Papers
Figure-Ground Assignment & Perceptual Organization
Vecera, S. P., & Palmer, S. E. (2006). Grounding the figure: Contextual effects of depth planes on figure-ground organization. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 563-569. PDF
Lee, H., & Vecera, S. P. (2005). Visual cognition influences early vision: The role of visual short-term memory in amodal completion. Psychological Science, 16, 10, 763-768. PDF
Vecera, S. P. (2004). The reference frame of figure-ground assignment. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 909-915. PDF
Vecera, S. P., Flevaris, A. V., & Filapek, J. C. (2004). Exogenous spatial attention influences figure-ground assignment. Psychological Science, 15, 20-26. PDF
Woodman, G. F., Vecera, S. P., & Luck, S. J. (2003). Perceptual organization influences visual working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 80-87. PDF
Vecera et al. (2002). Lower-region: A new cue for figure-ground assignment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131, 194-205. PDF
Vecera, S. P., & O'Reilly, R. C. (2000). Graded effects in hierarchical figure-ground organization: A reply to Peterson (1999). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26, 1221-1231. PDF
Vecera, S. P., & O'Reilly, R. C. (1998). Figure-ground organization and object recognition processes: An interactive account. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24, 441-462. PDF
Vecera, S. P., & Farah, M. J. (1997). Is visual image segmentation a bottom-up or an interactive process? Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 1280-1296. PDF
Attention
Hecht, L. N., & Vecera, S. P. (2007). Attentional selection of complex objects: Joint effects of surface uniformity and part structure. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 1205-1211. PDF
Matsukura, M., Luck, S. J., & Vecera, S. P. (2007). Attention effects during visual short-term memory maintenance: Protection or prioritization? Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 1422-1434. PDF
Matsukura, M., & Vecera, S. P. (2006). The return of object-based attention: Selection of multiple-region objects. Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 1163-1175. PDF
Mozer, M. C., & Vecera, S. P. (2005). Object- and space-based attention. In L. Itti, G. Rees, & J. Tsotsos (Eds.), Neurobiology of attention (pp. 130-134). New York: Elsevier.
Vecera, S. P., & Luck, S. J. (2002). Attention. In V. S. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the human brain, volume 1 (pp. 269-284). San Diego: Academic Press. PDF
Vecera, S. P., Behrmann, M., & Filapek, J. C. (2001). Attending to the parts of a single object: Part-based selection limitations. Perception & Psychophysics, 63, 308-321. PDF
Vecera, S. P., Behrmann, M., & McGoldrick, J. (2000). Selective attention to the parts of an object. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 7, 301-308. PDF
Vecera, S. P. (2000). Toward a biased competition account of object-based segregation and attetion. Brain and Mind, 1, 353-384. PDF
Cognitive Neuropsychology
Vecera, S. P., & Rizzo, M. (2006). Eye gaze does not produce reflexive shifts of visual attention: Evidence from frontal-lobe damage. Neuropsychologia, 44, 150-159. PDF
Vecera, S. P., & Flevaris, A. V. (2005). Attentional control parameters following parietal lobe damage: Evidence from normal subjects. Neuropsychologia, 43, 1189-1203. PDF
Vecera, S. P., & Rizzo, M. (2004). What are you looking at? Impaired 'social attention' following frontal-lobe damage. Neuropsychologia, 42, 1647-1665. PDF
Vecera, S. P., & Rizzo, M. (2003). Spatial Attention: Normal processes and their breakdown. Neurologic Clinics of North America, 21, 575-607. PDF
Rizzo, M., & Vecera, S. P. (2002). Psychoanatomical substrates of Balint's syndrome. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 72, 162-178.
Vecera, S. P. (2002). Dissociating 'what' and 'how' in visual form agnosia: A computational investigation. Neuropsychologia, 40, 187-204. PDF
Vecera, S. P., & Gilds, K. S. (1998). What processing is impaired in apperceptive agnosia? Evidence from normal subjects. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10, 568-580. PDF
Comparative Perception
Lazareva, O. F., Castro, L., Vecera, S. P., & Wasserman, E. A. (2006). Figure-ground assignment in pigeons: Evidence for a figural benefit. Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 711-724.
Lazareva, O. F., Vecera, S. P., & Wasserman, E. A. (2006). Object discrimination in pigeons: Effects of local and global cues. Vision Research, 46, 1361-1374.
Lazareva, O. F., Vecera, S. P., Levin, J. I.,, & Wasserman, E. A. (2005). Object discrimination by pigeons: Effects of object color and shape. Behavioural Processes, 69, 17-31.