Category: Publications

  • New Publication in Frontiers in Psychology

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    Research conducted in the BAP Lab in collaboration with the Bates Cognition lab has been published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology! This work investigated the alerting-congruency interaction, the counterintuitive finding that participants are worse at ignoring distraction (in a Flanker task) when they are alerted about an upcoming trial compared to when they are…

  • New Publication in Cognitive Processing

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    Research conducted in the BAP Lab has been published in the journal Cognitive Processing! Previous research suggests that eyes and arrows direct attention in qualitatively different ways. Specifically, eyes direct attention to specific locations while arrows direct attention to specific objects. In this paper, we report the results of two studies that extend this work.…

  • New Publication in QJEP

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    Research conducted in the BAP Lab has been published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology! Previous research has shown that people tend to start tasks as soon as possible, even when this comes at the cost of additional effort. This tendency to pre-crastinate has been found across a number of tasks. This paper reports…

  • New Publication in Visual Cognition

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    Research conducted in the BAP Lab has been published in Visual Cognition!  Previous research has shown that characteristics of a face (including age, race, and emotional expression) can modulate the extent to which participants follow the eye gaze of the face. We report the results of a series of experiments that test whether the attractiveness…

  • New Publication in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

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    Research conducted in the BAP Lab has been published in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.  Previous research had shown that faces can serve as a contextual cue in context-specific proportion congruent manipulations. In the current series of experiments, we ask what information is provided cued faces? You can access a copy of the paper here.

  • New Publication in Teaching of Psychology

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    Research conducted in the cognitive ctrl lab has recently been published in Teaching of Psychology.  In this paper, we find a reduction in student engagement in sections of introduction to psychology where a technology-ban was implemented compared to sections where students are free to use technology. You can access the paper here.

  • Chapter to be published in Essays from E-xcellence in Teaching

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    In response to the increased use of personal technologies, such as laptops and cell phones in the classroom, instructors have begun to implement technology bans.  The purpose of this essay is to review the evidence in favor of a technology ban, describe recent results which suggest a ban can be harmful to students’ engagement in…

  • New Publication in Acta Psychologica

    New Publication in Acta Psychologica

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    According to existing theories of context-driven control, participants unconsciously implement multiple control settings within a single task.  In our paper entitled “Properties of Context-driven Control Revealed through the Analysis of Sequential Congruency Effects,” we find that sequential congruency effects (the reduction in the congruency effect following incongruent relative to congruent trials) are present within but…

  • New Publication – Limits on the Generalizability of Context-Driven Control

    New Publication – Limits on the Generalizability of Context-Driven Control

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    Context-driven control refers to the finding that participants are able to implement multiple attentional settings within a single task.  Elsewhere, attentional settings have been shown to differ along various dimensions including location, font type, and gender.  A recent paper published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology by members of the Cognitive Ctrl Lab identifies…