Recent publications from our lab

Journal Articles

Fleck, M. S., & Mitroff, S. R. (under revision). Videogamers excel at finding rare targets.

Wang, S., & Mitroff, S. R. (in press). Preserved visual representations despite change blindness in 11-month-old infants. Developmental Science.

Mitroff, S. R., Arita, J. T., & Fleck, M. S. (in press). Staying in bounds: Contextual constraints on object file coherence. Visual Cognition.

Cheries, E., Mitroff, S. R., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2008). Cohesion as a principle of object persistence in infancy. Developmental Science, 11, 427-432.

Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., Noles, N. S. (2007). Object files can be purely episodic. Perception, 36, 1730-1735.

Fleck, M. S., & Mitroff, S. R. (2007). Rare targets are rarely missed in correctable search. Psychological Science, 18, 943-947.

Mitroff, S. R., & Alvarez, G. A. (2007). Space and time, not surface features, underlie object persistence. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 1199-1204.

Mitroff, S. R., Sobel, D. M., & Gopnik, A. (2006). Reversing how to think about ambiguous figure reversals: Spontaneous alternating by uninformed observers. Perception, 35, 709-715.

Noles, N. S., Scholl, B. J., & Mitroff, S. R. (2005). The persistence of object file representations. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 324 - 334.

Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Wynn, K. (2005). The relationship between object files and conscious perception. Cognition, 96(1), 67 - 92.

Mitroff, S. R. & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Forming and updating object representations without awareness: Evidence from motion-induced blindness. Vision Research, 45(8), 961-967.

Mitroff, S. R. & Scholl, B. J. (2004). Seeing the disappearance of unseen objects. Perception, 33, 1267 - 1273.

Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Wynn, K. (2004). Divide and Conquer: How object files adapt when an object splits into two. Psychological Science, 15(6), 420 - 425.

Mitroff, S. R., Simons, D. J., & Levin, D. T. (2004). Nothing compares 2 views: Change blindness can occur despite preserved access to the changed information. Perception & Psychophysics, 66, 1268-1281.

Mitroff, S. R. & Simons, D. J. (2002). Changes are not localized until they are explicitly detected. Visual Cognition, 9, 937 - 968.

Mitroff, S. R., Simons, D. J., & Franconeri, S. L. (2002). The siren song of implicit change detection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 28(4), 798 - 815.

Presentations

Mitroff, S. R. (2008, August). The malleability of visual cognition: Effects of videogame playing on vision and motivation. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning, Hood River, OR.

Carter, O., Luedeman, R., & Mitroff, S. R., & Nakayama, K. (2008, May). Motion induced blindness: The more you attend the less you see. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Fleck, M. S., & Mitroff, S. R. (2008, May). Videogamers excel at finding rare targets. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Mitroff, S. R., & Jordan, K. E. (2008, May). Videogame players demonstrate enhanced multi-sensory abilities. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Wu, W., Tiesinga, P., Tucker, T., Heiner, J., Mitroff, S. R. & Fitzpatrick, D. (2008, May). The dynamics of V1 population response to instantaneous changes in direction of stimulus motion. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Mitroff, S. R., Arita, J. T., & Fleck, M. S. (2007, November). Staying in Bounds: Contextual constraints on object file coherence. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

Mitroff, S. R. & Wang, S. (2007, May). Preserved visual representations despite change blindness in 11-month-old infants. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Fleck, M. S. & Mitroff, S. R. (2007, May). Catching a miss: Error reduction in low prevalence search. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Mitroff, S. R., & Alvarez, G. A. (2006, November). Space and time, not surface features, underlie object persistence. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX.

Mitroff, S. R. (2006, May). Seeing without seeing: Complex perception outside of awareness. Invited talk presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, New York, NY.

Arita, J. T. & Mitroff, S. R. (2006, May), Staying in bounds: A critical role of closure for object files. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Mitroff, S. R., Sobel, D. M., Gopnik, A. (2006, May). Reversing how to think about ambiguous figure reversals: Spontaneous alternating by uninformed observers. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Mitroff, S. R. (2006, February). Visual perception without awareness: Evidence from motion-induced blindness. Invited talk presented at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Cognition Conference, Greensboro, NC.

Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Wynn, K. (2005, November). One plus one equals one: The effects of merging on object files. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, CA.

Mitroff, S. R., Cheries, E. W., Scholl, B. J., & Wynn, K. (2005, May). Cohesion as a principle of object persistence in infants and adults. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Wynn, K. (2005, April). What vision scientists can learn from infants: Evidence of core principles guiding adult object persistence. Paper presented at the Yale Object Symposium, New Haven, CT.

Mitroff, S. R., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2005, April). Exploring persisting object representations with infants and adults. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.