Richard, A. M, Lee, H., & Vecera, S. P. (in press). Attentional spreading in object-based attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
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
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. PDF
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. PDF
Matsukura, M., & Vecera, S. P. (2006). The return of object-based attention: Selection of multiple-region objects. Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 1163-1175. PDF
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
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
Lee, H., & Vecera, S. P. (2005). Visual cognition influences early vision: The role of visual short-term memory in amodal completion. Psychological Science, 16, 763-768. PDF
Vecera, S. P., & Flevaris, A. V. (2005). Attentional control parameters following parietal-lobe damage: Evidence from normal subjects. Neuropsychologia, 43, 1189-1203. PDF
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.
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
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
Woodman, G. F., Vecera, S. P., & Luck, S. J. (2003). Perceptual organization influences visual working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 80-87 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., Vogel, E. K., & Woodman, G. F. (2002). Lower-region: A new cue for figure-ground assignment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131, 194-205. PDF
Vecera, S. P. (2002). Dissociating "what" and "where" in visual form agnosia: A computational investigation. Neuropsychologia, 40, 187-204. 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. (2000). Toward a biased competition account of object-based segregation and attention. Brain and Mind, 1, 353-384. 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., & 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. (1998). Visual object representation: An introduction. Psychobiology, 26, 281-308.
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
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. (1997). Grouped arrays versus object-based representations: Reply to Kramer et al. (1997). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 126, 14-18. PDF
Vecera, S. P., & Behrmann, M. (1997). Spatial attention does not require preattentive grouping. Neuropsychology, 11, 30-43. 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
Vecera, S. P., & Gilds, K. S. (1997). What is it like to be a patient with apperceptive agnosia? Consciousness and Cognition, 6, 237-266.
Johnson, M. H., & Vecera, S. P. (1996). Cortical differentiation and neurocognitive development: The parcellation conjecture. Behavioural Processes, 36, 195-212.
Vecera, S. P., & Johnson, M. H. (1995). Gaze detection and the cortical processing of faces: Evidence from infants and adults. Visual Cognition, 2, 59-87.
Vecera, S. P. (1994). Grouped locations and object-based attention: Comment on Egly, Driver, & Rafal (1994). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 123, 316-320. PDF
Vecera, S. P., & Farah, M. J. (1994). Does visual attention select objects or locations? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 123, 146-160. PDF
Farah, M. J., O'Reilly, R. C., & Vecera, S. P. (1993). Dissociated overt and covert recognition as an emergent property of a lesioned neural network. Psychological Review, 100, 571-588. PDF
Farah, M. J., Wallace, M. A., & Vecera, S. P. (1992). Le "quoi" et le "ou" dans l'attention visuelle: Indications provenant du syndrome d'heminegligence. ["What" and "where" in visual attention: Evidence from the neglect syndrome.] Revue de Neuropsychologie, 2(1), 29-50.
Clohessy, A., Posner, M. I., Rothbart, M. K., & Vecera, S. P. (1991). The development of inhibition of return in early infancy. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 345-350.
Vecera, S. P., Rothbart, M. K., & Posner, M. I. (1991). Development of spontaneous alternation in infancy. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 351-354.
Mozer, M.C., Shettel, M., & Vecera, S. P. (in press). Top-down control of visual attention: A rational account. To appear in Neural Information Processing Systems.
Lazareva, O.F., Levin, J. I., Vecera, S. P., & Wasserman, E. A. (2006). The search for object-based attention in pigeons: Failure and success. In K. Fujita & S. Itakura (Eds.), Diversity of cognition. Kyoto: Kyoto University Academic Press, pp. 3-37.
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., & Rizzo, M. (2004). Visual attention and visual short-term memory in Alzheimer's disease. In A. Cronin-Golomb & P. R. Hof (Eds.), Vision in Alzheimer's disease (pp. 248-270). Basel, Switzerland: Karger.
Vecera, S. P., & Rizzo, M. (2004). Attention: Normal and disordered processes. In M. Rizzo & P. J. Eslinger (Eds.), Principles and practice of behavioral neurology and neuropsychology (pp. 223-245). New York: Saunders.
Luck, S. J., & Vecera, S. P. (2002). Attention: From tasks to mechanisms. In S. Yantis (Ed.), Stevens' handbook of experimental psychology: Volume 1. Sensation and perception (pp. 235-286). New York: Wiley.
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.
Vecera, S. P., & Behrmann, M. (2001). Attention and unit formation: A biased competition account of object-based attention. In T. Shipley & P. Kellman (Eds.), From fragments to objects (pp. 145-180). New York: Elsevier.
Farah, M. J., O'Reilly, R. C., & Vecera, S. P. (1997). The neural correlates of perceptual awareness: Evidence from covert recognition in prosopagnosia. In J. Cohen & J. Schooler (Eds.), Scientific approaches to the question of consciousness, (pp. 357-371). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Farah, M. J., Wallace, M. A., & Vecera, S. P. (1993). "What" and "where" in visual attention: Evidence from the neglect syndrome. In I. A. Robertson & J. C. Marshall(Eds.), Unilateral neglect: Clinical and experimental studies (pp. 123-137). Hove, UK: Erlbaum.
Johnson, M. H., & Vecera, S. P. (1993). Cortical parcellation and the development of face processing. In B. deBoysson-Bardies, S. deSchonen, P. Jusczyk, P. McNeilage, & J. Morton (Eds.), Developmental Neurocognition: Speech and Face Processing in the First Year of Life. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer.