Curriculum Vitae
Steven J. Luck
Address: Univ. of Iowa, Dept. of Psychology, E11 Seashore Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242-1407
Telephone: 319-335-2422
Fax: 319-335-0191
E-mail: steven-luck@uiowa.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego
Neurosciences, 1993
M.S. University of California, San Diego
Neurosciences, 1989
B.A. Reed College
Psychology, 1986
Academic and Professional Experience
2002- Professor of Psychology
University of Iowa
1998-2002 Associate Professor of Psychology
University of Iowa
1994-1998 Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of Iowa
1993-1994 Assistant Project Scientist
University of California, San Diego
1993 Visiting Scientist
Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIMH/NIH
1990-1993 Graduate Research Fellow
University of California, San Diego
1989-1990 Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
Reed College
1986-1989 Graduate Research Fellow
University of California, San Diego
1983-1984 Research Assistant
Oregon Regional Primate Research Center
Awards, Honors, Special Recognition
James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Award, 2004-2005
Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Division 6, Behavioral Neuroscience
and Comparative Psychology, 2005
American Psychological Foundation F. J. McGuigan Young Investigator Prize, 2002
Troland Award in Experimental Psychology, National Academy of Sciences, 2001
Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Division 3, Experimental Psychology, 2001
APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology
in the area of Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, 1998/1999
McDonnell-Pew Cognitive Neuroscience Fellowship, UCSD, 1990-92
NSF Graduate Fellowship, UCSD, 1986-89
Phi Beta Kappa, Reed College, 1986
Professional Organizations
Member, Psychonomic Society
Member, Society for Neuroscience
Fellow, American Psychological Association
Member, International Association for the Study of Attention & Performance
Professional Service
Current Committees and Positions
Advisory Council, International Association for the Study of Attention & Performance
Previous Committees and Positions
Member, Search Committee for New Editor of Psychobiology (1999-2000)
Member, APA committee to select winner of Early Career Contribution Award (2000)
Current Editorial Positions
Associate Editor, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (beginning 2006)
Editorial Board, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2005-present)
Editorial Board, Visual Cognition (2005-present)
Editorial Board, Perception & Psychophysics (1998-present)
Editorial Board, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (1999-present)
Previous Editorial Boards
Editorial Board, Psychological Science (1999-2003)
Editorial Board, Psychological Bulletin (1997-2002)
Editorial Board, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (1998-1999)
Other Activities
Ad hoc reviewer for many journals, including Brain Research, Cognitive Psychology, Cortex, Human Brain Mapping, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, Psychophysiology, Science, Vision Research
Ad Hoc Member of NIH Cognition & Perception Study Section (2005)
Ad Hoc Member of NIH IFCN-8 Study Section (2000)
Member of NIH Special Emphasis Review Panel for Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science Centers (2001)
Telephone reviewer for:(2002)
NIH BBBP-4 (Cognition & Perception) Panel, March 2003
NIH ZRG1 SSS-V Panel, March 2003
NIH Integrative, Functional, & Cognitive Neuroscience (COG) Panel, Feb 2004
NIH Social Psychology, Personality and Interpersonal Processes Panel, March 2004, October 2004
NIH BBBP-D Special Emphasis Panel - Cognitive Development and Disorders, March 2004
NIMH Training Grant II (ZMH1-ERB-X 01) Panel, November 2004
NIH Special Emphasis Review Panel for Translational Research Centers in Behavioral Science (2002)
Ad Hoc Grant Reviewer for many national and international NGOs
Books
Luck, S. J. (2005). An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Refereed Journal Articles
Fuller, R. L., Luck, S. J., Braun, E. L., Robinson, B., McMahon, R. P., & Gold, J. M. (in press). Impaired control of visual attention in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
Oakes, L. M., Ross-Sheehy, S., & Luck, S. J. (in press). Rapid development of feature binding in visual short-term memory. Psychological Science.
Vogel, E. K., Woodman, G. F., & Luck, S. J. (in press). Pushing around the locus of selection: Evidence for the flexible-selection hypothesis. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Vogel, E. K., Woodman, G. F., & Luck, S. J. (in press). The time course of consolidation in visual working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Fuller, R. L., Luck, S. J., McMahon, R. P., & Gold, J. M. (2005). Working memory consolidation is abnormally slow in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 114, 279-290.
Woodman, G. F., & Luck, S. J. (2004). Visual search is slowed when visuospatial working memory is occupied. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 269-274.
Hopf, J.-M., Boelmans, K., Schoenfeld, A. M., Luck, S. J., & Heinze, H. J. (2004). Attention to features precedes attention to locations in visual search: Evidence from electromagnetic brain responses in humans. Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 1822-1832.
Gold, J. M., Wilk, C. P., McMahon, R. P., Buchanan, R. W., & Luck, S. J. (2003). Working memory for visual features and conjunctions in schizophrenia Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112, 61-71.
Ross-Sheehy, S., Oakes, L.M., & Luck, S. J. (2003). The development of visual short-term memory capacity in infants. Child Development, 74, 1807-1822.
Woodman, G. F., & Luck, S. J. (2003). Dissociations among attention, perception, and awareness during object-substitution masking. Psychological Science, 14, 605-611.
Woodman, G. F., & Luck, S. J. (2003). Serial deployment of attention during visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29, 121-138.
Woodman, G. F., Vecera, S. P., & Luck, S. J. (2003). Perceptual organization influences visual working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 80-87.
Hopf, J.-M., Boelmans, K., Schoenfeld, A. M., Heinze, H.-J., & Luck, S. J. (in press). How does attention attenuate target-distractor interference in vision? Evidence from magnetoencephalographic recordings. Cognitive Brain Research, 15, 17-29.
Hopf, J.-M., Vogel, E. K., Woodman, G. F., Heinze, H.-J., & Luck, S. J. (2002). Localizing visual discrimination processes in time and space. Journal of Neurophysiology, 88, 2088-2095.
Schmidt, B. K., Vogel, E. K., Woodman, G. F., & Luck, S. J. (2002). Voluntary and automatic attentional control of visual working memory. Perception & Psychophysics, 64, 754-763.
Vogel, E. K., & Luck, S. J. (2002). Delayed working memory consolidation during the attentional blink. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9, 739-743.
Vogel, E. K., Woodman, G. F., & Luck, S. J. (2001). Storage of features, conjunctions, and objects in visual working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 92-114 .
Woodman, G. F., Vogel, E. K., & Luck, S. J. (2001). Visual search remains efficient when visual working memory is full. Psychological Science, 12, 219-224.
Hopf, J.-M., Luck, S. J., Girelli, M., Hagner, T., Mangun, G. R., Scheich, H., & Heinze, H. J. (2000). Neural sources of focused attention in visual search. Cerebral Cortex, 10, 1233-1241.
Luck, S. J., Woodman, G. F., & Vogel, E. K. (2000). Event-related potential studies of attention. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 432-440.
Vogel, E. K., & Luck, S. J. (2000). The visual N1 component as an index of a discrimination process. Psychophysiology, 37, 190-203.
Luck, S. J. (1999). Direct and indirect integration of event-related potentials, functional magnetic resonance images, and single-unit recordings. Human Brain Mapping, 8, 15-120.
Luck, S. J., & Thomas, S. J. (1999). What variety of attention is automatically captured by peripheral cues? Perception & Psychophysics, 61, 1424-1435.
Woodman, G. F., & Luck, S. J. (1999). Electrophysiological measurement of rapid shifts of attention during visual search. Nature, 400, 867-869.
Anllo-Vento, L., Luck, S. J., & Hillyard, S. A. (1998). Spatio-temporal dynamics of attention to color: Evidence from human electrophysiology. Human Brain Mapping, 6, 216-238.
Luck, S. J., & Ford, M. A. (1998). On the role of selective attention in visual perception. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 95, 825-830.
Luck, S. J. (1998). Sources of dual-task interference: Evidence from human electrophysiology. Psychological Science, 9, 223-227.
Vogel, E. K., Luck, S. J., & Shapiro, K. L. (1998). Electrophysiological evidence for a postperceptual locus of suppression during the attentional blink. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24, 1656-1674.
Girelli, M., & Luck, S. J. (1997). Are the same attentional mechanisms used to detect visual search targets defined by color, orientation, and motion? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 9, 238-253.
Luck, S. J., Chelazzi, L., Hillyard, S. A., & Desimone, R. (1997). Neural mechanisms of spatial selective attention in areas V1, V2, and V4 of macaque visual cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 77, 24-42.
Luck, S. J., Girelli, M., McDermott, M. T., & Ford, M. A. (1997). Bridging the gap between monkey neurophysiology and human perception: An ambiguity resolution theory of visual selective attention. Cognitive Psychology, 33, 64-87.
Luck, S. J., & Vogel, E. K. (1997). The capacity of visual working memory for features and conjunctions. Nature, 390, 279-281.
Luck, S. J., Hillyard, S. A., Mouloua, M., & Hawkins, H. L. (1996). Mechanisms of visual-spatial attention: Resource allocation or uncertainty reduction? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 22, 725-737.
Luck, S. J., Vogel, E. K., & Shapiro, K. L. (1996). Word meanings can be accessed but not reported during the attentional blink. Nature, 382, 616-618.
Moore, C. M., Egeth, H., Berglan, L. R., & Luck, S. J. (1996). Are attentional dwell times inconsistent with serial visual search? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3, 360-365.
Luck, S. J., & Hillyard, S. A. (1995). The role of attention in feature detection and conjunction discrimination: An electrophysiological analysis. International Journal of Neuroscience, 80, 281-297.
Gomez Gonzales, C. M., Clark, V. P., Fan, S., Luck, S. J., & Hillyard, S. A. (1994). Sources of attention-sensitive visual event-related potentials. Brain Topography, 7, 41-51.
Heinze, H. J., Luck, S. J., Münte, T. F., Gös, A., Mangun, G. R., & Hillyard, S. A. (1994). Attention to adjacent and separate positions in space: An electrophysiological analysis. Perception & Psychophysics, 56, 42-52.
Luck, S. J., & Hillyard, S. A. (1994). Spatial filtering during visual search: Evidence from human electrophysiology. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 20, 1000-1014.
Luck, S. J., & Hillyard, S. A. (1994). Electrophysiological correlates of feature analysis during visual search. Psychophysiology, 31, 291-308.
Luck, S. J., Hillyard, S. A., Mangun, G. R., & Gazzaniga, M. S. (1994). Independent attentional scanning in the separated hemispheres of split-brain patients. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 6, 84-91.
Luck, S. J., Hillyard, S. A., Mouloua, M., Woldorff, M. G., Clark, V. P., & Hawkins, H. L. (1994). Effects of spatial cuing on luminance detectability: Psychophysical and electrophysiological evidence for early selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 20, 887-904.
Mangun, G. R., Luck, S. J., Plager, R., Loftus, W., Hillyard, S. A., Handy, T., Clark, V. P., & Gazzaniga, M. S. (1994). Monitoring the visual world: Hemispheric asymmetries and subcortical processes in attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 6, 267-275.
Pashler, H., Luck, S. J., Hillyard, S. A., Mangun, G. R., O'Brien, S., & Gazzaniga, M. S. (1994). Sequential operation of disconnected cerebral hemispheres in split-brain patients. NeuroReport, 5, 2381-2384.
Luck, S. J., Fan, S., & Hillyard, S. A. (1993). Attention-related modulation of sensory-evoked brain activity in a visual search task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 5, 188-195.
Mangun, G. R., Hillyard, S. A., & Luck, S. J. (1993). Electrocortical substrates of visual selective attention. In D. Meyer & S. Kornblum (Eds.), Attention and Performance XIV (pp. 219-243). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Hawkins, H. L., Hillyard, S. A., Luck, S. J., Mouloua, M., Downing, C. J., & Woodward, D. P. (1990). Visual attention modulates signal detectability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 16, 802-811.
Heinze, H. J., Luck, S. J., Mangun, G. R., & Hillyard, S. A. (1990). Visual event-related potentials index focused attention within bilateral stimulus arrays. I. Evidence for early selection. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 75, 511-527.
Luck, S. J., Heinze, H. J., Mangun, G. R., & Hillyard, S. A. (1990). Visual event-related potentials index focused attention within bilateral stimulus arrays. II. Functional dissociation of P1 and N1 components. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 75, 528-542.
Luck, S. J., & Hillyard, S. A. (1990). Electrophysiological evidence for parallel and serial processing during visual search. Perception and Psychophysics, 48, 603-617.
Luck, S. J., Hillyard, S. A., Mangun, G. R., & Gazzaniga, M. S. (1989). Independent hemispheric attentional systems mediate visual search in split-brain patients. Nature, 342, 543-545.
Luck, S. J., Colgrove, M., & Neuringer, A. (1988). Response sequence learning as a function of primary versus conditioned reinforcement. Animal Learning and Behavior, 16, 8-14.
Neuringer, M., Connor, W. E., Lin, D. S., Barstad, L., & Luck, S. J. (1986). Biochemical and functional effects of prenatal and postnatal omega-3 fatty acid deficiency on retina and brain in rhesus monkeys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 83, 4021-4025.
Invited/Non-Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Oakes, L. M., Ross-Sheehy, S., & Luck, S. J. (in press). The development of visual short-term memory in infancy. In L. M. Oakes & P. J. Bauer (Eds.), Short- and long-term memory in infancy and early childhood: Taking the first steps toward rembembering. New York: Oxford University Press.
Luck, S. J. (2005). The operation of attention-millisecond by millisecond-over the first half second. In H. Ogmen & B. G. Breitmeyer (Eds.), The First Half Second: The Microgenesis and Temporal Dynamics of Unconscious and Conscious Visual Processes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Luck, S. J. (2005). Ten simple rules for designing ERP experiments. In T. C. Handy (Ed.), Event-Related Potentials: A Methods Handbook (pp. 17-32). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Hopfinger, J. B., Luck, S. J., & Hillyard, S. A. (2004). Selective attention: Electrophysiological and neuromagnetic studies. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences, Volume 3 (pp. 561-574). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Luck, S. J. (2004). Understanding awareness: one step closer. Nature Neuroscience, 7, 208-209. (Invited News & Views commentary).
Luck, S. J. & Vecera, S. P. (2002). Attention. In H. Pashler (Series Ed.) & S. Yantis (Volume Ed.), Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology: Vol. 1. Sensation and Perception (3rd ed., 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.
Luck, S. J., & Vogel, E. K. (2001). Multiple sources of interference in dual-task performance: The cases of the attentional blink and the psychological refractory period. In K. L. Shapiro (Ed.), The Limits of Attention (pp. 124-140). London: Oxford University Press.
Luck, S. J., & Hillyard, S. A. (1999). The operation of selective attention at multiple stages of processing: Evidence from human and monkey electrophysiology. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences, 2nd Edition (pp. 687-700). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Shapiro, K. L., & Luck, S. J. (1999). The attentional blink: A front-end mechanism for fleeting memories. In V. Coltheart (Ed.), Fleeting Memories: Cognition of Brief Visual Stimuli (pp. 95-118). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Aston-Jones, G. S., Desimone, R., Driver, J., Luck, S. J., & Posner, M. I. (1998). Attention. In M. J. Zigmond, F. E. Bloom, S. C. Landis, J. L. Roberts, & L. R. Squire (Eds.), Fundamental Neuroscience (pp. 1385-1409). San Diego: Academic Press.
Hillyard, S. A., Vogel, E. K., & Luck, S. J. (1998). Sensory gain control (amplification) as a mechanism of selective attention: Electrophysiological and neuroimaging evidence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, 353, 1257-1270.
Luck, S. J. (1998). Neurophysiology of selective attention. In H. Pashler (Ed.), Attention (pp. 257-295). East Sussex: Psychology Press.
Luck, S. J., & Beach, N. J. (1998). Visual attention and the binding problem: A neurophysiological perspective. In R. D. Wright (Ed.), Visual Attention (pp. 455-478). New York: Oxford University Press.
Luck, S. J., & Girelli, M. (1998). Electrophysiological approaches to the study of selective attention in the human brain. In R. Parasuraman (Ed.), The Attentive Brain (pp. 71-94). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Luck, S. J., & Vogel, E. K. (1998). Response from Luck and Vogel (Response to Commentary by Nelson Cowan). Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2, 78-80.
Hillyard, S. A., Anllo-Vento, L., Clark, V. P., Heinze, H. J., Luck, S. J., & Mangun, G. R. (1996). Neuroimaging approaches to the study of visual attention: A tutorial. In A. F. Kramer, M. G. H. Coles, & G. D. Logan (Eds.), Converging Operations in the Study of Visual Selective Attention (pp. 107-138). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Hillyard, S. A., Mangun, G. R., Woldorff, M. G., & Luck, S. J. (1995). Neural systems mediating selective attention. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences (pp. 665-681). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Luck, S. J. (1995). Multiple mechanisms of visual-spatial attention: Recent evidence from human electrophysiology. Behavioural Brain Research, 71, 113-123.
Hillyard, S. A., Luck, S. J., & Mangun, G. R. (1994). The cuing of attention to visual field locations: Analysis with ERP recordings. In H. J. Heinze, T. F. Munte, & G. R. Mangun (Eds.), Cognitive Electrophysiology: Event-Related Brain Potentials in Basic and Clinical Research (pp. 1-25). Boston: Birkhausen.
Luck, S. J. (1994). Cognitive and neural mechanisms of visual search. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 4, 183-188.
Hillyard, S. A., Mangun, G. R., Luck, S. J., & Heinze, H. J. (1990). Electrophysiology of visual attention. In E. R. John, T. Harmony, L. Prichep, M. Valdez, & P. Valdez (Eds.), Machinery of the Mind (pp. 186-205). Boston: Birkhausen.
Attentional Mechanisms in Perception and Working Memory
R01 Award, NIMH
Principal Investigator, Steven J. Luck
Grant period: April 1, 2001 through March 31, 2006
Direct costs: $800,000 over a 5-year period
Indirect costs: $376,000 over a 5-year period
R01 Award, NIMH
Principal Investigator, James M. Gold, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center
Subcontract to Steven J. Luck, University of Iowa
Grant period: October 1, 2001 through September 30, 2006
Direct costs (entire project): $1,575,251 over a 5-year period
Indirect costs (entire project): $490,767 over a 5-year period
Direct costs (UI subcontract): $386,485 over a 5-year period
Indirect costs (UI subcontract): $181,649 over a 5-year period
The Development of Visual Short-Term Memory in Infancy
R01 Award, NIMH
Principal Investigator, Lisa M. Oakes (Co-PI, Steven J. Luck)
Grant period: April 1, 2005 through January 31, 2010
Direct costs: $560,000 over a 5-year period
Indirect costs: $266,000 over a 5-year period
Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Figure-Ground Segregation
Research grant from National Science Foundation
Principal Investigator, Shaun P. Vecera (Co-PI, Steven J. Luck)
Grant period: July 15, 2000 through June 30, 2003
Direct costs: $123,807 over a 3-year period
Indirect costs: $58,189 over a 3-year period
Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Attention
R29 FIRST Award, NIMH
Principal Investigator, Steven J. Luck
Grant period: April 1, 1997 through March 31, 2001
Direct costs: $345,470 over a 5-year period
Indirect costs: $152,941 over a 5-year period
Stages and Mechanisms of Selective Attention
Research grant from National Science Foundation
Principal Investigator, Steven J. Luck
Grant period: August 15, 1998 through August 14, 2001
Direct costs: $94,048 over a 3-year period
Indirect costs: $42,322 over a 3-year period
Converging Approaches to the Study of Selective Attention
Multiple-investigator research grant from the Human Frontier Science Program
Principal applicant: G.R. Mangun, UC-Davis
Grant period: July 1st, 1997 through June 31, 2000
Direct costs: $110,185 over a 3-year period
Neural Systems Mediating Attentional Selection in Time
Research grant funded by the McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience
Co-investigator: Dr. Kimron L. Shapiro, University of Wales
Grant period: July 1, 1995 through June 30, 1997
Direct costs: $63,900 over a 2-year period