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Papers

(The median citation count of Visual Cognition is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
What do we know about suppression of attention capture?	43
No difference in prior representations of what to attend and what to ignore	36
The eye contact smile: The effects of sending and receiving a direct gaze	19
Engaging with neuroanatomy through creative projects	16
Found in translation: The role of response mappings for observing binding effects in localization tasks	16
Motion behind occluder: Amodal perception and visual motion extrapolation	14
On the origin of the Roelofs and induced Roelofs effects	12
Impact of simulated target blur on the preparation and execution of aiming movements	11
Influence of physical features from peripheral vision on scene categorization in central vision	11
Proactive suppression is evident even if the probe-recognition assumption is not evident: complementary relationship between proactive and reactive suppression	9
The moment-by-moment attentional temperature: How do history effects influence attentional capture?	9
“Experiencing perception”: A collection of class demonstrations and activities to engage students in sensation & perception courses	9
Gender and perceived cooperation modulate visual attention in a joint spatial cueing task	8
Unresolved issues in distractor suppression: Proactive and reactive mechanisms, implicit learning, and naturalistic distraction	8
A horizontal–vertical anisotropy in spatial short-term memory	8
Motor behaviour mimics the gaze response in establishing joint attention, but is moderated by individual differences in adopting the intentional stance towards a robot avatar	8
Event knowledge and object-scene knowledge jointly influence fixations in scenes	8
Understanding of attentional suppression is incomplete without consideration of motivation and context	7
A perceptual advantage for social groups in interactive configurations	7
Features are more than just filling in the blanks on body size scales	7
Verbal instructions as selection bias that modulates visual selection	7
Gaze cues vs. arrow cues at short vs. long durations	7
On the relationship between cognitive load and the efficiency of distractor rejection in visual search: The case of motion-form conjunctions	6
The costs and benefits to memory when observing and experiencing live eye contact	6
Why signal suppression cannot resolve the attentional capture debate	6

Emotional capture of spatial attention is suppressed in high anxiety but at a non-spatial time cost	6
The uncanny valley phenomenon can be explained by categorization failure rather than categorization difficulty	6
The early visual processing of faces in a basic classification task: An ERP study of spatial frequency, other-race and other species effect	6
Progress and remaining issues: A response to the commentaries on Luck et al. (2021)	5
Incidental learning of temporal and spatial associations in hybrid search	5
Serial and joint processing of conjunctive predictions	5
Contextual uncertainty determines early attentional orienting in visual selection	5
Correction	5
Correction	5
A problem case set for teaching psychophysics and psychophysical modelling	4
Simultaneously and sequentially presented arrays evoke similar visual working memory crowding	4
On the influence of implicit race attitudes on explicit trustworthiness judgments: An investigation of the perceivers and targets' race and gender intersection	4
Inter-trial priming is not sufficient for feature-based distractor suppression	4
Action matters! Target report technique affects interference between visually guided touch and multiple-object tracking	4
Revisiting the role of visual working memory in attentional control settings	3
The influence of task demands and implicit racial bias on face-sensitive visual ERPs to own- and other-race faces	3
Memorable beginnings, but forgettable endings: Intrinsic memorability alters our subjective experience of time	3
The malleability of attentional capture	3
The influence of featural and configural changes on the attractiveness evaluation of one’s own face	3
Themes and variations: A response to commentaries on Luck, et al. (2021)	3
Emojis elicit semantic parafoveal-on-foveal (PoF) effects during reading	3
Individual differences in first saccade latency predict overt behaviour during search for a contour integration target	3
Within-Subject manipulations of proactive control do not change negative templates benefits: Exploring the effect of reward on negative and positive cues	3
Neural evidence for dynamic within-trial changes in allocation of visual attention	3
Invited commentary: Attentional capture and its suppression viewed as skills	3
Relating visual and pictorial space: Binocular disparity for distance, motion parallax for direction	3
Degraded vision affects mental representations of the body	3
When memory meets distraction: The role of unexpected stimulus-driven attentional capture on contextual cueing	3
How scene encoding affects memory discrimination: Analysing eye movements data using data driven methods	2
Task-related gaze behaviour in face-to-face dyadic collaboration: Toward an interactive theory?	2
How does mind-wandering affect distractor suppression?	2
Voluntary choice tasks increase control settings and reduce capture	2
Exploring perceptual similarity and its relation to image-based spaces: an effect of familiarity	2
Visual features drive attentional bias for threat	2
When a stranger becomes a friend: Measuring the neural correlates of real-world face familiarisation	2
Relying on the external world: Individuals variably use low- and medium-loading, but rarely high-loading, strategies when engaging visual working memory	2
Can attitude similarity shape social inhibition of return?	2
Global judgments of caloric information in younger and older adults	2
Which visual property correlates with the relationship between numerosity sense and arithmetic fluency	2
Satisfaction-of-Search (SOS) impacts multiple-target searches during proofreading: Evidence from eye movements	2
Rethinking distraction	2
Melanoma in the blink of an eye: Pathologists’ rapid detection, classification, and localization of skin abnormalities	2
The cross-race effect is mitigated by own-gender bias but not minimal groups or university affiliation	2
Banner blindness as the suppression process: No perceptual load effect on web advertising detection	2
Generalized anxiety disorder and selective attention: An unsuccessful replication of Yiend et al., (2015) in a student population	2
Dynamic suppression of likely distractor locations: Task-critical modulation	2
A robust neural index of automatic generalization across variable natural views of familiar face identities	2
The attractiveness of face cues does not modulate the gaze cuing effect	2
Self-monitoring hinders the ability to read affective facial expressions	2
Standing out in a small crowd: The role of display size in attracting attention	2

Attentional capture: An ameliorable side-effect of searching for salient targets	2
Working memory for movement rhythms given spatial relevance: Effects of sequence length and maintenance delay	2
How fixation durations are affected by search difficulty manipulations	2
The modulatory mechanism of spatial distance on the role of internal attention in unattended working memory representations	1
The progress revisited: How the dispute between stimulus-driven and contingent-capture advocates is hampered by a blindness for change	1
Casting shadows on the eye to reveal the inverted retinal image	1
Colour-concept association formation for novel concepts	1
Quiet eye facilitates processing complex information in elite table tennis players	1
Recognizing newly learned faces across changes in age	1
Perception of opposite-direction motion in random dot kinematograms	1
Perception of masculinized or feminized men’s faces and its relation to the menstrual cycle phase of women: Electrophysiological evidence	1
Inhibition of return (IOR) meets stimulus-response (S-R) binding: Manually responding to central arrow targets is driven by S-R binding, not IOR	1
Does superior visual working memory capacity enable greater distractor suppression?	1
Correction	1
Visual-motor conflict in cognitive strategies during mental rotation: The role of embodiment and specific sport expertise	1
Gestalt formation promotes awareness of suppressed visual stimuli during binocular rivalry	1
A question of perspective: Perspective as a feature in stimulus-response binding	1
How we learn to ignore singleton distractors: Suppressing saliency signals or specific features?	1
Do we need attentional suppression?	1
Proportion of colour proportionally affects guidance in search for conjunction and real-world objects	1
Development of attentional bias towards visual word forms in the environment in preschool children	1
Attentional guidance from unique faster/slower discrete and smooth feature changes in visual search	1
Obligatory integration of face features in expression discrimination	1
Unfamiliar faces might as well be another species: Evidence from a face matching task with human and monkey faces	1
A bridge to progress further afield: The promise of a common framework on attentional capture	1
Effect of self-movement on visually directed throwing: Implications for distance perception	1
Habituation to onset capture via associative links with contextual information	1
Individuating and categorizing faces: The other-race effect is reduced by attending to racial but not identity cues	1
Does threat familiarity and knowledge shape rapid visual attention?	1
Novel scene understanding, from gist to elaboration	1
Beyond guidance: It’s time to focus on the consequences of attentional capture	1
Investigating the influence of salience on distractor-response binding	1
Boundary extension replicates in samples from South Korea and China	1
Negative aftereffects of face trait impressions are modulated by emotional expressions	1
Lingering on distraction: Examining distractor rejection in adults with ADHD	1
Evidence for different visual processing strategy for non-face stimuli in developmental prosopagnosia	1
Subliminal emotional faces do not capture attention under high attentional load in a randomized trial presentation	1
Priming of location (PoL) revisited: Reanalysis of a large-scale database	1
Navigating meaning in the spatial layouts of comics: A cross-cultural corpus analysis	1
Are emojis processed visuo-spatially or verbally? Evidence for dual codes	1