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Theoretical questions such as “how does the brain store visual information” and “what factors in the visual world capture and guide visual attention” are examined with the goal of developing workable models of human visual cognition. As these theories are developed they are used toward the goal of improving users’ performance on tasks that require visual attention and memory. For example, based on our knowledge of how visual attention and memory operate in the human brain, we can develop graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and training techniques that can accentuate the strengths and limit the weaknesses of these processes. Buildings. 

Eich, B. & Beck, M.R. (2023) Differences in the duration of the attentional blink when viewing nature vs. urban scenes. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02749-7

Saltzmann, S., Moen, K.C., Eich B., Chaisson, F.M., Fan, G, Goldstein, R.R., Beck, M.R. & Lucas, H.D. (2023) Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for the flexible recruitment of feature- and object-based processing in visual working memory comparison. In Biological Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108528

Kim, S., Beck, M.R. & Cho, Y.S. (2023) Loss aversion in the control of attention. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02287-1

Sedghikhanshir, A., Zhu, Y., Beck, M.R. & Jafari, A. (2022) The Impact of Visual Stimuli and Properties on Restorative Effect and Human Stress: A Literature Review. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12111781

Kim, S., Harman, J.L & Beck, M.R. (2022) Diminishing sensitivity and absolute difference in value-driven attention. Journal of Vision 22(1):12, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.1.12.

Emamjomeh, A., Zhu, Y. & Beck, M.R. (2020). The potential of applying immersive virtual environment to biophilic building design: a pilot study. Journal of Building Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2020.101481

Beck, M.R., Goldstein, R.R., Moen, K. C., Cohen, A.C., & Wolshon, B. (2020). The impact of leaving a voicemail, environment familiarity, and pedestrian predictability on driving behavior. Transportation Research Part F, 74, 487-506.

Kim, S. & Beck, M.R. (2020). Non-spatial context-driven search. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 82(6), 2876-2892. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02063-6

Kim, S. & Beck, M.R. (2020). Impacts of relative and absolute values on selective attention. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01729-4

Moen, K. C., Beck, M. R., Saltzmann, S. M., Burleigh, L. M., Butler, L. G., Ramanujam, J., Cohen, A. S., & Greening, S. G. (2020). Strengthening spatial reasoning: Elucidating the attentional and neural mechanisms associated with mental rotation skill development. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 20(5). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00211-y

Moen, K.C., Guevara Pinto, J.D., Papesh, M.H., & Beck, M.R. (2019). Not all information in visual working memory is forgotten equally. Consciousness and Cognition, 74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2019.102782

Goldstein, R.R., & Beck, M.R., (2018). Visual search with varying versus consistent attentional templates: Effects on target template establishment, comparison, and guidance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(7), 1086-1102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000520

Beck, M.R., Goldstein, R.R., van Lamsweerde, A.E., & Ericson, J.M., (2018). Attending globally or locally: Incidental learning of optimal visual attention allocation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 44(3), 387-398. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000428

Cohen, A.S. Mitchell, K., Beck, M.R., & Hicks, J. (2017). The subjective-objective paradox in psychometrically-defined schizotypy: What it is and why it is important. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 8(4), 347-363.

Ericson, J.E., Parr, S.A., Beck, M.R., & Wolshon, B. (2017). Compensating for failed attention while driving. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 45, 65-74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2016.11.015.

Goldstein, R.R. & Beck, M. R. (2016). Inattentional blindness: A combination of a relational set and a feature inhibition set? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 78, 1245-1254.

van Lamsweerde, A. E., Beck, M.R. & Johnson, J.S. (2016). Visual working memory organization is subject to top-down control. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 23(4), 1181-1189, doi:10.3758/s13423-015-0976-3.

Ericson, J.M., Beck, M.R. & van Lamsweerde, A.E. (2016).  Binding global and local features in visual working memory. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 78(1), 94-106. doi: 10.3758/s13414-015-1008-0

van Lamsweerde, A.E., & Beck, M.R. (2015). Incidental learning of probability information is differentially affected by the type of visual working memory representation. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(4), 283-296. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cep0000058

van Lamsweerde, A.E., Beck, M.R., & Elliott, E.M. (2015). Retrieval from long-term memory reduces working memory representations for visual features and their bindings. Memory & Cognition, 43, 237-246, doi: 10.3758/s13421-014-0468-0

Trenchard, M.E., & Beck, M.R. (2014).  How clutter and expertise affect search in geospatial displays.  2013 NRL Review, 222-225.

Beck, M.R., Hong, L.S., van Lamsweerde, A.E., & Ericson, J.M. (2014).  The effects of incidentally learned temporal and spatial predictability on response time and visual fixations during target detection and discrimination. PLoS One, 9(4): e94539. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094539

Ericson, J. M. & Beck, M. R. (2013). Spatial proximity does not influence tracking performance but changing target trajectories does. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 20(5), 951-956.

Beck, M. R., Martin, B.A., Smitherman, E. & Gaschen, L. (2013). Eyes-on training and radiological expertise: An examination of expertise development and its effects on visual working memory. Human Factors, 55(4), 747-763. doi: 10.1177/0018720812469224

Beck, M. R., Hong, L.S., van Lamsweerde, A.E., & Ericson, J.M. (2014). The effects of incidentally learned temporal and spatial predictability on response time and visual fixations during target detection and discrimination. PLoS One, 9(4): e94539. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094539

Ericson, J. M. & Beck, M. R. (2013). Spatial proximity does not influence tracking performance, but changing target trajectories does. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review,20(5), 951-956.

Beck, M. R., Martin, B.A., Smitherman, E. & Gaschen, L. (2013). Eyes-on training and radiological expertise: An examination of expertise development and its effects on visual working memory. Human Factors,55(4), 747-763.doi: 10.1177/0018720812469224.

van Lamsweerde, A. E. & Beck, M.R. (2012). Attention shifts or volatile representations: What causes binding deficits in visual working memory? Visual Cognition, 20(7), 771-792.

van Lamsweerde, A. E. & Beck, M.R. (2011) The change probability effect: Incidental learning, adaptability, and shared visual working memory resources. Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 1676-1689.

Levin, D.T., Angelone, B.A., & Beck, M.R. (2011). Visual search for rare targets: Distracter-tuning as a mechanism for learning from repeated failed searches. British Journal of Psychology, 102(3), 313-327.

Peterson, M.S. & Beck, M.R. (2011). Eye movements and memory. In Simon Liversedge, Iain Gilchrist, Stefan Everling (Eds). The Oxford Handbook on Eye movements. Oxford, England.

Beck, M.R. & van Lamsweerde, A.E.(2011). Accessing long-term memory representations during visual change detection. Memory and Cognition. Applied, 39(3),433-446.

Beck, M.R., Lohrenz, M.C., & Trafton, J.G.(2010) . Measuring search efficiency in complex visual search tasks: Global and local clutter. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 16(3),238-250.

Cohen, A. S., Beck, M.R., Najolia, G., Brown, L. A (2010). Decoupling Implicit Measures of Pleasant and Unpleasant Social Attitudes. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 41(1), 24-30.

Lohrenz, M.C., Beck, M.R., Trafton, J.G.,& Gendron, M. (2009).  Measurement and Analysis of Clutter in Electronic Displays.  2008 NRL Review, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.

Lohrenz, M.C., Trafton, J.G., Beck, M.R., & Gendron, M.L. (2009). A model of clutter for complex, multivariate, geospatial displays. The Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 51(1), 90-101.

Beck, M. R., Angelone, B.A., Levin, D.T., Peterson, M.S., & Varakin, A. (2008). Implicit learning for probable changes in a visual change detection task. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 1192-1208.

Peterson, M.S., Beck, M.R. & Wong, J. H. (2008). Executive control is required for efficient visual search. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15(2), 372-377.

Lohrenz, M., Gendron, M., & Beck, M.R. (2008). Clearing up the clutter. The Defense Management Journal, 41, 167-169.

Beck, M.R., Peterson, M.S., & Angelone, B.A. (2007). The roles of encoding, retrieval, and awareness in change detection. Memory and Cognition, 35(4), 610-620.

Peterson, M.S., Beck, M.R., & Vomela, M. (2007). The guidance of attention by retrospective and prospective memory during visual search. Perception and Psychophysics, 69(1), 123-135. 

Beck, M.R., Levin, D.T. & Angelone, B.A. (2007) Metacognitive errors in change detection: Lab and life converge. Consciousness and Cognition, 16, 58-62.

Beck, M.R., Levin, D.T. & Angelone, B.A. (2007) Change blindness blindness: Beliefs about the roles of intention and scene complexity in change detection. Consciousness and Cognition, 16, 31-51.

Beck, M.R., Peterson, M.S., Boot, W.R., Vomela, M. & Kramer, A.K. (2006) Explicit Memory for Rejected Distractors During Visual Search. Visual Cognition, 14(2), 150-174.

Beck, M.R., Peterson, M.S. & Vomela, M. (2006). Memory for where, but not what, is used during visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32(2), 235-250.

Beck, M.R., Angelone, B.A., & Levin, D. T. (2004). Knowledge about the probability of change affects change detection performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30(4), 778-791.

Levin, D. T. & Beck, M.R. (2004). Thinking about seeing: Spanning the differences between metacognitive failure and success. In Daniel Levin (Ed) Thinking about seeing: Visual metacognition in adults and children. (pp. 121 – 144). Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

Beck, M.R. & Levin, D. T. (2003). The role of representational volatility in recognizing pre- and postchange objects. Perception and Psychophysics, 65(3), 458-468.

Levin, D.T., Drivdahl, S., Momen, N, Beck, M.R.(2002). False predictions about the detectablility of visual changes: The role of beliefs about attention, memory, and the continuity of attended objects in causing change blindness blindness. Consciousness and Congnition, 11, 507-527.

Zaragoza, M. S., Payment, K. E., Ackil, J.K., Drivdahl, S. B., & Beck, M.R. (2001). Interviewing witnesses: Forced confabulation and confirmatory feedback increase false memories. Psychological Science, 12(6), 473-477.