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Evaluating the pedagogical effectiveness of study preregistration in the undergraduate dissertation (2023)
Journal Article
Pownall, M., Pennington, C. R., Norris, E., Juanchich, M., Smailes, D., Russell, S., …Clark, K. (2023). Evaluating the pedagogical effectiveness of study preregistration in the undergraduate dissertation. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 6(4), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459231202724

Research shows that questionable research practices (QRPs) are present in undergraduate final-year dissertation projects. One entry-level Open Science practice proposed to mitigate QRPs is “study preregistration,” through which researchers outline th... Read More about Evaluating the pedagogical effectiveness of study preregistration in the undergraduate dissertation.

Standards and profits in academic publishing – all publishers and open access arrangements are not the same. (2023)
Digital Artefact
Thompson, M., & Clark, K. (2023). Standards and profits in academic publishing – all publishers and open access arrangements are not the same. [Blog]

Below is an extended version of a piece first published on the UWE Bristol Library Research Blog. It explores issues around publishing academic articles and books, different open access arrangements, maintaining academic standards and the profit leve... Read More about Standards and profits in academic publishing – all publishers and open access arrangements are not the same..

Predicting multiple-target search performance using eye movements and individual differences (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Birch-Hurst, K., Jones, A. M., Ong, A., Stoker, K. M., Smith, M. L., Zhang, W., & Clark, K. (2023, August). Predicting multiple-target search performance using eye movements and individual differences. Poster presented at European Conference on Visual Perception, Paphos, Cyprus

Accuracy in visual search – the process of detecting a target amongst distractors – is critical for life-saving career searches such as radiology and airport security. These searches often contain multiple targets (e.g., a tumour and a fracture) and... Read More about Predicting multiple-target search performance using eye movements and individual differences.

Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: A critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes (2023)
Journal Article
Pownall, M., Azevedo, F., König, L. M., Slack, H. R., Evans, T. R., Flack, Z., …Sadhwani, S. (2023). Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: A critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes. Royal Society Open Science, 10(5), Article 221255. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221255

In recent years, the scientific community has called for improvements in the credibility, robustness and reproducibility of research, characterized by increased interest and promotion of open and transparent research practices. While progress has bee... Read More about Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: A critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes.

Test-retest reliability for common tasks in vision science (2022)
Journal Article
Clark, K., Birch-Hurst, K., Pennington, C. R., Petrie, A. C. P., Lee, J. T., & Hedge, C. (2022). Test-retest reliability for common tasks in vision science. Journal of Vision, 22(8), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.8.18

Research in perception and attention has typically sought to evaluate cognitive mechanisms according to the average response to a manipulation. Recently, there has been a shift toward appreciating the value of individual differences and the insight g... Read More about Test-retest reliability for common tasks in vision science.

The application of eye-tracking technology in architecture engineering and construction industry: A systematic review (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Mahamadu, A., Prabhakaran, A., Clark, K., Dziekonski, K., Okeke, U., Zhang, W., …Aigbavboa, C. O. (2021). The application of eye-tracking technology in architecture engineering and construction industry: A systematic review. In N. Dawood, F. Pour Rahimian, & M. Sheikhkhoshkar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (56-64)

Despite the scholarly attention on eye-tracking technology in the AEC industry, no studies thus far have attempted to aggregate the findings or knowledge. To bridge this gap and to better understand the state-of-the-art of eye-tracking technology’s a... Read More about The application of eye-tracking technology in architecture engineering and construction industry: A systematic review.

Neural mechanisms underlying enhanced visual search performance in action video game players (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Birch-Hurst, K., Petrie, A. C. P., Archer, L., Stephenson, A. C., & Clark, K. (2021, May). Neural mechanisms underlying enhanced visual search performance in action video game players. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society, Online

Individuals who play action video games have demonstrated faster response times on a range of cognitive tasks, but various changes across the chain of processing could contribute to the ultimate quickening in response. Some research has begun to iden... Read More about Neural mechanisms underlying enhanced visual search performance in action video game players.

The predictability of a target’s motion influences gaze, head, and hand movements when trying to intercept it (2019)
Journal Article
de la Malla, C., Rushton, S. K., Clark, K., Smeets, J. B. J., & Brenner, E. (2019). The predictability of a target’s motion influences gaze, head, and hand movements when trying to intercept it. Journal of Neurophysiology, 121(6), 2416-2427. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00917.2017

Does the predictability of a target’s movement and of the interception location influence how the target is intercepted? In a first experiment, we manipulated the predictability of the interception location. A target moved along a haphazardly curved... Read More about The predictability of a target’s motion influences gaze, head, and hand movements when trying to intercept it.

Test-retest reliability for common tasks in vision science (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., Pennington, C. R., Hedge, C., Lee, J. T., & Petrie, A. C. P. (2019, May). Test-retest reliability for common tasks in vision science. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society, St Pete Beach, Florida, United States

Historically, research in cognitive psychology has sought to evaluate cognitive mechanisms according to the average response to a manipulation. Differences between individuals have been dismissed as “noise” with an aim toward characterising an overal... Read More about Test-retest reliability for common tasks in vision science.

Enhanced visual attention in university hockey players (2018)
Journal Article
Clark, K., & Maddocks, M. (2018). Enhanced visual attention in university hockey players. Journal of Vision, 18(10),

Elite athletes exhibit enhanced cognitive abilities related to sport, and athletes' perceptual-cognitive expertise may also transfer to computer-based cognitive tasks in the laboratory (see Voss et al., 2010 for a meta-analysis). The research in this... Read More about Enhanced visual attention in university hockey players.

Visual search alpha: A novel window into lateralized visual attentional processes (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Bachman, M. D., van den Berg, B., Wang, L., Gamble, M. L., Clark, K., & Woldorff, M. G. (2018, March). Visual search alpha: A novel window into lateralized visual attentional processes. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Visual search paradigms evoke the attentional processes used in the identification and processing of a target stimulus in an array of distracting items. A widely studied ERP component elicited in visual search is the N2pc, which is thought to reflect... Read More about Visual search alpha: A novel window into lateralized visual attentional processes.

Knowing where one will hit a moving object influences eye-head-hand coordination (2017)
Presentation / Conference
de la Malla, C., Rushton, S. K., Clark, K., Smeets, J. B. J., & Brenner, E. (2017, September). Knowing where one will hit a moving object influences eye-head-hand coordination. Poster presented at European Conference on Visual Perception, Berlin, Germany

Does the predictability of a target's movement and of the interception location influence how the target is intercepted? In a first experiment, we manipulated the predictability of the interception location. A target moved along a haphazardly curved... Read More about Knowing where one will hit a moving object influences eye-head-hand coordination.

Who should be searching? Differences in personality can affect visual search accuracy (2017)
Journal Article
Biggs, A. T., Clark, K., & Mitroff, S. R. (2017). Who should be searching? Differences in personality can affect visual search accuracy. Personality and Individual Differences, 116, 353-358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.04.045

© 2017 Visual search is an everyday task conducted in a wide variety of contexts. Some searches are mundane, such as finding a beverage in the refrigerator, and some have life-or-death consequences, such as finding improvised explosives at a security... Read More about Who should be searching? Differences in personality can affect visual search accuracy.

The role of motion parallax in the perception of egocentric direction (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., & Rushton, S. K. (2017, May). The role of motion parallax in the perception of egocentric direction

Prisms optically rotate the visual scene relative to the head, but the error in perceived direction that results is less than the optical deflection of the prism. This is known as the immediate correction effect (Rock, Goldberg, & Mack, 1966). The ef... Read More about The role of motion parallax in the perception of egocentric direction.

Visual search performance is predicted by both prestimulus and poststimulus electrical brain activity (2016)
Journal Article
Van Den Berg, B., Appelbaum, L. G., Clark, K., Lorist, M. M., & Woldorff, M. G. (2016). Visual search performance is predicted by both prestimulus and poststimulus electrical brain activity. Scientific Reports, 6, Article 37718. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep37718

© The Author(s) 2016. An individual's performance on cognitive and perceptual tasks varies considerably across time and circumstances. We investigated neural mechanisms underlying such performance variability using regression-based analyses to examin... Read More about Visual search performance is predicted by both prestimulus and poststimulus electrical brain activity.

Global motion influences the detection of motion-in-depth (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., & Rushton, S. K. (2016, September). Global motion influences the detection of motion-in-depth. Poster presented at European Conference on Visual Perception, Barcelona, Spain

Detecting motion-in-depth is more difficult than detecting equivalent lateral motion (e.g. Tyler, 1971). Because there is an early averaging of left and right motion signals, some work suggests the two monocular signals could effectively cancel out w... Read More about Global motion influences the detection of motion-in-depth.

The relational between spatial/motion perception and traits of visual vertigo (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Powell, G., Rushton, S. K., Derry-Sumner, H., Rajenderkumar, D., Clark, K., Bratton, L., & Sumner, P. (2016, September). The relational between spatial/motion perception and traits of visual vertigo. Poster presented at European Conference on Visual Perception, Barcelona, Spain

Visually-induced vertigo (‘visual vertigo’) is a condition where certain visual environments trigger dizziness and nausea. It is often attributed to dysfunction in visual-vestibular interaction, but the exact cause is unknown. We were interested in a... Read More about The relational between spatial/motion perception and traits of visual vertigo.

Man vs. Mouse: The act of walking does not alter spatial suppression in humans (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., & Rushton, S. K. (2015, May). Man vs. Mouse: The act of walking does not alter spatial suppression in humans

Recently, Ayaz et al. (2013) reported a remarkable finding: surround suppression, as measured by V1 activation in mice, is substantially reduced during locomotion (running in place). Does low-level visual processing change in humans when they are wal... Read More about Man vs. Mouse: The act of walking does not alter spatial suppression in humans.

What can 1 billion trials tell us about visual search? (2015)
Journal Article
Mitroff, S. R., Biggs, A. T., Adamo, S. H., Dowd, E. W., Winkle, J., & Clark, K. (2015). What can 1 billion trials tell us about visual search?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000012

Mobile technology (e.g., smartphones and tablets) has provided psychologists with a wonderful opportunity: through careful design and implementation, mobile applications can be used to crowd source data collection. By garnering massive amounts of dat... Read More about What can 1 billion trials tell us about visual search?.

Perception and human information processing in visual search (2015)
Book Chapter
Cain, M. S., Clark, K., Cain, M., & Mitroff, S. R. (2015). Perception and human information processing in visual search. In R. R. Hoffman, P. A. Hancock, M. W. Scerbo, R. Parasuraman, & J. L. Szalma (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Perception Research (199-217). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511973017.016

© Cambridge University Press 2015. Visual search is the process of finding specific target items within an environment using particular visual features or prior knowledge. Searches can be as easy as finding your friend with purple hair in a lecture h... Read More about Perception and human information processing in visual search.

Improvement in visual search with practice: Mapping learning-related changes in neurocognitive stages of processing (2015)
Journal Article
Gregory Appelbaum, L., Clark, K., van den Berg, B., Mitroff, S. R., & Woldorff, M. G. (2015). Improvement in visual search with practice: Mapping learning-related changes in neurocognitive stages of processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(13), 5351-5359. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1152-14.2015

© 2015 the authors. Practice can improve performance on visual search tasks; the neural mechanisms underlying such improvements, however, are not clear. Response time typically shortens with practice, but which components of the stimulus–response pro... Read More about Improvement in visual search with practice: Mapping learning-related changes in neurocognitive stages of processing.

Variation in visual search abilities and performance (2014)
Thesis
Clark, K. Variation in visual search abilities and performance. (Thesis). Duke University. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/819950

Visual search, the process of detecting relevant items within an environment, is a vital skill required for navigating one’s visual environment as well as for careers, such as radiology and airport security, that rely upon accurate searching. Researc... Read More about Variation in visual search abilities and performance.

I knew you were going to miss that: Predicting future visual search performance from initial search abilities (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., & Mitroff, S. R. (2013, November). I knew you were going to miss that: Predicting future visual search performance from initial search abilities. Poster presented at Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

A unique data source—hundreds of thousands of individuals who voluntarily played a smartphone game (Airport Scanner; Kedlin Company)—was used to assess predictors of visual search accuracy. Baseline performance was assessed on easy levels at the star... Read More about I knew you were going to miss that: Predicting future visual search performance from initial search abilities.

Face symmetry assessment abilities: Clinical implications for diagnosing asymmetry (2013)
Journal Article
Jackson, T. H., Mitroff, S. R., Clark, K., Proffit, W. R., Lee, J. Y., & Nguyen, T. T. (2013). Face symmetry assessment abilities: Clinical implications for diagnosing asymmetry. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, 144(5), 663-671. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajodo.2013.06.020

Introduction An accurate assessment of face symmetry is necessary for the development of a dentofacial diagnosis in orthodontics, and an understanding of individual differences in perception of face symmetry between patients and providers is needed t... Read More about Face symmetry assessment abilities: Clinical implications for diagnosing asymmetry.

Context matters: The structure of task goals affects accuracy in multiple-target visual search (2013)
Journal Article
Clark, K., Cain, M., Adcock, R. A., & Mitroff, S. R. (2014). Context matters: The structure of task goals affects accuracy in multiple-target visual search. Applied Ergonomics, 45(3), 528-533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2013.07.008

Career visual searchers such as radiologists and airport security screeners strive to conduct accurate visual searches, but despite extensive training, errors still occur. A key difference between searches in radiology and airport security is the str... Read More about Context matters: The structure of task goals affects accuracy in multiple-target visual search.

Enhanced facial symmetry assessment in orthodontists (2013)
Journal Article
Jackson, T. H., Clark, K., & Mitroff, S. R. (2013). Enhanced facial symmetry assessment in orthodontists. Visual Cognition, 21(7), 838-852. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2013.832450

Assessing facial symmetry is an evolutionarily important process, which suggests that individual differences in this ability should exist. As existing data are inconclusive, the current study explored whether a group trained in facial symmetry assess... Read More about Enhanced facial symmetry assessment in orthodontists.

Assessing visual search performance differences between Transportation Security Administration Officers and nonprofessional visual searchers (2013)
Journal Article
Cain, M. S., Biggs, A. T., Cain, M., Clark, K., Darling, E. F., & Mitroff, S. R. (2013). Assessing visual search performance differences between Transportation Security Administration Officers and nonprofessional visual searchers. Visual Cognition, 21(3), 330-352. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2013.790329

Some visual searches depend upon accuracy (e.g., radiology, airport security screening), and it is important for both theoretical and applied reasons to understand what factors best predict performance. The current study administered a visual search... Read More about Assessing visual search performance differences between Transportation Security Administration Officers and nonprofessional visual searchers.

Visual expertise: Insights gained by comparing professional populations (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., Biggs, A. T., Darling, E. F., Cain, M. S., Jackson, T. H., Samei, E., …Mitroff, S. R. (2013, May). Visual expertise: Insights gained by comparing professional populations. Paper presented at Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida, United States

Professionals whose careers depend on visual skills typically demonstrate superior performance on career-related tasks; farmers better determine the sex of day-old chicks (Biederman & Shiffrar, 1987), and bank tellers better detect counterfeit curren... Read More about Visual expertise: Insights gained by comparing professional populations.

Characterizing clinical skill acquisition: Face symmetry assessment abilities in orthodontists (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Jackson, T. H., Nguyen, T. T., Clark, K., Lee, J. Y., Proffit, W. R., & Mitroff, S. R. (2013, March). Characterizing clinical skill acquisition: Face symmetry assessment abilities in orthodontists. Poster presented at International Association for Dental Research, Seattle, Washington, United States

Objectives: Assessing face symmetry is key to diagnosis in dentistry. By comparing performance on tests of visual cognition (symmetry assessment) across dental students, orthodontics residents, orthodontics faculty, and untrained controls, we explore... Read More about Characterizing clinical skill acquisition: Face symmetry assessment abilities in orthodontists.

Face symmetry assessment: Evidence for malleability and expertise (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., Jackson, T. H., & Mitroff, S. R. (2012, November). Face symmetry assessment: Evidence for malleability and expertise. Poster presented at Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Evaluating symmetry is an important element of face processing and contributes to judgments about attractiveness, healthiness, and mate selection. Although general face processing in healthy adult humans is well studied, less is known about whether s... Read More about Face symmetry assessment: Evidence for malleability and expertise.

In search of experience effects: How TSA officers differ from undergraduates on visual search tasks. (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Mitroff, S. R., Biggs, A. T., Cain, M. S., Darling, E. F., Clark, K., Adamo, S. H., & Dowd, E. W. (2012, November). In search of experience effects: How TSA officers differ from undergraduates on visual search tasks. Paper presented at Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Visual search is a routine activity that people perform countless times each day. Search is also crucial for certain professions (e.g., airport security, radiology), and here we examine how the extensive practice gained through these careers alters s... Read More about In search of experience effects: How TSA officers differ from undergraduates on visual search tasks..

Cognitive and neural plasticity due to visual search training (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Appelbaum, L. G., Clark, K., Mitroff, S. R., & Woldorff, M. G. (2012, October). Cognitive and neural plasticity due to visual search training. Paper presented at Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Successful visual search is the endpoint of a cascade of cognitive processes including sensory analysis, attentional orienting, target discrimination, and response generation. These processes are governed by underlying neural mechanisms that can be... Read More about Cognitive and neural plasticity due to visual search training.

Visual search at the airport: Testing TSA officers (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Mitroff, S. R., Biggs, A. T., Cain, M. S., Darling, E. F., Clark, K., Adamo, S. H., & Dowd, E. W. (2012, May). Visual search at the airport: Testing TSA officers. Paper presented at Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida, United States

A significant challenge for laboratory-based research is to adequately replicate conditions found in the real world. Likewise, a challenge for field-based research is to appropriately maintain the precision and control found within the laboratory. Th... Read More about Visual search at the airport: Testing TSA officers.

Neural correlates of learning during a visual search task (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., Appelbaum, L. G., Mitroff, S. R., & Woldorff, M. G. (2012, May). Neural correlates of learning during a visual search task. Paper presented at Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida, United States

Performance on visual search tasks can be improved with training; however, the neural mechanisms underlying such improvement are not clear. For example, although response times (RTs) typically shorten with training, it is unclear which components of... Read More about Neural correlates of learning during a visual search task.

Overcoming hurdles in translating visual search research between the lab and the field (2012)
Book Chapter
Cain, M. S., Clark, K., Adamo, S. H., & Mitroff, S. R. (2012). Overcoming hurdles in translating visual search research between the lab and the field. In M. D. Dodd, & J. H. Flowers (Eds.), The Influence of Attention, Learning, and Motivation on Visual Search (147-181). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4794-8_7

Research in visual search can be vital to improving performance in careers such as radiology and airport security screening. In these applied, or "field," searches, accuracy is critical, and misses are potentially fatal; however, despite the importan... Read More about Overcoming hurdles in translating visual search research between the lab and the field.

A Bayesian Optimal Foraging Model of Human Visual Search (2012)
Journal Article
Cain, M. S., Vul, E., Clark, K., & Mitroff, S. R. (2012). A Bayesian Optimal Foraging Model of Human Visual Search. Psychological Science, 23(9), 1047-1054. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797612440460

Real-world visual searches often contain a variable and unknown number of targets. Such searches present difficult metacognitive challenges, as searchers must decide when to stop looking for additional targets, which results in high miss rates in mul... Read More about A Bayesian Optimal Foraging Model of Human Visual Search.

Expertise in radiological screening and satisfaction of search (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., Samei, E., Baker, J., & Mitroff, S. R. (2011, November). Expertise in radiological screening and satisfaction of search. Poster presented at Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, Seattle, Washington, United States

Cognitive psychology studies of visual search typically use novice searchers (often undergraduate students). Such studies have provided valuable insight into visual search performance, but how might expert searchers differ in their performance? Radi... Read More about Expertise in radiological screening and satisfaction of search.

Optimal models of human multiple-target visual search (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Cain, M. S., Vul, E., Clark, K., & Mitroff, S. R. (2011, July). Optimal models of human multiple-target visual search. Paper presented at Cognitive Science Society, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Unlike laboratory experiments, real-world visual search can contain multiple targets. Searching for an unknown number of targets creates a unique set of challenges for the observer, and often produces serious errors. We propose a Bayesian optimal for... Read More about Optimal models of human multiple-target visual search.

Interactions between reward, feedback, and timing structures on dual-target search performance (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., Cain, M. S., Adcock, R. A., & Mitroff, S. R. (2011, May). Interactions between reward, feedback, and timing structures on dual-target search performance. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida, United States

Individuals who conduct visual searches that can contain more than one target face many challenges. Such multiple-target visual searches can be especially error prone, as identification of one target often makes identification of a second target less... Read More about Interactions between reward, feedback, and timing structures on dual-target search performance.

Motivational influences of monetary reward and performance feedback on dual-target search performance (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., Cain, M. S., Adcock, R. A., & Mitroff, S. R. (2011, April). Motivational influences of monetary reward and performance feedback on dual-target search performance. Poster presented at Annual Symposium on Motivation, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Optimizing employee performance is of general importance, but it is particularly pertinent for socially critical jobs that are especially error prone. For example, it is vital to understand how visual search performance can be maximized for radiologi... Read More about Motivational influences of monetary reward and performance feedback on dual-target search performance.

Enhanced change detection performance reveals improved strategy use in avid action video game players (2010)
Journal Article
Clark, K., Fleck, M. S., & Mitroff, S. R. (2011). Enhanced change detection performance reveals improved strategy use in avid action video game players. Acta Psychologica, 136(1), 67-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.10.003

Recent research has shown that avid action video game players (VGPs) outperform non-video game players (NVGPs) on a variety of attentional and perceptual tasks. However, it remains unknown exactly why and how such differences arise; while some prior... Read More about Enhanced change detection performance reveals improved strategy use in avid action video game players.

Human search strategies are informed by complex target distribution statistics (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Cain, M. S., Vul, E., Clark, K., & Mitroff, S. R. (2010, November). Human search strategies are informed by complex target distribution statistics. Paper presented at Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, St Louis, Missouri, United States

Many real-world visual searches contain multiple targets in one display and such searches can be especially error prone. We investigated whether searchers adapt their strategies based on complex statistics of target distributions in multiple-target s... Read More about Human search strategies are informed by complex target distribution statistics.

Revealing individual differences in visual search: ADHD leads to see too little and anorexia nervosa leads to seeing too much (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., Watson, K. K., Zucker, N. L., & Mitroff, S. R. (2010, November). Revealing individual differences in visual search: ADHD leads to see too little and anorexia nervosa leads to seeing too much. Poster presented at Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, St Louis, Missouri, United States

In understanding the nature of visual cognition, it is important to determine how individual differences affect performance. We have found relationships between symptoms of both ADHD and anorexia nervosa and performance on a simple visual search tas... Read More about Revealing individual differences in visual search: ADHD leads to see too little and anorexia nervosa leads to seeing too much.

Identifying and reducing satisfaction of search errors: How to alleviate dual-target search costs (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Mitroff, S. R., Clark, K., & Cain, M. S. (2010, November). Identifying and reducing satisfaction of search errors: How to alleviate dual-target search costs. Paper presented at Psychonomic Society, St Louis, Missouri, United States

Some occupations (e.g., airport luggage screeners, military personnel, radiologists) require highly accurate visual searches. To maximize performance it is important to identify factors that decrease accuracy and then identify means to alleviate thei... Read More about Identifying and reducing satisfaction of search errors: How to alleviate dual-target search costs.

Reducing satisfaction of search errors in visual search (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., Cain, M. S., Adcock, R. A., & Mitroff, S. R. (2010, May). Reducing satisfaction of search errors in visual search. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida, United States

Several occupations rely upon the ability to accurately and efficiently perform visual search. For example, radiologists must successfully identify abnormalities, and airport luggage screeners must recognize threatening items. By investigating variou... Read More about Reducing satisfaction of search errors in visual search.

See an object, hear an object file: Object correspondence transcends sensory modality (2010)
Journal Article
Jordan, K. E., Clark, K., & Mitroff, S. R. (2010). See an object, hear an object file: Object correspondence transcends sensory modality. Visual Cognition, 18(4), 492-503. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280903338911

An important task of perceptual processing is to parse incoming information into distinct units and to keep track of those units over time as the same, persisting representations. Within the study of visual perception, maintaining such persisting obj... Read More about See an object, hear an object file: Object correspondence transcends sensory modality.

Effects of videogame expertise on change detection abilities (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., Fleck, M. S., & Mitroff, S. R. (2009, November). Effects of videogame expertise on change detection abilities. Poster presented at Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Action video game players demonstrate enhanced performance on perceptual tasks, but the underlying mechanisms of their benefits remain unclear. We examined gamers and non-gamers using a modified change-detection flicker paradigm in which image pairs... Read More about Effects of videogame expertise on change detection abilities.

Video game players excel at change detection (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., Fleck, M. S., & Mitroff, S. R. (2009, May). Video game players excel at change detection. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida, United States

As our everyday lives become increasingly more complex with technological advancements, an important question arises in whether certain experiences can lead to improved cognitive and perceptual abilities. Recent research has demonstrated that action... Read More about Video game players excel at change detection.

See an object, hear an object file: Object correspondence transcends sensory modality (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Jordan, K. E., Clark, K., & Mitroff, S. R. (2009, May). See an object, hear an object file: Object correspondence transcends sensory modality. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida, United States

An important task of perceptual processing is to parse incoming information from the external world into distinct units and to subsequently keep track of those units over time as the same, persisting internal representations. Within the realm of visu... Read More about See an object, hear an object file: Object correspondence transcends sensory modality.

The effects of interference on visual memory of 2-D shape (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., & Garrigan, P. (2008, May). The effects of interference on visual memory of 2-D shape. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida, United States

Change detection requires comparing the representation of a previously presented stimulus to the representation of a new stimulus. During the interval over which information about the previously presented stimulus is stored, processing of additional... Read More about The effects of interference on visual memory of 2-D shape.