Interests: Mechanisms of visual selection and attentional prioritisation in particular, visual search, visual marking, subitization, motion processing, inhibition of return and attentional capture by abrupt onsets. Road safety, driver perfromance and driving simulation. Personal Homepage Contact Details

Representative Publications:

• Kunar, M.A. & Watson, D.G. (in press). When are abrupt onsets found efficiently in complex visual search? Evidence from MAD search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance

• Wright, D.S., Wade, K.A., & Watson, D.G. (in press). Delay and Déjà Vu: Timing and Repetition Increase the Power of False Evidence. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
• von Mühlenen, A., Watson, D.G., & Gunnell, D. (in press). Blink and you won’t miss it: The preview benefit in visual marking survives internally generated eye blinks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance
• Watson, D.G., & Blagrove, E. (2012). Tagging multiple emotional stimuli: Negative valence has little benefit. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 38, 785-803.
• Watson, D.G., & Kunar, M.A. (2012). Determining the capacity of time-based selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 38, 350-366.
• Watson, D.G., Compton, S., & Bailey, H. (2011). Visual Marking: The influence of temporary changes on time-based visual selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 37, 1729-1738.
• Maylor, E.A., Watson, D.G., & Hartley, E.L. (2011). Effects of distraction on visual enumeration in children and adults. Developmental Psychology, 47, 1440-1447.
• Watson, D.G., Blagrove, E., & Selwood, S. (2011). Emotional triangles: A test of emotion-based attentional capture by simple geometric shapes. Cognition & Emotion, 25, 1149-1164.Blagrove, E. & Watson, D.G. (2010). Visual marking and facial affect: Can an emotional face be ignored? Emotion, 10, 147-168. 

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Supervisor to:
Danni Norman
Katherine Jones