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  • 2011 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Barbara Anne Dosher is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research is concentrated primarily in the field of Neuroscience, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience. Their work also spans subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The main topics of Barbara Anne Dosher's research include visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural and behavioral psychology studies, neural dynamics and brain function, neural networks and applications, blind source separation techniques, color science and applications, and multisensory perception and integration.

Barbara Anne Dosher has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Vision
  • Nature Reviews Psychology
  • Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Journal of Cognitive Enhancement
  • Vision Research

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Dosher include:

  • Current directions in visual perceptual learning, 2022, Nature Reviews Psychology
  • Roving: The causes of interference and re-enabled learning in multi-task visual training, 2020, Journal of Vision
  • Visual attention in spatial cueing and visual search, 2021, Journal of Vision
  • Perceptual Learning: Policy Insights From Basic Research to Real-World Applications, 2023, Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Hierarchical Bayesian perceptual template modeling of mechanisms of spatial attention in central and peripheral cuing, 2023, Journal of Vision

Frequent collaborators in their research include Zhong-Lin Lu, Jiajuan Liu, Yukai Zhao, Chang-Bing Huang, and Chen Ge.

Barbara Anne Dosher was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

Best Publications

  • The Role ,of Attention in the Programming of Saccades

    Eileen Kowler;Eric Anderson;Barbara Dosher;Erik Blaser

  • Strategies for multiattribute binary choice.

    J E Russo;B A Dosher

  • External noise distinguishes attention mechanisms.

    Zhong-Lin Lu;Barbara Anne Dosher

  • PERCEPTUAL LEARNING REFLECTS EXTERNAL NOISE FILTERING AND INTERNAL NOISE REDUCTION THROUGH CHANNEL REWEIGHTING

    Barbara Anne Dosher;Zhong-Lin Lu

  • Serial position and set size in short-term memory: The time course of recognition

    Brian McElree;Barbara Anne Dosher

  • Mechanisms of perceptual learning

    Barbara Anne Dosher;Zhong-Lin Lu

  • The dynamics of perceptual learning: an incremental reweighting model.

    Alexander A. Petrov;Barbara Anne Dosher;Zhong-Lin Lu

  • Noise Exclusion in Spatial Attention

    Barbara Anne Dosher;Zhong-Lin Lu

  • Mechanisms of perceptual attention in precuing of location.

    Barbara Anne Dosher;Zhong-Lin Lu

  • Spatial language and spatial representation: a cross-linguistic comparison

    Edward Munnich;Barbara Landau;Barbara Anne Dosher

  • Tradeoffs between stereopsis and proximity luminance covariance as determinants of perceived 3D structure.

    Barbara Anne Dosher;George Sperling;Stephen A. Wurst

  • Characterizing observers using external noise and observer models: assessing internal representations with external noise.

    Zhong-Lin Lu;Barbara Anne Dosher

  • Characterizing human perceptual inefficiencies with equivalent internal noise.

    Zhong-Lin Lu;Barbara Anne Dosher

  • Task precision at transfer determines specificity of perceptual learning.

    Pamela E. Jeter;Barbara Anne Dosher;Alexander Petrov;Zhong-Lin Lu

  • Instrument inferences in sentence encoding.

    Albert T. Corbett;Barbara A. Dosher

  • Visual Perceptual Learning and Models

    Barbara Dosher;Zhong-Lin Lu

  • Spatial attention: different mechanisms for central and peripheral temporal precues?

    Zhong-Lin Lu;Barbara Anne Dosher

  • Serial Retrieval Processes in the Recovery of Order Information

    Brian McElree;Barbara Anne Dosher

  • A comparison of conscious and automatic memory processes for picture and word stimuli: a process dissociation analysis.

    Dawn M. McBride;Barbara Anne Dosher

  • Discriminating preexperimental (semantic) from learned (episodic) associations: A speed-accuracy study

    Barbara Anne Dosher

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhong-Lin Lu
Zhong-Lin Lu New York University Shanghai
Brian McElree
Brian McElree New York University
Barbara Landau
Barbara Landau Johns Hopkins University
Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber Central European University
Wayne A. Wickelgren
Wayne A. Wickelgren Columbia University
Vittorio Girotto
Vittorio Girotto Università Iuav di Venezia
Markus Kemmelmeier
Markus Kemmelmeier University of Nevada Reno
Derek Besner
Derek Besner University of Waterloo
David Whitney
David Whitney University of California, Berkeley
Marisa Carrasco
Marisa Carrasco New York University

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