Robert Bruce Milliken - McMaster Experts

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Faculty of Science, McMaster University
Professor, Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, Faculty of Science
Acting Dean, Faculty of Scieince, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University
Acting Associate Dean (Graduate), Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University
Associate Chair (Graduate), Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University
Acting Associate Dean (Graduate), Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University
Associate Chair (Graduate), Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University
Associate Chair (Graduate), Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University
Associate Chair (Graduate), Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University

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Psychology and cognitive sciences (RA)

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chapters
- Distinguishing between inhibition-based and episodic retrieval-based accounts of negative priming.. 337-363. 1996
conferences
- An Edge Detection Approach For Conscious Machines. 2018 IEEE 9th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON). 595-596. 2018
- Event-Files Can Passively Prime Visual Search, Unless You Mess With Them. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 359-360. 2016
- Perceptual Blurring, Attentional Boost, and Recognition Memory. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 388-388. 2016
- Recognition Memory: Attentional Orienting and Selective Attention Effects on Encoding. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 391-391. 2016
- Selective Attention, Conflict, and Memory: When Conflict Does and Does Not Enhance Memory Performance. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 362-362. 2016
- The Search for a Long-Term Negative Repetition Effect. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 360-360. 2016
- Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Evidence from cognitive science about detection and identification of objects during scene viewing. Perception. 67-67. 2016
- An Effect of Perceptual Disfluency on Recognition: Blurry May be Desirable After All. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 373-373. 2015
- Blended Control Over T1 Encoding in the Attentional Blink (AB). Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 356-356. 2015
- Conflicting Effects of Context in Change Detection and Visual Search: A Dual Process Account. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 362-362. 2015
- Desirable Difficulty: The Benefit of Perceptual Disfluency on Remembering. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 365-365. 2015
- The Complex Interplay of Encoding Demands, Repetition, and Recognition. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 366-366. 2015
- Context Reinstatement and the Desirable Difficulty Effect. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 294-294. 2014
- Encoding Difficulty and Recognition: A Context Effect. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 260-260. 2014
- I Made You Blink!. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 275-275. 2014
- Repetition Can Be Costly: The Non-Intuitive Effect of Repeating Items on Remembering. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 294-294. 2014
- Context in Cognitive Control. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 279-280. 2013
- Inhibitory Repetition Effects: Opposing Influences of Event Updating and New Event Encoding. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 273-273. 2013
- Semantic Priming in Change Detection. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 279-279. 2013
- Sequential Effects in an Attentional Blink (AB) Task. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 282-282. 2013
- The Role of Conflict in Memory Formation. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 286-286. 2013
- The Role of Context in the Simultaneous Learning of Two Complementary Sequences. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 282-282. 2013
- Can Orienting Attention to an Intervening Event Reveal a Non-Spatial IOR Effect?. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 320-320. 2012
- Influences of Context on Object Change Detection and Identification. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 320-320. 2012
- Inter-Trial Priming Effects in Singleton Search Are Subject to Implicit Control. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 326-326. 2012
- Maybe Automaticity Isn't So Rigid After All: Context-Specific Implicit Sequence Learning. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 320-320. 2012
- The Role of Binding Mismatches in Producing Interference in Visual Working Memory (VWM). Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 323-323. 2012
- Contextual distinctiveness produces long-lasting priming of pop-out (PoP). Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 317-318. 2011
- Explaining IOR-like effects as a disruption of contextual reinstatement. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 301-301. 2011
- Inhibition, cognitive control, and the immediate priming method. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 320-320. 2011
- Interference in visual memory can obscure explicit awareness of contingencies. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 305-305. 2011
- On the specificity of conflict adaptation effects in implicit sequence learning. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 314-315. 2011
- Prior experience and the implementation of cognitive control. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 297-297. 2011
- Attentional control can be transferred to new members of social categories. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 306-306. 2010
- Context-specific learning of episodic integration in repetition effects. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 295-295. 2010
- Does audiovisual interaction depend on context?. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 301-301. 2010
- Selective attention and the control of episodic integration. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 286-286. 2010
- The role of an intervening event in a 2afc task. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 316-316. 2010
- Conceptual long-term implicit memory: A decade of evidence. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 296-297. 2008
- Ignoring and the automatic/strategic distinction: A qualitative difference finding. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 293-293. 2008
- In between positive and negative priming. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 313-313. 2008
- Context-sensitive control over attentional orienting. International Journal of Psychology. 353-353. 2008
- Negative priming and attentional control: Binding an action to a source in the present.. International Journal of Psychology. 315-315. 2000
- Inhibitory processes in auditory selective attention: Evidence of location-based and frequency-based inhibition of return. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 296-302. 1998
- SIZE EFFECTS IN RECOGNITION MEMORY ARE BASED ON PERCEIVED SIZE. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society. 480-480. 1991
journal articles
- A novel demonstration of preparation in pop-out search.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 78:129-135. 2024
- Proactive control: Endogenous cueing effects in a two-target attentional blink task. Consciousness and Cognition. 118:103648-103648. 2024
- Correction to: Imagined object files: Visual imagery produces partial repetition costs where perception does not. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 85:2907-2907. 2023
- Imagined object files: Visual imagery produces partial repetition costs where perception does not. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 85:2588-2597. 2023
- Item-specific control of attention capture: An eye movement study. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 76:117-132. 2023
- Top-down then automatic: Instructions can continue to influence visual search when no longer actively implemented. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 85:76-87. 2023
- It hurts more than it helps: Cuing T1 with imagery can impair T2 identification in an attentional blink task. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 84:2141-2154. 2022
- The attentional boost effect and perceptual degradation: Assessing the influence of attention on recognition memory. Frontiers in Psychology. 13:1024498. 2022
- Comparing imagery and perception: Using eye movements to dissociate mechanisms in search. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 83:2879-2890. 2021
- Top-down imagery overrides the influence of selection history effects. Consciousness and Cognition. 93:103153-103153. 2021
- Looking into the mind’s eye: Directed and evaluated imagery vividness modulates imagery-perception congruency effects. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 28:862-869. 2021
- Visual imagery influences attentional guidance during visual search: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 83:58-66. 2021
- MINERVA-DE: An instance model of the deficient processing theory. Journal of Memory and Language. 115:104151-104151. 2020
- Relation between working memory and implicit learning in the contextual cueing paradigm. Visual Cognition. 28:470-483. 2020
- Learning of association between a context and multiple possible target locations in a contextual cueing paradigm. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 82:3374-3386. 2020
- Selective attention effects on recognition: the roles of list context and perceptual difficulty. Psychological Research. 84:1249-1268. 2020
- The representational basis of positive and negative repetition effects.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 46:252-263. 2020
- Coordinating the interaction between past and present: Visual working memory for feature bindings overwritten by subsequent action to matching features. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 82:593-606. 2020
- Cueing color imagery: A critical analysis of imagery-perception congruency effects.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition. 45:1410-1421. 2019
- The repetition decrement effect in recognition memory: The influence of prime-target spacing. Acta Psychologica. 197:94-105. 2019
- Imagined event files: An interplay between imagined and perceived objects. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 26:538-544. 2019
- Perceptual similarity induces overinvestment in an attentional blink task. Psychological Research. 82:1091-1101. 2018
- Strategic visual imagery and automatic priming effects in pop-out visual search. Consciousness and Cognition. 65:59-70. 2018
- Perceptual blurring and recognition memory: A differential memory effect in pupil responses. Journal of Vision. 18:834-834. 2018
- Context-dependent control of attention capture: Evidence from proportion congruent effects.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 72:91-104. 2018
- Attentional influences on memory formation: A tale of a not-so-simple story. Memory and Cognition. 46:544-557. 2018
- An imagery-induced reversal of intertrial priming in visual search.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition. 44:572-587. 2018
- Remembering ‘primed’ words: The effect of prime encoding demands.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 72:9-23. 2018
- Remembering “primed” words: A counter-intuitive effect of repetition on recognition memory.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 72:24-37. 2018
- A cow on the prairie vs. a cow on the street: long-term consequences of semantic conflict on episodic encoding. Psychological Research. 81:1264-1275. 2017
- Reproducing the Location-Based Context-Specific Proportion Congruent Effect for Frequency Unbiased Items: A Reply to Hutcheon and Spieler (2016). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 70:1792-1807. 2017
- A Visual Imagery Induced Reversal of Priming of Pop-out. Journal of Vision. 17:937-937. 2017
- Conflicting effects of context in change detection and visual search: A dual process account.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 71:40-51. 2017
- Recollection and familiarity for words and faces: a study comparing Remember–Know judgements and the Process Dissociation Procedure. Memory. 25:19-34. 2017
- Negative Priming 1985 to 2015: A Measure of Inhibition, the Emergence of Alternative Accounts, and the Multiple Process Challenge. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 69:1890-1909. 2016
- Semantically incongruent objects attract eye gaze when viewing scenes for change. Visual Cognition. 24:63-77. 2016
- Perceptual blurring and recognition memory: A desirable difficulty effect revealed. Acta Psychologica. 160:11-22. 2015
- Contextual control over selective attention: evidence from a two-target method. Psychological Research. 79:556-569. 2015
- Congruency effects on recognition memory: A context effect.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 69:206-212. 2015
- Selective attention and recognition: effects of congruency on episodic learning. Psychological Research. 79:411-424. 2015
- A response binding effect in visual short-term memory. Visual Cognition. 23:489-515. 2015
- Control of spatial orienting: Context-specific proportion cued effects in an exogenous spatial cueing task. Consciousness and Cognition. 30:220-233. 2014
- Expectation and IOR: Effects on eye movements and ESP. Journal of Vision. 14:331-331. 2014
- Re-examining the role of context in implicit sequence learning. Consciousness and Cognition. 27:172-193. 2014
- Gradual proportion congruent effects in the absence of sequential congruent effects. Acta Psychologica. 149:78-86. 2014
- Implicit learning modulates attention capture: evidence from an item-specific proportion congruency manipulation. Frontiers in Psychology. 5:551. 2014
- Proportion Congruent effects in the absence of Sequential Congruent effects. Psicologica. 35:101-115. 2014
- Event-related potentials as brain correlates of item specific proportion congruent effects. Consciousness and Cognition. 22:1442-1455. 2013
- Revisiting the time course of inter-trial feature priming in singleton search. Psychological Research. 77:637-650. 2013
- Social categories as a context for the allocation of attentional control.. Journal of experimental psychology. General. 142:934-943. 2013
- Visual memory for feature bindings: The disruptive effect of responding to new perceptual input. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 66:1572-1600. 2013
- Learning what to expect: context-specific control over intertrial priming effects in singleton search. Memory and Cognition. 41:533-546. 2013
- Implementing flexibility in automaticity: Evidence from context-specific implicit sequence learning. Consciousness and Cognition. 22:64-81. 2013
- Contextual distinctiveness produces long-lasting priming of pop-out.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 39:202-215. 2013
- Context congruency effects in change detection: Opposing effects on detection and identification. Visual Cognition. 21:99-122. 2013
- On the specificity of sequential congruency effects in implicit learning of motor and perceptual sequences.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition. 39:69-84. 2013
- Subjective expectancy and inhibition of return: A dissociation in a non-spatial two-alternative forced choice task. Psicologica. 34:199-219. 2013
- Contingency blindness: Location-identity binding mismatches obscure awareness of spatial contingencies and produce profound interference in visual working memory. Memory and Cognition. 40:932-945. 2012
- Context-specific control and the Stroop negative priming effect. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 65:1430-1448. 2012
- Context-specific control in the single-prime negative-priming procedure. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 65:887-910. 2012
- Audiovisual interactions depend on context of congruency. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 74:563-574. 2012
- Perceptual distinctiveness produces long-lasting priming of pop-out. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 19:170-176. 2012
- Response to an intervening event reverses nonspatial repetition effects in 2AFC tasks: Nonspatial IOR?. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 74:331-349. 2012
- On the role of attention in generating explicit awareness of contingent relations: Evidence from spatial priming. Consciousness and Cognition. 20:1433-1451. 2011
- A switch in task affects priming of pop-out: evidence for the role of episodes. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 73:318-333. 2011
- Interference in visual memory can obscure explicit awareness of statistical relationships: The influence of location-identity binding mismatches. Visual Cognition. 19:1311-1314. 2011
- Attention, awareness of contingencies, and control in spatial localization: A qualitative difference approach.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 36:1342-1357. 2010
- Constraints on the observation of partial match costs: Implications for transfer-appropriate processing approaches to immediate priming.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 36:634-648. 2010
- Long-term conceptual implicit memory: A decade of evidence. Memory and Cognition. 38:42-46. 2010
- Short article: The flexibility of context-specific control: Evidence for context-driven generalization of item-specific control settings. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 62:1523-1532. 2009
- Context-specific learning and control: The roles of awareness, task relevance, and relative salience. Consciousness and Cognition. 17:22-36. 2008
- Shifting views on the symbolic cueing effect: Cueing attention through recent prior experience. Psicologica. 29:97-114. 2008
- The modulation of exogenous Spatial Cueing on Spatial Stroop interference: Evidence of a set for "cue-target event segregation". Psicologica. 29:65-95. 2008
- Separate mechanisms recruited by exogenous and endogenous spatial cues: Evidence from a spatial Stroop paradigm.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 33:348-362. 2007
- Repetition costs in word identification: evaluating a stimulus–response integration account. Psychological Research. 71:64-76. 2007
- Taking the brain serious: introduction to the special issue on integration in and across perception and action. Psychological Research. 71:1-3. 2007
- The manifestation of attentional capture: facilitation or IOR depending on task demands. Psychological Research. 71:77-91. 2007
- The context-specific proportion congruent Stroop effect: Location as a contextual cue. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 13:316-321. 2006
- Processing of distractors inside and outside the attentional focus in a priming procedure. Visual Cognition. 13:601-622. 2006
- Selective and Nonselective Transfer: Positive and Negative Priming in a Multiple-Task Environment.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition. 31:1001-1029. 2005
- The role of spatial attention and other processes on the magnitude and time course of cueing effects. Cognitive Processing. 6:98-116. 2005
- Independent effects of endogenous and exogenous spatial cueing: inhibition of return at endogenously attended target locations. Experimental Brain Research. 159:447-457. 2004
- Single‐prime negative priming in the shape‐matching task: Implications for the role of perceptual segmentation processes. Visual Cognition. 11:603-630. 2004
- Endogenous temporal orienting of attention in detection and discrimination tasks. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 66:264-278. 2004
- Aging and Repetition Effects: Separate Specific and Nonspecific Influences.. Psychology and Aging. 18:780-790. 2003
- Orienting in space and time: Joint contributions to exogenous spatial cuing effects. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 10:877-883. 2003
- Inhibition of return for the length of a line?. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 65:1208-1221. 2003
- Another look at the effect of a surprising intervening event on negative priming.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 57:115-124. 2003
- On the Strategic Modulation of the Time Course of Facilitation and Inhibition of Return. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology. 54:753-773. 2001
- On the strategic modulation of the time course of facilitation and inhibition of return.. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology. 54:753-773. 2001
- Attending, ignoring, and repetition: On the relation between negative priming and inhibition of return. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 62:1280-1296. 2000
- Automatic and controlled processing in Stroop negative priming: The role of attentional set.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition. 25:1384-1402. 1999
- Inhibition of Return and the Attentional Set for Integrating Versus Differentiating Information. Journal of General Psychology. 126:392-418. 1999
- Diazepam-Treated Female Rats. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 61:121-130. 1998
- Negative priming without ignoring. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 5:470-475. 1998
- Selective attention: A reevaluation of the implications of negative priming.. Psychological review. 105:203-229. 1998
- Attentional processing: The brain's art of mindfulness - LaBerge,D. Visual Cognition. 4:333-335. 1997
- Negative Priming, Attention, and Discriminating the Present from the Past. Consciousness and Cognition. 6:308-327. 1997
- Negative Priming, Attention, and Discriminating the Present from the Past.. Consciousness and Cognition. 6:308-327. 1997
- Negative priming without overt prime selection.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 50:333-346. 1996
- Spatial negative priming without mismatching: Comment on Park and Kanwisher (1994).. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 21:1220-1229. 1995
- Negative priming in a spatial localization task: Feature mismatching and distractor inhibition.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 20:624-646. 1994
- Size effects in visual recognition memory are determined by perceived size. Memory and Cognition. 20:83-95. 1992
- Identification of disoriented objects: Effects of context of prior presentation.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition. 15:200-210. 1989
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