Journal Articles
2021
Won, B-Y, Venkatesh, A., Witkowski, P.P., Banh, T., Geng, J.J. (in press). Memory precision for salient distractors decreases with learned suppression. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Geng, J.J. and Duarte, S.E. (in press). 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).
Xu, X, Hanks, T.D., and Geng, J.J. (in press). Attentional guidance and match decisions rely on different template information during visual search. Psychological Science. Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/nhz4q/.
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.
psyarxiv preprint
© 2020, American Psychological Association. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the final, authoritative version of the article. Please do not copy or cite without authors' permission. The final article will be available, upon publication, via its DOI: 10.1037/xge0000760
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. pdf
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. pdf
Witkowski, P. and Geng, J.J. (2019). Learned feature variance is encoded in the target template and drives visual search. Visual Cognition. pdf
Geng, J.J., Won, B., Carlisle, N.B. (2019). Distractor ignoring: strategies, learning, and passive filtering. Current Directions in Psychological Science. pdf
APS description of our paper
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. pdf / share link from Elsevier
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. pdf
© 2018, American Psychological Association. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the final, authoritative version of the article. Please do not copy or cite without authors' permission. The final article will be available, upon publication, via its DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000609
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. pdf
© 2018, American Psychological Association. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the final, authoritative version of the article. Please do not copy or cite without authors' permission. The final article will be available, upon publication, via its DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000594
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). pdf
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. pdf
Bansal, S., Robinson, B.M., Geng, J.J., Leonard, C.J., Hahn, B., Luck, S.J., Gold, J.M. (2018). The impact of reward on attention in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
DiQuattro, N.E. and Geng, J.J. (2017). Pre-saccadic target competition attenuates distraction. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79(4):1087-1096. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
Geng, J.J., (2014). Attentional mechanisms of distractor suppression. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23(2) 147-153. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
DiQuattro, N.E. and Geng J.J. (2011). Contextual knowledge configures attentional control networks. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(49):18026-35. pdf
Isham, E., and Geng, J.J. (2011). Rewarding Performance Feedback Alters Reported Time of Action. Consciousness and Cognition, 20(4):1577-85. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
Geng, J.J. and Behrmann, M. (2006). Competition between simultaneous stimuli modulated by location probability in hemispatial neglect, Neuropsychologia 44(7): 1050:60. pdf
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. pdf
Behrmann, M., Geng, J.J., and Shomstein, S. (2004). Parietal cortex and attention. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 14:212-217. pdf
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. pdf
Spivey, M. & Geng, J. (2001). Oculomotor mechanisms triggered by imagery and memory: Eye movements to absent objects. Psychological Research, 65(4): 235-241. pdf
2021
Won, B-Y, Venkatesh, A., Witkowski, P.P., Banh, T., Geng, J.J. (in press). Memory precision for salient distractors decreases with learned suppression. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Geng, J.J. and Duarte, S.E. (in press). 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).
Xu, X, Hanks, T.D., and Geng, J.J. (in press). Attentional guidance and match decisions rely on different template information during visual search. Psychological Science. Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/nhz4q/.
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.
psyarxiv preprint
© 2020, American Psychological Association. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the final, authoritative version of the article. Please do not copy or cite without authors' permission. The final article will be available, upon publication, via its DOI: 10.1037/xge0000760
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. pdf
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. pdf
Witkowski, P. and Geng, J.J. (2019). Learned feature variance is encoded in the target template and drives visual search. Visual Cognition. pdf
Geng, J.J., Won, B., Carlisle, N.B. (2019). Distractor ignoring: strategies, learning, and passive filtering. Current Directions in Psychological Science. pdf
APS description of our paper
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. pdf / share link from Elsevier
- Geng, J.J., Leber, A.B., Shomstein, S. (2019). Attention and Perception: 40 reviews, 40 views, Current Opinion in Psychology. pdf
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. pdf
© 2018, American Psychological Association. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the final, authoritative version of the article. Please do not copy or cite without authors' permission. The final article will be available, upon publication, via its DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000609
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. pdf
© 2018, American Psychological Association. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the final, authoritative version of the article. Please do not copy or cite without authors' permission. The final article will be available, upon publication, via its DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000594
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). pdf
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. pdf
Bansal, S., Robinson, B.M., Geng, J.J., Leonard, C.J., Hahn, B., Luck, S.J., Gold, J.M. (2018). The impact of reward on attention in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
DiQuattro, N.E. and Geng, J.J. (2017). Pre-saccadic target competition attenuates distraction. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79(4):1087-1096. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
Geng, J.J., (2014). Attentional mechanisms of distractor suppression. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23(2) 147-153. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
DiQuattro, N.E. and Geng J.J. (2011). Contextual knowledge configures attentional control networks. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(49):18026-35. pdf
Isham, E., and Geng, J.J. (2011). Rewarding Performance Feedback Alters Reported Time of Action. Consciousness and Cognition, 20(4):1577-85. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
Geng, J.J. and Behrmann, M. (2006). Competition between simultaneous stimuli modulated by location probability in hemispatial neglect, Neuropsychologia 44(7): 1050:60. pdf
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. pdf
Behrmann, M., Geng, J.J., and Shomstein, S. (2004). Parietal cortex and attention. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 14:212-217. pdf
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. pdf
Spivey, M. & Geng, J. (2001). Oculomotor mechanisms triggered by imagery and memory: Eye movements to absent objects. Psychological Research, 65(4): 235-241. pdf