Qualifications and awards

• 1990 - BSc Psychology (1st Class)
• 1991 - MSc Cognitive Science (Distinction)
• 1995 - PhD Psychology
• 1999 - British Psychological Society Cognitive Psychology Award
• 2007 - DSc

Publications

(for copies please email: d.g.watson@warwick.ac.uk)

Allcoat, Devon, Hatchard, Tim, Azmat, Freeha, Stansfield, Kim, Watson, Derrick G. and von Mühlenen, Adrian (2021) Education in the digital age : learning experience in virtual and mixed realities. Journal of Educational Computing Research . doi:10.1177/0735633120985120 (In Press)

Hodson, Luke, MacCallum, Fiona, Watson, Derrick G. and Blagrove, Elisabeth (2021) Dear diary : evaluating a goal-oriented intervention linked with increased hope and cognitive flexibility. Personality and Individual Differences, 168 . 110383. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2020.110383

Kunar, Melina A., Watson, Derrick G. and Taylor-Phillips, Sian (2020) Double reading reduces miss errors in low prevalence search. Journal of Experimental Psychology : Applied . doi:10.1037/xap0000335 (In Press)

Norman, Danielle, Gunnell, Daniel, Mrowiec, Aleksandra and Watson, Derrick G. (2020) Seen this scene? Scene recognition in the reaction-time concealed information test. Memory and Cognition . doi:10.3758/s13421-020-01063-z (In Press)

O'Shea, Brian A., Watson, Derrick G. , Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.) and Fincher, Corey L. (2020) Infectious disease prevalence, not race exposure, predicts implicit and explicit racial prejudice across the USA. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11 (3). pp. 345-355. doi:10.1177/1948550619862319

Norman, Danielle, Wade, Kimberley A., Williams, Mark A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2020) Caught virtually lying – crime scenes in virtual reality help to expose suspects' concealed recognition. Journal of Applied Memory and Cognition, 9 (1). pp. 118-127. doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2019.12.008

Braithwaite, Jason J., Watson, Derrick G. and Dewe, Hayley (2020) The Body-Threat Assessment Battery (BTAB) : a new instrument for the quantification of threat-related autonomic affective responses induced via dynamic movie clips. International Journal of Psychophysiology . doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.04.018 (In Press)

Zupan, Zorana and Watson, Derrick G. (2020) Perceptual grouping constrains inhibition in time-based visual selection. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics . doi:10.3758/s13414-019-01892-4

Suma, Rossella, Debattista, Kurt, Watson, Derrick G., Blagrove, Elisabeth and Chalmers, Alan (2019) Subjective evaluation of high dynamic range imaging for face matching. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing . doi:10.1109/TETC.2019.2958738 (In Press)

Nightingale, Sophie J., Wade, Kimberley A., Farid, Hany and Watson, Derrick G. (2019) Can people detect errors in shadows and reflections? Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 81 . pp. 2917-2943. doi:10.3758/s13414-019-01773-w

Ritchie, Owain T., Watson, Derrick G. , Griffiths, Nathan, Misyak, Jennifer B., Chater, Nick, Xu, Zhou and Mouzakitis, Alexandros (2019) How should autonomous vehicles overtake other drivers? Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour, 66 . pp. 406-418. doi:10.1016/j.trf.2019.09.016

Schmidtke, Kelly, Watson, Derrick G. , Roberts, Pendaran and Vlaev , Ivo (2019) Menu positions influence soft drink selection at touchscreen kiosks. Psychology & Marketing, 36 (10). pp. 964-970. doi:10.1002/mar.21248

Gunnell, Daniel, Kunar, Melina A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2019) Having a phone conversation delays but does not disrupt cognitive mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Psychology : Applied, 26 (2). pp. 199-217. doi:10.1037/xap0000239

Gunnell, Daniel, Kunar, Melina A., Norman, Danielle and Watson, Derrick G. (2019) The hazards of perception : evaluating a change blindness demonstration within a real-world driver education course. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4 . 15. doi:10.1186/s41235-019-0165-4

Chater, Nick, Misyak, Jennifer, Ritchie, Owain, Watson, Derrick G., Griffiths, Nathan, Xu, Zhou and Mouzakitis, Alex (2019) Sensorimotor communication beyond the body: The case of driving. Comment on “The body talks: sensorimotor communication and its brain and kinematic signatures” by G. Pezzulo et al. Physics of Life Reviews, 28 . pp. 31-33. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2019.01.013

Roberts, Katherine L., Doherty, Nicola J., Maylor, Elizabeth A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2019) Can auditory objects be subitized? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45 (1). pp. 1-15. doi:10.1037/xhp0000578

Zupan, Zorana, Blagrove, Elisabeth and Watson, Derrick G. (2018) Learning to ignore : the development of time-based visual attention in children. Developmental Psychology, 54 (12). pp. 2248-2264. doi:10.1037/dev0000582

Norman, D. G., Baier, W., Watson, Derrick G., Burnett, B., Painter, M. and Williams, M. A. (2018) Micro-CT for saw mark analysis on human bone. Forensic Science International, 293 . pp. 91-100. doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.10.027

Dewe, Hayley, Watson, Derrick G., Kessler, Klaus and Braithwaite, Jason J. (2018) The depersonalized brain : new evidence supporting a distinction between depersonalization and derealization from discrete patterns of autonomic suppression observed in a non-clinical sample. Consciousness and Cognition, 63 . pp. 29-46. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2018.06.008

Robertson, David J., Mungall, Andrew, Watson, Derrick G., Wade, Kimberley A. , Nightingale, Sophie J. and Butler, Stephen (2018) Detecting morphed passport photos : a training and individual differences approach. Cognitive Research : Principles and Implications, 3 . 27. doi:10.1186/s41235-018-0113-8

Chater, Nick, Misyak, Jennifer B., Watson, Derrick G., Griffiths, Nathan and Mouzakitis, Alexandros (2018) Negotiating the traffic : can cognitive science help make autonomous vehicles a reality? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22 (2). pp. 93-95. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2017.11.008

Norman, D. G., Watson, Derrick G., Burnett, B., Fenne, P. M. and Williams, M. A. (2018) The cutting edge - Micro-CT for quantitative toolmark analysis of sharp force trauma to bone. Forensic Science International, 283 . pp. 156-172. doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.12.039

Kunar, Melina A., Watson, Derrick G., Taylor-Phillips, Sian and Wolska, Julia (2017) Low prevalence search for cancers in mammograms : evidence using laboratory experiments and computer aided detection. Journal of Experimental Psychology : Applied, 23 (4). pp. 369-385. doi:10.1037/xap0000132

Kunar, Melina A., Watson, Derrick G., Tsetsos, Konstantinos and Chater, Nick (2017) The influence of attention on value integration. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 79 (6). pp. 1615-1627. doi:10.3758/s13414-017-1340-7

Inglis, Matthew, Batchelor, Sophie, Gilmore, Camilla and Watson, Derrick G. (2017) Is the ANS linked to mathematics performance? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40 . e174. doi:10.1017/S0140525X16002120

Nightingale, Sophie J., Wade, Kimberley A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2017) Can people identify original and manipulated photos of real-world scenes? Cognitive Research : Principles and Implications, 2 . 30. doi:10.1186/s41235-017-0067-2

Schlaghecken, Friederike, Blagrove, Elisabeth, Mantantzis, Konstantinos, Maylor, Elizabeth A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2017) Look on the bright side : positivity bias modulates interference effects in the Simon Task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146 (6). pp. 763-770. doi:10.1037/xge0000316

Braithwaite , Jason J., Watson, Derrick G. and Dewe , Hayley (2017) Predisposition to out-of-body experience (OBE) is associated with aberrations in multisensory integration : psychophysiological support from a “Rubber-hand Illusion” Study. Journal of Experimental Psychology : Human Perception and Performance, 43 (6). pp. 1125-1143. doi:10.1037/xhp0000406

Watson, Derrick G. (2017) Where the item still rules supreme : time-based selection, enumeration, pre-attentive processing and the target template? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40 . e160. doi:10.1017/S0140525X16000297

Kunar, Melina A., Thomas, Sally V. and Watson, Derrick G. (2017) Time-based selection in complex displays : visual marking does not occur in multi-element asynchronous dynamic (MAD) search. Visual Cognition, 25 (1-3). pp. 215-224. doi:10.1080/13506285.2017.1306006

Dewe, Hayley, Watson, Derrick G. and Braithwaite, Jason J. (2016) Uncomfortably numb : new evidence for suppressed emotional reactivity in response to body-threats in those predisposed to sub-clinical dissociative experiences. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 21 (5). pp. 377-401. doi:10.1080/13546805.2016.1212703

Norman, D. G., Gunnell, Daniel, Wade, K., Williams, M. A. (Mark A.) and Watson, Derrick G. (2016) Assessing the concealed information test : countermeasures, stimuli, group and measures. In: European Association of Psychology and Law, Toulouse, France, 05-08 Jul 2016 (Unpublished)

Bellaera, L., von Mühlenen, A., & Watson, D.G. (2014). When being narrow minded is a good thing: Locally biased people show stronger contextual cuing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67, 1242–1248. (this paper was featured in the APA Observer: www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/editors/the-perks-of-being-detail-oriented.html)

Schmidtke, Kelly, Watson, Derrick G. and Vlaev, Ivo (2016) The use of control charts by lay-people and hospital decision-makers for guiding decision making. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70 (7). pp. 1114-1128. doi:10.1080/17470218.2016.1172096

Kunar, Melina A., Watson, Derrick G. and Taylor-Phillips, Sian (2016) The low prevalence effect in mammograms : computer aided detection both benefits and impairs visual search for cancers. In: Experimental Psychology Society (EPS), Durham, 6-8 Apr 2016

Zupan, Zorana, Watson, Derrick G. and Blagrove, Elisabeth (2015) Inhibition in time-based visual selection : strategic or by default? Journal of Experimental Psychology : Human Perception and Performance, 41 (5). pp. 1442-1461. 10.1037/a0039499. doi:10.1037/a0039499

Norman, D. G., Gunnell, Daniel, Wade, K. and Watson, Derrick G. (2015) Have you seen this scene? A concealed information task for scene recognition. In: Decepticon: International Conference on Deceptive Behaviour, Cambridge, UK, 24-26 August 2015 (Unpublished)

Kunar, Melina A., Yu, Miao, Tsetsos, Konstantinos, Chater, Nick and Watson, Derrick G. (2015) Attention! Now that I’ve got your attention let me sway your judgement : irrelevant, salient stimuli and extreme outliers affect decisions on value. In: European Conference on Visual Perception, Liverpool, 23-27 Aug 2015

Jones, Katie, Watson, Derrick G. and Kunar, Melina A. (2015) I know what you’re doing! Awareness of other people’s intentions interfere with cognitive task performance. In: European Conference on Visual Perception, Liverpool, 23-27 Aug 2015

Braithwaite, Jason J., Marchant, Rachel, Takahashi, Chie, Dewe, Hayley and Watson, Derrick G. (2015) The Cortical Hyperexcitability Index (CHi) : a new measure for quantifying correlates of visually driven cortical hyperexcitability. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 20 (4). doi:10.1080/13546805.2015.1040152

O'Shea, Brian, Watson, Derrick G. and Brown, G. D. A. (2015) Measuring implicit attitudes : a positive framing bias flaw in the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP). Psychological Assessment . doi:10.1037/pas0000172 (In Press)

Blagrove, Elisabeth and Watson, Derrick G. (2014) Ignoring real faces : effects of valence, threat, and salience. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Volume 76 (Number 3). pp. 725-745. doi:10.3758/s13414-013-0572-4

Kunar, Melina A., Watson, Derrick G. , Cole, Louise (Researcher in Psychology) and Cox, Angeline (2014) Negative emotional stimuli reduce contextual cueing but not response times in inefficient search. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 67 (Number 2). pp. 377-393. doi:10.1080/17470218.2013.815236

Kunar, Melina A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2014) When are abrupt onsets found efficiently in complex visual search? : evidence from multi-element asynchronous dynamic search. Journal of Experimental Psychology : Human Perception and Performance, Volume 40 (Number 1). pp. 232-252. doi:10.1037/a0033544

Braithwaite, Jason J., Broglia, Emma and Watson, Derrick G. (2014) Autonomic emotional responses to the induction of the rubber-hand illusion in those that report anomalous bodily experiences : evidence for specific psychophysiological components associated with illusory body representations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Volume 40 (Number 3). pp. 1131-1145. doi:10.1037/a0036077

Bellaera, Lauren, von Mühlenen, Adrian and Watson, Derrick G. (2014) When being narrow minded is a good thing : locally biased people show stronger contextual cueing. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 67 (Number 6). pp. 1242-1248. doi:10.1080/17470218.2013.858171

von Mühlenen, Adrian, Watson, Derrick G. and Gunnell, Daniel (2013) Blink and you won't miss it : the preview benefit in visual marking survives internally generated eyeblinks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Volume 39 (Number 5). pp. 1279-1290. doi:10.1037/a0031537

Wright, Deborah S., Wade, Kimberley A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2013) Delay and déjà vu : timing and repetition increase the power of false evidence. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review , Volume 20 (Number 4). pp. 812-818. doi:10.3758/s13423-013-0398-z

Norman, D. G. and Watson, Derrick G. (2013) Determining, measuring and testing quantitative signatures of deceptive behaviour. In: British Conference of Undergraduate Research 2013, Plymouth, April 2013 (Unpublished)

Kunar, Melina A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2013) Can blinking items ever capture attention in MAD search? In: 13th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida, 10-15 May 2013 (Unpublished)

von Mühlenen, Adrian, Watson, Derrick G. and Gunnell, Daniel (2013) The effect of internally generated eye blinks on the preview benefit in visual marking. In: ECEM 2013 17th European Conference on Eye Movements, Lund, Sweden, 11-16 Aug 2013. Published in: Journal of Eye Movement Research p. 91.

Watson, Derrick G. , Blagrove, Elisabeth, Evans, Chesney and Moore, Lucy (2012) Negative triangles : simple geometric shapes convey emotional valence. Emotion, Vol.12 (No.1). pp. 18-22. doi:10.1037/a0024495

Watson, Derrick G. and Kunar, Melina A. (2012) Determining the capacity of time-based selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol.38 (No.2). pp. 350-366. doi:10.1037/a0025794

Watson, Derrick G. and Blagrove, Elisabeth (2012) Tagging multiple emotional stimuli : negative valence has little benefit. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol.38 (No.3). pp. 785-803. doi:10.1037/a0026730

Kunar, Melina A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2011) Visual search in a multi-element asynchronous dynamic (MAD) world. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol.37 (No.4). pp. 1017-1031. doi:10.1037/a0023093

Andrews, Lucy S., Watson, Derrick G. , Humphreys, Glyn W. and Braithwaite, Jason J. (2011) Flexible feature-based inhibition in visual search mediates magnified impairments of selection : evidence from carry-over effects under dynamic preview-search conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol.37 (No.4). pp. 1007-1016. doi:10.1037/a0023505

Wright, D. S., Wade, Kimberley A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2011) Does timing moderate the effect of false evidence on false confessions? In: 9th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, New York, 27-29 Jun 2011

Maylor, Elizabeth A. , Watson, Derrick G. and Hartley, Emma L. (2011) Effects of distraction on visual enumeration in children and adults. Developmental Psychology, Vol.47 (No.5). pp. 1440-1447. doi:10.1037/a0024464

Watson, Derrick G. , Blagrove, Elisabeth and Selwood, Sally (2011) Emotional triangles : a test of emotion-based attentional capture by simple geometric shapes. Cognition & Emotion, Vol.25 (No.7). pp. 1149-1164. doi:10.1080/02699931.2010.525861

Kunar, Melina A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2011) It’s still MAD : why don’t luminance onsets capture attention? In: 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, USA, 3-6 Nov 2011 (Unpublished)

Watson, Derrick G. , Compton, Suzannah and Bailey, Hannah (2011) Visual marking : the influence of temporary changes on time-based visual selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol.37 (No.6). pp. 1729-1738. doi:10.1037/a0023097

Watson, Derrick G. and Kunar, Melina A. (2010) Visual marking and change blindness : moving occluders and transient masks neutralize shape changes to ignored objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol.36 (No.6). pp. 1391-1405. doi:10.1037/a0020565

Braithwaite, Jason J., Watson, Derrick G. , Andrews, Lucy and Humphreys, Glyn W. (2010) Visual search at isoluminance : evidence for enhanced color weighting in standard sub-set and preview-based visual search. Vision Research, Vol.50 (No.14). pp. 1414-1425. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2010.01.013

Kunar, Melina A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2010) It's a MAD visual world : how do we search it? In: 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida, USA., 7-12 May 2010

Blagrove, Elisabeth and Watson, Derrick G. (2010) Visual marking and facial affect : can an emotional face be ignored? Emotion, Volume 10 (Number 2). pp. 147-168. doi:10.1037/a0017743

Blagrove, Elisabeth and Watson, Derrick G. (2010) The effect of non-emotional facial changes on time-based selection. In: 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida, USA., 7-12 May 2010

Blagrove, Elisabeth and Watson, Derrick G. (2010) The effects of threat salience in visual marking of emotional faces. In: 51st annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St Louis, Missouri, USA., 18-21 Nov 2010

Oliver, Caroline J., Watson, Derrick G. , Gannon, Theresa A. and Beech, Anthony R. (2009) The effect of sexual priming cues on emotional recognition in nonviolent child sexual abusers a preliminary study. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol.53 (No.3). pp. 292-304. doi:10.1177/0306624X08317214

Tan, Hannah K., Jones, G. V. (Gregory V.) and Watson, Derrick G. (2009) Encouraging the perceptual underdog: positive affective priming of nonpreferred local–global processes. Emotion, Vol.9 (No.2). pp. 238-247. doi:10.1037/a0014713

Maylor, Elizabeth A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2009) Ageing and the ability to ignore irrelevant information in visual search and enumeration tasks. In: Ballesteros Jiménez, Soledad and Goran-Nilsson, Lars and Lemaire, Patrick, (eds.) Ageing, cognition, and neuroscience. Hove : Psychology Press, pp. 35-38. ISBN 9781848727076

Blagrove, Elisabeth and Watson, Derrick G. (2009) Visual marking : can we ignore realistic emotionally valenced faces? Yes, we can. In: 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 19-22 Nov 2009

Blagrove, Elisabeth and Watson, Derrick G. (2009) Visual marking : the effect of emotional change on time-based visual selection. In: 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, USA, 8-14 May 2009

Kunar, Melina A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2009) When the world goes MAD : visual search with complex displays. In: 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 19-22 Nov 2009

Watson, Derrick G. , Braithwaite, Jason J. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (2008) Resisting change : the influence of luminance changes on visual marking and the preview benefit. Perception & Psychophysics, Vol.70 (No.8). pp. 1526-1539. doi:10.3758/PP.70.8.1526

Belke, Eva, Humphreys, Glyn W., Watson, Derrick G. , Meyer, Antje and Telling, Anna L. (2008) Top-down effects of semantic knowledge in visual search are modulated by cognitive but not perceptual load. Perception & Psychophysics, Vol.70 (No.8). pp. 1444-1458. doi:10.3758/PP.70.8.1444

Maylor, Elizabeth A. , Sheehan, Bart, Watson, Derrick G. and Henderson, Emma L. (2008) Enumeration in Alzheimer's disease and other late life psychiatric syndromes. Neuropsychologia , Vol.46 (No.11). 2696 -2708. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.05.002

Watson, Derrick G. (2008) 4±1 things we didn’t know about visual enumeration. In: Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, 26-27 Jun 2008

Olivers, Christian N. L. and Watson, Derrick G. (2008) Subitizing requires attention. Visual Cognition, Vol.16 (No.4). pp. 439-462. doi:10.1080/13506280701825861

Blagrove, Elisabeth and Watson, Derrick G. (2008) Visual marking : the time course of ignoring emotionally valenced faces. In: 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, USA, 13-16 Nov 2008

Blagrove, Elisabeth and Watson, Derrick G. (2008) Visual marking of emotionally valenced face stimuli. In: Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, 26-27 Jun 2008

Andrews, Lucy S., Braithwaite, Jason J., Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (2008) An increased role of feature-based inhibition in failures of awareness under dynamic search conditions. In: Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, 26-27 Jun 2008

Watson, Derrick G. , Maylor, Elizabeth A. and Bruce, Lucy A. M. (2007) The role of eye movements in subitizing and counting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol.33 (No.6). pp. 1389-1399. doi:10.1037/0096-1523.33.6.1389

Sheehan, Bart, Maylor, Elizabeth A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2007) Enumeration in Alzheimer’s disease and other late life psychiatric syndromes. In: International Psychogeriatric Association 13th Congress, Osaka, Japan, 14-18 Oct 2007 doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.05.002

Watson, Derrick G. and Inglis, Matthew (2007) Eye movements and time-based selection: where do the eyes go in preview search? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Vol.14 (No.5). pp. 852-857. doi:10.3758/BF03194111

Watson, Derrick G., Maylor, Elizabeth A., Allen, Gareth E. J. and Bruce, Lucy A. M. (2007) Early visual tagging : effects of target-distractor similarity and old age on search, subitization, and counting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol.33 (No.3). pp. 549-569. doi:10.1037/0096-1523.33.3.549

Braithwaite, Jason J., Humphreys, Glyn W., Hulleman, Johan and Watson, Derrick G. (2007) Fast color grouping and slow color inhibition : evidence for distinct temporal windows for separate processes in preview search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol.33 (No.3). pp. 503-517. doi:10.1037/0096-1523.33.3.503

Inglis, Matthew, Watson, Derrick G. and Simpson, Adrian (2007) Studying advanced mathematics is correlated with analytical reasoning on the Wason Selection Task. In: 12th Biennial Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction: Developing Potentials for Learning , Budapest, Hungary, 28 Aug - 01 Sep 2007. Published in: Proceedings of the 12th Biennial Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction: Developing Potentials for Learning p. 132.

Blagrove, Elisabeth and Watson, Derrick G. (2007) Visual marking of emotionally valenced face stimuli. In: 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, California, 15-18 Nov 2007

Olivers, Christian N. L. and Watson, Derrick G. (2006) Input control processes in rapid serial visual presentations : target selection and distractor inhibition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol.32 (No.5). pp. 1083-1092. doi:10.1037/0096-1523.32.5.1083

Watson, Derrick G. and Maylor, Elizabeth A. (2006) Effects of color heterogeneity on subitization. Perception & Psychophysics, Vol.68 (No.2). pp. 319-326. doi:10.3758/BF03193679

Braithwaite, Jason J., Hulleman, Johan, Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (2006) Is it impossible to inhibit isoluminant items, or does it simply take longer? Evidence from preview search. Perception and Psychophysics, Vol.68 (No.2). pp. 290-300. doi:10.3758/BF03193676

Inglis, Matthew, Simpson, Adrian and Watson, Derrick G. (2006) Dual processes in mathematical reasoning. In: 30th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-21 Jul 2006

Inglis, Matthew, Simpson, Adrian and Watson, Derrick G. (2006) Group differences in the Wason selection task : mathematicians and eye-movements. In: Experimental Psychology Society, Birmingham., 10-12 Apr 2006

Watson, Derrick G. , Humphreys, Glyn W. and Braithwaite, Jason J. (2006) Time-based visual selection : effects of luminance changes to old objects. In: Experimental Psychology Society, Birmingham, 10-12 Apr 2006

Watson, Derrick G., Maylor, Elizabeth A. and Bruce, Lucy A. M. (2005) The efficiency of feature-based subitization and counting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol.31 (No.6). pp. 1449-1462. doi:10.1037/0096-1523.31.6.1449

Braithwaite, Jason J., Humphreys, Glyn W., Watson, Derrick G. and Hulleman, Johan (2005) Revisiting preview search at isoluminance : new onsets are not necessary for the preview advantage. Perception and Psychophysics, Vol.67 (No.7). pp. 1214-1228. doi:10.3758/BF03193554

Watson, Derrick G. , Maylor, Elizabeth A. and Bruce, Lucy A. M. (2005) Effects of age on searching for and enumerating targets that cannot be detected efficiently. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Section A: Human Experimental Psychology, Vol.58 (No.6). pp. 1119-1142. doi:10.1080/02724980443000511

Forti, Sara, Humphreys, Glyn W. and Watson, Derrick G. (2005) Eye movements in search in visual neglect. Visual Cognition, Vol.12 (No.6). pp. 1143-1160. doi:10.1080/13506280444000689

Hallings-Pott, Charlie, Waller, Glenn, Watson, Derrick G. and Scragg, Peter (2005) State dissociation in bulimic eating disorders : an experimental study. International Journal of Eating Disorders, Vol.38 (No.1). pp. 37-41. doi:10.1002/eat.20146

Watson, Derrick G., Maylor, Elizabeth A. and Bruce, Lucy A. M. (2005) Search, enumeration, and aging : eye movement requirements cause age-equivalent performance in enumeration but not in search tasks. Psychology and Aging, Vol.20 (No.2). pp. 226-240. doi:10.1037/0882-7974.20.2.226

Maylor, Elizabeth A., Watson, Derrick G. and Muller, Zoe (2005) Effects of Alzheimer's disease on visual enumeration. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, Vol.60 (No.3). P129-P135. doi:10.1093/geronb/60.3.P129

Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (2005) Visual marking : the effects of irrelevant changes on preview search. Perception and Psychophysics, Vol.67 (No.3). pp. 418-434. doi:10.3758/BF03193321

Maylor, Elizabeth A., Schlaghecken, Friederike and Watson, Derrick G. (2005) Aging and inhibitory processes in memory, attentional, and motor tasks. In: Engle, Randall W. and Sedek, Grzegorz and Hecker , Ulrich and McIntosh, Daniel N., (eds.) Cognitive limitations in aging and psychopathology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 313-345. ISBN 9780521834070

Maylor, Elizabeth A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2005) Aging and the ability to ignore irrelevant information in visual search and enumeration tasks. In: Duncan, John and McLeod, Peter and Phillips, Louise (Louise H.), (eds.) Measuring the mind : speed, control, and age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 59-87. ISBN 9780198566427

Humphreys, Glyn W., Braithwaite, Jason J., Olivers, Christian N. L. and Watson, Derrick G. (2005) Dynamic uses of memory in visual search over time and space. In: Ohta, Nobuo and MacLeod, Colin M. and Uttl, Bob, (eds.) Dynamic Cognitive Processes. New York: Springer New York LLC. ISBN 9784431274315

Belke, Eva, Humphreys, Glyn W., Watson, Derrick G. and Meyer, Antje (2005) Top-down influences of lexical-semantic knowledge on searching for objects : effects of perceptual and working memory load. In: XIV ESCOP Conference, Leiden, Netherlands, 31 Aug - 3 Sep 2005. Published in: Proceedings of the XIV ESCOP Conference p. 49.

Mountford, V., Waller, Glenn, Watson, Derrick G. and Scragg, Peter (2004) An experimental analysis of the role of schema compensation in anorexia nervosa. Eating Behaviors, Vol.5 (No.3). pp. 223-230. doi:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2004.01.012

Humphreys, Glyn W., Kyllingsbæk, S., Watson, Derrick G. , Olivers, Christian N. L., Law, Ian and Paulson, Olaf B. (2004) Parieto-occipital areas involved in efficient filtering in search : a time course analysis of visual marking using behavioural and functional imaging procedures. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Section A: Human Experimental Psychology, Vol.57 (No.4). pp. 610-635. doi:10.1080/02724980343000620

Olivers, Christian N. L., Chater, Nick and Watson, Derrick G. (2004) Holography does not account for goodness : a critique of van der Helm and Leeuwenberg (1996). Psychological Review, Vol.111 (No.1). pp. 242-260. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.111.1.242

Maylor, Elizabeth A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2004) Aging and the ability to ignore irrelevant information in visual search and enumeration tasks. In: Meeting in honour of Patrick Rabbitt, Oxford, Jun 2004 doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198566427.003.0003

Maylor, Elizabeth A. , Watson, Derrick G. and Bruce, Lucy A. M. (2004) Effects of age on enumerating vs. searching for visual targets : an eye movement analysis. In: Tenth Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 1-4 Apr 2004

Watson, Derrick G. , Humphreys, Glyn W. and Olivers, Christian N. L. (2004) Visual marking : using time as well as space in visual selection. In: Kaernbach, Christian and Schröger, Erich and Müller, Hermann, (eds.) Psychophysics beyond sensation : laws and invariants of human cognition. Scientific psychology series . Mahwah, N.J. ; London: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 289-309. ISBN 0805842500

Watson, Derrick G. , Humphreys, Glyn W. and Olivers, Christian N. L. (2003) Visual marking : using time in visual selection. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol.7 (No.4). pp. 180-186. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(03)00033-0

Pollmann, S., Weidner, R., Humphreys, Glyn W., Olivers, Christian N. L., Müller, K., Lohmann, G., Wiggins, C. J. and Watson, Derrick G. (2003) Separating distractor rejection and target detection in posterior parietal cortex - an event-related fMRI study of visual marking. Neuroimage, Vol.18 (No.2). pp. 310-323. doi:10.1016/S1053-8119(02)00036-8

Kunar, Melina A., Humphreys, Glyn W., Smith, Kelly J. and Watson, Derrick G. (2003) When a reappearance is old news : visual marking survives occlusion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol.29 (No.1). pp. 185-198. doi:10.1037//0096-1523.29.1.185

Gillings, K., Watson, Derrick G. and Meyer, Caroline (2003) Cognitive processing in heavy and light drinkers : examining attentional bias using Posner’s attentional cueing paradigm. In: 33rd Annual Congress of the European Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, Prague, Czech Republic., Sep 2003

Watson, Derrick G. (2003) Review of Vision and attention, by Jenkin, M. & Harris, L., eds. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Section A: Human Experimental Psychology, Vol.56 . pp. 571-574. ISSN 1747-0218

Watson, Derrick G. , Maylor, Elizabeth A. and Manson, Nicola J. (2002) Aging and enumeration: a selective deficit for the subitization of targets among distractors. Psychology and Aging, Vol.17 (No.3). pp. 496-504. doi:10.1037//0882-7974.17.3.496

Watson, Derrick G. and Maylor, Elizabeth A. (2002) Aging and visual marking : selective deficits for moving stimuli. Psychology and Aging, Vol.17 (No.2). pp. 321-339. doi:10.1037/0882-7974.17.2.321

Humphreys, Glyn W., Watson, Derrick G. and Jolicœur, Pierre (2002) Fractionating the preview benefit in search : dual-task decomposition of visual marking by timing and modality. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol.28 (No.3). pp. 640-660. doi:10.1037//0096-1523.28.3.640

Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (2002) Visual marking and visual change. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol.28 (No.2). pp. 379-395. doi:10.1037//0096-1523.28.2.379

Maylor, Elizabeth A., Watson, Derrick G. and Manson, Nicola J. (2002) Aging and enumeration : a selective deficit for the subitization of targets among distractors. In: Ninth Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 18-21 Apr 2002 doi:10.1037//0882-7974.17.3.496

Humphreys, Glyn W., Kyllingsbæk, S., Watson, Derrick G. , Olivers, Christian N. L., Law, Ian and Paulson, Olaf B. (2002) Parieto-occipital areas involved in efficient filtering in search : a time course analysis of visual marking using behavioural and functional imaging procedures. In: Experimental Psychology Society, London, UK, Jan 2002 doi:10.1080/02724980343000620

Watson, Derrick G. (2001) Visual marking in moving displays : feature-based inhibition is not necessary. Perception & Psychophysics, Vol.63 (No.1). pp. 74-84. doi:10.3758/BF03200504

Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (2001) Visual marking and visual change. In: XII ESCOP and VXIII BPS Cognitive Section Joint Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 6 Sep 2001. Published in: Proceedings of the XII ESCOP and VXIII BPS Cognitive Section Joint Conference p. 234. doi:10.1037//0096-1523.28.2.379

Meyer, Caroline, Waller, Glenn and Watson, Derrick G. (2000) Cognitive avoidance and bulimic psychopathology : the relevance of temporal factors in a nonclinical population. International Journal of Eating Disorders, Vol.27 (No.4). pp. 405-410. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1098-108X(200005)27:4<405::AID-EAT4>3.0.CO;2-H

Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (2000) Visual marking : evidence for inhibition using a probe-dot detection paradigm. Perception & Psychophysics, Vol.62 (No.3). pp. 471-481. doi:10.3758/BF03212099

Maylor, Elizabeth A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2000) Aging and visual marking : selective deficits for moving stimuli. In: Eighth Biennial Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, Apr 2000 doi:10.1037/0882-7974.17.2.321

Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (1999) The magic number four and temporo-parietal damage : neurological impairments in counting targets amongst distractors. Cognitive Neuropsychology, Vol.16 (No.7). pp. 609-629. doi:10.1080/026432999380663

Olivers, Christian N. L. and Watson, Derrick G. (1999) On the efficiency of drawing computer-generated line stimuli : rectangles can be faster than lines. Behavior Research Methods: Instruments and Computers, Vol.31 (No.3). pp. 416-422. doi:10.3758/BF03200720

Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (1999) Segmentation on the basis of linear and local rotational motion : motion grouping in visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol.25 (No.1). pp. 70-82. doi:10.1037/0096-1523.25.1.70

Humphreys, Glyn W. and Watson, Derrick G. (1999) Fractionating secondary task costs in visual marking : modality-specific and modality-independent components. In: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting, 9-14 May 1999, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Published in: Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Vol.40 (No.4). p. 4190. ISSN 0146-0404.

Watson, Derrick G. (1999) Review of Handbook of perception and cognition : perception and cognition at century's end, by Hochberg, J., ed. Perception, Vol.28 (No.9). pp. 1177-1180. ISSN 0301-0066

Olivers, Christian N. L., Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (1999) Visual marking of locations and feature maps : evidence from within-dimension defined conjunctions. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Section A: Human Experimental Psychology, Vol.52 (No.3). pp. 679-715. doi:10.1080/713755836

Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (1998) Visual marking of moving objects : a role for top-down feature-based inhibition in selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol.24 (No.3). pp. 946-962. doi:10.1037/0096-1523.24.3.946

Olivers, Christian N. L., Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (1998) Mechanisms of visual marking for static and moving items. In: Experimental Psychology Society, York, Jul 1998

Watson, Derrick G. (1998) Review of High-level vision : object recognition and visual cognition, by Ullman, S. Visual Cognition, Vol.5 (No.3). pp. 405-407. ISSN 1350-6285

Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (1997) Visual marking : prioritizing selection for new objects by top-down attentional inhibition of old objects. Psychological Review, Vol.104 (No.1). pp. 90-122. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.104.1.90

Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (1997) Segmentation on the basis of linear and local rotational motion: motion grouping in visual search. In: Experimental Psychology Society, Cardiff, Wales, Jul 1997

Humphreys, Glyn W. and Watson, Derrick G. (1996) Visual marking. In: Object Perception and Memory Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, Nov 1996 doi:10.3758/PP.70.8.1526

Waller, Glenn, Quinton, Stephanie and Watson, Derrick G. (1995) Processing of threat-related information by women with bulimic eating attitudes. International Journal of Eating Disorders, Vol.18 (No.2). pp. 189-193. doi:10.1002/1098-108X(199509)18:2<189::AID-EAT2260180212>3.0.CO;2-B

Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (1995) Attention capture by contour onsets and offsets: no special role for onsets. Perception & Psychophysics, Vol.57 (No.5). pp. 583-597. doi:10.3758/BF03213264

Waller, Glenn, Quinton, Stephanie and Watson, Derrick G. (1995) Dissociation and the processing of threat-related information. Dissociation: progress in the dissociative disorders, Vol.8 . pp. 84-90.

Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (1995) Visual marking II : more details on the mechanism of top-down attentional inhibition of old objects. In: Experimental Psychology Society, Birmingham, UK, Jul 1995

Waller, Glenn, Quinton, Stephanie and Watson, Derrick G. (1994) Dissociation and the processing of threat-related information. In: European Conference on Psychosomatic Research, Gent, Belgium, Aug 1994

Lawson, Rebecca, Humphreys, Glyn W. and Watson, Derrick G. (1994) Object recognition under sequential viewing conditions : evidence for viewpoint-specific recognition procedures. Perception, Vol.23 (No.5). pp. 595-614. doi:10.1068/p230595

Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (1994) Visual marking : prioritising selection for new objects by top-down attentional inhibition. In: Experimental Psychology Society, Exeter, UK, Jul 1994

Humphreys, Glyn W., Fuentes, L. J., O'Regan, K. and Watson, Derrick G. (1993) Coding space by eye and by object. In: Experimental Psychology Society, Cambridge, UK, Apr 1993

Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (1993) Face templates and the parallel processing of facial features. In: International conference on Face Processing, The Welsh Branch of the British Psychological Society, UWCC, Sep 1993

Maylor, Elizabeth A., Schlaghecken, Friederike and Watson, Derrick G. Aging and inhibitory processes in memory, attentional and motor tasks. In: Attention and Inhibition Workshop, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, Sep 2002 doi:10.1017/CBO9780511720413.013

Olivers, Christian N. L., Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. Different mechanisms of visual marking for static and moving stimuli. In: ECVP, Oxford, UK, Aug 1998

Andrews, Lucy S., Braithwaite, Jason J., Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. Do inhibitory processes underlie instances of sustained inattentional blindness? Evidence for feature-based inhibition from dynamic visual search. In: Experimental Psychology Society, Leicester, Apr 2009

Humphreys, Glyn W. and Watson, Derrick G. Dual task interference on visual marking : modality-independent and modality-dependent components set-up the marking state. In: Experimental Psychology Society, Durham, Jul 1999

Maylor, Elizabeth A., Watson, Derrick G. and Bruce, Lucy A. M. Effects of age on searching for and enumerating targets that cannot be detected efficiently. In: Workshop on Neuropsychology of Aging, Holland House, Evesham, UK., May 2003 doi:10.1080/02724980443000511

Watson, Derrick G. and Humphreys, Glyn W. Prioritising selection for new objects by the top-down attentional inhibition of old objects. In: British Psychological Society Cognitive Prize Lecture, York, Sep 1999

Watson, Derrick G. Using time as well as space in visual search. In: School of Psychology, University of Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, Mar 2000

Kunar, Melina A., Humphreys, Glyn W., Smith, K. J. and Watson, Derrick G. When a re-appearance is old news : visual marking survives occlusion. In: The Experimental Psychology Society, London, UK, Jan 2002

Pollmann, S., Weidner, R., Humphreys, G.W., Olivers, C.N.L., Muller, K., Lohmann, G., Wiggins, C.J. & Watson, D.G. (2003) Separating segmentation and target detection in posterior parietal cortex - an event-related fMRI study of visual marking. NeuroImage, 18, 310-323.

Watson, D.G., Maylor, E.A., & Manson, N.J. (2002). Aging and enumeration: A selective deficit for the subitization of targets among distractors. Psychology and Aging, 17, 496-504.

Watson, D.G. & Maylor, E.A. (2002). Aging and Visual Marking: Selective Deficits for Moving Stimuli. Psychology and Aging, 17, 321-339.

Humphreys, G.W., Watson, D.G., & Jolicoeur, P. (2002). Fractionating the preview benefit: Dual-task decomposition by timing and modality. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 640-660.

Watson, D.G., & Humphreys, G.W. (2002). Visual marking and visual change. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 379-395.

Watson, D.G. (2001). Visual marking in moving displays: Feature-based inhibition is not necessary. Perception & Psychophysics, 63, 74-84.

Watson, D.G. & Humphreys, G.W. (2000). Visual marking: Evidence for inhibition using a probe-dot paradigm. Perception & Psychophysics, 62, 471-481.

Meyer, C., Waller, G. & Watson, D.G. (2000). Cognitive avoidance and bulimic psychopathology: The relevance of temporal factors in a non-clinical population. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 27, 405-410.

Watson, D.G. & Humphreys, G.W. (1999). The magic number four and temporo-parietal damage: Neurological impairments in counting targets amongst distractors. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 609-629.

Watson, D.G. & Humphreys, G.W. (1999). Segmentation on the basis of linear and local rotational motion: Motion grouping in visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 70-82.

Olivers, C.N.L. & Watson, D.G. (1999). On the efficiency of drawing computer generated line stimuli: Rectangles can be faster than lines. Behaviour, Instruments and Research Methods, 31, 416-422.

Olivers, C.N.L., Watson, D.G., & Humphreys, G.W. (1999). Visual marking of locations versus feature maps: Evidence from within-dimension defined conjunctions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 52A, 679-715.

Watson, D.G. & Humphreys, G.W. (1998). Visual marking of moving objects: A role for top-down feature based inhibition in selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24, 946-962.

Watson, D.G. & Humphreys, G.W. (1997). Visual Marking: Prioritizing selection for new objects by top-down attentional inhibition of old objects. Psychological Review, 104, 90-122.

Watson, D.G. & Humphreys, G.W. (1995). Attention capture by contour onsets and offsets: No special role for onsets. Perception & Psychophysics, 57, 583-597.

Waller, G., Quinton, S. & Watson, D.G. (1995). Dissociation and the processing of threat-related information. Dissociation, 8, 84-90.

Waller, G., Quinton, S. & Watson, D.G. (1995). The processing of threat-related information by women with bulimic eating attitudes. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 18, 189-193.

Lawson, R., Humphreys, G.W. & Watson, D.G. (1994). Object recognition under sequential viewing conditions: Evidence for viewpoint-specific recognition procedures. Perception, 23, 595-614.

Abstracts

von Muhlenen, A., Watson, D., & Gunnell, D. O. A. (2013). The effect of internally generated eye blinks on the preview benefit in visual marking. In K. Holmqvist, F. Mulvey & R. Johansson (Eds.), Book of Abstracts of the 17th European Conference on Eye Movements, 11-16 August 2013, in Lund, Sweden. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 6(3), 91.

Inglis, M., Watson, D. G., and Simpson, A. (2007). Studying advanced mathematics is correlated with analytical reasoning on the Wason Selection Task. In B. Csapo and C. Csikos (Eds.) 12th European Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction: Developing Potentials for Learning, 132.

Belke, E., Humphreys, G.W., Watson, D.G., & Meyer, A.S. (2005). Top-down influences of lexical-semantic knowledge on searching for objects: Effects of perceptual and working memory load. Proceedings of the XIV ESCOP Conference, Leiden, Netherlands, 49.

Watson, D.G. & Humphreys, G.W. (2001). Visual marking and visual change. Proceedings of the XII ESCOP and VXIII BPS Cognitive Section Joint Conference, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 234.

Humphreys, G.W. & Watson, D.G. (1999). Fractionating secondary task costs in visual marking: Modality-specific and modality-independent components. Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science, 40, 4190.

Book Chapters

Maylor, E. A., & Watson, D. G. (2006). Ageing and the ability to ignore irrelevant information in visual search and enumeration tasks. In S. Ballesteros Jiménez (Ed.), Ageing, cognition, and neuroscience (pp. 35-38). Madrid: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.

Humphreys, G.W., Braithwaite, J.J., Olivers, C.N.L., & Watson, D.G. (2005). Dynamic uses of memory in visual search over time and space. In N. Ohta, C.M. MacLeod & B. Uttl (Eds.), Dynamic processes in memory. Tokyo: Springer-Verlag.

Maylor, E. A., & Watson, D. G. (2005). Aging and the ability to ignore irrelevant information in visual search and enumeration tasks. In J. Duncan, P. McLeod, & L. Phillips (Eds.), Measuring the mind. Oxford, England: Oxford UniversityPress.

Maylor, E.A., Schlaghecken, F., & Watson, D.G. (2005) Aging and inhibitory processes in attentional and motor tasks. To appear in R W. Engle, G. Sedek, U. von Hecker, & D.N. McIntosh (Eds.), Cognitive Limitations in Aging and Psychopathology (pp. 313-345). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Humphreys, G.W., Braithwaite, J.J., Olivers, C.N.L. & Watson, D.G. (2004). Dynamic uses of memory in visual search over space and time. In C McLeod & N. Nobato (Eds.) Dynamic processes in memory. London: Academic Press

Watson, D.G., Humphreys, G.W., & Olivers, C.N.L. (2004). Visual marking: Using time as well as space in visual selection. In C. Kaernbach, E. Schröger, & H. Müller (Eds.), Psychophysics beyond sensation: Laws and invariants of human cognition (pp. 289-309). Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum.

Book Reviews

Watson, D.G. (2003). Book Review, M. Jenkin & L. Harris (Eds.) (2001). Vision & Attention. New York: Springer-Verlag. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 56, 571-574.

Watson, D.G. (1999). Book Review, J. Hochberg (Editor) (1998) Perception and Cognition at Century’s End. London: Academic Press. Perception, 28, 1177-1179.

Watson, D.G. (1998). Book Review, High-level vision: Object recognition and visual cognition. Cambridge: MIT Press. Visual Cognition, 5, 405-407.

Posters & Presentations

Jones, K.L., Kunar, M.A., & Watson, D.G. (May 2017), Perceptual salience of self-relevant information in shared
environments. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society 17th Annual meeting, Florida USA.

Watson, D.G., Blagrove, E., and Kunar, M.A. (Jan, 2017). What’s new after 20 years of visual marking? Time-based visual selection in complex scenes and with socially relevant stimuli. Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, ULC, London, UK.

Roberts, K.L., Watson, D.G., & Stacey, P.C. (Sept, 2016). Enumeration of concurrent talkers. Poster presented at the British Society of Audiology Basic Auditory Science meeting, Cambridge, UK.

Norman, D.G., Gunnell, D., Wade, K., Williams, M.A., & Watson, D.G. (Jul, 2016). Assessing the concealed information test: Countermeasures, Stimuli, Group and Measures. Poster presented at the Psychology and Law Conference, Toulouse, France

Jones, K.L., Kunar, M.A., & Watson, D.G. (Nov 2016), What’s Mine Isn’t Yours: Self-Prioritization in Shared and Non-Shared Task Environments. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society 57th Annual meeting, Boston USA

Kunar, M., Watson, D.G., & Taylor-Phillips, S. (Apr, 2016). The low prevalence effect in Mammograms: Computer aided detection both benefits and impairs visual search for cancers. Experimental Psychology Society, Durham, UK.

O’Shea, B., Fincher, C. L., Watson D. G, & Brown, G. D. A. (January, 2016).Infectious Disease Prevalence Predicts Increased Implicit and Explicit Prejudice. Talk presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) in San Diego, USA.

O’Shea, B., Fincher, C. L., Watson D. G, & Brown, G. D. A. (January, 2016). Deviating from the “Norm” in society: Disease Prevalence Predicts Increased Prejudice. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) in San Diego, USA.

Roberts, K.L., Doherty, E.A., Maylor, E.A., & Watson, D.G., (2015, July). Auditory enumeration of concurrent and sequential sounds. British Society of Audiology, Basic Auditory Science meeting, Cardiff, UK.

Braithwaite, J.J, Marchant, R., Takahashi, C., Dewe, H., & Watson, D.G., (2015, Apr). The cortical hyperexcitability index (CHi): A new measure for quantifying correlates of visually driven cortical hyperexcitability. Poster presented at the Aberrant Experiences and Belief Conference, Birmingham, UK .

O’Shea, B., Watson, D.G., & Brown, G.D.A. (2015, Mar). Measuring Implicit Attitudes: Flaws in the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP). Poster presented at the inaugural International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Maylor, E.A., Badham, S.P., & Watson, D.G. (2015, Mar). Aging and visual search in a multi-element asynchronous dynamic (MAD) world. Poster presented at the inaugural International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Nightingale, S., Wade, K.A., & Watson, D.G. (2015, Mar). Photography or ’Fauxtography’: Exploring People’s Ability to Detect Manipulations in Digital Images. Poster presented at the inaugural International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Hodson, L., Watson, D.G., & Blagrove, E. (2015, Mar). Hope Is all You Need: Relationships Between Foraging Behavior and Character Strengths. Poster presented at the inaugural International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

O’Shea, B., Watson, D.G., & Brown, G.D.A. (2015, Feb). A Positive Framing Bias: Methodological Flaws of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure and the Development of a New Implicit Measure. Poster presented at the 2015 SPSP Annual Convention in Long Beach, California.

Blagrove, E., Zupan, Z., & Watson, D.G. (2014, Nov). Faces, Faces... Everywhere! Does what we inhibit affect target selection? Poster presented at the 2014 Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, California, USA.

Zupan, Z., Blagrove, E., & Watson, D.G. (2014, May). Developing time-based visual selection: The preview task in children. Poster presented at the 13th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Florida, USA.

Roberts, K., Doherty, N., Watson, D.G., & Maylor, E.A. (2013, Mar). Auditory attention and healthy ageing. EPS workshop on Cognitive Ageing.

Bellaera, L., von Muhlenen, A., & Watson, D.G. (2013, May). The effect of local-global processing on contextual learning. Poster presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Florida, USA.

Zupan, Z., Blagrove, E., & Watson, D.G. (2013, November). To inhibit or not to inhibit? Strategies in time-based selection. Poster presented at the 2013 Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Taylor, P., Griffiths, N., Bhalerao, A., Watson, D.G., Zhou, X., & Popham, T. (2013, October). Warwick-JLR driver monitoring dataset (DMD): A public dataset for driver monitoring research. Cognitive load and in-vehicle human-machine interaction. Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Blagrove, E., Woolgar, F., Selcoe, G., & Watson, D.G. (2012, November). Change for change's sake? Faces can't resist the physical! Poster presented at the 2012 Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.

Wright, D. S., Wade, K. A., & Watson, D. G. (2012, November). Delay and déjà vu: Both timing and repetition increase the power of false evidence. Poster presented at the 2012 Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.

von Muhlenen, A., Gunnell, D., & Watson, D.G. (2012, Jul). The preview benefit in visual marking continues after an eye blink. Poster presented at the Visual Search and Selective Attention (VSSA III) symposium, Munich, Germany.

Bellaera, L., Watson, D.G., & von Muhlenen, A. (2012, Jul). The relationship of attentional breadth and learning in contextual cueing. Poster presented at the Experimental Psychology Society, Bristol, UK.

Blagrove, E., Foulsham, T., Watson, D.G., Payne, L., & Kingstone, A. (2012, May). Fishing for faces: Looking behaviour inside and outside the lab. Poster presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida, USA.

Blagrove, E., & Watson, D. G. (2011, Nov). Negative face advantage? Don't count on it!. Poster presented at the 52nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Kunar, M. A., & Watson, D. G. (2011, Nov). It's still MAD: Why don't luminance onsets capture attention. Poster presented at the 52nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Wright, D. S., Wade, K. A., & Watson, D. G. (2011, August). Does timing moderate the effect of false evidence on false confessions? Poster presented at the 5th International Conference on Memory, York, UK.

Wright, D. S., Wade, K. A., & Watson, D. G. (2011, June). Does timing moderate the effect of false evidence on false confessions? Poster presented at the 9th biennial meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, New York, NY.

Blagrove, E. & Watson, D. G. (2010, Nov). The effects of threat salience in Visual Marking of Emotional Faces. Poster presented at the 51st annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St Louis, Missouri, USA.

Blagrove, E. & Watson, D. G. (2010, May). The effect of non-emotional facial changes on time-based selection. Poster presented at the 10th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida, USA.

Kunar, M. A. & Watson, D. G. (2010, May). It's a MAD visual world: How do we search it? Poster presented at the 10th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida, USA.

Blagrove, E. & Watson, D. G. (2009, Nov). Visual marking: Can we ignore realistic emotionally valenced faces? Yes, we can. Poster presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Kunar, M. A. & Watson, D. G. (2009, Nov). When the world goes MAD: Visual search with complex displays. Poster presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Blagrove , E. & Watson, D.G. (2009, May) Visual Marking: The effect of emotional change on timebased visual selection. Poster presented at the 9th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, USA.

Andrews, L. S., Braithwaite, J. J., Watson, D. G., & Humphreys, G. W. (2009, Apr). Do inhibitory processes underlie instances of sustained inattentionalblindness? Evidence for feature-based inhibition from dynamic visual search. Experimental Psychology Society, Leicester.

Blagrove, E. & Watson, D. G. (2008, Nov). Visual marking: The time course of ignoring emotionally valenced faces. Poster presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, USA.

Watson, D.G. (2008, Jun). 4±1 Things we didn’t know about visual enumeration. Invited talk at the Cognitive Neuroscience Conference. School of Psychology, University of Birmingham

Blagrove, E. & Watson, D.G. (2008, Jun). Visual marking of emotionally valenced face stimuli. Cognitive Neuroscience Conference. School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.

Andrews, L., Braithwaite, J. J., Watson, D.G., & Humphreys, G.W. (2008, Jun). An increased role of feature-based inhibition in failures of awareness under dynamic search conditions. Cognitive Neuroscience Conference. School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.

Blagrove, E. ,& Watson, D. G. (2007, November). Visual marking of emotionally valenced face stimuli. Poster presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, California.

Sheehan, B., Maylor, E. A., Watson, D. G., & Henderson, E. L. (2007, October). Enumeration in Alzheimer’s disease and other late life psychiatric syndromes. International Psychogeriatric Association, Osaka.

Inglis, M., Watson, D. G., and Simpson, A. (2007, August). Studying advanced mathematics is correlated with analytical reasoning on the Wason Selection Task. Presented at the "New Methods for Old Problems" Symposium, 12th European Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction: Developing Potentials for Learning.

Inglis, M., Simpson, A. and Watson, D. G. (2006, July). Dual processes in mathematical reasoning. Working Session Presentation, 30th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Prague, Czech Republic.

Watson, D.G., Humphreys, G.W., & Braithwaite, J. (2006, Apr). Time-based visual selection: Effects of luminance changes to old objects. Experimental Psychology Society, Birmingham.

Inglis, M., Simpson, A., & Watson, D.G. (2006, Apr). Group differences in he Wason selection task: Mathematicians and eye-movements. Experimental Psychology Society, Birmingham.

Belke, E., Humphreys, G.W., Watson, D.G., & Meyer, A.S. (2005, Sep). Top-down influences of lexical-semantic knowledge on searching for objects: Effects of perceptual and working memory load. XIV ESCOP Conference, Leiden, Netherlands, 49.

Maylor, E. A., & Watson, D. G. (2004, Dec). Aging and the ability to ignore irrelevant information in visual search and enumeration tasks. Keynote talk at the First International Conference on Aging, Cognition and Neuroscience, Madrid, Spain.

Maylor, E. A., & Watson, D. G. (2004, June). Ageing and the ability to ignore irrelevant information in visual search and enumeration tasks. Presented at a meeting in honour of Patrick Rabbitt, Oxford.

Maylor, E. A., Watson, D. G., & Bruce, L. A. M. (2004, April). Effects of age on enumerating vs. searching for visual targets: An eye movement analysis. Presented at the Tenth Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

Maylor, E. A., Schlaghecken, F., & Watson, D. G. (2003, November & December). Aging and inhibitory processes in memory, attentional and motor tasks. Invited talks at the Departments of Psychology, Universities of Umea (Sweden) and Southampton.

Maylor, E. A., Watson, D. G., & Bruce, L. A. M. (2003, May). Effects of age on searching for and enumerating targets that cannot be detected efficiently. Workshop on Neuropsychology of Aging, Holland House, Evesham, UK.

Gillings, K., Watson, D.G., & Meyer, C. (2003, September). Cognitive processing in heavy and light drinkers: Examining attentional bias using Posner’s attentional cueing paradigm. 33^rd Annual Congress of the European Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies. Prague Czech Republic.

Watson, D.G., Maylor, E.A., & Bruce, L.A. (2003). Effects of age on searching for and enumerating targets that cannot be detected efficiently. Workshop on Neuropsychology of Aging, Holland House, Evesham, UK.

Maylor, E.A., Schlaghecken, F., & Watson, D.G. (2002, September). Aging and inhibitory processes in attentional and motor tasks. Attention and inhibition workshop, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland.

Maylor, E. A., Watson, D. G., & Manson, N. J. (2002, April). Aging and enumeration: A selective deficit for the subitization of targets among distractors. Presented at the Ninth Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

Kunar, M., Humphreys, G.W., Smith, K., & Watson, D.G. When re-appearance is old news: Visual marking survives occlusion. Experimental Psychology Society, London, January 2002.

Humphreys, G.W., Kyllingsbaek, S., Watson, D.G., Olivers, C.N.L., Law, I., & Paulson, O. Parieto-occipital areas involved in efficient filtering in search: A time course analysis of visual marking using behavioural and functional imaging procedures. Experimental Psychology Society, London, January 2002.

Watson, D.G. & Humphreys, G.W. Visual marking and visual change. XII ESCOP and VXIII BPS Cognitive Section Joint Conference, Edinburgh, September 2001.

Maylor, E.A. & Watson, D.G. Aging and visual marking: Selective deficits for moving stimuli. Experimental Psychology Society joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain behaviour and Cognitive Science, July 2000.

Maylor, E.A. & Watson, D.G. Aging and visual marking: Selective defecits for moving stimuli. Paper presented at the Eighth Biennial Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta Georgia, April 2000.

Watson, D.G. Using time as well as space in visual search. School of Psychology, University of Cardiff, Wales. March, 2000.

Watson, D.G. & Humphreys, G.W. Prioritising selection for new objects by the top-down attentional inhibition of old objects. British Psychological Society Cognitive Prize Lecture, York, September 1999.

Humphreys, G.W. & Watson, D.G. Dual task interference on visual marking: Modality-independent and modality-dependent components set-up the marking state. EPS workshop on Crossmodal Attention, Somerville College, Oxford University, October 1999.

Humphreys, G.W. & Watson, D.G. Dual task interference on visual marking: Modality-independent and modality-dependent components set-up the marking state. Experimental Psychology Society, Durham, July, 1999.

Olivers, C.N.L., Watson, D.G., & Humphreys, G.W. Different mechanisms of visual marking for static and moving stimuli. ECVP, Oxford, Aug 1998.

Olivers, C., Watson, D.G. & Humphreys, G.W. Mechanisms of visual marking for static and moving items. Experimental Psychology Society, York, July 1998.

Watson, D.G. & Humphreys, G.W. Segmentation on the basis of linear and local rotational motion: Motion grouping in visual search. Experimental Psychology Society, Cardiff, July 1997.

Humphreys, G.W. & Watson, D.G. Visual Marking. Object Perception and Memory Conference, Chicago, November 1996.

Watson, D.G. & Humphreys, G.W. Visual marking II: More details on the mechanism of top-down attentional inhibition of old objects. Experimental Psychology Society, Birmingham, July 1995.

Watson, D.G. & Humphreys, G.W. Visual marking: Prioritising selection for new objects by top-down attentional inhibition. Experimental Psychology Society, Exeter, July 1994

Waller, G., Quinton, S., Watson, D.G. Dissociation and the processing of threat-related information. European Conference on Psychosomatic Research, Gent, Belgium, August 1994.

Watson, D.G. & Humphreys, G.W. Face templates and the parallel processing of facial features. International conference on Face Processing. The Welsh Branch of the British Psychological Society, UWCC, September 1993.

Humphreys, G.W., Fuentes, L.J., O’Regan, K. & Watson, D.G. Coding space by eye and by object. Experimental Psychology Society, Cambridge, April 1993.

 

Interests

• Mechanisms of visual attention and selection
• Automatic and controlled attentional capture
• Visual search
• Motion processing
• Inhibition of return
• Time-based visual selection - visual marking
• Enumeration - subitizing and counting
• Effects of old age on visual processing
• Perception of animacy
• Eye movement measurement and control
• Effects of emotional processing on attentional control

PhD Supervision

• I am happy to consider supervising PhD and MSc research degrees in any of the above or related areas, email me at d.g.watson@warwick.ac.uk for further information.