2024
Deng, W., Beck, D.M., Federmeier, K. (in press) Image Memorability is Linked to Facilitated Perceptual and Semantic Processing. Imaging Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00281
Beck, D.M., Center, E.G., & Shao, Z. (in press). The Role of Real-world Statistical Regularities in Visual Perception. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Center, Federmeier, & Beck (2024) The Brain’s Sensitivity to Real-world Statistical Regularity does not require attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 36 (8),1715–1740. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02181
Knight, R., Chen, T., Center, E.G., Gratton, G., Fabiani, M., Savazzi, S., Mazzi, C. & Beck, D.M. (2024). Bypassing input to V1 in visual awareness: a TMS-EROS investigation. Neuropsychologia, 198, 108864. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108864
Deng, W., Beck, D.M., Federmeier, K. (2024). Highly Memorable Images are more Readily Perceived. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 53(6), 1415–1424. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001594 (Winner of the Editor’s Choice Award)
Shao, Z. & Beck, D.M. (2024). Is attention necessary for the representational advantage of good exemplars over bad exemplars? European Journal of Neuroscience, 59(9), 2353-2372. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16291
Weber, M., Cunningham, E., Beck, D.M., Sadaghiani, S., Wang, R.F. (2024). Effects of Task Type on Spontaneous Alternations of Attentional States. Memory and Cognition, 52(4), 984-997. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-023-01513-4
2023
Cunningham, E., Zimnicki, C., & Beck, D. M. (2023). The Influence of Prestimulus 1/f-Like versus Alpha-Band Activity on Subjective Awareness of Auditory and Visual Stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(37), 6447-6459. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0238-23.2023
Yang, P. L., & Beck, D. M. (2023). Familiarity influences visual detection in a task that does not require explicit recognition. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85(4), 1127-1149. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02703-7
Clements, G. M., Gyurkovics, M., Low, K. A., Kramer, A. F., Beck, D. M., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (2023). Dynamics of alpha suppression index both modality specific and general attention processes. NeuroImage, 270, 119956. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119956
2022
Center, E.G., Gephart, A.M., Yang, P.-L, & Beck, D.M. (2022). Typical Viewpoints of Objects are Better Detected than Atypical Ones. Journal of Vision, Vol.22, 1. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.12.1
Cunningham, E. Wang, R. & Beck, D.M. (2022). Effects of rhythmic auditory stimulation on vision: oscillations in performance can be enhanced, but not induced. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(11), 1153-1171. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001029
Clements, G. M., Gyurkovics, M., Low, K. A., Beck, D. M., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (2022). Dynamics of alpha suppression and enhancement may be related to resource competition in cross-modal cortical regions. NeuroImage, 252, 119048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119048
2021
Kumar, M. K., Federmeier, K. D., & Beck, D. M. (2021). The N300: An Index For Predictive Coding Of Complex Visual Objects and Scenes, Cerebral Cortex Communications, 2(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgab030
Chiu, Y-C, Wang, T.W. Beck, D.M. Lewis-Peacock, J.A., & Sahakyan, L. (2021). Separation of Item and Context in Item-Method Directed Forgetting, NeuroImage, 235, 117983. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117983
2020
Metzger, B. A., & Beck, D. M. (2020). Probing the mechanisms of probe-mediated binocular rivalry. Vision Research, 173, 21-28. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2020.04.011
2019
Center, E. G., Knight, R., Fabiani, M., Gratton, G., & Beck, D. M. (2019). Examining the role of feedback in TMS-induced visual suppression: A cautionary tale. Consciousness and Cognition, 75, 102805. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CONCOG.2019.102805
2018
Groen, I.A., Greene, M.R., Baldassano, C., Fei-Fei, L., Beck, D.M., Baker, C. (2018). Distinct contributions of functional and deep neural network features to representational similarity of scenes in human brain and behavior. Elife 2018;7:e32962 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.32962. link
2017
Kumar, M. K., Federmeier, K. D., Fei-Fei, L., & Beck, D. M. (2017). Evidence For Similar Patterns of Neural Activity Elicited by Picture- and Word-based Representations of Natural Scenes. NeuroImage, 155, 422-436.request
Wang, Z., Liu, D. Chang, S., Dolcos, F., Beck, D and Huang, T. (in press). Image Aesthetics Assessment using Deep Chatterjee’s Machine. 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). link
Metzger, B.A., Mathewson, K.E., Tapia, E., Fabiani, M., Gratton, G., Beck, D.M. (2017). Regulating the access to awareness: Brain activity related to probe-related and spontaneous reversals in binocular rivalry. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(6):1089-1102.request
Caddigan, E., Choo, H., Fei-Fei, L., & Beck, D.M (2017). Categorization influences detection: A Perceptual Advantage for Representative Exemplars of Natural Scene Categories. Journal of Vision, 17(1):21. doi: 10.1167/17.1.21. link
Baldassano, C., Beck, D.M., Fei-Fei, L. (2017). Human-object interactions are more than the sum of their parts. Cerebral Cortex, 27(3):2276-2288. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhw077.request
2016
Baldassano, C., Esteva, A., Fei-Fei, L., Beck, D.M. (2016). Two distinct scene processing networks connecting vision and memory. eNeuro, 3(5). pii: ENEURO.0178-16.2016. link
Beck, D., & Clevenger, J. (2016). The folly of boxology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, E231. doi:10.1017/S0140525X15002630
Baldassano, C., Fei-Fei, L., Beck, D.M., (2016). Pinpointing the peripheral bias in neural scene processing networks during natural viewing. Journal of Vision, 16(2):9. doi: 10.1167/16.2.9 link
Iordan, M.C., Greene, M.R., Beck, D.M. , & Fei-Fei, L. (2016). Typicality Sharpens Category Representations in Object- Selective Cortex. Neuroimage,134:170-9. request
Greene, M.R., Baldassano, C., Beck, D.M , Fei-Fei, L. (2016) Visual Scenes are Categorized by Function. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(1),82-94. request
2015
Parks, N.A, Mazzi, C., Tapia, E., Savazzi, S., Fabianai, M., Gratton, G., & Beck, D.M. (2015). The Influence of Posterior Parietal Cortex on Extrastriate Visual Activity: A Concurrent TMS and Fast Optical Imaging Study. Neuropsychologia, 78, 153-8. request
Greene, M.R., Botros, A.P., Beck, D.M , Fei-Fei, L. (2015) What You See is What You Expect: Rapid Scene Understanding Requires Prior Experience. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 77, (4), 1239-1251. request
Iordan, M.C., M.R. Greene, M.R., Beck, D.M., Fei-Fei, L. (2015). Basic Level Category Structure Emerges Gradually Across Human Ventral Visual Cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(7),1427-46. request
Baldassano, C., Beck, D.M., & Fei-Fei, L. (2015). Parcellating connectivity in spatial maps. PeerJ, 3:e784 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.784. request
Bouchaffra, D., Cheriet, M., Jodoin, P. M., & Beck, D. (2015). Machine learning and pattern recognition models in change detection. Pattern Recognition, 3(48), 613-615 request
2014
Michal, A.G., Lleras, A., Beck, D.M. (2014). Relative contributions of task-relevant and task-irrelevant dimensions in priming of popout. Journal of Vision, 14(12). pii: 14. doi: 10.1167/14.12.14.request
Clevenger, J. & Beck, D.M. (2014): Refining the resource model: Cortical competition could explain hemifield independence, Visual Cognition, 22, 1022-1026.request
Scalf, P.E., Ahn, J.W., Beck, D.M. & Lleras, A. (2014) Trial history effects in the ventral attentional network. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(12):2789-97.request
Tapia, E. & Beck, D.M. (2014). Probing feedforward and feedback contributions to awareness with visual masking and transcranial magnetic stimulation. Frontiers in Psychology 5:1173. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01173″>doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01173. request
Mathewson, K.E., Beck, D.M., Ro, T., Maclin, E.L., Low, K.A., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (2014). Dynamics of Alpha Control: Preparatory Suppression of Posterior Alpha Oscillations by Frontal Modulators Revealed with Combined EEG and Event-related Optical Signal. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 2400–2415. request
Tapia, E., Mazzi, C., Savazzi, S., & Beck, D.M. (2014). Phosphene-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation of occipital but not parietal cortex suppresses stimulus visibility. Experimental Brain Research, 232, 1989–1997. request
Lavie, N., Beck, D.M., & Konstantinou (2014). Blinded by the load: attention, awareness and the role of perceptual load. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 369: 20130205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0205 request
2013
Beck, D.M., Emanuele, B., Savazzi, S. (in press). A new illusion of height and width: taller people are perceived as thinner. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. request
Parks, N.A., Beck, D.M., Kramer, A.F. (2013) Enhancement and suppression in the visual field under perceptual load. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:275. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00275 request
Scalf, P.E., Torralbo, A., Tapia, E., & Beck, D.M. (2013). Competition explains limited attention and perceptual resources: implications for perceptual load and dilution theories. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:243. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00243. request
Baldassano, C., Beck, D.M., Fei-Fei, L. (2013). Differential Connectivity Within the Parahippocampal Place Area. NeuroImage,75, 236-245. request
Torralbo, A., Walther, D., Chai, B., Caddigan, E., Fei-Fei, L., Beck, D.M. (2013). Good exemplars of natural scene categories elicit clearer patterns than bad exemplars but not greater BOLD activity. PLoS ONE, 8(3): e58594. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058594. request
2012
Mathewson, K.E., Prudhomme, C., Fabiani, M., Beck, D.M., Lleras, A., Gratton, G. (2012). Making waves in the stream of consciousness: Entraining oscillations in EEG Alpha and fluctuations in visual awareness with rhythmic visual stimulation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 2321-33. request
Baldassano, C., Iordan, M.C., Beck, D.M., Fei-Fei, L. (2012). Voxel-Level Functional Connectivity using Spatial Regularization. NeuroImage, 63, 1099-1106. request
Lustig, A.G. & Beck, D.M. (2012). Task-relevant and task-irrelevant dimensions are modulated independently at a task-irrelevant location. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 1884-95. request
Savazzi, S., Emanuele, B., Scalf, S. & Beck, D. (2012). Reaction times and perceptual adjustments are sensitive to the illusory distortion of space.Experimental Brain Research, 218, 119-28. request
Parks, N.A., Maclin, E.L., Low, K.A., Beck, D.M., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (2012). Examining cortical dynamics and connectivity with simultaneous single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation and fast optical imaging. NeuroImage, 59, 2504-10. request
2011
Walther, D.B., Chai, B., Caddigan, E., Beck*, D.M. & Fei-Fei*, L. (2011). Simple line drawings suffice for functional MRI decoding of natural scene categories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 9661-6. (* indicates equal contribution) request
Scalf, P.E., Basak, C. & Beck, D. M. (2011). Attention does more than modulate suppressive interactions: attending to multiple items. Experimental Brain Research, 212, 293-304. request
Mathewson, K.E., Lleras, A., Beck, D.M., Fabiani, M., Ro, T., & Gratton, G. (2011). Pulsed Out of Awareness: EEG Alpha oscillations represent a pulsed inhibition of ongoing cortical processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 2:99. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00099 request
2010
Beck, D.M. (2010). The appeal of the brain in the popular press. Persepctives on Psychological Science, 5, 762-766. request
Mathewson, K.E., Fabiani, M., Gratton, G., Beck, D.M., & Lleras, A. (2010). Rescuing stimuli from invisibility: Inducing a momentary release from visual masking with pre-target entrainment. Cognition, 115, 186-191. request
Scalf, P.E. & Beck, D. M. (2010). Competition for representation impedes attention to multiple items. Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 161-169. request
2009
Walther, D.B., Caddigan, E., Fei-Fei*, L., & Beck*, D.M. (2009). Natural Scene Categories Revealed in Distributed Patterns of Activity in the Human Brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 10573-10581.(* indicates equal contribution) request
Chai†, B, Walther†, D.B., Beck*, D.M. & Fei-Fei*, L. (2009). Exploring Functional Connectivity of the Human Brain using Multivariate Information Analysis. Neural Information Processing System (NIPS) 2009. (†,* indicates equal contribution) request
Yao, B, Walther, D.B., Beck*, D.M. & Fei-Fei*, L. (2009). Discovering and Modeling Interactions Between Brain Regions with Hidden Conditional Random Fields. Neural Information Processing System (NIPS) 2009. (* indicates equal contribution) request
Mathewson, K., Gratton, G., Fabiani, M., Beck, D., & Ro, T. (2009). To See or Not to See: Pre-stimulus Alpha Phase Predicts Visual Awareness. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 2725-32. request
Beck, D. M., & Kastner, S. (2009). Top-down and bottom-up mechanisms in biasing competition in the human brain. Vision Research, 49, 1154-1165. request
2008
Torralbo, A. & Beck, D. M. (2008) Perceptual load-induced selection as a result of local competitive interactions in visual cortex. Psychological Science, 19, 1045-1050. request
2007
Beck, D. M., & Kastner, S. (2007). Stimulus similarity modulates competitive interactions in human visual cortex. Journal of Vision, 7(2):19, 1-12. request
Palmer, S.E. and Beck, D.M. (2007). The Repetition Discrimination Task: An Objective Method for Studying Perceptual Grouping. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 68-78. request
2006
Beck, D. M., Muggleton, N., Walsh, V., & Lavie, N. (2006). Right Parietal Cortex Plays a Critical Role in Change Blindness. Cerebral Cortex, 16, 712-7. request
2005
Beck, D. M. & Kastner, S. (2005). Stimulus context modulates competition in human extrastriate cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 8, 1110-1116. request
Beck, D.M. and Lavie, N. (2005). Look here but ignore what you see: effects of distractors at fixation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 592-607. request
Kastner, S. & Beck, D. M. (2005). Biasing competition in human visual cortex. In L. Itti, G. Rees, & J. Tsotsos (Eds.) Neurobiology of Attention. San Diego, CA:Elsevier. request
Beck, D. M., Pinsk, M. A. & Kastner, S. (2005). Symmetry perception in humans and macaques. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 405-406. request
