an operational definition of unattended: The case of a response-end effect. Visual Cognition, 11(6), 705-719. Click here

2003

Lleras A., & Moore C. M. (2003). When the target becomes the mask: using apparent motion to isolate the object-level component of object substitution masking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 29, 106-120. Click here

Moore, C. M., Grosjean, M, & Lleras, A. (2003). Using inattentional blindness as an operational definition of unattended: The case of surface completion. Visual Cognition, 10, 299-318. Click here

2001

Moore, C. M., Elsinger, C. L., & Lleras, A. (2001). Visual attention and the apprehension of spatial relations: the case of depth. Perception & Psychophysics, 63, 595-606. Click here