Papers & Books
  
  1. Albrecht, A. R., & Scholl, B. J. (in press). Perceptually averaging in a continuous visual world: Extracting statistical summary representations over time. Psychological Science.  
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  2. Gao, T., Newman, G. E., & Scholl, B. J. (in press). The psychophysics of chasing: A case study in the perception of animacy. Cognitive Psychology.  
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  3. New, J. J., Schultz, R. T., Wolf, J., Niehaus, J. L., Klin, A., German, T., & Scholl, B. J. (in press). The scope of social attention deficits in autism: Prioritized orienting to people and animals in static natural scenes. Neuropsychologia.  
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  4. Turk-Browne, N. B., Scholl, B. J., Chun, M. M., & Johnson, M. K. (in press). Neural evidence of statistical learning: Efficient detection of visual regularities without awareness. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.  
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  5. Gao, T., & Scholl, B. J. (in press). Are objects required for object files?: Roles of segmentation and spatiotemporal continuity in computing object persistence. Visual Cognition.  
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  6. Scholl, B. J., & Flombaum, J. I. (in press). Object persistence. In B. Goldstein (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Perception. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.  
    [View abstract, (Preprint coming soon)]  
  7. Scholl, B. J., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (in press). Statistical learning. In B. Goldstein (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Perception. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.  
    [View abstract, (Preprint coming soon)]  
  8. Scholl, B. J. (2009). What have we learned about attention from multiple object tracking (and vice versa)?. In D. Dedrick & L. Trick (Eds.), Computation, cognition, and Pylyshyn (pp. 49 - 78). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.  
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  9. New, J. J., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). Subjective time dilation: Spatially local, object-based, or a global visual experience? Journal of Vision, 9(2):4, 1 - 11, http://journalofvision.org/9/2/4/.  
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  10. Turk-Browne, N. B., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). Flexible visual statistical learning: Transfer across space and time. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 35(1), 195 - 202.  
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  11. Cheries, E. R., Mitroff, S. R., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). Do the same principles constrain persisting object representations in infant cognition and adult perception?: The cases of continuity and cohesion. In B. Hood & L. Santos (Eds.), The origins of object knowledge (pp. 107 - 134). Oxford University Press.  
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  12. Flombaum, J. I., Scholl, B. J., & Santos, L. R. (2009). Spatiotemporal priority as a fundamental principle of object persistence. In B. Hood & L. Santos (Eds.), The origins of object knowledge (pp. 135 - 164). Oxford University Press.  
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  13. Doran, M. M., Hoffman, J. E., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). The role of eye fixations in concentration and amplification effects during multiple object tracking. Visual Cognition, 17(4), 574 - 597.  
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  14. New, J. J., & Scholl, B. J. (2008). 'Perceptual scotomas': A functional account of motion-induced blindness. Psychological Science, 19(7), 653 - 659.  
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  15. Yi, D-J., Turk-Browne, N. B., Flombaum, J. I., Kim, M., Scholl, B. J., & Chun, M. M. (2008). Spatiotemporal object continuity in human ventral visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(26), 8840 - 8845.  
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  16. Newman, G. E., Choi, H., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2008). The origins of causal perception: Evidence from postdictive processing in infancy. Cognitive Psychology, 57(3), 262 - 291.  
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  17. Turk-Browne, N. B., Scholl, B. J., & Chun, M. M. (2008). Babies and brains: Habituation in infant cognition and functional neuroimaging. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2, Article 16.  
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  18. Flombaum, J. I., Scholl, B. J., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2008). Attentional resources in tracking through occlusion: The high-beams effect. Cognition, 107(3), 904 - 931.  
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  19. Cheries, E. W., Mitroff, S. R., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2008). Cohesion as a principle of object persistence in infancy. Developmental Science, 11(3), 427 - 432.  
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  20. Turk-Browne, N. B., Isola, P. J., Scholl, B. J., & Treat, T. A. (2008). Multidimensional visual statistical learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 34(2), 399 - 407.  
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  21. Scholl, B. J. (2007). Object persistence in philosophy and psychology. Mind & Language, 22(5), 563 - 591.  
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  22. Ben-Shahar, O., Scholl, B. J., & Zucker, S. W. (2007). Attention, segregation, and textons: Bridging the gap between object-based attention and texton-based segregation. Vision Research, 47(6), 173 - 178.  
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  23. Fiser, J., Scholl, B. J., & Aslin, R. N. (2007). Perceived object trajectories during occlusion constrain visual statistical learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14(1), 173 - 178.  
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  24. Junge, J. A., Scholl, B. J., & Chun, M. M. (2007). How is spatial context learning integrated over time?: A primacy effect in contextual cueing. Visual Cognition, 15(1), 1 - 11.  
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  25. Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Noles, N. S. (2007). Object files can be purely episodic. Perception, 36(12), 1730 - 1735.  
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  26. Cheries, E. W., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). Interrupting infants' persisting object representations: An object-based limit? Developmental Science, 9(5), F50 - F58.  
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  27. Flombaum, J. I., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). A temporal same-object advantage in the tunnel effect: Facilitated change detection for persisting objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 32(4), 840 - 853.  
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  28. Wagemans, J., Van Lier, R., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). Introduction to Michotte's heritage in perception and cognition research. Acta Psychologica, 123(1-2), 1 - 19.  
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  29. Choi, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). Measuring causal perception: Links to representational momentum? Acta Psychologica, 123(1-2), 91 - 111.  
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  30. Cheries, E. W., Newman, G. E., Santos, L. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). Units of visual individuation in Rhesus Macaques: Objects or unbound features? Perception, 35(8), 1057 - 1071.  
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  31. Choi, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). Perceiving causality after the fact: Postdiction in the temporal dynamics of causal perception. Perception, 35(3), 385 - 399.  
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  32. Most, S. B., Scholl, B. J., Clifford, E., & Simons, D. J. (2005). What you see is what you set: Sustained inattentional blindness and the capture of awareness. Psychological Review, 112(1), 217 - 242.  
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  33. Turk-Browne, N. B., Junge, J. A., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). The automaticity of visual statistical learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 134(4), 552 - 564.  
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  34. Alvarez, G. A., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). How does attention select and track spatially extended objects?: New effects of attentional concentration and amplification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 134(4), 461 - 476.  
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  35. Endress, A. D., Scholl, B. J., & Mehler, J. (2005). The role of salience in the extraction of algebraic rules. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 134(3), 406 - 419.  
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  36. Mitroff, S. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Forming and updating object representations without awareness: Evidence from motion-induced blindness. Vision Research, 45(8), 961 - 967.  
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  37. Scholl, B. J. (2005). Innateness and (Bayesian) visual perception: Reconciling nativism and development. In P. Carruthers, S. Laurence, & S. Stich (Eds.), The innate mind: Structure and contents (pp. 34 - 52). Oxford University Press.  
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  38. Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Wynn, K. (2005). The relationship between object files and conscious perception. Cognition, 96(1), 67 - 92.  
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  39. Marino, A. C. & Scholl, B. J. (2005). The role of closure in defining the 'objects' of object-based attention. Perception & Psychophysics, 67(7), 1140 - 1149.  
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  40. Noles, N., Scholl, B. J., & Mitroff, S. R. (2005). The persistence of object-file representations. Perception & Psychophysics, 67(2), 324 - 334.  
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  41. Flombaum, J. I., Kundey, S. M., Santos, L. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). Dynamic object individuation in rhesus macaques: A study of the tunnel effect. Psychological Science, 15(12), 795 - 800.  
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  42. Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Wynn, K. (2004). Divide and conquer: How object files adapt when a persisting object splits into two. Psychological Science, 15(6), 420 - 425.  
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  43. Mitroff, S. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). Seeing the disappearance of unseen objects. Perception, 33(10), 1267 - 1273.  
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  44. Scholl, B. J. (2004). Can infants' object concepts be trained? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8(2), 49 - 51.  
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  45. Scholl, B. J., & Nakayama, K. (2004). Illusory causal crescents: Misperceived spatial relations due to perceived causality. Perception, 33(4), 455 - 469.  
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  46. Scholl, B. J., Simons, D. J., & Levin, D. T. (2004). 'Change blindness' blindness: An implicit measure of a metacognitive error. In D. T. Levin (Ed.), Thinking and seeing: Visual metacognition in adults and children (pp. 145-164). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.  
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  47. Choi, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). Effects of grouping and attention on the perception of causality. Perception & Psychophysics, 66(6), 926 - 942.  
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  48. vanMarle, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2003). Attentive tracking of objects vs. substances. Psychological Science, 14(5), 498 - 504.  
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  49. Scholl, B. J., & Nakayama, K. (2002). Causal capture: Contextual effects on the perception of collision events. Psychological Science, 13(6), 493 - 498.  
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  50. Scholl, B. J. (Ed.) (2002). Objects and attention. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.  
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  51. Scholl, B. J., & Simons, D. J. (2001). Change blindness, Gibson, and the sensorimotor theory of vision. [Commentary] Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(5), 1004 - 1005.  
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  52. Scholl, B. J. (2001a). Objects and attention: The state of the art. Cognition, 80(1/2), 1 - 46.  
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  53. Scholl, B. J., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Feldman, J. (2001). What is a visual object? Evidence from target merging in multiple object tracking. Cognition, 80(1/2), 159 - 177.  
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  54. Most, S. B., Simons, D. J., Scholl, B. J., Jiminez, R., Clifford, E., & Chabris, C. F. (2001). How not to be seen: The contribution of similarity and selective ignoring to sustained inattentional blindness. Psychological Science, 12(1), 9 - 17.  
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  55. Scholl, B. J., & Leslie, A. M. (2001). Minds, modules, and meta-analysis. Child Development, 72(3), 696 - 701.
    [Reprinted in M. Mason (Ed.), Taking sides: Clashing views on controversial issues in cognitive science (pp. 34 - 43). McGraw-Hill.]  
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  56. Scholl, B. J. (2001b). Spatiotemporal Priority and object identity. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive, 20(5), 359 - 371.  
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  57. Scholl, B. J., & Xu, Y. (2001). The magical number 4 in vision. [Commentary] Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(1), 145 - 146.  
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  58. Most, S. B., Simons, D. J., Scholl, B. J., & Chabris, C. F. (2000). Sustained inattentional blindness: The role of location in the detection of unexpected dynamic events. Psyche, 6(14).  
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  59. Scholl, B. J., & Tremoulet, P. (2000). Perceptual causality and animacy. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4(8), 299 - 309.  
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  60. Scholl, B. J. (2000). Attenuated change blindness for exogenously attended items in a flicker paradigm. Visual Cognition, 7(1/2/3), 377 - 396.
    [Reprinted in D. Simons (Ed.), Change blindness and visual memory (pp. 377 - 396). Psychology Press.]  
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  61. Scholl, B. J., & Leslie, A. M. (1999b). Explaining the infant's object concept: Beyond the perception/cognition dichotomy. In E. Lepore & Z. Pylyshyn (Eds.), What is cognitive science? (pp. 26 - 73). Oxford: Blackwell.  
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  62. Scholl, B. J., & Leslie, A. M. (1999a). Modularity, development, and 'Theory of Mind'. Mind & Language, 14(1), 131 - 153.  
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  63. Scholl, B. J., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (1999). Tracking multiple items through occlusion: Clues to visual objecthood. Cognitive Psychology, 38, 259 - 290.  
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  64. Leslie, A. M., Xu, F., Tremoulet, P. D., & Scholl, B. J. (1998). Indexing and the object concept: Developing 'what' and 'where' systems. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2(1), 10 - 18.  
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  65. Scholl, B. J. (1997b). Neural constraints on cognitive modularity? [Commentary] Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20(4), 575 - 576.  
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  66. Scholl, B. J. (1997a). Reasoning, rationality, and architectural resolution. Philosophical Psychology, 10(4), 451 - 470.  
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Recent Conference Presentations
 
  1. Scholl, B. J. (2009). The logic of seeing (and not seeing). Invited talk given at the ANU workshop on Attention and Consciousness, Australian National University, 6/25/09, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

  2. McCarthy, G., Gao, T., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). Processing animacy in the posterior superior temporal sulcus. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/13/09, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 9(8), 775a, http://journalofvision.org/9/8/775/.]

  3. Ellner, S., Flombaum, J. I., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). Extrapolation vs. individuation in multiple object tracking. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/12/09, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 9(8), 250a, http://journalofvision.org/9/8/250/.]

  4. Albrecht, A. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). Perceptually averaging in a continuous visual world: Extracting statistical summary representations over time. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/11/09, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 9(8), 957a, http://journalofvision.org/9/8/957/.]

  5. Gao, T., McCarthy, G., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). 'Directionality' as an especially powerful cue to perceived animacy: Evidence from 'wolfpack' manipulations. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/09, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 9(8), 680a, http://journalofvision.org/9/8/680/.]

  6. Betzler, R. J., Turk-Browne, N. B., Christiansen, M. H., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). Statistical learning in everyday perception: The case of variable segment lengths. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/09, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 9(8), 929a, http://journalofvision.org/9/8/929/.]

  7. New, J. J., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). The functional nature of motion-induced blindness: Further explorations of the 'perceptual scotoma' hypothesis. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/9/09, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 9(8), 253a, http://journalofvision.org/9/8/253/.]

  8. Sloane, S., Baillargeon, R., Simons, D. J., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). Can infants maintain their representations of hidden objects through an interrupting event? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, 4/2/09, Denver, CO.

  9. Turk-Browne, N. B., Scholl, B. J., Johnson, M. K., & Chun, M. M. (2008). Prospection during incidental visual statistical learning of predictive temporal regularities. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, 11/15/08, Washington, DC.

  10. Scholl, B. J. (2008). Varieties of social attention. Talk given at the working meeting on The Cognitive Phenotype in Autism, 9/7/08, New York, NY.

  11. Scholl, B. J. (2008). Two kinds of experimental philosophy, and their methodological dangers. Talk given at the SPP Workshop on Experimental Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 6/25/08, Philadelphia, PA.

  12. New, J. J., Schultz, R. T., Wolf, J., Niehaus, J. L., Klin, A., German, T., & Scholl, B. J. (2008). The scope of social attention deficits in autism: Prioritized orienting to people and animals in static natural scenes. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/12/08, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 8(6), 684a, http://journalofvision.org/8/6/684/.]

  13. Turk-Browne, N. B., Johnson, M. K., Chun, M. M., & Scholl, B. J. (2008). Neural evidence of statistical learning: Incidental detection and anticipation of regularities. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/12/08, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 8(6), 695a, http://journalofvision.org/8/6/695/.]

  14. Flombaum, J. J., & Scholl, B. J. (2008). How does attention operate during multiple object tracking?: Evidence from the 'slot-machine' task for parallel access to target features. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/08, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 8(6), 223a, http://journalofvision.org/8/6/223/.]

  15. Gao, T., Newman, G. E., & Scholl, B. J. (2008). The psychophysics of chasing. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/08, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 8(6), 314a, http://journalofvision.org/8/6/314/.]

  16. Cheries, E., Feigenson, L., Scholl, B. J., & Carey, S. (2008). Cues to object persistence in infancy: Tracking objects through occlusion vs. implosion. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, 3/29/08, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

  17. Scholl, B. J. (2008). Perceived animacy, modularity, and the psychophysics of chasing. Talk given at the ONR workshop on Spanning the Socio-Cognitive Modeling Gap: From Development to Social Simulation, MIT, 2/29/08, Cambridge, MA.

  18. Nurmsoo, E., & Scholl, B. J. (2007). Word learning and unlearning: Preschoolers revise the meanings of newly learned words. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 7/10/07, Geneva, Switzerland.

  19. Flombaum, J., & Scholl, B. (2007). Attending to moving vs. static stimuli: A surprising dissociation in multiple object tracking. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/15/07, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 7(9), 894a, http://journalofvision.org/7/9/894/.]

  20. Gao, T., & Scholl, B. (2007). Are objects required for object-files? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/15/07, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 7(9), 916a, http://journalofvision.org/7/9/916/.]

  21. New, J., & Scholl, B. (2007). A 'perceptual scotoma' theory of motion-induced blindness. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/15/07, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 7(9), 779a, http://journalofvision.org/7/9/779/.]

  22. Newman, G., Choi, H., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. (2007). The origins of causal perception: Evidence from postdictive processing in infancy. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/15/07, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 7(9), 917a, http://journalofvision.org/7/9/917/.]

  23. White, A., & Scholl, B. (2007). Inattentional blindness, object persistence, and foveal inhibition. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/13/07, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 7(9), 540a, http://journalofvision.org/7/9/540/.]

  24. Isola, P., Turk-Browne, N., & Scholl, B. (2007). Multidimensional visual statistical learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/11/07, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 7(9), 43a, http://journalofvision.org/7/9/43/.]

  25. Scholl, B. J., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2006). Constraints on visual statistical learning reveal its underlying nature. Talk given in the Statistical learning: Mechanisms and limitations symposium, Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 11/18/06, Houston, TX.

  26. Doran, M. M., Hoffman, J. E., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). The role of eye fixations in amplification and concentration effects during MOT. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 11/18/06, Houston, TX. [Abstract published in Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 11, p. 134]

  27. Scholl, B. J. (2006). The future of cognitive science (education). Invited discussion presented at the Cognitive Science Curriculum Workshop, Indiana University, 6/27/06, Bloomington, IN.

  28. Scholl, B. J. (2006). Object persistence. Invited talk given at the Mind & Language Workshop on 'Objects', 6/9/06, London, England.

  29. Franconeri, S. L., Pylyshyn, Z. W., and Scholl, B. J. (2006). Spatiotemporal cues for tracking multiple objects through occlusion. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 1102a, http://www.journalofvision.org/6/6/1102/.]

  30. Junge, J. A., Chun, M. M., and Scholl, B. J. (2006). Primacy effects in contextual cueing. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 1089a, http://www.journalofvision.org/6/6/1089/.]

  31. Isola, P. J., Turk-Browne, N. B., Scholl, B. J., and Treat, T. A. (2006). The units of visual statistical learning: Features or objects? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/9/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 981a, http://www.journalofvision.org/6/6/981/.]

  32. Shankar, M. U., Flombaum, J. I., and Scholl, B. J. (2006). The role of topological change in object persistence. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/9/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 988a, http://www.journalofvision.org/6/6/988/.]

  33. Yi, D., Turk-Browne, N. B., Flombaum, J. I., Scholl, B. J., and Chun, M. M. (2006). Effects of spatiotemporal object continuity on repetition attenuation in human fusiform gyrus. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/9/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 815a, http://www.journalofvision.org/6/6/815/.]

  34. Flombaum, J. I., Scholl, B. J., and Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2006). 'Attentional high-beams' in tracking through occlusion. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/8/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 765a, http://www.journalofvision.org/6/6/765/.]

  35. Turk-Browne, N. B., and Scholl, B. J. (2006). The space-time continuum: Spatial visual statistical learning produces temporal processing advantages. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/8/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 676a, http://www.journalofvision.org/6/6/676/.]

  36. New, J. J., and Scholl, B. J. (2006). The spatial distribution of subjective time dilation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/7/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 597a, http://www.journalofvision.org/6/6/597/.]

  37. Cheries, E. W., Wynn, K., and Scholl, B. J. (2006). Interrupting infants' persisting object representations: An object-based limit? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/6/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 298a, http://www.journalofvision.org/6/6/298/.]

  38. Choi, H., and Scholl, B. J. (2006). Blindness to swapping features in simple dynamic events. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/6/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 299a, http://www.journalofvision.org/6/6/299/.]

  39. Scholl, B. J. (2006). Using MOT to study object persistence and object-based attention. Talk given at the Pre-Conference Workshop on 'Twenty years of multiple object tracking: What have we learned?', Vision Sciences Society, 5/5/06, Sarasota, FL.

  40. Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Wynn, K. (2005). One plus one equals one: The effects of merging on object files. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 11/11/05, Toronto, Canada.

  41. Franconeri, S. L., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Spatiotemporal cues for tracking multiple objects through occlusion. Talk given at the annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory meeting, 11/10/05, Toronto, Canada. [Summary published in Visual Cognition (2006), 14(1), 100 - 103.]

  42. Scholl, B. J. (2005). The nature of causal perception. Invited talk given at the 2005 J. R. Nuttin Workshop, The Legacy of Albert Michotte, 9/24/05, Leuven, Belgium.

  43. Scholl, B. J. (2005). Objects and attention. Invited talk given at the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science Symposium (German-American meeting), 6/4/05, Irvine, CA.

  44. Turk-Browne, N. B., Junge, J. A., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Attention and automaticity in visual statistical learning. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/11/05, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 5(8), 1067a, http://journalofvision.org/5/8/1067/]

  45. Mitroff, S. R., Cheries, E. W., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Cohesion as a principle of object persistence in infants and adults. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/05, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 5(8), 1043a, http://journalofvision.org/5/8/1043/]

  46. Choi, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Can the perception of causality be measured with representational momentum? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/9/05, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 5(8), 655a, http://journalofvision.org/5/8/655/]

  47. Scholl, B. J., & Alvarez, G. A. (2005). How does attention select and track spatially extended objects?: New effects of attentional concentration and amplification. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/9/05, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 5(8), 640a, http://journalofvision.org/5/8/640/]

  48. Flombaum, J. I., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Visual working memory for dynamic objects: Manipulations of motion and persistence in sequential change detection. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/8/05, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 5(8), 613a, http://journalofvision.org/5/8/613/]

  49. Junge, J. A., Turk-Browne, N. B., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Visual statistical learning through intervening noise. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/8/05, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 5(8), 421a, http://journalofvision.org/5/8/421/]

  50. Noles, N. S., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). What's in an object file? Integral vs. separable features. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/8/05, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 5(8), 614a, http://journalofvision.org/5/8/614/]

  51. Cheries, E., Feigenson, L., Scholl, B. J., & Carey, S. (2005). Cues to object persistence in infancy: Tracking objects through occlusion vs. implosion. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/7/05, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 5(8), 352a, http://journalofvision.org/5/8/352/]

  52. DiMase, J. S., Chun, M. M., Scholl, B. J., Wolfe, J. M., & Horowitz, T. S. (2005). Learning scenes while tracking disks: The effect of MOT load on picture recognition. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/6/05, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 5(8), 73a, http://journalofvision.org/5/8/73/]

  53. Scholl, B. J. (2005). The nature and importance of object tracking. Invited talk given at the 'Zencon' conference in honor of Zenon Pylyshyn, 5/1/05, Guelph, Ontario.

  54. Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Wynn, K. (2005). What vision researchers can learn from infants: Evidence of core principles guiding adult object persistence. Invited talk presented at the ESRC Council Symposium on Comparative Issues in Object Representation, 4/23/05, New Haven, CT.

  55. Cheries, E., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). What infancy researchers can learn from adults: Evidence of core principles guiding infant object persistence. Invited talk presented at the ESRC Council Symposium on Comparative Issues in Object Representation, 4/23/05, New Haven, CT.

  56. Flombaum, J. I., Santos, L. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Persisting object representations in adult monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and humans. Invited talk presented at the ESRC Council Symposium on Comparative Issues in Object Representation, 4/22/05, New Haven, CT.

  57. Mitroff, S. R., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Exploring persisting object representations with infants and adults. Talk given at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, 4/10/05, Chicago, IL

  58. Scholl, B. J. (2005). The nature of causal perception. Invited talk given at the AHRB Workshop on Causal Understanding, 4/1/05, Warwick, England.

  59. Scholl, B. J. (2004). Persisting persisting objects. Invited symposium talk given at the First Joint Conference of the Society for Philosophy & Psychology and the European Society for Philosophy & Psychology, 7/6/04, Barcelona, Spain.

  60. Cheries, E., Santos, L. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). Units of visual identification in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): Objects or unbound visual features? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/4/04, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 4(8), 819a, http://journalofvision.org/4/8/819/]

  61. Flombaum, J. I., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). A temporal same-object advantage for persisting objects: Change-detection studies of the 'tunnel effect'. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/4/04, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 4(8), 730a, http://journalofvision.org/4/8/730/]

  62. Fiser, J., Scholl, B. J., & Aslin, R. N. (2004). Perception of object trajectories during occlusion constrains statistical learning of visual features. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/4/04, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 4(8), 189a, http://journalofvision.org/4/8/189/]

  63. Mitroff, S. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). Online grouping and segmentation without awareness: Evidence from motion-induced blindness. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/4/04, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 4(8), 201a, http://journalofvision.org/4/8/201/]

  64. Sussman, R. S., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). Finding the mean: The flexibility and limitations of visual statistical processing. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/4/04, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 4(8), 727a, http://journalofvision.org/4/8/727/]

  65. Choi, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). The temporal dynamics of causal perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/3/04, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 4(8), 571a, http://journalofvision.org/4/8/571/]

  66. Scholl, B. J., & Feigenson, L. (2004). When out of sight is out of mind: Perceiving object persistence through occlusion vs. implosion. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/1/04, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 4(8), 26a, http://journalofvision.org/4/8/26/]

  67. Marino, A. C., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). The role of closure in defining the 'objects' of object-based attention. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 4/30/04, Sarasota, FL.[Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 4(8), 270a, http://journalofvision.org/4/8/270/]

  68. Mitroff, S. R., Wynn, K., Scholl, B. J., Johnson, S. P., & Shuwairi, S. M. (2004). 'Bouncing vs. streaming' as a measure of infants' dynamic object individuation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society on Infant Studies, 5/?/04, Chicago, IL.

  69. Cheries, E., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). Limits on the number of active object indexes in infancy. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society on Infant Studies, 5/?/04, Chicago, IL.

  70. Nunes, A., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). Interactions between convergence angle, traffic load, and altitude distribution in air traffic control. Paper presented at the annual Human Performance, Situation Awareness and Automation Technology Conference, 3/?/04, Daytona Beach, FL. [Paper published in Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference on Human Performance, Situation Awareness and Automation Technology.]

  71. Weierich, M. R., Treat, T. A., & Scholl, B. J. (2003). Attentional capture and disengagement in specific phobia. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, 11/21/03, Boston, MA.

  72. Scholl, B. J., Ben-Shahar, O., & Marino, A. (2003). What counts as an 'object' of object-based attention? Talk given at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 11/8/03, Vancouver, Canada. [Abstract published in Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 8, p. 176]

  73. Mitroff, S. R., and Scholl, B. J. (2003). Perceiving the disappearance of unseen objects in motion-induced blindness. Talk given at the annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory meeting, 11/6/03, Vancouver, Canada.

  74. Scholl, B. J., Noles, N. S., Pasheva, V., & Sussman, R. (2003). Talking on a cellular telephone dramatically increases 'sustained inattentional blindness'. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/13/03, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 3(9), 156a, http://journalofvision.org/3/9/156/]

  75. Ben-Shahar, O., Scholl, B. J., & Zucker, S. (2003). Where objects come from: Attention, segmentation, and textons. Vision Sciences Society. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/03, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 3(9), 474a, http://journalofvision.org/3/9/474/]

  76. Choi, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2003). Effects of grouping and attention on the perception of causality. Vision Sciences Society. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/11/03, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 3(9), 544a, http://journalofvision.org/3/9/544/]

  77. Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Wynn, K. (2003). The relationship between object files and conscious perception. Vision Sciences Society. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/9/03, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 3(9), 338a, http://journalofvision.org/3/9/338/]

  78. Noles, N. S., & Scholl, B. J. (2003). The persistence of object-file representations. Vision Sciences Society. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/9/03, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 3(9), 324a, http://journalofvision.org/3/9/324/]

  79. vanMarle, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2003). Attentive tracking of objects vs. substances. Vision Sciences Society. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/11/03, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 3(9), 586a, http://journalofvision.org/3/9/586/]

  80. Scholl, B. J., and Nevarez, H. G. (2002). Why so slow?: The role of speed discontinuities in maintaining object persistence through occlusion. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 11/22/02, Kansas City, MO. [Abstract published in Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 7, p. 19.]

  81. Scholl, B. J. (2002). Perceiving persisting objects. Invited address given at the First International Workshop on Attention and Cognition, 10/8/02, Kyoto, Japan.

  82. Scholl, B. J. (2002). The units of attention. Invited address given at the Second International Symposium on the Integrative use of Internal Knowledge and External Information in Human Cognition, 10/4/02, Kyoto, Japan.

  83. Scholl, B. J. (2002). Attention, awareness, and metacognition. Talk given at the Kent Forum on Visual Metacognition, 6/3/02, Millersburg, OH.

  84. Scholl, B. J., & Feldman, J. (2002). The temporal dynamics of object formation in object-based attention. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/11/02, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 2(7), 248a, http://journalofvision.org/2/7/248/]

  85. Scholl, B. J. (2002). Commentary on Gallistel (2000). Commentary given at the Hang Seng Workshop on Innateness and the Structure of Mind, 4/6/02, Sheffield, England.

  86. Scholl, B. J., & Nakayama, K. (2001). Causal capture: Contextual effects on the perception of collision events. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/8/01, Sarasota, FL.

  87. Scholl, B. J., & Nakayama, K. (2000). Contextual effects on the perception of causality. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 11/18/00, New Orleans, LA. [Abstract published in Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 5, 91.]

  88. Scholl, B. J., Simons, D. J., & Levin, D. T. (2000). Implicit beliefs about change detection and change blindness. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 11/17/00, New Orleans, LA. [Abstract published in Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 5, 29.]

  89. Most, S. B., Clifford, E., Scholl, B. J., & Simons, D. J. (2000). What you see is what you set: The role of attentional set in explicit attentional capture. Poster presented at the Object Perception and Memory meeting, 11/16/00, New Orleans, LA.

  90. Singh, M., & Scholl, B. J. (2000). Using attentional cueing to explore part structure. Poster presented at the Object Perception and Memory meeting, 11/16/00, New Orleans, LA.

  91. Scholl, B. J., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Feldman, J. (2000). What is a visual object? Evidence from 'target merging' in multiple object tracking. Talk given at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 5/4/00, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. [Abstract published as: (2000). Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 41(4), S759.]

  92. Scholl, B. J., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Feldman, J. (1999). What is a visual object? Evidence from multi-element tracking. Poster presented at the Object Perception and Memory meeting, 11/18/99, Los Angeles, CA.

  93. Most, S., Simons, D., & Scholl, B. J. (1999). Prolonged inattentional blindness for a visually distinctive, dynamic event. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the European Conference on Visual Perception, 8/25/99, Trieste, Italy.

  94. Scholl, B. J. (1999). Two ways of asking 'What is a visual object?' (and some answers). Invited talk given at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 8/21/99, Vancouver, British Columbia.

  95. Scholl, B. J. (1999). Objecthood in cognitive development and visual attention. Invited talk given at the Rutgers Symposium on Learning: Object Cognition, 5/22/99, Piscataway, NJ.

  96. Scholl, B. J., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Franconeri, S. (1999). When are spatiotemporal and featural properties encoded as a result of attentional allocation? Talk given at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 5/13/99, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. [Abstract published as: (1999). Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 40(4), S797.]

  97. Scholl, B. J. (1999). Detecting changes during 3 types of attentional allocation. Talk given at the vision/attention mini-conference at the Eastern Psychological Association, 4/16/99, Providence, RI.

  98. Scholl, B. J. (1998). Change blindness and exogenous attentional capture. Talk given at the Object Perception and Memory meeting, 11/19/98, Dallas, TX.

  99. Scholl, B. J., & Leslie, A. M. (1998). Modularity, development, and 'theory of mind'. Talk given at the 24th annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 6/11/98, Minneapolis, MN.

  100. Scholl, B. J., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (1998). Tracking multiple items through occlusion: Clues to visual objecthood. Talk given at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 5/14/98, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. [Abstract published as: (1998). Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 39(4), S872.]

  101. Scholl, B. J. (1997). Cognitive development and cognitive architecture: Two senses of 'surprise'. Talk given at the 23rd annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 5/5/97, New York. [Winner: The 1997 William James prize for best graduate student paper]

 
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