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Eric Ruthruff is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a significant number of publications in cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work also spans related areas such as general decision sciences, social psychology, and applied psychology.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Eric Ruthruff has contributed to a number of peer-reviewed papers published in various journals, such as:

  • "Attentional dwelling and capture by color singletons," 2020, Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • "On preventing attention capture: Is singleton suppression actually singleton suppression?," 2021, Psychological Research
  • "Oculomotor suppression of abrupt onsets versus color singletons," 2022, Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • "Are maximizers more normative decision-makers? An experimental investigation of maximizers' susceptibility to cognitive biases," 2021, Personality and Individual Differences
  • "No identification of abrupt onsets that capture attention: evidence against a unified model of spatial attention," 2020, Psychological Research

The scientist frequently publishes in particular venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Psychological Research
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • Visual Cognition

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research, with common coauthors including:

  • Mei-Ching Lien
  • Christopher Hauck
  • François Maquestiaux
  • Joshua W. Maxwell
  • Nicholas Gaspelin

Best Publications

  • Forty-five years after Broadbent (1958): still no identification without attention.

    Joel Lachter;Kenneth I. Forster;Eric Ruthruff

  • Processing bottlenecks in dual-task performance: structural limitation or strategic postponement?

    Eric Ruthruff;Harold E. Pashler;Alwin Klaassen

  • Can practice eliminate the psychological refractory period effect

    M. Van Selst;E. Ruthruff;J. C. Johnston

  • The role of input and output modality pairings in dual-task performance: evidence for content-dependent central interference.

    Eliot Hazeltine;Eric Ruthruff;Roger W. Remington

  • How does practice reduce dual-task interference: Integration, automatization, or just stage-shortening?

    Eric Ruthruff;Mark Van Selst;James C. Johnston;Roger Remington

  • Switching between simple cognitive tasks: The interaction of top-down and bottom-up factors

    Eric Ruthruff;Roger W. Remington;James C. Johnston

  • Why practice reduces dual-task interference.

    Eric Ruthruff;James C. Johnston;Mark Van Selst

  • Contingent attentional capture by top-down control settings: converging evidence from event-related potentials.

    Mei-Ching Lien;Eric Ruthruff;Zachary Goodin;Roger W. Remington

  • Vanishing dual-task interference after practice: has the bottleneck been eliminated or is it merely latent?

    Eric Ruthruff;James C. Johnston;Mark Van Selst;Shelly Whitsell

  • Does mental rotation require central mechanisms

    Eric Ruthruff;Jeff Miller;Thomas Lachmann

  • Visual search in complex displays: factors affecting conflict detection by air traffic controllers

    Roger W. Remington;James C. Johnston;Eric Ruthruff;Miri Gold

  • Dual-task interference with equal task emphasis: graded capacity sharing or central postponement?

    Eric Ruthruff;Harold E. Pashler;Eliot Hazeltine

  • Attentional Limitations in Doing Two Tasks at Once The Search for Exceptions

    Mei-Ching Lien;Eric Ruthruff;James C. Johnston

  • Attentional capture with rapidly changing attentional control settings.

    Mei-Ching Lien;Eric Ruthruff;James C. Johnston

  • Attention and Performance

    Harold Pashler;James C. Johnston;Eric Ruthruff

  • On the limits of advance preparation for a task switch: Do people prepare all the task some of the time or some of the task all the time?

    Mei-Ching Lien;Eric Ruthruff;Roger W. Remington;James C. Johnston

  • Bypassing the central bottleneck after single-task practice in the psychological refractory period paradigm: evidence for task automatization and greedy resource recruitment.

    Francois Maquestiaux;Maude Laguë-Beauvais;Eric Ruthruff;Louis Bherer

  • The problem of latent attentional capture: Easy visual search conceals capture by task-irrelevant abrupt onsets.

    Nicholas Gaspelin;Eric Ruthruff;Mei-Ching Lien

  • Visual word recognition without central attention: evidence for greater automaticity with advancing age.

    Mei-Ching Lien;Philip A. Allen;Eric Ruthruff;Jeremy Grabbe

  • Task switching in a hierarchical task structure: evidence for the fragility of the task repetition benefit

    Mei-Ching Lien;Eric Ruthruff

  • What causes residual dual-task interference after practice?

    Eric Ruthruff;Eric Ruthruff;Eliot Hazeltine;Roger W. Remington

Frequent Co-Authors

James C. Johnston
James C. Johnston Ames Research Center
Roger W. Remington
Roger W. Remington University of Minnesota
Harold Pashler
Harold Pashler University of California, San Diego
Eliot Hazeltine
Eliot Hazeltine University of Iowa
Robert W. Proctor
Robert W. Proctor Purdue University West Lafayette
Jeff Miller
Jeff Miller University of Otago
Geoffrey R. Loftus
Geoffrey R. Loftus University of Washington
Louis Bherer
Louis Bherer University of Montreal
Kenneth I. Forster
Kenneth I. Forster University of Arizona
Alan D. Castel
Alan D. Castel University of California, Los Angeles

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