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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2001 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences For his pathbreaking behavioral, psychophysical, and physiological studies of attention and visual memory.

Overview

Steven J. Luck is affiliated with the University of California, Davis, in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience as reflected in their extensive publication record.

Luck's main fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience

Within this broader domain, their subfields of study encompass:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to neural function and behavior, including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment

Steven J. Luck has published multiple papers with significant citations. Recent notable publications include:

  • "Progress toward resolving the attentional capture debate," 2020, Visual Cognition
  • "Standardized measurement error: A universal metric of data quality for averaged event-related potentials," 2021, Psychophysiology

Other frequently cited papers associated with their research environment or coauthors, though without direct authorship attribution, include:

  • "ERP CORE: An open resource for human event-related potential research," 2020, NeuroImage
  • "Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression," 2022, Progress in Neurobiology
  • "Serial dependence in vision: Merely encoding the previous-trial target is not enough," 2020, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Collaborations have been an integral part of their work. Frequent coauthors include:

  • James M. Gold
  • John E. Kiat
  • Benjamin M. Robinson
  • Britta Hahn
  • Sonia Bansal

Steven J. Luck has published extensively in several key scientific venues, particularly:

  • Psychophysiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Vision
  • NeuroImage
  • Visual Cognition

Their contributions have been recognized by awards, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012
  • Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences, 2001, for behavioral, psychophysical, and physiological studies of attention and visual memory

Best Publications

  • The capacity of visual working memory for features and conjunctions

    Steven J. Luck;Edward K. Vogel

  • ERPLAB: an open-source toolbox for the analysis of event-related potentials

    Javier Lopez-Calderon;Steven J. Luck

  • Neural mechanisms of spatial selective attention in areas V1, V2, and V4 of macaque visual cortex

    Steven J. Luck;Leonardo Chelazzi;Steven A. Hillyard;Robert Desimone

  • Discrete fixed-resolution representations in visual working memory

    Weiwei Zhang;Steven J. Luck

  • Electrophysiological correlates of feature analysis during visual search.

    Steven J. Luck;Steven A. Hillyard

  • The Oxford handbook of event-related potential components

    Steven J. Luck;Emily S Kappenman

  • Sensory gain control (amplification) as a mechanism of selective attention: electrophysiological and neuroimaging evidence

    Steven A. Hillyard;Edward K. Vogel;Steven J. Luck

  • Event-related potential studies of attention

    Steven J. Luck;Geoffrey F. Woodman;Edward K. Vogel

  • Storage of features, conjunctions and objects in visual working memory.

    Edward K. Vogel;Geoffrey F. Woodman;Steven J. Luck

  • The visual N1 component as an index of a discrimination process

    Edward K. Vogel;Steven J. Luck

  • Spatial filtering during visual search: evidence from human electrophysiology.

    Steven J. Luck;Steven A. Hillyard

  • Visual Working Memory Capacity: From Psychophysics and Neurobiology to Individual Differences

    Steven J. Luck;Edward K. Vogel

  • Biochemical and functional effects of prenatal and postnatal omega 3 fatty acid deficiency on retina and brain in rhesus monkeys

    Martha Neuringer;William E. Connor;Don S. Lin;Louise Barstad

  • How to get statistically significant effects in any ERP experiment (and why you shouldn't)

    Steven J Luck;Nicholas Gaspelin

  • Electrophysiological Evidence for a Postperceptual Locus of Suppression During the Attentional Blink

    Edward K. Vogel;Steven J. Luck;Kimron L. Shapiro

  • Electrophysiological measurement of rapid shifts of attention during visual search

    Geoffrey F. Woodman;Steven J. Luck

  • Effects of spatial cuing on luminance detectability: Psychophysical and electrophysiological evidence for early selection.

    Steven J. Luck;Steven A. Hillyard;Mustapha Mouloua;Marty G. Woldorff

  • Word meanings can be accessed but not reported during the attentional blink

    Steven J. Luck;Edward K. Vogel;Kimron L. Shapiro

  • Visual event-related potentials index focused attention within bilateral stimulus arrays. II. Functional dissociation of P1 and N1 components

    S. J. Luck;H. J. Heinze;George R Mangun;S. A. Hillyard

  • Committee report: Publication guidelines and recommendations for studies using electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography

    Andreas Keil;Stefan Debener;Gabriele Gratton;Markus Junghöfer

  • Serial deployment of attention during visual search

    G. F. Woodman;S. J. Luck

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. Gold
James M. Gold University of Maryland, Baltimore
Geoffrey F. Woodman
Geoffrey F. Woodman Vanderbilt University
Steven A. Hillyard
Steven A. Hillyard University of California, San Diego
Andrew Hollingworth
Andrew Hollingworth University of Iowa
Edward K. Vogel
Edward K. Vogel University of Chicago
Lisa M. Oakes
Lisa M. Oakes University of California, Davis
George R. Mangun
George R. Mangun University of California, Davis
Joy J. Geng
Joy J. Geng University of California, Davis
Cameron S. Carter
Cameron S. Carter University of California, Irvine
Hans-Jochen Heinze
Hans-Jochen Heinze Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

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