Publications
Journal Articles
2024
Zhou Z. and Geng, J.J., (2024) Learned associations serve as target proxies during difficult but not easy visual search. Cognition, doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105648. pdf
Liesefeld HR, Lamy D, Gaspelin N, Geng JJ, Kerzel D, Schall JD, Allen HA, Anderson BA, Boettcher S, Busch NA, Carlisle NB, Colonius H, Draschkow D, Egeth H, Leber AB, Müller HJ, Röer JP, Schubö A, Slagter HA, Theeuwes J, Wolfe J. (2023) Terms of debate: consensus definitions to guide the scientific discourse on visual distraction. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics,. doi: 10.3758/s13414-023-02820-3. Online ahead of print. pdf
2023
Yu X., Rahim R., and Geng J.J. (2023). Task-adaptive changes to the target template in response to distractor context: Separability versus similarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, online ahead of print. doi: 10.1037/xge0001507. pdf
Witkowski, P.P. and Geng, J.J. (2023) Prefrontal cortex codes representations of target identity and feature uncertainty. Journal of Neuroscience, online ahead of print. pdf
Yu, X., Zhou, Z, Becker, S.I., Boettcher, S.E.P., Geng, J.J. (2023) Good-enough attentional guidance. Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Apr;27(4):391-403. pdf
Duarte SE, Ghetti S, Geng JJ. (2023). Object memory is multisensory: Task-irrelevant sounds improve recollection. Psychon Bull Rev. Apr;30(2):652-665 . PMID: 36167915. link
2022
Wöstmann, M. Störmer, V.S., Obleser, J., Addleman, D.A., Andersen, S.K., Gaspelin, N., Geng, J.J., Luck, S.J., Noonan, M.P., Slagter, H.A., and Theeuwes, J. (2022) Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression, Progress in Neurobiology. Jun;213:102269. doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2022.102269.
Witkowski, P.P. and Geng, J.J. (2022) Attentional priority is determined by predicted feature distributions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. pdf
Nah, J. and Geng, J.J. (2022). Thematic object pairs produce stronger and faster grouping than taxonomic pairs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. pdf
Yu, X., Johal, S. K., & Geng, J. J. (2022). Visual search guidance uses coarser template information than target-match decisions. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, doi:https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02478-3. pdf
Stokes, J.D., Rizzo, A., Geng, J.J., Schweitzer, J.B. (2022). Measuring attentional distraction in children with ADHD using virtual reality technology with eye-tracking. Frontiers Virtual Reality 08 March 2022. link
Won, B-Y, Venkatesh, A., Witkowski, P.P., Banh, T., Geng, J.J. (2022). Memory precision for salient distractors decreases with learned suppression. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 21(1): 169-181. pdf
Hansmann-Roth, S., Thorsteinsdottir, S. Geng, J.J., Kristjansson, A. (2022). Temporal integration of feature probability distributions. Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01621-3.
2021
Hahn, B., Robinson, B.M. Kiat, J.E., Geng, J.J., Bansal, S., Luck, S.J., Gold, J.M. (2021). Impaired filtering and hyperfocusing: Neural evidence for distinct selective attention abnormalities in people with Schizophrenia. Cerebral Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab327
Geng, J.J. and Duarte, S.E. (2021). Unresolved issues in distractor suppression: Proactive and reactive mechanisms, implicit learning, and naturalistic distraction. Visual Cognition. commentary in response to Luck, Gaspelin, Folk, Remington, & Theeuwes (2020, Visual Cognition).
Yu, X, Hanks, T.D., and Geng, J.J. (2022). Attentional guidance and match decisions rely on different template information during visual search. Psychological Science, 33(1):105-120. Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/nhz4q/. pdf
2020
Won, B., Forloines, M. Zhou, Z. and Geng, J.J. (2020). Changes in visual cortical processing attenuate singleton distraction during visual search. Cortex. accepted preprint: 10.31234/osf.io/y5rf2
Won, B. and Geng, J.J. (2020). Passive exposure attenuates distraction during visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/py4sx/
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Won, B., Haberman, J., Bliss-Moreau, E., and Geng, J.J., (2020) Flexible target templates improve visual search accuracy for faces depicting emotion. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82(6):2909-2923.
2019
Lee, J., & Geng, J. J. (2019). Flexible weighting of target features based on distractor context. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. doi:10.3758/s13414-019-01910-5.
Witkowski, P. and Geng, J.J. (2019). Learned feature variance is encoded in the target template and drives visual search. Visual Cognition.
Geng, J.J., Won, B., Carlisle, N.B. (2019). Distractor ignoring: strategies, learning, and passive filtering. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Ashinoff, B.K., Geng, J.J., Mevorach, C. (2019). Delayed reactive distractor suppression in aging populations. Psychology and Aging.
Geng, J.J. and Witkowski, P. (2019). Template-to-distractor distinctiveness regulates visual search efficiency. Current Opinion in Psychology, 29:119-125.
Geng, J.J., Leber, A.B., Shomstein, S. (2019). Attention and Perception: 40 reviews, 40 views, Current Opinion in Psychology.
Yu, X., and Geng, J.J., (2019). The Attentional Template is Shifted and Asymmetrically Sharpened by Distractor Context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45(3):336-353.
Won, B., Kosoyan, M., Geng, J.J. (2019). Evidence for second-order singleton suppression based on probabilistic expectations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45(1): 125-138.
2018
Fink, L.K., Hurley, B.K., Geng, J.J., Janata, P. (2018). A linear oscillator model predicts dynamic temporal attention and pupillary entrainment to rhythmic patterns. Journal of Eye-Movement Research, 11(2).
Lee, J., Leonard, C.J., Luck, S.J., Geng, J.J., (2018). Dynamics of feature-based attentional selection during color-shape conjunction search. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31:1-15.
Abu-Akel, A., Apperly, I., Spaniol, M., Geng, J.J., and Mevorach, C. (2018) Diametric effects of autism tendencies and psychosis proneness on attention control irrespective of task demands. Scientific Reports, 8(1):8478.
Won, B. and Geng, J.J. (2018). Learned suppression for multiple distractors in visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(7):1128-1141.
Chechlacz, M., Hansen, P.C., Geng, J.J. Cazzoli, D. (2018) Polarity-dependent effects of bi-parietal tDCS on the interplay between target location and distractor saliency in visual attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30(6):851-866.
2017
Geng, J.J., DiQuattro, N.E., Helm, J. (2017). Distractor Probability Changes the Shape of the Attentional Template. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(12):1993-2007.
DiQuattro, N.E. and Geng, J.J. (2017). Pre-saccadic target competition attenuates distraction. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79(4):1087-1096.
2011-2016
Lee, J. and Geng, J.J. (2016). Idiosyncratic patterns of representational similarity in prefrontal cortex predict attentional performance. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(5):1257-1268.
Van Diepen, R., Miller, L., Mazaheri, A.*, Geng, J.* (2016). The role of alpha activity in spatial and featured-based attention. eNeuro, 3(5). *shared senior authorship pdf
Geng, J.J., Blumenfeld, Z, Tyson, T.L., Minzenberg, M.J. (2015). Pupil diameter reflects uncertainty in attentional selection during visual search. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9:435.
Stankevich, B. and Geng, J.J., (2014) The modulation of reward priority by top-down knowledge. Visual Cognition, 76(8):2315-25. doi: 10.1080/13506285.2014.981626.
Vossel, S., Geng, J.J., Friston, K. (2014) Attention, predictions and expectations, and their violation: attentional control in the human brain, Front. Hum. Neurosci. 8:463. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00463
Stankevich, B., Geng, J.J. (2014). Reward associations and spatial probabilities produce additive effects on attentional selection. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 76(8):2315-25. doi: 10.3758/s13414-014-0720-5.
Geng, J.J., (2014). Attentional mechanisms of distractor suppression. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23(2) 147-153.
Minzenberg, M.J., Gomes, G.C., Yoon, J.H., Watrous, A.J., Geng, J.J., Firl, A.J., Carter, C.S. (2014). Modafinil Augments Oscillatory Power in Middle-Frequencies During Rule Selection", Psychophysiology, 51(6):510-9. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12201.
Lockhart S.N., Roach A.E. Luck, S.J, Geng, J., Beckett L., Carmichael, O., Decarli C. (2013). White matter hyperintensities are associated with visual search behavior independent of generalized slowing in aging. 52:93-101. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.10.011.
Geng, J.J., and Vossel, S. (2013). Re-evaluating the role of TPJ in attentional control: contextual updating? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 37(10 Pt 2):2608-20. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.08.010. pdf
Isham, E.A., and Geng, J.J. (2013). Looking time predicts choice but not aesthetic value. PloS ONE. Aug 16;8(8):e71698. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071698.
DiQuattro, N.E., Sawaki, S., and Geng, J.J. (2013). Effective connectivity during feature-based attentional capture: Evidence against the attentional reorienting hypothesis of TPJ. Cerebral Cortex, 24(12):3131-41. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bht172. pdf
Vossel S., Geng, J.J., Fink, G. (2013). Dorsal and Ventral Attention Systems: Distinct Neural Circuits but Collaborative Roles. The Neuroscientist, 20(2):150-9. doi: 10.1177/1073858413494269.
Geng, J.J., Soosman, S. Sun, Y., DiQuattro, N.E., Stankevich, B., Minzenberg, M. (2012). A match made by modafinil: probability matching in choice decisions and spatial attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(5):657-69. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00333.
Sawaki, R., Geng, J. J., & Luck, S. J. (2012). A common neural mechanism for preventing and terminating the allocation of attention. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32(31):10725-36.
DiQuattro, N.E. and Geng J.J. (2011). Contextual knowledge configures attentional control networks. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(49):18026-35.
Isham, E., and Geng, J.J. (2011). Rewarding Performance Feedback Alters Reported Time of Action. Consciousness and Cognition, 20(4):1577-85.
Mazaheri, A., DiQuattro, N.E., Bengson, J., Geng, J.J. (2011). Pre-stimulus activity predicts the winner of top-down vs. bottom-up attentional selection. PLoS ONE, 6(2):e16243.
2010 and before
Rotshtein, P., Soto, D., Grecucci, A., Geng, J.J., Humphreys, G.W. (2010). The role of the pulvinar in resolving competition between memory and visual selection: A functional connectivity study. Neuropsychologia, 49(6):1544-52.
Geng, J.J. and Mangun, G.R. (2010) Right temporoparietal junction activation by a salient contextual cue facilitates target discrimination. NeuroImage, 54(1):594-601.
Geng, J.J. and DiQuattro, N.E. (2010). Attentional capture by a perceptually salient non-target facilitates target processing through inhibition and rapid-rejection. Journal of Vision, 10(6):5.
Geng, J.J. and Mangun, G.R. (2009). The Anterior Intraparietal Sulcus is Sensitive to Bottom-Up Attention Driven by Stimulus Salience. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(8):1584-601.
Geng, J.J., Ruff, C., and Driver, J. (2009). Saccades to a remembered location elicit spatially-specific activation in human retinotopic visual cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(2):230:45.
Rotshtein, P., Geng, J.J., Driver, J. and Dolan, R. (2007). Role of features and second-order relations in face discrimination, face recognition, and individual face skills: Behavioral and fMRI data. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(9): 1435-52.
Geng, J.J. , Eger, E., Ruff, C., Kristjansson, A., Rotshtein, P. and Driver, J. (2006). On-line attentional selection from competing stimuli in opposite visual fields: Effects on human visual cortex and control processes, Journal of Neurophysiology, 96(5): 2601-12.
Geng, J.J. and Behrmann, M. (2006). Competition between simultaneous stimuli modulated by location probability in hemispatial neglect, Neuropsychologia 44(7): 1050:60.
Friston, K.J., Rotshtein, P., Geng, J.J., Stertzer, P., Henson, R.N. (2006). A critique of functional localisers. NeuroImage 30(4): 1077-87.
Geng, J.J. and Behrmann, M. (2005). Spatial probabilities as an attentional bias in visual search. Perception and Psychophysics 67(7): 1252-68.
Behrmann, M., Geng, J.J., and Shomstein, S. (2004). Parietal cortex and attention. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 14:212-217.
Geng, J.J. and Behrmann, M. (2002). Probability cueing of target location facilitates visual search implicitly in normal participants and patients with hemispatial neglect. Psychological Science. 13(6) 520-5.
Spivey, M. & Geng, J. (2001). Oculomotor mechanisms triggered by imagery and memory: Eye movements to absent objects. Psychological Research, 65(4): 235-241. pdf