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Scotti, P. S., Hong, Y., Leber, A. B., & Golomb, J. D. (in press). Visual working memory items drift apart due to active, not passive, maintenance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
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Scotti, P. S., Hong, Y., Golomb, J. D., & Leber, A. B. (2021). Statistical learning as a reference point for memory distortions: Swap and shift errors. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, Advance Online Publication.
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Clarke, A. D. F., Irons, J. L., James, W., Leber, A. B., & Hunt, A. R. (2020). Stable individual differences in strategies within, but not between, visual search tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Advance Online Publication.
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Irons, J. L. & Leber (2020). Developing an individual profile of attentional control strategy. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24 (4), 364-371.
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Geng, J. J., Leber, A. B., & Shomstein, S. (2019). Attention and Perception: 40 review, 40 views. Current Opinion in Psychology, 29, v-viii.
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Chen, J., Leber, A. B., & Golomb, J. D. (2019). Attentional capture alters feature perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 45(11), 1443-1454.
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Leber, A.B. & Irons, J. L. (2019). A methodological toolbox for investigating attentional strategy. Current Opinion in Psychology, 29, 274-281.
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Hansen, H., Irons, J. L., & Leber, A. B. (2019). Taking stock: the role of perceptual appraisal in the strategic use of attentional control. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 81(8), 2673-2684
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Gwinn, R. E., Leber, A. B., & Krajbich, I. (2019). The spillover effects of attentional learning on value-based choice. Cognition, 182, 294-306.
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Won, B. Y. & Leber, A. B. (2018). Failure to exploit learned spatial value information during visual search. Visual Cognition, 26 (7), 482-499.
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Irons, J. & Leber, A. B. (2018). Characterizing individual variation in the strategic use of attentional control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 44 (10), 1637-1654.
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Hilchey, M. D., Leber, A. B., & Pratt, J. (2018). Testing the role of response repetition in priming in visual search. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 80 (6), 1362-1374.
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Irons, J. L., Jeon, M, & Leber, A. B. (2017). Pre-stimulus pupil dilation and the preparatory control of attention. PLoS ONE, 12 (12), e0188787.
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Won, B. Y, & Leber, A. B. (2017). Spatial constraints on probability learning in visual working memory. Visual Cognition, 25 (1-3), 34-50.
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Leber, A. B., Gwinn, R. E., Hong, Y. L., & O’Toole, R. J. (2016). Implicitly learned suppression of irrelevant spatial locations. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23 (6), 1873-1881.
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Irons, J. L., & Leber, A. B. (2016). Choosing attentional control settings in a dynamically changing environment. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 78 (7), 2031-2048.
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Won, B. Y, & Leber, A. B. (2016). How do magnitude and frequency of monetary reward guide visual search? Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 78 (5), 1221-1231.
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Tower-Richardi, S. M., Leber, A. B., & Golomb, J. D. (2016). Spatial priming in ecologically relevant reference frames. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 78 (1), 114-132.
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Moser, J. S., Moran, T. P., & Leber, A. B. (2015). Attentional search training improves attentional control and reduces state anxiety in trait anxious college students. Behavior Therapy, 46, 834-843.
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Gibson, B. M., Leber, A. B., Mehlman, M. L. (2015). Spatial context learning in pigeons (Columba livia). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning & Cognition, 41 (4), 336-342.
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Wells, E. T., & Leber, A. B. (2014). Motion-induced blindness is influenced by global properties of the moving mask. Visual Cognition, 22 (1), 125-140.
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Leber, A. B., Lechak, J. R., & Tower-Richardi, S. M. (2013). What do fast response times tell us about attentional control? Journal of Vision, 13 (3), 1-12.
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Lamy, D., Leber, A. B., & Egeth, H. E. (2012). Selective attention. In I. B. Weiner, A. F. Healy, & R.V. Proctor (Eds.), Handbook of Psychology. Volume 4: Experimental Psychology (2nd ed., pp. 267-294). New York: Wiley.
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Lechak, J. R. & Leber, A. B. (2012). Individual differences in distraction by motion predicted by neural activity in MT/V5. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6 (12), 1-10.
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Wells, E. T., Leber, A. B., & Sparrow, J. E. (2011). The role of mask coherence in motion-induced blindness. Perception, 40 (12), 1503-1518.
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Egeth, H. E., Leonard, C. J., & Leber, A. B. (2010). Why salience is not enough: Reflections on top-down selection in vision. Acta Psychologica, 135, 130-132.
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Leber, A. B. (2010). Neural predictors of within-subject fluctuations in attentional control. Journal of Neuroscience, 30 (34), 11458-11465.
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Costello, M. C., Madden, D. J., Shepler, A. M., Mitroff, S. R., & Leber, A. B. (2010). Age-related preservation of top-down control over distraction in visual search. Experimental Aging Research, 36, 249-272.
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Leber, A. B., Kawahara, J. -I., & Gabari, Y. (2009). Long-term, abstract learning of attentional set. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35 (5), 1385-1397.
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Leber, A. B., Turk-Browne, N. B., & Chun, M. M. (2008). Neural predictors of moment-to-moment fluctuations in cognitive flexibility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105 (36), 13592-13597.
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Folk, C. L., Leber, A. B., & Egeth, H. E. (2008). Top-down control settings and the attentional blink: Evidence for non-spatial contingent capture. Visual Cognition, 16 (5), 616-642.
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Turk-Browne, N. B., Yi, D. -J., Leber, A. B., & Chun, M. M.(2007). Visual quality determines the direction of neural repetition effects. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 425-433.
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Lamy, D., Carmel, T., Egeth, H. E., & Leber, A. B. (2006). Effects of search mode and inter-trial priming on singleton search. Perception & Psychophysics, 68 (6), 919-932.
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Leber, A. B., & Egeth, H. E. (2006). Attention on autopilot: Past experience and attentional set. Visual Cognition, 14, 565-583.
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Leber, A. B., & Egeth, H. E. (2006). It’s under control: Top-down search strategies can override attentional capture. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13 (1), 132-138.
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Serences, J., Shomstein, S., Leber, A. B., Golay, X., Egeth, H. E, & Yantis, S. (2005). Coordination of voluntary and stimulus-driven attentional control in human cortex. Psychological Science, 16 (2), 114-122.
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Lamy, D., Leber, A., & Egeth, H. E. (2004). Effects of stimulus-driven salience within feature search mode. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30 (6), 1019-1031.
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Folk, C. L., Leber, A. B., & Egeth, H. E. (2002). Made you blink! Contingent attentional capture produces a spatial blink. Perception & Psychophysics, 64 (5), 741-753.
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Egeth, H. E., Folk, C. L., Leber, A. B., Nakama, T., & Hendel, S. (2001). Attentional capture in the spatial and temporal domains. In C. L. Folk & B. S. Gibson (Eds.) Advances in Psychology XXX - Attraction, Distraction, and Action: Multiple Perspectives on Attentional Capture. (pp. 93-119). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science B. V.
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Recent Conference Presentations
Li, W.Y., McKinney, M. R., Irons, J. L., & Leber, A. B. (2020, November). How universal is suboptimal visual search strategy? Poster presented at the 28th Annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Workshop. https://opam.net
McKinney, M. R., Irons, J. L., & Leber, A. B. (2020, November). Motivating strategic attentional control with monetary reward. Poster presented at the 28th Annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Workshop. https://opam.net
Dube, B., Leber, A. B., & Golomb, J. D. (2020, June). Perceptual distraction disrupts control over visual memory encoding. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. https://visionsciences.org
Ping, E. E. C., Heisterberg, L. M., Allon, A. S., & Leber, A. B. (2020, June). Investigating how illusory objects are represented in visual working memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. https://visionsciences.org
Shaw, D. C., Hansen, H. A., McKinney, M. R., Irons, J. L., & Leber, A. B. (2020, June). Does task switching ability predict the selection of attentional control strategies? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. https://visionsciences.org
Li, W., McKinney, M. R., Irons, J. L., & Leber, A. B. (2020, June). Exploring the generalizability of visual search strategy. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. https://visionsciences.org
McKinney, M. R., Irons, J. L., & Leber, A. B. (2020, June). Monetary reward motivates the adoption of optimal attentional control strategies. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. https://visionsciences.org
Allon, A. S., & Leber, A. B. (2019, November). Experience-driven suppression of irrelevant distractor locations is context dependent. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montréal, QC.
Heisterberg, L. M., & Leber, A. B. (2019, November). Spatial demands after target search interfere with contextual cueing. Poster presented at the 27th Annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Workshop, Montréal, QC.
McKinney, M. R., Hansen, H. A., Irons, J. L., & Leber, A. B. (2019, November). An exploration of ability and personality trait variables predicting goal-directed attention in visual search. Poster presented at the 27th Annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Workshop, Montréal, QC.
Ping, E. E. C., Heisterberg, L. M., Allon, A. S., & Leber, A. B. (2019, November). How are illusory objects represented in visual working memory? Poster presented at the 27th Annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Workshop, Montréal, QC.
Scotti, P. S., Hong, Y., Leber, A. B., & Golomb, J. D. (2019, November). Competition between similar visual working memory items underlies repulsion. Paper presented at the 27th Annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Workshop, Montréal, QC.
Heisterberg, L. M., & Leber, A. B. (2019, July). Optimality of tool selection in radiologists and naïve subjects. Paper presented at the Medical Image Perception Society XVIII, Salt Lake City, UT.
Scotti, P., Hong, Y., Leber, A., & Golomb, J. (2019, May). Relational interactions between visual memory representations increase with maintenance duration. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Hong, Y., Maxcey, A., & Leber, A. (2019, May). Recognition-induced forgetting of temporally related visual long-term memories. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
McKinney, M., Hansen, H., Irons, J., & Leber, A. (2019, May). An exploration of trait variables predicting the goal-directed control of visual attention. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Heisterberg, L., & Leber A. (2019, May). A secondary task stunts the development of contextual cueing. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Hong, Y., Maxcey, A. M., & Leber, A. B. (2018, November). Recognition-induced forgetting of temporally related visual episodic memories. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.
Scotti, P. S., Hong, Y., Golomb, J. D., & Leber, A. B. (2018, November). Statistical regularities during object encoding distort long-term memory. Poster presented at the 26th Annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Workshop, New Orleans, LA.
Heisterberg, L. M. & Leber, A. B. (2018, November). Retroactive stunting of contextual cueing. Poster presented at the 26th Annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Workshop, New Orleans, LA.
Chen, J., Leber, A., & Golomb, J. D. (2018, November). Attentional capture alters feature perception. Paper presented at the 26th Annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Workshop, New Orleans, LA.
Chen, J., Leber, A., & Golomb, J. (2018, May). Errors without doubt: Stimulus-driven attentional capture leads to feature-binding errors but no loss in confidence. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Irons, J, & Leber, A. (2018, May). Ignorance vs. laziness: Why do people use suboptimal attentional control strategies? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Hansen, H., Irons, J., & Leber, A. (2018, May). A secondary task leads to poorer selection of attentional control strategies. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Heisterberg, L., Hong, Y., & Leber A. (2018, May). The impact of interruptions on long-term object processing. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Hong, Y. & Leber, A. (2018, May). When does implicitly-learned spatial context bias attention? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Scotti, P., Hong, Y., Golomb, J., & Leber, A. (2018, May). Statistical regularities during object encoding distort long-term memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Irons, J. & Leber, A. (2017, November). A trade-off between performance and effort in the choice of attentional control settings. Paper presented at the 25th Annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Workshop, Vancouver, BC.
Hong, Y. & Leber, A. (2017, November). Spontaneous biasing toward implicitly-learned visual regularities: the role of prior attention. Poster presented at the 25th Annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Workshop, Vancouver, BC.
Heisterberg, L., Hong, Y. & Leber, A. (2017, November). How do task interruptions affect ongoing object processing? Poster presented at the 25th Annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Workshop, Vancouver, BC.
Clarke, A. D. F., Irons, J., Rigitano, C., Leber, A., Hunt, A. R. (2017, August). Stable visual search strategies within but not between visual search paradigms. Talk presented at the 40th European Conference on Visual Perception, Berlin, Germany.
Hong, Y. & Leber, A. B. (2017, May). Spontaneous biasing toward implicitly-learned visual regularities: the role of prior attention. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Irons, J. I. & Leber, A. B. (2017, May). A trade-off between performance and effort in the choice of attentional control settings. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Leber, A. B. & Irons, J. I. (2017, May). Toward a profile of goal-directed attentional control. Paper to be presented at the special symposium, “Cutting across the top-down/bottom-up dichotomy in attentional capture research,” at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Irons, J. I., & Leber, A. B. (2016, November). Strategic control of goal-directed attention. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.
Irons, J. I., & Leber, A. B. (2016, November). Prestimulus pupil dilation predicts the degree of preparatory attentional control. Poster presented at the annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Workshop, Boston, MA.
Won, B. Y., & Leber, A. B. (2016, November). Implicit learning interacts with hemifield independence in visual working memory. Poster presented at the annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Workshop, Boston, MA.
Irons, J., & Leber, A. (2016, May). Establishing an individual profile of attentional control. Micro-talk presented at the Individual Differences in Vision Satellite Session of the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Hong, Y., & Leber, A. (2016, May). Attentional disengagement suppresses visual long-term memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Irons, J., & Leber, A. (2016, May). Pupil dilation indexes effort exertion during the configuration of attentional control setting. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Leber, A., & Won, B. (2016, May). Spatial reward guides choice, not visual search. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Won, B., & Leber, A. (2016, May). Search for targets in visual working memory is biased by statistical learning. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
