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  • 1996 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences For his insightful research on visual attention and perception, especially his studies on the capture and the interactions between attention and perceptual organization.

Overview

Steven Yantis was a researcher affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their work contributed to the understanding of visual attention and perception.

In 1996, Steven Yantis received the Troland Research Award from the United States National Academy of Sciences. The award citation recognized their research on the capture and the interactions between attention and perceptual organization.

As a deceased scientist, Yantis's contributions remain part of the academic record, although specific details about their publications, frequent co-authors, or main fields of study are not available in the presented data.

Best Publications

  • Abrupt visual onsets and selective attention: Evidence from visual search.

    Steven Yantis;John Jonides

  • Abrupt visual onsets and selective attention: voluntary versus automatic allocation.

    Steven Yantis;John Jonides

  • VISUAL ATTENTION: Control, Representation, and Time Course

    Howard E. Egeth;Steven Yantis

  • Uniqueness of abrupt visual onset in capturing attention

    John Jonides;Steven Yantis

  • Value-driven attentional capture

    Brian A. Anderson;Patryk A. Laurent;Steven Yantis

  • Transient neural activity in human parietal cortex during spatial attention shifts

    Steven Yantis;Steven Yantis;Jens Schwarzbach;Jens Schwarzbach;John T. Serences;Robert L. Carlson;Robert L. Carlson

  • Multielement Visual Tracking: Attention and Perceptual Organization

    Steven Yantis

  • Stimulus-driven attentional capture: evidence from equiluminant visual objects.

    Steven Yantis;Anne P. Hillstrom

  • Visual Attention: Bottom-Up Versus Top-Down

    Charles E. Connor;Howard E. Egeth;Steven Yantis

  • Selective visual attention and perceptual coherence.

    John T. Serences;Steven Yantis

  • On the distinction between visual salience and stimulus-driven attentional capture.

    Steven Yantis;Howard E. Egeth

  • Coordination of voluntary and stimulus-driven attentional control in human cortex

    John T. Serences;Sarah Shomstein;Andrew B. Leber;Xavier Golay;Xavier Golay

  • Control of visual attention.

    Steven Yantis

  • Involuntary attentional capture by abrupt onsets.

    Roger W. Remington;James C. Johnston;Steven Yantis

  • On the locus of visual selection: evidence from focused attention tasks

    Steven Yantis;James C. Johnston

  • Visual motion and attentional capture.

    Anne P. Hillstrom;Steven Yantis

  • Cortical mechanisms of space-based and object-based attentional control.

    Steven Yantis;John T Serences

  • Modern mental chronometry.

    David E. Meyer;Allen M. Osman;David E. Irwin;Steven Yantis

  • Stimulus-Driven Attentional Capture:

    Steven Yantis

  • Stimulus-Driven Attentional Capture and Attentional Control Settings

    Steven Yantis

Frequent Co-Authors

John T. Serences
John T. Serences University of California, San Diego
Susan M. Courtney
Susan M. Courtney Johns Hopkins University
John Jonides
John Jonides University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Scott D. Slotnick
Scott D. Slotnick Boston College
Howard E. Egeth
Howard E. Egeth Johns Hopkins University
David E. Meyer
David E. Meyer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Brian J. Anderson
Brian J. Anderson Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Stewart H. Mostofsky
Stewart H. Mostofsky Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
David E. Irwin
David E. Irwin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James J. Pekar
James J. Pekar Kennedy Krieger Institute

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