Brian Anderson

Selected Publications

• Recent Publications

  • Anderson, B. A. (in press). Rethinking distraction. Visual Cognition.
  • Gregoire, L., Dubravac, M., Moore, K., Kim, N., & Anderson, B. A. (in press). Observational learning of threat-related attentional bias. Cognition and Emotion.
  • Clement, A., & Anderson, B. A. (in press). Statistically learned associations among objects bias attention. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics.
  • Anderson, B. A. (in press). Filtering distractors is costly. Cognition and Emotion.
  • Liesefeld, H. R., Lamy, D., Gaspelin, N., Geng, J., Kerzel, D., Leber, A., Schall, J. D., Allen, H., Anderson, B. A., Busch, N., Boettcher, S., Carlisle, N., Colonius, H., Draschkow, D., Egeth, H., Müller, H. J., Röer, J. P., Schubö, A., Slagter, H., Theeuwes, J., & Wolfe, J. (in press). Terms of debate: Consensus definitions to guide the scientific discourse on visual distraction. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics.
  • Kim, N., Gregoire, L., Razavi, M., Yan, N., Lee, D. S., Lewis, P., Ahn, C. R., & Anderson, B. A. (in press). Protocols for evaluating the effectiveness of virtual accident experience in enhancing sensory responses to real-world warning. STAR Protocols.
  • Anderson, B. A., Kim. N., Gregoire, L., Yan, N., & Ahn, C. R. (2024). Attention failures cause workplace accidents: Why workers ignore hazards and what to do about it. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 11, 27-35.
  • Anderson, B. A. (2024). Trichotomy revisited: A monolithic theory of attentional control. Vision Research, 217, 108366.
  • Lee, D. S.*, Clement, A.*, & Anderson, B. A. (2024). When detecting a salient target makes search more effortful. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153, 590-607. *denotes co-first-authorship
  • Yan, N., & Anderson, B. A. (2024). Attribute amnesia as a product of experience-dependent encoding. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 31, 772-780.
  • Kim, A. J.*, Lee, D. S.*, Grindell, J. D., & Anderson, B. A. (2024). Selection history and the strategic control of attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 50, 204-211. *denotes co-first-authorship
  • Gregoire, L., & Anderson, B. A. (2024). Instructional learning of threat-related attentional capture. Emotion, 24, 531-537.
  • Anderson, B. A. (2024). An examination of the motivation to manage distraction. Cognition, 250, 105862.
  • Anderson, B. A., & Lee, D. S. (2023). Visual search as effortful work. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152, 1580-1597.
  • Lee, D. S., & Anderson, B. A. (2023). Selection history contributes to suboptimal attention strategies. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 30, 1866-1873.
  • Clement, A., & Anderson, B. A. (2023). Statistical learning facilitates the strategic use of attentional control. Cognition, 239, 105536.
  • Clement, A., Gregoire, L., & Anderson, B. A. (2023). Generalization of value-based attentional priority is category-specific. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76, 2401-2409.
  • Liao, M.-R., Kim, A. J., & Anderson, B. A. (2023). Neural correlates of value-driven spatial orienting. Psychophysiology, 60, e14321.
  • Liao, M.-R., Dillard, M. H., Hour, J. L., Barnett, L. A., Whitten, J. S., Valles, A. C., Anderson, B. A.*, & Yorzinski, J. L.* (2023). Reward history modulates visual attention in an avian model. Animal Cognition, 26, 1685-1695. *denotes co-senior-authorship (equal-contribution)
  • Liao, M.-R., Grindell, J. D., & Anderson, B. A. (2023). A comparison of mental imagery and perceptual cueing across domains of attention. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 85, 1834-1845.
  • Kim, H., Ogden, A., & Anderson, B. A. (2023). Statistical learning of distractor shape modulates attentional capture. Vision Research, 202, 108155.
  • Kim, H., & Anderson, B. A. (2023). Primary rewards and aversive outcomes have comparable effects on attentional bias. Behavioral Neuroscience, 137, 89-94.
  • Kim, H., & Anderson, B. A. (2023). On the relationship between value- and threat-driven attentional capture and approach-avoidance biases. Brain Sciences, 13(2), 158.
  • Ogden, A., Kim, H., & Anderson, B. A. (2023). Combined influence of valence and statistical learning on the control of attention II: Evidence from within-domain additivity. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 85, 277-283.
  • Yan, N., Grindell, J. D., & Anderson, B. A. (2023). Encoding history enhances working memory encoding: Evidence from attribute amnesia. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 49, 589-599.
  • Kim, N.*, Gregoire, L.*, Razavi, M., Yan, N., Ahn, C. R., & Anderson, B. A. (2023). Virtual accident curbs risk habituation in construction workers by restoring sensory responses to warning signals. iScience, 26, 105827. *denotes co-first-authorship
  • Kim, N., Yan, N., Gregoire, L., Anderson, B. A., & Ahn, C. R. (2023). Road construction workers’ boredom proneness, habituation to warning alarms, and accident proneness: A virtual reality experiment. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 149, 04022175.
  • Chen, Y., Chen, S., Zhang, X., Zhang, S., Jia, K., Anderson, B. A., & Gong, M. (2023). Reward history modulates attention based on feature relationship. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152, 1937-1950.
  • Kim, A. J., & Anderson, B. A. (2022). Systemic effects of selection history on learned ignoring. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 29, 1347-1354.
  • Gregoire, L., Britton, M. K., & Anderson, B. A. (2022). Motivated suppression of value- and threat-modulated attentional capture. Emotion, 22, 780-794.
  • Gregoire, L., Mrkonja, L., & Anderson, B. A. (2022). Cross-modal generalization of value-based attentional priority. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 84, 2423-2431.
  • Lee, D. S., Kim, A. J., & Anderson, B. A. (2022). The influence of reward history on goal-directed visual search. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 84, 325-331.
  • Anderson, B. A., Liao, M.-R., & Gregoire, L. (2022). Pavlovian learning in the selection history-dependent control of overt spatial attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48, 783-789.
  • Anderson, B. A., & Mrkonja, L. (2022). This is a test: Oculomotor capture when the experiment keeps score. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 84, 2115-2126.