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2024

  • Li, A., Hulleman, J., & Wolfe, J.M. (2024). Errors in visual search: Are they stochastic or deterministic? Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications, 9(15), https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-024-00543-z [PDF]
  • Jiang, C., Chen, Z., & Wolfe, J.M. (2024). Toward viewing behavior for aerial scene categorization. Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications, 9(17), https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-024-00541-1 [PDF]
  • Liesefeld, H. R., Lamy, D., Gaspelin, N., Geng, J. J., Kerzel, D., Schall, J. D., . . . Wolfe, J. (2024). Terms of debate: Consensus definitions to guide the scientific discourse on visual distraction. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. doi:10.3758/s13414-023-02820-3 [PDF]
  • Zou, B., Huang, Z., Alaoui-Soce, A., & Wolfe, J. M. (2024). Hybrid visual and memory search for scenes and objects with variable viewpoints. Journal of Vision, 24(1), 5-5. doi:10.1167/jov.24.1.5 [PDF]

2023

  • Wolfe, J. M. (2023). Visual Search. In O. Braddick (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. New York: Oxford U. [PDF]
  • Li, A., Chen, Z., Wolfe, J. M., & Olivers, C. N. L. (2023). How do people find pairs? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(8), 2190-2204. doi:10.1037/xge0001390 [PDF]
  • Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B., Castelletti, C., Perez-Hernandez, E., Quirós-Godoy, M., & Wolfe, J. M. (2023). Attentional development can help us understand the inattentional blindness effect in visual search. Frontiers in Cognition, 2. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcogn.2023.1134505. [PDF]
  • Becker, S. I., Retell, J. D., & Wolfe, J., M. (2023). Mirror blindness: Our failure to recognize the target in search for mirror-reversed shapes. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85(2), 418-437. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02641-w. [PDF]
  • Wolfe, J. M., Wick, F. A., Mishra, M., DeGutis, J., & Lyu, W. (2023). Spatial and temporal massive memory in humans. Current Biology, 33(2), 405-410.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.12.040. [PDF]

2022

  • Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B., Muñoz-Garcia, A., Pérez-Hernández, E., Wolfe, J. M. (2022). The FORAGEKID Game: Hybrid-Foraging as a new way to study aspects of executive function in development. Cognitive Development, 64, 101232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101233. [PDF]
  • Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B., Muñoz-Garcia, A., Pérez-Hernández, E., Wolfe, J. M. (2022). Quitting rules in hybrid foraging search: From early childhood to early adulthood. Cognitive Development, 64, 101232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101232. [PDF]
  • Wolfe, J. M., Kosovicheva, A., Wolfe, B. (2022). Taking prevalence effects on the road: Rare hazards are often missed. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02159-0. [PDF]
  • Wolfe, J. M., Kosovicheva, A., Wolfe, B. (2022). Normal blindness: when we Look But Fail To See. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(9), 809-819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.06.006. [PDF]
  • Wolfe, J. M., Lyu, W., Dong, J., Wu, C. C. (2022). What eye tracking can tell us about how radiologists use automated breast ultrasound. Journal of Medical Imaging, 9(4), 045502. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.9.4.045502. [PDF]
  • Wolfe, J. M. (2022). How one block of trials influences the next: persistent effects of disease prevalence and feedback on decisions about images of skin lesions in a large online study. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00362-05. [PDF]
  • Zou, B., & Liu, Y., & Wolfe, J. M. (2022). Top-down control of attention by stereoscopic depth. Vision Research, 198, 108061. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2022.108061. [PDF]
  • Wolfe, J. M., Suresh, S., Dewulf, A. W., & Lyu, W. (2022). Priming effects in inefficient visual search: Real, but transient. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02503-5. [PDF]
  • Ernst, D., & Wolfe, J. M. (2022). How fixation durations are affected by search difficulty manipulations. Visual Cognition, https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2022.2063465. [PDF]
  • Trevino, M., Birdsong, G., Carrigan, A., Choyke, P., Drew, T., Eckstein, M., Fernandez, A., Gallas, B. D., Giger, M., Hewitt, S. M., Horowitz, T. S., Jiang, Y. V., Kudrick, B., Martinez-Conde, S., Mitroff, S., Nebeling, L., Saltz, J., Samuelson, F., Seltzer, S. E., Shabestari, B., Shankar L., Siegel, E., Tilkin, M., Trueblood, J. S., Van Dyke, A. L., Venkatesan, A. M., Whitney, D., & Wolfe, J. M. (2022). Advancing Research on Medical Image Perception by Strengthening Multidisciplinary Collaboration. JNCI Cancer Spectrum, 6. https://doi.org/10.1093/jncics/pkab099. [PDF]
  • Evans, K., & Wolfe, J. M. (2022). Sometimes it helps to be taken out of context: Memory for objects in scenes. Visual Cognition, 30, 229-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2021.2023245. [PDF]
  • Boettcher, S. E. P., Shalev, N., Wolfe, J. M., Nobre, A.C., (2022). Right place, right time: Spatiotemporal predictions guide attention in dynamic visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151 (2), 348-362. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000901. [PDF]
  • Aizenman, A. M., Ehinger, K. A., Wick, F. A., Micheletto, R., Park, J., Jurgensen, L., & Wolfe, J. M. (2022). Hiding the Rabbit: Using a genetic algorithm to investigate shape guidance in visual search. Journal of Vision, 22, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.1.7. [PDF]
  • Wu, C. C., & Wolfe, J. M. (2022). The Functional Visual Field(s) in simple visual search. Vision Research, 190, 107965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2021.107965. [PDF]

2021

  • Raat, E. M., Farr, I., Wolfe, J. M., & Evans, K. K. (2021). Comparable prediction of breast cancer risk from a glimpse or a first impression of a mammogram. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00339-5. [PDF]
  • Gandomkar, Z., Siviengphanom, S., Ekpo, E. U., Suleiman, M. A., Li, T., Xu, D., ... & Brennan, P. C. (2021). Global processing provides malignancy evidence complementary to the information captured by humans or machines following detailed mammogram inspection. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99582-5. [PDF]
  • Kant Gupta, S., Zhang, M., Wu, C. C., Wolfe, J. M., & Kreiman, G. (2021). Visual Search Asymmetry: Deep Nets and Humans Share Similar Inherent Biases. arXiv e-prints, arXiv-2106. [PDF]/[Supplement]
  • Wiegand, I., & Wolfe, J. M. (2021). Target value and prevalence influence visual foraging in younger and older age. Vision Research, 186, 87-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2021.05.001. [PDF]
  • Wolfe, J. M., Wu, C. C., Li, J., & Suresh, S. B. (2021). What do experts look at and what do experts find when reading mammograms? Journal of Medical Imaging, 8(4), 045501. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.8.4.045501. [PDF]
  • Lyu, W., Levari, D. E., Nartker, M. S., Little, D. S., & Wolfe, J. M. (2021). Feedback moderates the effect of prevalence on perceptual decisions. Psychon Bull Rev 1-9. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-01956-3. [PDF]
  • Wiegand, I., Westenberg, E. & Wolfe, J. (2021). Order, please! Explicit sequence learning in hybrid search in younger and older age. Mem Cogn 49, 1220–1235. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01157-2. [PDF]
  • Schill, H.M., Wolfe, J.M. & Brady, T.F. (2021). Relationships between expertise and distinctiveness: Abnormal medical images lead to enhanced memory performance only in experts. Mem Cogn 49, 1067–1081. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01160-7. [PDF]
  • Wolfe, J.M. (2021). Visual Perception: How Better Imaging Can Make Things Worse. Current Biology 31.5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.011. [PDF]
  • Wolfe, J.M. (2021). Guided Search 6.0: An updated model of visual search. Psychon Bull Rev 28, 1060–1092. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01859-9. [PDF]
  • Boettcher, S., Shalev, N., Wolfe, J., & De Ozorio Nobre, A. (2021). Right place, right time: spatiotemporal predictions guide attention in dynamic visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

2020

  • Utochkin, I.S., Khvostov, V.A., & Wolfe, J.M. (2020). Categorical grouping is not required for guided conjunction search. Journal of Vision, 20(8):30, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.8.30. [PDF]
  • Nartker, M.S., Alaoui-Soce, A. & Wolfe, J.M. (2020). Visual search errors are persistent in a laboratory analog of the incidental finding problem. Cogn. Research 5, 32. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00235-4. [PDF]
  • Kosovicheva, A., Alaoui-Soce, A., &Wolfe, J. M. (2020). Looking ahead:When do you find the next item in foraging visual search?. Journal of Vision, 20(2):3, 1–24, https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.2.3. [PDF]
  • Yung-Hao Yang & Jeremy M. Wolfe (2020). Is apparent instability a guiding feature in visual search?, Visual Cognition. 10.1080/13506285.2020.1779892 [PDF]
  • Li, A., Wolfe, J. M., & Chen, Z. (2020). Implicitly and explicitly encoded features can guide attention in free viewing. Journal of Vision, 20(6):8, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.6.8. [PDF]
  • Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B., Quirós-Godoy, M., Pérez-Hernández, E. et al. (2020). Efficiency and accuracy of visual search develop at different rates from early childhood through early adulthood. Psychon Bull Rev 27, 504–511. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01712-z [PDF]
  • Wolfe, J.M. (2020). Forty years after feature integration theory: An introduction to the special issue in honor of the contributions of Anne Treisman. Atten Percept Psychophys 82, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01966-3 [PDF]
  • Wolfe, J.M. (2020). Major issues in the study of visual search: Part 2 of “40 Years of Feature Integration: Special Issue in Memory of Anne Treisman”. Atten Percept Psychophys 82, 383–393. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02022-1 [PDF]
  • Wolfe, J. M. (2020). Visual Search: How Do We Find What We Are Looking For? Annual Review of Vision Science, 6(1), null. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-vision-091718-015048 [PDF]

2019

  • Schill, H. M., Cain, M. S., Josephs, E. L., & Wolfe, J. M. (2019). Axis of rotation as a basic feature in visual search. PAttention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000387. [PUBLICATION LINK]
  • Wiegand, I., Seidel, C., & Wolfe, J. (2019). Hybrid foraging search in younger and older age. Psychology and Aging, 34(6), 805–820. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000387. [PUBLICATION LINK]
  • Chia-Chien Wu, Nicholas M. D’Ardenne, Robert M. Nishikawa, Jeremy M. Wolfe, “Gist processing in digital breast tomosynthesis,” TJ. Med. Imag. 7(2), 022403 (2019), doi: 10.1117/1.JMI.7.2.022403. [PDF]
  • Evans, K. K., Culpan, A. M., & Wolfe, J. M. (2019). Detecting the “gist” of breast cancer in mammograms three years before localized signs of cancer are visible. The British journal of radiology, 92(xxxx), 20190136. [PUBLICATION LINK]
  • Wu, C.-C., & Wolfe, J. M. (2019). Eye Movements in Medical Image Perception: A Selective Review of Past, Present and Future. Vision, 3(2), 32. [PDF]
  • Sitek, A., & Wolfe, J.M. (2019). Assessing Cancer Risk from Mammograms: Deep Learning Is Superior to Conventional Risk Models. Radiology, 190791. doi: 10.1148/radiol.2019190791 [PDF]
  • Wiegand, I., & Wolfe, J.M. (2019). Age doesn't matter much: hybrid visual and memory search is preserved in older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition. [PDF]
  • Gandomkar, Z., Ekpo, E.U., Lewis, S.J., Evans, K.K., Tapia, K.A., Trieu, P.D., Wolfe, J.M., & Brennan, P.C. (2019). Does the strength of the gist signal predict the difficulty of breast cancer detection in usual presentation and reporting mechanisms? SPIE Journal of Medical Imaging. [PUBLICATION LINK]
  • Wolfe, J.M. (2019). Visual Attention: The Multiple Ways in which History Shapes Selection. Current Biology. [PDF]
  • D'Ardenne, N.M., Nishikawa, R.M., Zuley, M.L., Wu, C.-C., & Wolfe, J.M. (2019). Oculomotor behaviour of radiologists reading digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT). SPIE Journal of Medical Imaging. [PUBLICATION LINK]
  • Wick, F.A., Alaoui Soce, A., Garg, S., Grace, R.C., & Wolfe, J.M. (2019). Perception in dynamic scenes: What is your Heider capacity? J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. [PUBLICATION LINK]
  • Wolfe, J.M., Cain, M.S., & Aizenman, A.M. (2019). Guidance and selection history in hybrid foraging visual search. Atten Percept Psychophys. [PDF]
  • Wolfe, J.M. & Utochkin, I.S. (2019). What is a preattentive feature? Current Opinion in Psychology. [PDF]

2018

  • Wu, C.-C. & Wolfe, J.M. (2018). A new multiple object awareness paradigm shows that imperfect knowledge of object location is still knowledge. Current Biology. [PUBLICATION LINK] [FIGURES (COLOR)]
  • Palmer, E.M., Van Wert, M.J., Horowitz, T.S., & Wolfe, J.M. (2018). Measuring the time course of selection during visual search. Atten Percept Psychophys. [PDF]
  • Chin, M.D., Evans, K.K., Wolfe, J.M., Bowen, F., & Tanaka, J.W. (2018). Inversion effects in the expert classification of mammograms and faces. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. [PDF]
  • Brennan, P.C., Gandomkar, Z., Ekpo, E.U., Tapia, K., Trieu, P.D., Lewis, S.J., Wolfe, J.M., & Evans, K.K. (2018). Radiologists can detect the 'gist' of breast cancer before any overt signs of cancer appear. Scientific Reports 8 (1), 8717. [PDF]
  • Wolfe, J.M. (2018). Everything is Foreseen, Yet Free will is Given (Mishna Avot 3:15). Journal of Cognition, 1(1), 22. [PDF]
  • Wolfe, J.M. (2018). Visual Search. In Steven's Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Fourth Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119170174 [PDF]
  • Utochkin, I.S. & Wolfe, J.M. (2018). Visual search for changes in scenes creates long-term, incidental memory traces. Atten Percept Psychophys. [PDF]
  • Wu, C.-C. & Wolfe, J.M. (2018). Comparing eye movements during position tracking and identity tracking: No evidence for separate systems. Atten Percept Psychophys. [PDF]
  • Wu, C.-C., Alaoui Soce, A., & Wolfe, J. M. (2018). Event Monitoring: Can we detect more than one event at a time? Vision Research. [PDF]
  • Wolfe, J.M. (2018). Anne Treisman Obituary. Curr Biol. [PDF]
  • Wolfe, J.M., Cain, M.S., & Alaoui Soce, A. (2018). Hybrid value foraging: How the value of targets shapes human foraging behavior. Atten Percept Psychophys. [PUBLICATION LINK]
  • Wolfe, J.M., & Lauer, M. (2018). In dialogue with the NIH on clinical trials policy. Nature: Human Behavior. [PDF]
  • Nordfang, M., & Wolfe, J.M. (2018). Guided search through memory. Visual Cognition. [PDF]

2017

  • Wolfe, J.M. & Horowitz, T.S. (2017). Five factors that guide attention in visual search. Nature: Human Behavior. [PDF]
  • Boettcher, S.E., Drew, T., & Wolfe, J.M. (2017). Lost in the supermarket: Quantifying the cost of partitioning memory sets in hybrid search. Mem Cogn. [PDF]
  • Aizenman, A.M., Drew, T., Ehinger, K.A., Georgian-Smith, D., & Wolfe, J.M. (In Press). Comparing search patterns in digital breast tomosynthesis and full-field digital mammography: an eye tracking study. Journal of Medical Imaging. [Supplementary Materials]
  • Wu, C.-C., & Wolfe, J. M. (2017). Comparing eye movements during position tracking and identity tracking: No evidence for separate systems. Atten Percept Psychophys. [ABSTRACT LINK]
  • Zhang, J., Gong, Xue., Fougnie, D., & Wolfe, J.M. (2017). How humans react to changing rewards during visual foraging. Atten Percept Psychophys. [ABSTRACT LINK]
  • Wolfe, J.M., Alaoui Soce, A. & Schill, H.M. (2017). How did I miss that? Developing mixed hybrid visual search as a 'model system' for incidenal finding errors in radiology. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. [PDF]
  • Wolfe, J.M. (2017). Visual Attention: Size Matters. Current Biology. [ABSTRACT LINK]
  • Drew, T., Boettcher, S.E., & Wolfe, J.M. (2017). One visual search, many memory searches: An eye-tracking investigation of hybrid search. Journal of Vision. [PUBLICATION LINK]
  • Kok, E.M., Aizenman, A.M., Vo, M.L., & Wolfe, J.M. (2017). Even if I showed you where you looked, remembering where you just looked is hard. Journal of Vision. [PUBLICATION LINK]

      • 2016

      • Wu, C.C., & Wolfe, J.M. (2016). Multiple Event Monitoring. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. [PUBLICATION LINK]
      • Zou, B., Utochkin, I., Liu, Y., & Wolfe, J.M. (2016). Binocularity and Visual Search - Revisited. Attention, Perception & Psychophyics [ABSTRACT LINK]
      • Wolfe, J.M. (2016). Use-inspired basic research in medical image perception. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. [PDF]
      • Drew, T., Aizenman, A. M., Thompson, M. B., Kovacs, M. D., Trambert, M., Reicher, M. A., et al. (2016). Image toggling saves time in mammography. J. Medical Imaging. [PUBLICATION LINK]
      • Cunningham, C.A., Drew, T., & Wolfe, J.M. (2016). Analog Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) information can be more effective than binary marks. Atten Percept Psychophys. [PDF]
      • Evans, K.K., Haygood, T.M., Cooper, J., Culpan, A.M., & Wolfe, J.M. (2016). A half-second glimpse often lets radiologists identify breast cancer cases even when viewing the mammogram of the opposite breast. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [PUBLICATION LINK]
      • Wolfe, J. M. (2016). Rethinking the basic-applied dichotomy.(2016). Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. [EDITORIAL]
      • Wolfe, J. M. (2016). Use-inspired basic research in medical image perception. (2016). Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. [PUBLICATION LINK]
      • Josephs, E.L., Dejan Draschkow, Wolfe, J.M., & Võ, M. L.-H. (2016). Gist in time: Scene semantics and structure enhance recall of searched objects. Acta Psychologica. [ABSTRACT LINK]
      • Wolfe, J.M. (2016). Visual Search revisited: The slopes are not that slippery: A reply to Kristjansson (2015). i-Perception. [ABSTRACT LINK]
      • Fougnie, D., Cormiea S.M., Zhang, J., Alvarez, G.A., Wolfe, J.M. (2016). Winter is coming: How humans forage in a temporally structured environment. Journal of Vision. [ABSTRACT LINK]
      • Hills, TT., Todd, P.M.., Lazer, D., Redish, A.D., Couzin, A.D., & Cognitive Science Research Group. (2016). Exploration versus exploitation in space, mind, and society. Trends in Cognitive Science.[PUBLICATION LINK]
      • Ehinger, K.A., & Wolfe, J.M. (2016). When is it time to move to the next map? Optimal foraging in guided visual search. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. [ABSTRACT LINK]
      • Reicher, M.A., & Wolfe, J.M. (2016). Let’s Use Cognitive Science to Create Collaborative Workstations. Journal of the American College of Radiology. [ABSTRACT LINK]
      • Ehinger, K.A., Allen, K., & Wolfe, J.M. (2016). Change blindness for cast shadows in natural scenes: Even informative shadow changes are missed. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. [ABSTRACT LINK]
      • Wolfe, J.M., Aizenman, A.M., Boettcher, S.E.P., & Cain, M.S. (2016). Hybrid foraging search: Searching for multiple instances of multiple types of target. Vision Research. [ABSTRACT LINK]
      • Wen, G., Aizenman, A.M., Drew, T., Wolfe, J.M., Haygood, T.M., & Markey, M.K. (2016). Computational assessment of visual search strategies in volumetric medical images. Journal of Medical Imaging. [ABSTRACT LINK]

      2015

      • Sareen, P., Ehinger, K.A., & Wolfe, J.M.(2015). CB database: A change blindness database for objects in natural indoor scenes. Behavior Research Methods. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M., Evans, K. K., Drew, T., Aizenman, A.M., & Josephs, E.L. (2015). How do radiologists use the human search engine? Radiation Protection Dosimetry. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M., Boettcher, S.E.P., Josephs, E.L., Cunningham, C.A., & Drew, T. (2015). You look familiar, but I don’t care: Lure rejection in hybrid visual and memory search is not based on familiarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. [ABSTRACT LINK]
      • Drew, T., Aizenman, A.M.,Thompson, M.B., Kovacs, M.D., Trambert, M., Reicher, M.A., & Wolfe, J.M.(2015). Image toggling saves time in mammography. Journal of Medical Imaging. [PDF]
      • Josephs, E.L., Drew, T., & Wolfe, J.M.(2015). Shuffling your way out of change blindness. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. [ABSTRACT LINK]
      • Drew, T., Boettcher, S.E.P., & Wolfe, J.M. (2015). Searching while loaded: Visual working memory does not interfere with hybrid search efficiency but hybrid search uses working memory capacity. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. [PDF]
      • Boettcher, S.E.P., & Wolfe, J.M. (2015). Searching for the right word: Hybrid visual and memory search for words. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics. [PDF]
      • Brand, J., Oriet, C., Johnson, A.P., & Wolfe, J.M. (2015). Flexible cue combination in the guidance of attention in visual search. Acta Psychologica. [PDF]
      • Hout, M.C., Walenchok, S.C., Goldiner, S.D., & Wolfe, J.M. (2015). Failures of perception in the low-prevalence effect: Evidence from active and passive visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance .[ABSTRACT LINK] Please email Dr. Jeremy Wolfe for a copy.
      • Võ, M. H., & Wolfe, J.M. (2015). The role of memory for visual search in scenes. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.[PDF]
      • Zhang, J., Gong, X., Fougnie, D.,& Wolfe, J.M. (2015). Using the past to anticipate the future in human foraging behavior. Vision Research.[PDF]

      2014

      • Wolfe, J.M.(2014). Approaches to Visual Search: Feature Integration Theory and Guided Search. In A. C. Nobre & S. Kastner (Eds.). Oxford Handbook of Attention. (pp.11-5).New York: Oxford U Press.
      • Draschkow, D., Wolfe, J.M., & Võ, M. L.-H. (2014). Seek and you shall remember: Scene semantics interact with visual search to build better memories. Journal of Vision. [PDF]
      • Sareen, P., Ehinger, K.A., & Wolfe, J.M. (2014). Through the looking glass: Objects in mirrors are less real. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. [PDF]
      • Drew, T., Sherman, A., Boettcher, S.E.P., & Wolfe, J.M. (2014). Memory search for the first target modulates the magnitude of the attentional blink. Memory and Cognition. [PDF]
      • Cunningham, C.A., & Wolfe, J.M. (2014). The role of object categories in hybrid visual and memory search. Journal of Experimental Psychology. [PDF]
      • Nordfang, M., & Wolfe, J.M. (2014). Guided search for triple conjunctions. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics. [PDF]
      • Drew,T., & Wolfe, J.M. (2014). Hybrid search in the temporal domain: Evidence for rapid, serial logarithmic search through memory. Annals of the New York Academy of Science.[PDF]
      • Drew,T., boettcher, S., & Wolfe, J.M. (2014). Hybrid Search: Picking up a Thread from Schneider and Shiffrin (1977). In J. Raaijmakers (Ed.), Cognitive Modeling in Perception and Memory: A Festschrift for Richard M. Shiffrin. New York: Psychology Press..[PDF]

      2013

      • Wolfe, J.M., Brunelli, D.N., Rubinstein, J., & Horowitz, T.S. (2013). Prevalence effects in newly trained aiport checkpoint screeners: Trained observers miss rare targets, too. Journal of Vision, 13(3). [PDF]
      • Drew, T., Võ, M. H., & Wolfe, J. M. (2013). The invisible gorilla strikes again: Sustained inattentional blindness in expert observers. Psychological Science, 24(9). [PDF]

        (see video below for a fun and brief summary of Drew, Võ & Wolfe (2013))

      • Drew, T., Evans, K. K., Võ, M. H., Jacobson, F., & Wolfe, J. M. (2013). Gestalt of medical images respond. Radiographics, 33(5). [PDF]
      • Drew, T., Evans, K. K., Võ, M. H., Jacobson, F., & Wolfe, J. M. (2013). Gestalt of medical images respond. Radiographics, 33(5). [PDF]
      • Drew, T., Võ, M. H., Olwal, A., Jacobson, F., Seltzer, S.E., & Wolfe, J. M.(2013). Scanners and drillers: Characterizing expert visual search through volumetric images. Journal of Vision, 13(10). [PDF]
      • Boettcher, S. E. P., Drew, T., & Wolfe, J. M. (2013). Hybrid search in context: How to search for the vegetables in the produce section and cereal in the cereal aisle.Visual Cognition. 21(6). 678-682. DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2013.844959. [PDF]
      • Võ, M. H., & Wolfe, J. M. (2013). Differential Electrophysiological Signatures of Semantic and Syntactic Scene Processing. Psychological Science, 24(9).[PDF]
      • Evans, K. K., Birdwell, R. L., & Wolfe, J. M. (2013). If You Don't Find It Often, You Often Don't Find It: Why Some Cancers Are Missed in Breast Cancer Screening. PloS one, 8(5), e64366. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J. M. (2013). When is it time to move to the next rasberry bush? Foraging rules in human visual search. Journal of Vision, 13(3), 1-17. [PDF]
      • Evans, K. K., Georgian-Smith, D., Tambouret, R., Birdwell, R. L., & Wolfe, J. M. (2013). The gist of the abnormal: Above-chance medical decision making in the blink of an eye. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. doi:10.3758/s13423-013-0459-3. [PDF]
      • Suzuki, M., Wolfe, J. M., Horowitz, T. S., & Noguchi, Y. (2013). Apparent color orientation bindings in the periphery can be influenced by feature binding in central vision. Vision Research, 8258-65. [PDF]
      • Võ, M. H., & Wolfe, J. M. (2013). The interplay of episodic and semantic memory in guiding repeated search in scenes. Cognition,126(2), 198-212. [PDF]
      • Reijnen, E., Wolfe, J. M., & Krummenacher, J. (2013). Coarse guidance by numerosity in visual search.Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics,75(1), 16-28. [PDF]

      2012

      • Vo, M. L.-H., & Wolfe, J. M. (2012). When does repeated search in scenes involve memory? Looking at versus looking for objects in scenes. J. Exp. Psychol: Human Perception and Performance, 38(1), 23-41. [PDF]
      • Cunningham, C.A., & Wolfe, J.M. (2012). Lions or tigers or bears: Oh my! Hybrid visual and memory search for categorical targets. Visual Cognition, 20(9). 1024-1027. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J. M. (2012). Saved by a log: How do humans perform hybrid visual and memory search? Psychological Science, 23(7). 698-703. [PDF]
      • Drew, T., Horowitz, T.S., & Wolfe, J.M., & Vogel, E.K. (2012). Neural measures of dynamic changes in attentive tracking load. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(2). 440-450. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M. (2012). When do I quit? The search termination problem in visual search. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 59: 183-208. [PDF]
      • Ishibashi, K., Kita, S., & Wolfe, J.M. (2012). The effects of local prevelence and explicit expectations on search termination times. Atten Percept Psychophys. 74(1). 115-123. [PDF]
      • Greene, M.R., Liu, T., & Wolfe, J.M. (2012). Reconsidering Yarbus: A failure to predict observers' task from eye movement patterns. Vision Research. 62. 1-8. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M. (2012). The binding problem lives on: Comment on Di Lollo. Trends in Cognitive Science. 16(6). 307-308. [PDF]

      2011

      • Evans K.K., Evered A., Tambouret R.H., Wilbur D.C. & Wolfe J.M. (2011) Prevalence of Abnormalities Influences Cytologists' Error Rates in Screening for Cervical Cancer. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 135(12), 1557-1560.
      • Wolfe, J. M., Alvarez, G. A., Rosenholtz, R. E., & Kuzmova, Y. I. (2011). Visual search for arbitrary objects in real scenes. Atten Percept Psychophys, 73, 1650-1671.
      • Palmer, E. M., Horowitz, T. S., Torralba, A., & Wolfe, J. M. (2011). What are the shapes of response time distributions in visual search? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J. M., Vo, M. L.-H., Evans, K. K., & Greene, M. R. (2011). Visual search in scenes involves selective and non-selective pathways. Trends Cogn Sci, 15(2), 77-84.
      • Pinto, Y., Otten, M., Cohen, M. A., Horowitz , T. S., & Wolfe, J. M. (2011). The boundary conditions for Bohr’s law: When is reacting faster than acting? Atten Percept Psychophys. 72(2), 613-620.
      • Drew, T., Horowitz , T. S., Wolfe, J. M., & Vogel, E. K. (2011). Delineating the neural signatures of tracking spatial position and working memory during attentive tracking. J. Neuroscience, 31, 659-668. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J., Reijnen, E., Horowitz, T., Pedersini, R., Pinto, Y., & Hulleman, J. (2011). How does our search engine “see” the world? The case of amodal completion. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 73(4), 1054-1064. PubMed # 21331672, NIHMSID # 280340, doi 10.3758/s13414-011-0103 [PDF]
      • Andriole, K. P., Wolfe, J. M., Khorasani, R., Treves, S. T., Getty, D. J., Jacobson, F. L., et al. (2011). Optimizing Analysis, Visualization, and Navigation of Large Image Data Sets: One 5000-Section CT Scan Can Ruin Your Whole Day. Radiology, 259(2), 346-362.[PDF]
      • Wolfe, J., & Kuzmova, Y. (2011). How many pixels make a memory? Picture memory for small pictures. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18(3), 469-475.[PDF]
      • Greene, M. R., & Wolfe, J. M. (2011). Global image properties do not guide visual search. Journal of Vision, 11(6).18, doi:10.1167/11.6.18 [PDF]
      • Cohen, M., Evans, K., Horowitz, T., & Wolfe, J. (2011). Auditory and visual memory in musicians and nonmusicians. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18(3), 586-591.http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-011-0074-0 [PDF]
      • Evans, K.K., Horowitz, T. & Wolfe, J.M. (2011) When Categories Collide: Accumulation of Information About Multiple Categories in Rapid Scene Perception. Psychological Science, 22 (6), 739 - 746. [PDF]
      • Horowitz, T. S. & Kuzmova, Y. I. (2011). Can we track holes? Vision Research, 51 (9). 1013-1021.[PDF]
      • Howe, P. D., Drew, T., Pinto, Y., & Horowitz, T. S. (2011). Remapping attention in multiple object tracking. Vision Research, 51(5), 489-495.[PDF]

      2010

      • Evans, K.K., Cohen, M., Tambouret, R., Horowitz, T., Kreindel, E. & Wolfe, J.M. (2010) Does Visual Expertise Improve Visual Recognition Memory? Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. Vol73, Issue 1, 30-35. [PDF]
      • Gagnier, K. M., Intraub, H., Oliva , A., & Wolfe, J. M. (2010). Why does vantage point affect boundary extension? Visual Cognition, 19(2), 234 – 257.

      • Horowitz, T. S. & Cohen, M. A. (2010). Direction information in multiple object tracking is limited by a graded resource. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 72(7), 1765-1775.[PDF]
      • Howe, P. D., Pinto, Y. A., & Horowitz, T. S. (2010). The coordinate systems used in visual tracking. Vision Research, 50(23), 2375-2380. [PDF]
      • Wolfe J.M., Horowitz T.S., & Palmer E.M. (2010). Reaction time distributions constrain models of visual search. Vision Research. 50 (14): 1304-1311. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M., Van Wert, M. (2010). Varying Target Prevalence Reveals Two Dissociable Decision Criteria in Visual Search. Current Biology. 20, 121-124. [PDF] Supplement [PDF].
      • Lindsey, D.T., Brown, A.M., Reijnen, E., Rich, A.N., Kuzmova, Y.I. & Wolfe, J.M. (2010) Color channels, not color categories, guide visual search for desaturated color targets.Psychological Science. Published on August 16, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0956797610379861. [PDF]
      • Howe, P., Cohen, M., Pinto, Y., & Horowitz, T. (2010). Distinguishing between parallel and serial accounts of multiple object tracking. Journal of Vision, 10(8): 11. [PDF]

        JOV 10-8-11

      • Pinto, Y., Howe, P., Cohen, M., & Horowitz, T. (2010). The more often you see an object, the easier it becomes to track it. Journal of Vision, 10(10): 4. [PDF]

        JOV 10-10-4

      2009

      • Cohen, M. A., Horowitz , T. S., & Wolfe, J. M. (2009). Auditory recognition memory is inferior to visual recognition memory. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 106(14), 6008-6010. [PDF]
      • Drew, T., McCollough, A., Horowitz, T., & Vogel, E. (2009). Attentional enhancement during multiple-object tracking. Psychonomic bulletin & review 16 (2) pp. 411-7 [PDF]
      • Joseph, R., Keehn, B., Connolly, C., Wolfe, J.M., Horowitz, T.S. (2009). Why is visual search superior in autism spectrum disorder? Developmental Science. 12.6. 1083-96. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J. M., Reijnen, E., Van Wert, M. J., & Kuzmova, Y. (2009). In visual search, guidance by surface type is different than classic guidance. Vision Res, 49(7), 765-773. [PDF]
      • Howe, P.D., Horowitz, T.S., Morocz, A., Wolfe, J.M.& Livingstone, M.S. (2009). Using fMRI to distinguish components of the multiple object tracking task. Journal of Vision. 9. 4. [LINK]
      • Van Wert, M.J, Horowitz, T.S., Wolfe, J.M. (2009). Even in correctable search, some types of rare targets are frequently missed. Atten Percept Psychophys. 2009 April; 71(3): 541-553. [PDF]
      • Horowitz, T.S., Wolfe, J.M., Alvarez, G.A., Cohen, M.A. & Kuzmova, Y.I. (2009). The speed of free will. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.0. 0. pp. 1-27. [PDF]

      2008

      • Kunar, M. A., Carter, R., Cohen, M.A., Horowitz, T.S. (2008). Telephone conversation impairs sustained visual attention via a central bottleneck. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 15 (6), 1135-1140. [PDF]
      • Kunar, M. A., Flusberg, S. J., & Wolfe, J. M. (2008). The role of memory and restricted context in repeated visual search. Perception and Psychophysics, 70, 314-328. [PDF]
      • Kunar, M. A., Flusberg, S. J., & Wolfe, J. M. (2008). Time to Guide: Evidence for Delayed Attentional Guidance in Contextual Cueing. Visual Cognition, 16, 804-825.[PDF]
      • Li, Xingshan, Cave, K. R., Wolfe, J. M. (2008). Kanizsa-type subjective contours do not guide attentional deployment in visual search but line termination contours do. Perception and Psychophysics, 70(3), 477-488. [PDF]
      • Rich, A., Kunar, M. A., Van Wert, M.J., Hidalgo-Sotelo, B., Horowitz, T.S. & Wolfe, J.M. (2008). Why do we miss rare targets? Exploring the boundaries of the low prevalence effect.Journal of Vision. 8. 15. 1–17. [PDF]

      2007

      • Horowitz, T. S., Wolfe, J. M., DiMase, J.S. , Klieger, S.B. (2007). Visual search for type of motion is based on simple motion primitives. Perception, 36, 1624-1634. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J. M. (2007). Guided Search 4.0: Current Progress with a model of visual search. In W. Gray (Ed.), Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems (pp. 99-119). New York: Oxford. [PDF]
      • Kunar, M .A., Flusberg, S. J., Horowitz, T. S., Wolfe, J.M. (2007). Does contextual cuing guide the deployment of attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33(4), 816-828. [PDF]
      • Horowitz, T. S., Fine, E. M., Fencsik, D. E., Yurgenson, S., & Wolfe, J. M. (2007), Fixational eye movements are not an index of covert attention. Psychological Science, 18(4), 356-363. [PDF]
      • Horowitz, T. S., Fencsik, D. E., Fine, E. M., Yurgenson, S., & Wolfe, J. M. (2007), Microsaccades and attention: Does a weak correlation make an index? Reply to Laubrock, Engbert, Rolfs, & Kliegl (2007). Psychological Science, 18(4), 367-368. [PDF]
      • Horowitz, T. S., Klieger, S. B., Fencsik, D. E., Yang, K. K., Alvarez, G. A., & Wolfe, J.M. (2007). Tracking unique objects. Perception & Psychophysics, 69(2), 172-184. [PARADIGM MOVIE] PDF]
      • Wolfe, J. M., Horowitz, T. S., Van Wert, M. J., Kenner, N. M., Place, S. S., Kibbi, N. (2007). Low target prevalence is a stubborn source of errors in visual search tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136(4), 623-638. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J. M., Horowitz, T. S., & Michod, K. O. (2007). Is visual attention required for robust picture memory? Vision Research, 47, 955-964. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J. M., Place, S. S., Horowitz, T. S. (2007). Multiple Object Juggling: Changing what is tracked during extended multiple object tracking. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14(2), 344-349. [PDF]

      2006

      • Wolfe, J. M. (2006). Neurons that know when to quit. Nature Neuroscience (News and Views), 9(8), 984-985. [PDF]
      • Fencsik, D. E., Urrea, J., Place, S. S., Wolfe, J. M., & Horowitz, T. S. (2006). Velocity cues improve visual search and multiple object tracking. Visual Cognition, 14, 92-95. [PDF]
      • Horowitz, T.S., Choi, W.Y., Horvitz, J.C., Cote, L.J, & Mangels, J.A. (2006). Visual search deficits in Parkinson's disease are attenuated by bottom-up target salience and top-down information. Neuropsychologia, 44(10), 1962-1977. [PDF]
      • Horowitz, T. S. (2006). Revisiting the variable memory model of visual search. Visual Cognition, 14(4-8), 668-684. [LINK]
      • Horowitz, T. S., Birnkrant, R. S., Fencsik, D. E., Tran, L., & Wolfe, J. M. (2006). How do we track invisible objects? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 516-523.[PDF]
      • Kunar, M.A., Flusberg, S.J., & Wolfe, J.M. (2006). Contextual cueing by global features. Perception & Psychophysics.[PDF]

      2005

      • Horowitz, T. S., & Wolfe, J. M. (2005). Visual Search: The role of memory for rejected distractors. In L. Itti & G. Rees & J. Tsotsos (Eds.), Neurobiology of attention (pp. 264-268). San Diego, CA: Academic Press / Elsevier.[PDF]
      • Wolfe, J. M. (2005). Guidance of Visual Search by Preattentive Information. In L. Itti & G. Rees & J. Tsotsos (Eds.), Neurobiology of attention (pp. 101-104). San Diego, CA: Academic Press / Elsevier. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J. M., Birnkrant, R. S., Kunar, M. A., & Horowitz, T.S. (2005). Visual search for transparency and opacity: Attentional guidance by cue combination? Journal of Vision , 5, 257-274.
      • Alvarez, G. A., Horowitz, T. S., Wolfe, J. M. Arsenio, H. C., & DiMase, J. S. (2005). Do multielement visual tracking and visual search draw continuously on the same visual attention resources? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance 31(4). [PDF]
      • Santhi, N., Duffy, J. F., Horowitz  T. S., & Czeisler, C. A. (2005). Scheduling of sleep/darkness affects the circadian phase of night shift workers. Neuroscience Letters, 384(3), 316-320. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M. On topology's place in the psychophysical structure of human vision. Visual Cognition. Vol 12(4), 2005, pp. 675-682. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J. M., Horowitz, T.S., Kenner, N. (2005). Rare items often missed in visual searches. Nature, 435, 439-440. [PDF][Supplement]
      • Wolfe, J. M. (2005). Watching single cells pay attention. Science, 308, 503-504.[PDF]
      • Wolfe, J. M. (2005). Invited Paper: How Might the Rules that Govern Visual Search Constrain the Design of Visual Displays? Digest of Technical Papers. 36: 1395-1397. [PDF]

      2004

      • Wolfe, J.M., Horowitz, T.S., Kenner, N., Hyle M., Vasan, N. (2004). How fast can you change your mind? The speed of top-down guidance in visual search.Vision Research 44 1411-1426.[PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M., Horowitz, T.S. (2004). What attributes guide the deployment of visual attention and how do they do it? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 5 1-7. [PDF]
      • Oliva, A., Wolfe J.M., Arsenio H.C. (2004). Panoramic Search: The Interaction of Memory and Vision in Search Through a Familiar Scene. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30:1132-1146. [PDF]
      • Thornton, I.M., Horowitz, T.S. (2004). The multi-item localization (MILO) task: Measuring the spatiotemporal context of vision for action. Perception and Psychophysics, 66(1) 38-50. [PDF]
      • Horowitz, T.S., Holcombe, A.O., Wolfe, J.M., Arsenio, H.C., DiMase, J.S. (2004). Attentional pursuit is faster than attentional saccade. Journal of Vision, 4, 585-603. [PDF]

      2003

      • Horowitz, T.S., Cade, B.E., Wolfe, J.M., & Czeisler, C.A. (2003). A Dissocation of Effects of Circadian Phase and Time Awake on Visual Selective Attention and Vigilance.Psychological Science, 14(6) 549-557. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M., & DiMase, J.S. (2003). Do intersections serve as basic features in visual search? Perception, 32: 645-656. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M., Butcher, S.J., Lee, C., & Hyle, M. (2003). Changing your mind: On the contributions of top-down and bottom-up guidance in visual search for feature singletons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29: 483-502. [PDF]
      • Horowitz, T.S., & Wolfe, J. M. (2003). Memory for rejected distractors in visual search? Visual Cognition, 10(3): 257-298. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J. M. (2003). Moving towards solutions to some enduring controversies in visual search. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(2): 70-76. [to request a reprint write towolfe@search.bwh.harvard.edu]

      2002

      • Wolfe, J. M., Oliva, A., Horowitz, T.S., Butcher, S. J., & Bompas, A. (2002). Segmentation of objects from backgrounds in visual search tasks. Vision Research, 42(28): 2985-3004[PDF]
      • Wolfe, J. M., Oliva, A., Butcher, S. J., & Arsenio, H. C. (2002). An Unbinding Problem? The disintegration of visible, previously attended objects does not attract attention. Journal of Vision, 2(3): 256-271 [PDF]

      2001

      • Wolfe, J.M. (2001). Asymmetries in visual search: An introduction. Perception and Psychophysics, 63(3): 381-389 [PDF]
      • Royden, C.S., Wolfe, J.M., & Klempen, N. (2001). Visual Search Asymmetries in Motion & Optic Flow Fields. Perception and Psychophysics, 63(3): 436-444 [PDF]
      • Horowitz, T. S., & Wolfe, J. M. (2001). Search for multiple targets: Remember the targets, forget the search. Perception and Psychophysics, 63(2): 272-285 [PDF]

      2000

      • Humphreys, G.W., Cinel, C., Wolfe, J.M., Olson, A., & Klempen, N. (2000) Fractionating the binding process: neuropsychological evidence distinguishing binding of form from binding of surface features. Vision Research, 40(10-12): 1569-1596. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M., Klempen, N., & Dahlen, K. (2000) Post-attentive Vision. The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26(2): 693-716 [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M., Alvaraz, G.A., & Horowitz, T.S. (2000) Attention is Fast but Volition is Slow. Nature, 406: 691 [PDF]

      1999

      • Wolfe, J.M., Klempen, N., & Shulman, E. (1999) Which End is Up? Two Representations of Orientation in Visual Search. Vision Research, 39(12): 2075-2086 [PDF]
      • Cave K.R., & Wolfe J.M. (1999) The Psychophysical Evidence for a Binding Problem in Human Vision. Neuron, 24(1): 11-17 [PDF]

      1998

      • Horowitz, T.S., & Wolfe, J.M. (1998) Visual Search Has No Memory. Nature, 357: 575-577 [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M. (1998) Visual Memory: What do you know about what you saw? Current Biology, 8: R303-R304 [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M. (1998) What Can 1,000,000 Trials Tell Us About Visual Search? Psychological Science, 9(1) [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M. & O'Neill, P. (1998) Why are there Eccentricity Effects in Visual Search? Perception and Psychophysics, 60(1): 140-156 PDF]

      1997

      • Wolfe, J.M. (1997) In a blink of the mind's eye. Nature, 387: 756-757 [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M. & Bennett, S.C. (1997) Preattentive Object Files: Shapeless bundles of basic features. Vision Research, 37(1): 25-44 ">[PDF]

      1996

      • Wolfe, J. M. (1996). Vision: Resolving perceptual ambiguity. Nature, 380 (18 April), 587-588. [PDF]
      • Chun, M.M. & Wolfe, J.M. (1996) Just Say No: How Are Visual Searches Terminated When There Is No Target Present? Cognitive Psychology, 30, 39-78 [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M., & Gancarz, G. (1996) Guided Search 3.0 Basic and Clinical Applications of Vision Science, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic. 189-192 [PDF]

      1995

      • Friedman-Hill, S.R, & Wolfe, J.M. (1995) Second-Order Parallel Processing: Visual Search for the Odd Item in a Subset. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 21(3): 531-551 [PDF]

      1994

      • Wolfe, J.M. (1994) Guided Search 2.0: A Revised Model of Visual Search. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1(2): 202-238 [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M., Friedman-Hill, S.R., & Bilsky, A.B. (1994) Parallel processing of part-whole information in visual search tasks. Perception & Psychophysics, 55(5): 537-550 [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M. (1994) Visual Search in Continuous, Naturalistic Stimuli. Vision Research. 34 (9), 1187-1195. [PDF]

      1992

      • Wolfe, J.M. (1992). Parallel Guidance of Visual Attention. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1(4): 124-128. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M., Friedman-Hill, S.R., Stewart, M I., & O'Connell, K. M. (1992) The Role of Categorization in Visual Search for Orientation. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18(1): 34-49 [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M. (1992) "Effortless" Texture Segmentation and "Parallel" Visual Search are not the Same Thing. Vision Research, 32(4): 757-763 [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M., Friedman-Hill, S.R. (1992) On The Role of Symmetry in Visual Search. Psychological Science, 3(3): 194-198 [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M., Friedman-Hill, S.R. (1992) Visual search for oriented lines: The role of angular relations between targets and distractors. Spatial Vision, 6(3): 199-207 [PDF]
      • Wolfe J.M., Yee A., & Friedman-Hill S.R. (1992) Curvature is a basic feature for visual search tasks. Perception, 21(4) 465 – 480.

      Review Articles and Book Chapters

      • Wolfe, J.M. & Robertson, L. (Eds.). (2012) Attention and Beyond: Searching through the papers of Anne Treisman. NY: Oxford University Press.
      • Evans, K.K., Horowitz, T., Howe, P., Pedersini, R., Reijnen, E., Pinto, Y., & Wolfe, J. (2011) Visual Attention, In L. Nadel (Ed.), Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2(5), 503-514.
      • Howe, P., Evans, K.K., Pedersini, R., Cohen, M., Horowitz, T., & Wolfe, J. (2009) Attention: Selective Attention and Consciousness. In Banks, W.P. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Consciousness, Elsevier Inc.
      • Wolfe, J.M. (2004). Looking at Yourself [Review of the book The Quest for Consciousness by Chistof Koch]. Nature Neuroscience 7(6) 565.[PDF]
      • The level of attention: Mediating between the stimulus and perception. Wolfe, J. M. In: L. Harris (Ed.), Levels of Perception: a Festschrift for Ian Howard, Springer Verlag; 2001.[PDF]
      • Visual Attention (2001) Chun, M. M., & Wolfe, J. M. Visual Attention. In E. B. Goldstein (Ed.), Blackwell's Handbook of Perception, (Vol. Ch 9, pp. 272-310). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.[PDF]
      • The Deployment of Visual Attention:Two Surprises. (2000) Wolfe, JM. In: NATO-RTO (Ed.), Search and Target Acquisition. Utrecht, Netherlands: NATO-RTO. Vol. 45, p. 20.21-20.11[PDF]
      • Visual Attention (2000) Wolfe J. In: De Valois KK, editor. Seeing. 2nd ed. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. p. 335-386.[PDF]
      • Inattentional Amnesia (2000) Wolfe JM. In: V. Coltheart (Ed.), Fleeting Memories. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.[PDF]
      • Visual Search (1998) Wolfe J. In: Pashler H., editor. Attention. London UK: University College London Press.[PDF]
      • Extending guided search: Why guided search needs a preattentive "item map." (1996) Wolfe J.M. In: A.F. Kramer, M.G.H. Coles, & G.D. Logan (Eds), Converging operations in the study of visual attention. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. p. 247-270.[PDF]

      Publications before 1991

      • Wolfe, J. M. & Pokorny, C. W. (1990). Inhibitory tagging in visual search: A failure to replicate. Perception and Psychophysics, 48(4):357-62. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J. M., Yu, K. P., Stewart, M. I., Shorter, A. D., Friedman-Hill, S. R., Cave, K. R. (1990). Limitations on the parallel guidance of visual search: color x color and orientation x orientation conjunctions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 16(4), 879-892. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J.M., Cave, K. R., Franzel, S.L. (1989). Guided Search: An Alternative to the Feature Integration Model for Visual Search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 15(3), 419-433. [PDF]
      • Wolfe, J. M. An Introduction to Contrast Sensitivity Testing. In: Nadler P, Miller D, and Nadler P, (1989) editors. Glare and Contrast Sensitivity for Clinicians. New York: Springer Verlag; p. 5-23. [PDF]
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