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  • 2002 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

James T. Enns is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and conducts research primarily within the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology. Their work includes 48 publications in Neuroscience and 26 in Psychology, with a significant focus on the subfields of Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Enns' research spans several main topics, including:

  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Their recent papers include:

  • The Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory (CATI): development and validation of a new measure of autistic traits in the general population, 2021, Molecular Autism
  • Neural dynamics of the attentional blink revealed by encoding orientation selectivity during rapid visual presentation, 2020, Nature Communications
  • On the Reliability of Wearable Technology: A Tutorial on Measuring Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability in the Wild, 2023, Sensors
  • Action coordination during a real-world task: Evidence from children with and without autism spectrum disorder, 2020, Development and Psychopathology
  • The Attractiveness of Masked Faces Is Influenced by Race and Mask Attitudes, 2022, Frontiers in Psychology

Enns frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Visual Cognition
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Autism
  • Sensors

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Veronica Dudarev
  • Troy A. W. Visser
  • Raymond R. MacNeil
  • Oswald Barral
  • Guy Davis

James T. Enns was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2002 within the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Competition for consciousness among visual events : The psychophysics of reentrant visual processes

    Vincent Di Lollo;James T. Enns;Ronald A. Rensink

  • What’s new in visual masking?

    James T. Enns;Vincent Di Lollo

  • What competition?

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  • The attentional blink: resource depletion or temporary loss of control?

    Vincent Di Lollo;Jun-ichiro Kawahara;S.M. Shahab Ghorashi;James T. Enns

  • Object Substitution: A New Form of Masking in Unattended Visual Locations

    James T. Enns;Vincent Di Lollo

  • Locally oriented perception with intact global processing among adolescents with high‐functioning autism: evidence from multiple paradigms

    Laurent Mottron;Jacob A. Burack;Grace Iarocci;Sylvie Belleville

  • Attention and Visual Memory in Visualization and Computer Graphics

    C. G. Healey;J. T. Enns

  • The development of selective attention: A life-span overview

    Dana J. Plude;James T. Enns;Darlene Brodeur

  • Emotional Valence and Arousal Interact in Attentional Control

    Lisa N. Jefferies;Daniel Smilek;Eric Eich;James T. Enns

  • Influence of scene-based properties on visual search

    James T. Enns;Ronald A. Rensink

  • High-speed visual estimation using preattentive processing

    Christopher G. Healey;Kellogg S. Booth;James T. Enns

  • Large datasets at a glance: combining textures and colors in scientific visualization

    C.G. Healey;J.T. Enns

  • Preattentive recovery of three-dimensional orientation from line drawings.

    James T. Enns;Ronald A. Rensink

  • LIFESPAN CHANGES IN ATTENTION: THE VISUAL SEARCH TASK

    Lana M. Trick;James T. Enns

  • Preemption effects in visual search: evidence for low-level grouping.

    Ronald A. Rensink;James T. Enns

  • Early completion of occluded objects

    Ronald A. Rensink;James T. Enns

  • Object substitution and its relation to other forms of visual masking.

    James T. Enns

  • Relations between covert orienting and filtering in the development of visual attention.

    Nameera Akhtar;James T Enns

  • The Development of attention : research and theory

    James T. Enns

  • Paying attention behind the wheel: a framework for studying the role of attention in driving

    Lana M. Trick;James T. Enns;Jessica Mills;John Vavrik

  • Sensitivity to Three-Dimensional Orientation in Visual Search

    James T. Enns;Ronald A. Rensink

  • Negative compatibility or object updating? A cautionary tale of mask-dependent priming.

    Alejandro Lleras;James T. Enns

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent Di Lollo
Vincent Di Lollo Simon Fraser University
Alan Kingstone
Alan Kingstone University of British Columbia
Jacob A. Burack
Jacob A. Burack McGill University
Ronald A. Rensink
Ronald A. Rensink University of British Columbia
Romeo Chua
Romeo Chua University of British Columbia
Salvador Soto-Faraco
Salvador Soto-Faraco Pompeu Fabra University
Grace Iarocci
Grace Iarocci Simon Fraser University
David I. Shore
David I. Shore McMaster University
Steven Franconeri
Steven Franconeri Northwestern University
Ian M. Franks
Ian M. Franks University of British Columbia

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