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Neuroscience

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40
Citations
6912
World Ranking
8064
National Ranking
3463

Psychology

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40
Citations
6911
World Ranking
8234
National Ranking
4407

Overview

Shaun P. Vecera is affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with an emphasis on cognitive neuroscience. They have contributed to the fields of human-computer interaction, safety, risk, reliability and quality, plant science, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's published work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Traffic and Road Safety

They have authored recent papers such as:

  • "Testing the underlying processes leading to learned distractor rejection: Learned oculomotor avoidance" (2022, Attention Perception & Psychophysics)
  • "Learned distractor rejection in the face of strong target guidance." (2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance)
  • "Learned distractor rejection persists across target search in a different dimension" (2022, Attention Perception & Psychophysics)
  • "Does hand position affect orienting when no action is required? An electrophysiological study" (2023, Frontiers in Neuroscience)
  • "Extended Evaluation of Training Programs to Accelerate Hazard Anticipation Skills in Novice Teen Drivers" (2021, Harvard Dataverse)

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Education Sciences

Collaborative work features several recurring co-authors, such as:

  • Brad T. Stilwell
  • Catherine L. Reed
  • John P. Garza
  • William S. Bush
  • Natasha Parikh

Shaun P. Vecera's research contributions cover experimental studies on learned distractor rejection and oculomotor behavior, visual perception under varying conditions, and the neural underpinnings of attention and motor control. Their recent inquiries also include examining electrophysiological aspects of hand position effects on orienting and evaluating training programs aimed at improving hazard anticipation skills among novice drivers.

Best Publications

  • Does visual attention select objects or locations

    Shaun P. Vecera;Martha J. Farah

  • Dissociated overt and covert recognition as an emergent property of a lesioned neural network.

    Martha J. Farah;Randall C. O'Reilly;Shaun P. Vecera

  • Perceptual organization influences visual working memory.

    Geoffrey F. Woodman;Shaun P. Vecera;Steven J. Luck

  • Gaze detection and the cortical processing of faces: Evidence from infants and adults

    Shaun P. Vecera;Mark H. Johnson

  • Attention effects during visual short-term memory maintenance: Protection or prioritization?

    Michi Matsukura;Steven J. Luck;Shaun P. Vecera

  • Experience-dependent attentional tuning of distractor rejection

    Daniel B. Vatterott;Shaun P. Vecera

  • Psychoanatomical substrates of Bálint's syndrome.

    M Rizzo;S P Vecera

  • Lower Region: A New Cue for Figure-Ground Assignment

    Shaun P. Vecera;Edward K. Vogel;Geoffrey F. Woodman

  • Is visual image segmentation a bottom-up or an interactive process?

    Shaun P. Vecera;Martha J. Farah

  • The development of inhibition of return in early infancy

    Anne Boylan Clohessy;Michael I. Posner;Mary K. Rothbart;Shaun P. Vecera

  • Figure-ground organization and object recognition processes: an interactive account.

    Shaun P. Vecera;Randall C. O'Reilly

  • Grouped Locations and Object-Based Attention: Comment on Egly, Driver, and Rafal (1994)

    Shaun P. Vecera

  • Attentional spreading in object-based attention.

    Ashleigh M. Richard;Hyunkyu Lee;Shaun P. Vecera

  • Attention affects visual perceptual processing near the hand.

    Joshua D. Cosman;Shaun P. Vecera

  • Directing driver attention with augmented reality cues

    Michelle L. Rusch;Mark C. Schall;Patrick Gavin;John D. Lee

  • Toward a Biased Competition Account of Object-Based Segregation and Attention

    Shaun P. Vecera

  • Eye gaze does not produce reflexive shifts of attention: evidence from frontal-lobe damage.

    Shaun P. Vecera;Matthew Rizzo

  • Exogenous spatial attention influences figure-ground assignment

    Shaun P Vecera;Anastasia V. Flevaris;Joseph C. Filapek

  • Feature-based statistical regularities of distractors modulate attentional capture.

    Brad T. Stilwell;Brett Bahle;Shaun P. Vecera

  • What are you looking at? Impaired 'social attention' following frontal-lobe damage.

    Shaun P. Vecera;Matthew Rizzo

  • The Control of Visual Attention: Toward a Unified Account

    Shaun P. Vecera;Joshua D. Cosman;Daniel B. Vatterott;Zachary J.J. Roper

Frequent Co-Authors

Martha J. Farah
Martha J. Farah University of Pennsylvania
Edward A. Wasserman
Edward A. Wasserman University of Iowa
Steven J. Luck
Steven J. Luck University of California, Davis
Randall C. O'Reilly
Randall C. O'Reilly University of California, Davis
Marlene Behrmann
Marlene Behrmann Carnegie Mellon University
Geoffrey F. Woodman
Geoffrey F. Woodman Vanderbilt University
Andrew Hollingworth
Andrew Hollingworth University of Iowa
Stephen E. Palmer
Stephen E. Palmer University of California, Berkeley
Edward K. Vogel
Edward K. Vogel University of Chicago
E. Mark Mahone
E. Mark Mahone Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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