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Ruthruff, E. & Gaspelin, N. (in press). Immunity to attentional capture at ignored locations. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. 

Maquestiaux, F., Ruthruff, E., Defer, A., Ibrahime, S. (in press). Dual-Task Automatization: The Key Role of Sensory-Motor Modality Compatibility. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics.

Jung, K., Ruthruff, E., & Goldsmith, T. (2017). Document Similarity Misjudgment by LSA: Misses vs. False Positives. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society.

Ruthruff, E., & Lien, M.-C. (2017). Aging and Attention.  Encyclopedia of Gerontology. doi:10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_227-1. [pdf]

Keller, J., Ruthruff, E., Keller, P.S. (2017). Mindfulness and divergent thinking: The value of heart rate variability as an objective manipulation check. Universal Journal of Psychology, 5(3), 95-104. doi: 10.13189/ujp.2017.050301

Keller, J., Gaspelin, N., & Ruthruff, E. (2017) Your brain becomes a rainbow: Perceptions and traits of fourth graders in a school-based mindfulness intervention. Childhood Education, 31, 508-529.

Arexis, M., Maquestiaux, F., Gaspelin, N., Ruthruff, E., & Didierjean, A. (2016). Attentional Capture in Driving Displays. British Journal of Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12197

Gaspelin, N., Ruthruff, E., & Lien, M.-C. (2016). The Problem of Latent Attentional Capture: Easy Visual Search Conceals Capture by Task-Irrelevant Abrupt Onsets. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42, 1104-1120. [pdf] [http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000214

Johnston, J. C., Ruthruff, E., and Lien, M.-C. (2016). Visual information processing from multiple displays. Human Factors. [pdf]

Gaspelin, N., Margett-Jordan, T., & Ruthruff, E. (2015). Susceptible to distraction: Children lack top-down control over spatial attention capture.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21, 461-468.

Gaspelin, N., Ruthruff, E., & Jung, K. (2014). Slippage theory and the flanker paradigm: An early-selection account of selective attention failures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40, 1257-1273. [download color figures]

Noosen, B., Lien, M.-C., and Ruthruff, E. (2014).  An electrophysiological study of attention capture by salience: Does rarity enable capture? Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 3, 346-371.

Lien, M.-C., Taylor, R.; Ruthruff, E. (2014). Capture by fear revisited: An electrophysiological investigation. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 25, 873-888.

Lien, M.C.; Ruthruff, E.; Naylor, J. (2014). Attention capture while switching search strategies: Evidence for a breakdown in top-down attentional Control, Visual Cognition, 22, 1105-1133.

Allen, P. A., Lien, M.-C., Ruthruff, E. & Voss, A. (2014). Multi-tasking and aging: Do older adults benefit from performing a highly practiced task? Experimental Aging Research, 40, 280-307.

Didierjean, A., Maquestiaux, F., Vieillard, S., Ruthruff, E., & Hartley, A. A. (2014). Sexual distractors boost younger and older adults' visual search RSVP Performance. British Journal of Psychology, 105,162-172.

Jung, K., Ruthruff, E., & Gaspelin, N. (2013). Automatic identification of familiar faces.  Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 7, 438-1450.

Maquestiaux, F., Didierjean, A., Ruthruff, E., Chauvel, G., & Hartley, A. A. (2013).  Lost ability to automatize task performance in old age.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20, 1206-1212.

Maquestiaux, F., Ruthruff, E., Didierjean, A., & Hartley, A. A. (2013). Novice motor performance: Better not verbalize. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 201, 177-183.

Gaspelin, N., Ruthruff, E., & Pashler, H. (2013). Divided attention: An undesirable difficulty in memory retention. Memory & Cognition, 41, 978-988. [pdf]

Gaspelin, N., Ruthruff, E., Lien, M.-C., & Jung, K. (2012). Breaking through the attentional window: Capture by abrupt onsets versus color singletons. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 74, 1461-1474. [download color figures] [pdf]

Gaspelin, N., Ruthruff, E., Jung, K., Cosman, J. D., & Vecera, S. P. (2012). Does low perceptual load enable capture by color singletons? Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 24, 735-750. [pdf]

Jung, K., Ruthruff, E., Tybur, J., Gaspelin, N., & Miller, G. (2012). Perception of facial attractiveness requires some attentional resources: Implications for the “automaticity” of psychological adaptations.  Evolution and Human Behavior, 33, 241-250.

Allen, P. A., Lien, M.-C., & Ruthruff, E. (2011).  Cognition and emotion: Neuroscience and behavioural perspectives.  Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23, 667-668.

Shaw, K., Lien, M. C., Ruthruff, E., & Allen, P. A. (2011). Electrophysiological Evidence of Emotion Perception without Central Attention. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23, 695-708.

Allen, P. A., Kaut, K., Baena, E., Lien, M. C., & Ruthruff, E. (2011). Individual differences in positive affect moderate age-related declines in episodic long-term Memory. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23, 768-779.

Green, C., Johnston, J. C., & Ruthruff, E. (2011). Attentional limits in memory retrieval – revisited. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37, 1083-1098.

Lien, M.-C., Gemperle, A., & Ruthruff, E. (2011). Aging and Involuntary Attention Capture: Electrophysiological Evidence for Preserved Attentional Control with Advanced Age. Psychology and Aging, 26, 188-202.

Ruthruff, E., & Pashler, H. (2010). Mental timing and the central attentional bottleneck. In A. C. Nobre & J. T. Coull (Eds.) Attention and Time (pp. 123-135). Oxford University Press.

Lien, M.-C., Ruthruff, E., & Johnston, J. C. (2010).  Attention capture with rapidly changing attentional control settings.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36, 1-16.

Lien, M.-C., Ruthruff, E., Kouchi, S., & Lachter, J. (2010). Elevating Baseline Activation does not Facilitate Reading of Unattended Words.  Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 72, 973-988.

Maquestiaux, F., Laguë-Beauvais, M., Ruthruff, E., Hartley, A., & Bherer, L. (2010). Learning to bypass the central bottleneck: Declining automaticity with advancing age. Psychology and Aging, 25, 177-192.

Lien, M.-C., Ruthruff, E., & Cornett, L. (2010). Attentional capture by singletons is contingent on top-down control settings: Evidence from electrophysiological measures.  Visual Cognition, 18, 682-727.

Lachter, J., Remington, R. W., & Ruthruff, E. (2009). The nature of dimensional selection. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 71, 995-1014.

Tomasik, D., Ruthruff, E., Allen, P. A., & Lien, M.-C. (2009). Non-automatic emotion perception in a dual-task situation.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 282-288.

Ruthruff, E., Johnston, J. C., & Remington, R. W. (2009). How strategic is the central bottleneck: Can it be overcome by trying harder? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 1368-1384.

Allen, P. A., Ruthruff, E., Elicker, J. D., & Lien, M.-C. (2009). Multi-session, dual-task PRP practice benefits older and younger adults equally. Experimental Aging Research, 35, 369-399.

Lien, M.-C., Ruthruff, E. (2008). Inhibition of task set: Converging evidence from task choice in the voluntary task-switching paradigm. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 950-955. [pdf]

Lachter, J., Ruthruff, E., Lien, M.-C., & McCann, R. S. (2008).  Is attention needed for object identification? Evidence from the Stroop paradigm. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15, 1110-1116. [pdf]

Maquestiaux, F., Laguë-Beauvais, M., Ruthruff, E., & Bherer, L. (2008) Bypassing the central bottleneck after single-task practice in the psychological refractory period paradigm: Evidence for task automatization and greedy resource recruitment. Memory & Cognition, 36, 1262-1282. [pdf]

Lien, M.-C., Ruthruff, E., Cornett, L., Goodin, Z., & Allen, P. A. (2008). On the non-automaticity of visual word processing: Electrophysiological evidence that word processing requires central attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 751-773.

Lien, M.-C., Ruthruff, E., & Kuhns, D. (2008). Age-related differences in switching between cognitive tasks: Does internal control ability decline with age? Psychology and Aging, 23, 330-341.  [pdf]

Lien, M.-C., Ruthruff, E., Goodin, Z., & Remington, R. W. (2008). Contingent attentional capture by top-down control settings: Converging evidence from event-related potentials.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 509-530. [pdf]

Ruthruff, E., Allen, P. A., Lien, M.-C., & Grabbe, J. (2008). Visual word recognition without central attention: Evidence for greater automaticity with greater reading ability. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 337-343. [pdf]

Kuhns, D., Lien, M.-C., & Ruthruff, E. (2007). Proactive versus reactive task-set inhibition in task switching: Evidence from flanker compatibility effects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 977-983.

Lien, M.-C., Ruthruff, E., Hsieh, S.-L., & Yu, Y.-T. (2007).  Parallel central processing between tasks: Evidence from lateralized readiness potentials. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 133-141.

Green, C., Johnston, J. C., & Ruthruff, E. (2007). Recognition of pictures may not require central attentional resources.  Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society.

Allen, P. A., Ruthruff, E, & Lien, M.-C. (2007). Attention. In J. Birren (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Gerontology.

Lien, M.-C., Allen, P. A., Ruthruff, E., Grabbe, J., McCann, R. S., & Remington, R. W. (2006).  Visual word recognition without central attention: Evidence for greater automaticity with advancing age.  Psychology and Aging, 21, 431-447.

Hazeltine, E., & Ruthruff, E. (2006). Modality pairing effects and the response selection bottleneck. Psychological Research, 70, 504-513.

Ruthruff, E., Hazeltine, E., & Remington, R. W. (2006). What causes residual dual-task cost after practice? Psychological Research, 70, 494-503.

Hazeltine, E., Ruthruff, E., & Remington, R. W. (2006). The role of input and output modality pairings in dual-task performance: Evidence for content-dependent central interference. Cognitive Psychology, 52, 291-345. [pdf]

Lien, M.-C., Ruthruff, E., & Johnston, J. C. (2006). Attentional limitations in doing two things at once: The search for exceptions.  Current Directions in Psychological Science. [pdf]

Lien, M., Ruthruff, E., & Kuhns, D. (2006). On the difficulty of task switching: Assessing the role of task-set inhibition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 53-535. [pdf]

Ruthruff, E., Van Selst, M., Johnston, J. C., & Remington, R. W. (2006). How does practice reduce dual-task interference: Integration, automatization, or simply stage-shortening? Psychological Research, 70, 125-142. [pdf]

Bucur, B., Allen, P. A., Sanders, R. E., Ruthruff, E., & Murphy, M. (2005). Redundancy Gain and Coactivation in Bimodal Detection: Evidence for the Preservation of Coactive Processing in Older Adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 60, 279-282.

Lien, M.-C., Ruthruff, E., Remington, R. W., & Johnston, J. C. (2005). On the limits of advance preparation for a task switch: Do people prepare all the task some of the time or some of the task all the time? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 299-315. [pdf]

Lien, M.-C., McCann, R. E., Ruthruff, E., & Proctor, R. W. (2005). Confirming and disconfirming theories about ideomotor compatibility in dual-task performance: Reply to Greenwald (2005). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 226-229. [pdf]

Lien, M.-C., McCann, R. E., Ruthruff, E., & Proctor, R. W. (2005).  Dual-task performance with ideomotor-compatible tasks: Is the central processing bottleneck intact, bypassed, or shifted in locus? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 122-144. [pdf]

Lachter, J., Forster, K. I., & Ruthruff, E. (2004). Forty years after Broadbent: Still no identification without attention. Psychological Review, 111, 880-913. [pdf]

Lien, M.-C., & Ruthruff, E. (2004). Task switching in a hierarchical task structure: Evidence for the fragility of the task repetition benefit. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 30, 697-713. [pdf]

Lien, M.-C., Proctor, R. W., & Ruthruff, E. (2003).  Still no evidence for perfect timesharing with two ideomotor compatible tasks: An observation on Greenwald (2003).  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29, 1267-1272. [pdf]

Ruthruff, E., Pashler, H., & Hazeltine, E. (2003). Dual-Task Interference with Equal Task Emphasis: Graded Capacity-Sharing or Central Postponement? Perception and Psychophysics, 65, 801-816. [pdf]

Ruthruff, E., Johnston, J. C., Van Selst, M. V., Whitsell, S., & Remington, R. (2003). Vanishing dual-task interference after practice: Has the bottleneck been eliminated or is it merely latent? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29, 280-289. [pdf]

Johnston, J. C., Hochhaus, L., & Ruthruff, E. (2002). Repetition blindness has a perceptual locus: Evidence from online processing of targets in RSVP streams. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 477-489. [pdf]

Pashler, H., Johnston, J. C., & Ruthruff, E. (2001). Attention and performance.  Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 629-651. [pdf]

Ruthruff, E., Remington, R. W., & Johnston, J. C. (2001). Switching between simple cognitive tasks:  The interaction between top-down and bottom-up factors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 1404-1419. [pdf]

Ruthruff, E., Pashler, H., & Klaassen, A. (2001). Processing bottlenecks in dual-task performance: Structural limitation or voluntary postponement?  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 8, 73-80. [pdf]

Ruthruff, E., Johnston, J. C., & Van Selst, M. V. (2001). Why practice reduces dual-task interference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 3-21. [pdf]

Ruthruff, E., & Pashler, H. (2001). Central and peripheral interference in RSVP displays. In K. Shapiro (Ed.), The Limits of Attention: Temporal Constraints on Human Information Processing, 100-123. Oxford University Press. [pdf]

Remington, R. W., Johnston, J. C., Ruthruff, E., Romera, M., & Gold, M. (2000). Visual search in complex displays: Factors affecting conflict detection by air traffic controllers. Human Factors, 42, 349-366.

Van Selst, M. V., Ruthruff, E., & Johnston, J. C. (1999). Can practice eliminate the Psychological Refractory Period effect? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 1268-1283. [pdf]

Johnston, J. C., Ruthruff, E., & Monheit, M. (1997). Dependence by any other name smells just as sweet:  Reply to van der Velde and van der HeijdenJournal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23, 1813-1818. [pdf]

Ruthruff, E. (1996). A test of the Deadline model for speed-accuracy tradeoffs. Perception & Psychophysics, 58, 56-64. [pdf]

Ruthruff, E., & Miller, J. O. (1995). Negative priming depends on ease of selection. Perception & Psychophysics, 57, 715-723.

Ruthruff, E., & Miller, J. O. (1995). Can mental rotation begin before perception finishes? Memory & Cognition, 23, 408-424.

Ruthruff, E., Miller, J. O., & Lachmann, T. (1995). Does mental rotation require central mechanisms? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 21, 552-570. [pdf]

Loftus, G. L., & Ruthruff, E. (1994). A theory of visual information acquisition and visual memory with special application to intensity-duration tradeoffs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 20, 33-49. [pdf]

Loftus, G. L., Kaufman, L., Nishimoto, T., & Ruthruff, E. (1992). Why it's annoying to look at slides with the room lights still on: Effects of visual degradation on perceptual processing and long-term visual memory. In K. Raynor (Ed.) Eye Movements and Visual Cognition: Scene Perception and Reading. New York: Springer-Verlag.