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  1. Bi, W., Shah, A. D., Wong, K. W., Scholl, B. J., & Yildirim, I. (accepted pending revisions). Computational models reveal that intuitive physics underlies visual processing of soft objects. Nature Communications.  
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  2. Ji, H., & Scholl, B. J. (accepted pending revisions). Pouring, scooping, bouncing, rolling, twisting, and rotating: Does spontaneous categorical perception of dynamic event types reflect verbal encoding or visual processing? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.  
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  3. Erdogan, M., Bi, W., Yildirim, I., & Scholl, B. J. (in press). Dynamic point-light cloths generate rich percepts beyond biology. Current Biology.  
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  4. Belledonne, M., Butkus, E., Scholl, B. J., & Yildirim, I. (in press). Adaptive computation as a new mechanism of dynamic human attention. Psychological Review.  
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  5. Walter-Terrill, R., Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2025). Superficial auditory (dis)fluency biases higher-level social judgment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(13), e2415254122, 1-7.  
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    [View selected press: Yale News, Yale News Video, NPR 'All Things Considered' Segment, NPR Article, Scientific American, Times of London, ABC TV, CBC]      
  6. Koller, W. N., Ongchoco, J. D. K., Bronstein, M. V., Scholl, B. J., & Cannon, T. D. (2025). A "hyper-recency" bias in memory characterizes both psychoticism and deja vu experiences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(5), 1428-1444.  
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  7. van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2025). The 'Blindfold Test': Helping to decide whether an effect reflects visual processing or higher-level judgment. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 87(2), 445-457.  
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  8. Scholl, B. J. (2024). Perceptual (roots of) core knowledge [Commentary]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 47, e140.  
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  9. Ji, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2024). 'Visual verbs': Dynamic event types are extracted spontaneously during visual perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(10), 2441-2453.  
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  10. Wong, K. W., & Scholl, B. J. (2024). Spontaneous path tracing in task-irrelevant mazes: Spatial affordances trigger dynamic visual routines. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(9), 2230-2238.  
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  11. Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2024). Perceived gaze dynamics in social interactions can alter (and even reverse) the perceived temporal order of events. Cognition, 247, Article 105745, 1-8.  
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  12. Ongchoco, J. D. K., Wong, K. W., & Scholl, B. J. (2024). What's next?: Time is subjectively dilated not only for 'oddball' events, but also for events immediately after oddballs. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 86(1), 16-21.  
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  13. Castiello, S., Ongchoco, J. D. K., van Buren, B., Scholl, B. J., & Corlett, P. R. (2024). Paranoid and teleological thinking give rise to distinct social hallucinations in vision. Communications Psychology, 2:117, 1-12.  
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  14. Ongchoco, J. D. K., Walter-Terrill, R., & Scholl, B. J. (2023). Visual event boundaries restrict anchoring effects in decision making. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(44), e2303883120, 1-6.  
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  15. Wong, K. W., Bi, W., Soltani, A., Yildirim, I., & Scholl, B. J. (2023). Seeing soft materials draped over objects: A case study of intuitive physics in perception, attention, and memory. Psychological Science, 34(1), 111-119.  
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  16. Ongchoco, J. D. K., Yates, T., & Scholl, B. J. (2023). Event segmentation structures temporal experience: Simultaneous dilation and contraction in rhythmic reproductions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(11), 3266-3276.  
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  17. Wang, V., Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2023). Here it comes: Active forgetting triggered even just by anticipation of an impending event boundary. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30(5), 1917-1927.  
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  18. Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2023). Figments of imagination: 'Scaffolded attention' creates nonsensory object and event representations. In A. Mroczko-Wasowicz & R. Grush (Eds.), Sensory Individuals: Contemporary Perspectives on Modality-specific and Multimodal Perceptual Objects (pp. 95-112). Oxford: Oxford University Press.  
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  19. Berke, M. D., Walter-Terrill, R., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Scholl, B. J. (2022). Flexible goals require that inflexible perceptual systems produce veridical representations: Implications for realism as revealed by evolutionary simulations. Cognitive Science, 46(10), e13195, 1-21.  
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  20. Chen, Y. -C., Chang, A., Rosenberg, M. D., Feng, D., Scholl, B. J., & Trainor, L. (2022). 'Taste typicality' is a foundational and multi-modal dimension of ordinary aesthetic experience. Current Biology, 32(8), 1837-1842.  
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  21. Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2022). Hallucinating visual structure: Individual differences in 'scaffolded attention'. Cognition, 225, Article 105129, 1-9.  
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  22. Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2022). Unconscious pupillometry: An effect of 'attentional contagion' in the absence of visual awareness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(2), 302-308.  
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  23. Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2022). Scaffolded attention in time: 'Everyday hallucinations' of rhythmic patterns from regular auditory beats. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84(2), 332-340.  
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  24. Colombatto, C., van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Hidden intentions: Visual awareness prioritizes perceived attention even without eyes or faces. Cognition, 217, Article 104901, 1-7.  
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  25. Colombatto, C., Uddenberg, S., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). The efficiency of demography in face perception. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83(8), 3104-3117.  
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  26. Lin, Q., Yousif, S., Chun, M. M., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Visual memorability in the absence of semantic content. Cognition, 212, Article 104714, 1-12.  
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  27. Forman, I. R., Chen, Y. -C., Scholl, B. J., & Alvarez, G. A. (2021). The center cannot hold: Variations
    of frame width help to explain the 'inward bias' in aesthetic preferences. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83(5), 2151-2158.  
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  28. Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Gaze deflection reveals how gaze cueing is tuned to extract the mind behind the eyes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(33), 19825-19829.  
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  29. Kominsky, J. F., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Retinotopic adaptation reveals distinct categories of causal perception. Cognition, 203, Article 104339, 1-21.  
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  30. Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Enumeration in time is irresistibly event-based. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27, 307-314.  
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  31. Colombatto, C., van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Gazing without eyes: A 'stare-in-the-crowd' effect induced by simple geometric shapes. Perception, 49(7), 782-792.  
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  32. Yousif, S. R., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Systematic angular biases in the representation of visual space. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82(6), 3124-3143.  
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  33. Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2019). How to create objects with your mind: From object-based attention to attention-based objects. Psychological Science, 30(11), 1648-1655.  
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  34. Colombatto, C., van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2019). Intentionally distracting: Working memory is disrupted by the perception of other agents attending to you -- even without eye-gaze cues. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26, 951-957.  
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  35. Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2019). Did that just happen? Event segmentation influences enumeration and working memory for simple overlapping visual events. Cognition, 187, 188-197.  
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  36. Yousif, S. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2019). The one-is-more illusion: Sets of discrete objects appear less extended than equivalent continuous entities in both space and time. Cognition, 185, 121-130.  
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  37. Uddenberg, S., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). TeleFace: Serial reproduction of faces reveals a Whiteward bias in race memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(10), 1466-1487.  
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  38. New, J. J., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Motion-induced blindness for dynamic targets: Further explorations of the 'perceptual scotoma' hypothesis. Journal of Vision, 18(9):24, 1-13.  
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  39. van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Visual illusions as a tool for dissociating seeing from thinking: A reply to Braddick (2018). Perception, 47(10-11), 999-1001.  
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  40. Chen, Y. -C., Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Looking into the future: An inward bias in aesthetic experience driven only by gaze cues. Cognition, 176, 209-214.  
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  41. Lowet, A. S., Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Seeing structure: Shape skeletons modulate perceived similarity. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80(5), 1278-1289.  
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  42. Meyerhoff, H. S., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Auditory-induced bouncing is a perceptual (rather than a cognitive) phenomenon: Evidence from illusory crescents. Cognition, 170, 88-94.  
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  43. Scholl, B. J. (2017). Reliability in psychology: Means versus ends. APS Observer, 30(9), 38-39.  
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  44. van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2017). Minds in motion in memory: Enhanced spatial memory driven by the perceived animacy of simple shapes. Cognition, 163, 87-92.  
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  45. van Buren, B., Gao, T., & Scholl, B. J. (2017). What are the underlying units of perceived animacy?: Chasing detection is intrinsically object-based. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(5), 1604-1610.  
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  46. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2017). Seeing and thinking in studies of embodied "perception": How (not) to integrate vision science and social psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(2), 341-343.  
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  47. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2016). Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for 'top-down' effects [target article]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, e229, 1-77.  
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  48. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2016). Seeing and thinking: Foundational issues and empirical horizons [response to commentators]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, e229, 53-67.  
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  49. Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2016). The perception of history: Seeing causal history in static shapes induces illusory motion perception. Psychological Science, 27(6), 923-930.  
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  50. Ward, E. J., Bear, A., & Scholl, B. J. (2016). Can you perceive ensembles without perceiving individuals?: The role of statistical perception in determining whether awareness overflows access. Cognition, 152, 78-86.  
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  51. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2016). 'Moral perception' reflects neither morality nor perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20(2), 75-76.  
    [View abstract, Download/view paper (.pdf), Download/view a rejoinder to G&VB's TICS response]  
  52. van Buren, B., Uddenberg, S., & Scholl, B. J. (2016). The automaticity of perceiving animacy: Goal-directed motion in simple shapes influences visuomotor behavior even when task-irrelevant. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23, 797-802.  
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  53. Liverence, B. M., & Scholl, B. J. (2015). Object persistence enhances spatial navigation: A case study in smartphone vision science. Psychological Science, 26(7), 955-963.  
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  54. Strickland, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2015). Visual perception involves 'event type' representations: The case of containment vs. occlusion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(3), 570-580.  
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  55. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2015). Enhanced visual awareness for morality and pajamas?: Perception vs. memory in 'top-down' effects. Cognition, 136, 409-416.  
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  56. Ward, E. J., & Scholl, B. J. (2015). Inattentional blindness reflects limitations on perception, not memory: Evidence from repeated failures of awareness. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22(3), 694-700.  
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  57. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2015). Can you experience 'top-down' effects on perception?: The case of race categories and perceived lightness. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22(3), 694-700.  
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  58. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2015). When do ratings implicate perception vs. judgment? The 'overgeneralization test' for top-down effects. Visual Cognition, 23(9-10), 1217-1226.  
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  59. Ward, E. J., & Scholl, B. J. (2015). Stochastic or systematic?: Seemingly random perceptual switching in bistable events triggered by transient unconscious cues. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 41(4), 929-939.  
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  60. Raila, H., Scholl, B. J., & Gruber, J. (2015). Seeing the world through rose-colored glasses: People who are happy and satisfied with life preferentially attend to positive stimuli. Emotion, 15(4), 449-462.  
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  61. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2014b). 'Please tap the shape, anywhere you like': Shape skeletons in human vision revealed by an exceedingly simple measure. Psychological Science, 25(2), 377-386.  
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  62. De Freitas, J., Liverence, B. M., & Scholl, B. J. (2014). Attentional rhythm: A temporal analogue of object-based attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(1), 71-76.  
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  63. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2014a). "Top-down" effects where none should be found: The El Greco fallacy in perception research. Psychological Science, 25(1), 38-46.  
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  64. Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2014). Seeing and liking: Biased perception of ambiguous figures consistent with the 'inward bias' in aesthetic preferences. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21(6), 1444-1451.  
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  65. Scholl, B. J., & Gao, T. (2013). Perceiving animacy and intentionality: Visual processing or higher-level judgment? In M. D. Rutherford & V. A. Kuhlmeier (Eds.), Social perception: Detection and interpretation of animacy, agency, and intention (pp. 197-230). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.  
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  66. Newman, G. E., & Scholl, B. J. (2012). Bar graphs depicting averages are perceptually misinterpreted: The within-the-bar bias. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19(4), 601-607.  
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  67. Liverence, B. M., & Scholl, B. J. (2012). Discrete events as units of perceived time. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 38(3), 549-554.  
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  68. Gao, T., Scholl, B. J., & McCarthy, G. (2012). Dissociating the detection of intentionality from animacy in the right posterior superior temporal sulcus. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(41), 14276-14280.  
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  69. Albrecht, A. R., Scholl, B. J., & Chun, M. M. (2012). Perceptual averaging by eye and ear: Computing summary statistics from multimodal stimuli. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 74(5), 810-815.  
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  70. Franconeri, S. L., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Scholl, B. J. (2012). A simple proximity heuristic allows tracking of multiple objects through occlusion. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 74(4), 691-702.  
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  71. Liverence, B. M., & Scholl, B. J. (2011). Selective attention warps spatial representation: Parallel but opposing effects on attended versus inhibited objects. Psychological Science, 22(12), 1600-1608.  
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  72. Gao, T., & Scholl, B. J. (2011). Chasing vs. stalking: Interrupting the perception of animacy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 37(3), 669-684.  
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  73. Scholl, B. J., & Flombaum, J. I. (2010). Object persistence. In B. Goldstein (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Perception, Volume 2 (pp. 653-657). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.  
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  74. Scholl, B. J., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2010). Statistical learning. In B. Goldstein (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Perception, Volume 2 (pp. 935-938). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.  
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  75. Gao, T., McCarthy, G., & Scholl, B. J. (2010). The wolfpack effect: Perception of animacy irresistibly influences interactive behavior. Psychological Science, 21(12), 1845-1853.  
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  76. Albrecht, A. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2010). Perceptually averaging in a continuous visual world: Extracting statistical summary representations over time. Psychological Science, 21(4), 560-567.  
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  77. Turk-Browne, N. B., Scholl, B. J., Johnson, M. K., & Chun, M. M. (2010). Implicit perceptual anticipation triggered by statistical learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(33), 11177-11187.  
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  78. New, J. J., Schultz, R. T., Wolf, J., Niehaus, J. L., Klin, A., German, T., & Scholl, B. J. (2010). The scope of social attention deficits in autism: Prioritized orienting to people and animals in static natural scenes. Neuropsychologia, 48(1), 51-59.  
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  79. Gao, T., & Scholl, B. J. (2010). Are objects required for object files?: Roles of segmentation and spatiotemporal continuity in computing object persistence. Visual Cognition, 18(1), 82-109.  
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  80. Scholl, B. J. (2009). What have we learned about attention from multiple object tracking (and vice versa)?. In D. Dedrick & L. Trick (Eds.), Computation, cognition, and Pylyshyn (pp. 49-78). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.  
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  81. Gao, T., Newman, G. E., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). The psychophysics of chasing: A case study in the perception of animacy. Cognitive Psychology, 59(2), 154-179.  
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  82. Turk-Browne, N. B., Scholl, B. J., Chun, M. M., & Johnson, M. K. (2009). Neural evidence of statistical learning: Efficient detection of visual regularities without awareness. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(10), 1934-1945.  
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  83. New, J. J., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). Subjective time dilation: Spatially local, object-based, or a global visual experience? Journal of Vision, 9(2):4, 1-11.  
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  84. Turk-Browne, N. B., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). Flexible visual statistical learning: Transfer across space and time. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 35(1), 195-202.  
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  85. Cheries, E. W., Mitroff, S. R., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). Do the same principles constrain persisting object representations in infant cognition and adult perception?: The cases of continuity and cohesion. In B. Hood & L. Santos (Eds.), The origins of object knowledge (pp. 107-134). Oxford University Press.  
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  86. Flombaum, J. I., Scholl, B. J., & Santos, L. R. (2009). Spatiotemporal priority as a fundamental principle of object persistence. In B. Hood & L. Santos (Eds.), The origins of object knowledge (pp. 135-164). Oxford University Press.  
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  87. Doran, M. M., Hoffman, J. E., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). The role of eye fixations in concentration and amplification effects during multiple object tracking. Visual Cognition, 17(4), 574-597.  
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  88. New, J. J., & Scholl, B. J. (2008). 'Perceptual scotomas': A functional account of motion-induced blindness. Psychological Science, 19(7), 653-659.  
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  89. Yi, D-J., Turk-Browne, N. B., Flombaum, J. I., Kim, M., Scholl, B. J., & Chun, M. M. (2008). Spatiotemporal object continuity in human ventral visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(26), 8840-8845.  
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  90. Newman, G. E., Choi, H., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2008). The origins of causal perception: Evidence from postdictive processing in infancy. Cognitive Psychology, 57(3), 262-291.  
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  91. Turk-Browne, N. B., Scholl, B. J., & Chun, M. M. (2008). Babies and brains: Habituation in infant cognition and functional neuroimaging. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2, Article 16.  
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  92. Flombaum, J. I., Scholl, B. J., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2008). Attentional resources in tracking through occlusion: The high-beams effect. Cognition, 107(3), 904-931.  
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  93. Cheries, E. W., Mitroff, S. R., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2008). Cohesion as a principle of object persistence in infancy. Developmental Science, 11(3), 427-432.  
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  94. Turk-Browne, N. B., Isola, P. J., Scholl, B. J., & Treat, T. A. (2008). Multidimensional visual statistical learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 34(2), 399-407.  
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  95. Scholl, B. J. (2007). Object persistence in philosophy and psychology. Mind & Language, 22(5), 563-591.  
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  96. Ben-Shahar, O., Scholl, B. J., & Zucker, S. W. (2007). Attention, segregation, and textons: Bridging the gap between object-based attention and texton-based segregation. Vision Research, 47(6), 173-178.  
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  97. Fiser, J., Scholl, B. J., & Aslin, R. N. (2007). Perceived object trajectories during occlusion constrain visual statistical learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14(1), 173-178.  
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  98. Junge, J. A., Scholl, B. J., & Chun, M. M. (2007). How is spatial context learning integrated over time?: A primacy effect in contextual cueing. Visual Cognition, 15(1), 1-11.  
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  99. Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Noles, N. S. (2007). Object files can be purely episodic. Perception, 36(12), 1730-1735.  
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  100. Cheries, E. W., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). Interrupting infants' persisting object representations: An object-based limit? Developmental Science, 9(5), F50-F58.  
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  101. Flombaum, J. I., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). A temporal same-object advantage in the tunnel effect: Facilitated change detection for persisting objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 32(4), 840-853.  
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  102. Wagemans, J., Van Lier, R., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). Introduction to Michotte's heritage in perception and cognition research. Acta Psychologica, 123(1-2), 1-19.  
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  103. Choi, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). Measuring causal perception: Links to representational momentum? Acta Psychologica, 123(1-2), 91-111.  
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  104. Cheries, E. W., Newman, G. E., Santos, L. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). Units of visual individuation in Rhesus Macaques: Objects or unbound features? Perception, 35(8), 1057-1071.  
    [View abstract, Download/view paper (.pdf)]  
  105. Choi, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). Perceiving causality after the fact: Postdiction in the temporal dynamics of causal perception. Perception, 35(3), 385-399.  
    [View abstract, Download/view paper (.pdf)]  
  106. Most, S. B., Scholl, B. J., Clifford, E., & Simons, D. J. (2005). What you see is what you set: Sustained inattentional blindness and the capture of awareness. Psychological Review, 112(1), 217-242.  
    [View abstract, Download/view paper (.pdf), View demonstrations]  
  107. Turk-Browne, N. B., Junge, J. A., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). The automaticity of visual statistical learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 134(4), 552-564.  
    [View abstract, Download/view paper (.pdf)]  
  108. Alvarez, G. A., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). How does attention select and track spatially extended objects?: New effects of attentional concentration and amplification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 134(4), 461-476.  
    [View abstract, Download/view paper (.pdf), Download/view Online Supplementary Appendix (.pdf), View demonstrations]  
  109. Endress, A. D., Scholl, B. J., & Mehler, J. (2005). The role of salience in the extraction of algebraic rules. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 134(3), 406-419.  
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  110. Mitroff, S. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Forming and updating object representations without awareness: Evidence from motion-induced blindness. Vision Research, 45(8), 961-967.  
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  111. Scholl, B. J. (2005). Innateness and (Bayesian) visual perception: Reconciling nativism and development. In P. Carruthers, S. Laurence, & S. Stich (Eds.), The innate mind: Structure and contents (pp. 34-52). Oxford University Press.  
    [View abstract, Download/view paper (.pdf) preprint (not quite identical to published version!)]  
  112. Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Wynn, K. (2005). The relationship between object files and conscious perception. Cognition, 96(1), 67-92.  
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  113. Marino, A. C. & Scholl, B. J. (2005). The role of closure in defining the 'objects' of object-based attention. Perception & Psychophysics, 67(7), 1140-1149.  
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  114. Noles, N., Scholl, B. J., & Mitroff, S. R. (2005). The persistence of object-file representations. Perception & Psychophysics, 67(2), 324-334.  
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  115. Flombaum, J. I., Kundey, S. M., Santos, L. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). Dynamic object individuation in rhesus macaques: A study of the tunnel effect. Psychological Science, 15(12), 795-800.  
    [View abstract, Download/view paper (.pdf), View demonstrations]  
  116. Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Wynn, K. (2004). Divide and conquer: How object files adapt when a persisting object splits into two. Psychological Science, 15(6), 420-425.  
    [View abstract, Download/view paper (.pdf)]  
  117. Mitroff, S. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). Seeing the disappearance of unseen objects. Perception, 33(10), 1267-1273.  
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  118. Scholl, B. J. (2004). Can infants' object concepts be trained? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8(2), 49-51.  
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  119. Scholl, B. J., & Nakayama, K. (2004). Illusory causal crescents: Misperceived spatial relations due to perceived causality. Perception, 33(4), 455-469.  
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  120. Scholl, B. J., Simons, D. J., & Levin, D. T. (2004). 'Change blindness' blindness: An implicit measure of a metacognitive error. In D. T. Levin (Ed.), Thinking and seeing: Visual metacognition in adults and children (pp. 145-164). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.  
    [View abstract, Download/view paper (.pdf), View demonstrations]  
  121. Choi, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). Effects of grouping and attention on the perception of causality. Perception & Psychophysics, 66(6), 926-942.  
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  122. vanMarle, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2003). Attentive tracking of objects vs. substances. Psychological Science, 14(5), 498-504.  
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  123. Scholl, B. J., & Nakayama, K. (2002). Causal capture: Contextual effects on the perception of collision events. Psychological Science, 13(6), 493-498.  
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  124. Scholl, B. J. (Ed.) (2002). Objects and attention. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.  
    [View table of contents, View cover art, Read jacket blurb]

  125. Scholl, B. J., & Simons, D. J. (2001). Change blindness, Gibson, and the sensorimotor theory of vision. [Commentary] Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(5), 1004-1005.  
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  126. Scholl, B. J. (2001a). Objects and attention: The state of the art. Cognition, 80(1/2), 1-46.  
    [View abstract, Download/view paper (.pdf)]  
  127. Scholl, B. J., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Feldman, J. (2001). What is a visual object? Evidence from target merging in multiple object tracking. Cognition, 80(1/2), 159-177.  
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  128. Most, S. B., Simons, D. J., Scholl, B. J., Jiminez, R., Clifford, E., & Chabris, C. F. (2001). How not to be seen: The contribution of similarity and selective ignoring to sustained inattentional blindness. Psychological Science, 12(1), 9-17.  
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  129. Scholl, B. J., & Leslie, A. M. (2001). Minds, modules, and meta-analysis. Child Development, 72(3), 696-701.
    [Reprinted in M. Mason (Ed.), Taking sides: Clashing views on controversial issues in cognitive science (pp. 34-43). McGraw-Hill.]  
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  130. Scholl, B. J. (2001b). Spatiotemporal Priority and object identity. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive, 20(5), 359-371.  
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  131. Scholl, B. J., & Xu, Y. (2001). The magical number 4 in vision. [Commentary] Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(1), 145-146.  
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  132. Most, S. B., Simons, D. J., Scholl, B. J., & Chabris, C. F. (2000). Sustained inattentional blindness: The role of location in the detection of unexpected dynamic events. Psyche, 6(14).  
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  133. Scholl, B. J., & Tremoulet, P. (2000). Perceptual causality and animacy. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4(8), 299-309.  
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  134. Scholl, B. J. (2000). Attenuated change blindness for exogenously attended items in a flicker paradigm. Visual Cognition, 7(1/2/3), 377-396.
    [Reprinted in D. Simons (Ed.), Change blindness and visual memory (pp. 377-396). Psychology Press.]  
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  135. Scholl, B. J., & Leslie, A. M. (1999b). Explaining the infant's object concept: Beyond the perception/cognition dichotomy. In E. Lepore & Z. Pylyshyn (Eds.), What is cognitive science? (pp. 26-73). Oxford: Blackwell.  
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  136. Scholl, B. J., & Leslie, A. M. (1999a). Modularity, development, and 'Theory of Mind'. Mind & Language, 14(1), 131-153.  
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  137. Scholl, B. J., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (1999). Tracking multiple items through occlusion: Clues to visual objecthood. Cognitive Psychology, 38, 259-290.  
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  138. Leslie, A. M., Xu, F., Tremoulet, P. D., & Scholl, B. J. (1998). Indexing and the object concept: Developing 'what' and 'where' systems. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2(1), 10-18.  
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  139. Scholl, B. J. (1997b). Neural constraints on cognitive modularity? [Commentary] Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20(4), 575-576.  
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  140. Scholl, B. J. (1997a). Reasoning, rationality, and architectural resolution. Philosophical Psychology, 10(4), 451-470.  
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Manuscripts Under Review  
Feel free to email for a copy of any of these manuscripts.
  1. Bai, D., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). The tiger moving through the tall grass: Spontaneous perception and tracking of featureless objects.  
  2. Uddenberg, S., Kwak, J., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). Reconstructing mental representations of block towers: A new bias for physical stability in visual working memory.  
  3. Erdogan, M., Troje, N. F., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). The psychophysical limits of agency: Biological motion percepts disappear in slow-moving displays.  
  4. Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). Attending to attention: Reverse correlation reveals subtle cues to attentiveness in others' faces.  
  5. Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). Foundations of social perception: Eye contact or 'mind contact'?  
  6. Chituc, V., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). The El Greco fallacy, this time with feeling: How (not) to measure group differences in emotional intensity.  
  7. Ongchoco, J. D. K., Wong, K. W., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). The "unfinishedness" of dynamic events is spontaneously extracted in visual perception: A 'Visual Zeigarnik Effect'.  
  8. Chituc, V., Crockett, M. J., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). How to show that a cruel prank is worse than a war crime: Shifting scales and missing benchmarks in the study of moral judgment.  
  9. Raila, H., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). Could some effects of emotion on cognition be driven by visual features, rather than semantic content?: Four case studies using the IAPS images.  
  10. Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). The hierarchy of experience: Memory is differentially disrupted by global vs. local event boundaries.  
  11. van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). Who's chasing whom?: Changing background motion reverses impressions of chasing in perceived animacy.  
  12. Uddenberg, S., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). Ten angry men: Serial reproduction reveals that angry faces are represented as more masculine.  
  13. Uddenberg, S., Newman, G. E., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). Ensemble representations in visual communication: How well can we perceive average values from graphs of raw data?  
  14. Choi, H., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). Incidental change blindness in an extremely simple event.  
  15. Gao, T., New, J. J., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). Attention to intention: The perceived goals of moving shapes control how they are attended.  
 
Working Papers  
  1. Wong, K. W., Shah, A. D., & Scholl, B. J. (in preparation). Seeing from the ground up: Spontaneous perception of 'causal history' due to intuitive physics.  
  2. Bai, D., Weisman, K., Schille-Hudson, E., Ihm, E., Taves, A., Luhrmann, T. M., & Scholl, B. J. (in preparation). Chasing the supernatural: The perception of animacy from motion is related to spiritual experiences.  
  3. Ji, H., & Scholl, B. J. (in preparation). "Visual verbs" drive adaptive predictions: Perception of dynamic event types spontaneously changes visual working memory encoding.  
  4. Walter-Terrill, R., & Scholl, B. J. (in preparation). Spatial affordances trigger spontaneous visual perspective-taking even in the absence of other agents.  
  5. Ongchoco, J. D. K., Scholl, B. J., & Xu, Y. (in preparation). Visual event boundaries attenuate implicit perceptual priming.  
  6. Colombatto, C., Crockett, M. J., & Scholl, B. J. (in preparation). 'Perceptual ageism': As people age, their faces appear less trustworthy but more dominant.  
  7. Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (in preparation). Eye-tracking during 'everyday hallucinations': Scaffolded attention as a function of covert (rather than overt) attention.  
  8. Ongchoco, J. D. K., van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (in preparation). Sensation and imagery combine to form hybrid object representations.  
  9. Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (in preparation). Is memory 'flushed' by the start of a new event, or by the end of an old event?  
  10. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (in preparation). What counts as a shape? Hybrid shape representations revealed by the "tap-the-shape" task.  
  11. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (in preparation). Where do illusory letters come from?: Graphemic restoration is strikingly insensitive to context.  
  12. Chen, H., & Scholl, B. J. (in preparation). The role of visual change in driving motion-induced blindness: Attentional competition vs. perceptual scotomas.  
  13. Scholl, B. J. (in preparation). Academic authorship and the replaceability principle.  
 
Conference Presentations  
  1. Wong, K. W., Shah, A. D., & Scholl, B. J. (2025). Seeing from the ground up: Spontaneous perception of 'causal history' due to intuitive physics. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/20/25, St. Pete Beach, FL.

  2. Bai, D., Weisman, K., Schille-Hudson, E., Ihm, E., Taves, A., Luhrmann, T. M., & Scholl, B. J. (2025). Chasing the supernatural: The perception of animacy from motion is related to spiritual experiences. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/20/25, St. Pete Beach, FL.

  3. Erdogan, M., Nobre, A. C., & Scholl, B. J. (2025). Can you attend broadly in space while attending narrowly in time?: On the generality of attentional breadth. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/20/25, St. Pete Beach, FL.

  4. Verosky, N., & Scholl, B. J. (2025). An event sequence to remember: Abstract temporal structure influences memorability. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/19/25, St. Pete Beach, FL.

  5. Jones, H., Bai, D., Scholl, B. J., & Awh, E. (2025). Electroencephalogram decoding of the attentional selection and tracking of featureless objects. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/19/25, St. Pete Beach, FL.

  6. Ji, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2025). 'Visual verbs' drive adaptive predictions: Perception of dynamic event types spontaneously changes visual working memory encoding. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/18/25, St. Pete Beach, FL.

  7. Walter-Terrill, R., & Scholl, B. J. (2025). Spatial affordances trigger spontaneous visual perspective-taking even in the absence of other agents. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/18/25, St. Pete Beach, FL.

  8. Colombatto, C., McCrackin, S., Scholl, B. J., & Ristic, J. (2025). Eyes vs. attentiveness: Pupil dilation widens the perceived cone of direct gaze. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/17/25, St. Pete Beach, FL.

  9. Sun, Z., Bai, D., Scholl, B. J., & McDougle, S. (2025). Motor adaptation via pure visual change. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement, 4/29/25, Panama City, Panama.

  10. Scholl, B. J. (2025). Event representations in seeing and thinking. Invited talk given at the Columbia Event Cognition: Recent Directions and Current Controversies workshop, 4/2/25, New York, NY.

  11. Scholl, B. J. (2025). Chasing the supernatural: The perception of animacy from motion is related to spiritual experiences. Invited talk given at the Stanford Religious Experience and Perception workshop, 2/28/25, Stanford, CA.

  12. Bai, D., & Scholl, B. J. (2024). Object tracking without objects: Perceiving persistence defined by pure change. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the European Conference on Visual Perception, 8/26/24, Aberdeen, Scotland.

  13. Scholl, B. J. (2024). Interactions between psychology and philosophy: General thoughts and a case study of object persistence. Invited talk given for the Yale Applied Philosophy in Neuroscience workshop on 'A scientist and a philosopher walk into a bar: How can philosophy help brain science?' [with Dan Greco], 7/30/24, New Haven, CT.

  14. Castiello De Obeso, S., Ongchoco, J. D. K., van Buren, B., Scholl, B. J., & Corlett, P. (2024). Paranoid and teleological thinking give rise to distinct social hallucinations in vision. Poster presented at the annual Computational Psychiatry Conference, 7/18/24, Minneapolis, MN.

  15. Scholl, B. J. (2024). Seeing what matters: On the sophistication of visual perception. Invited talk given for the 'Hot Topics in Intelligence Research' series of the Science of Intelligence program, 6/20/24, Berlin, Germany.

  16. Bai, D., & Scholl, B. J. (2024). Do visual objects lose their individuality due to the perception of collective goals?: Evidence from numerical underestimation in the Wolfpack effect. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/21/23, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 24(10), 1399]

  17. Belledonne, M., Yildirim, I., & Scholl, B. J. (2024). The nature and computation of attentional effort: A peak/end rule integrating over moment-by-moment effort during multiple-object tracking. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/20/23, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 24(10), 1187]

  18. Wong, K. W., Shah, A., & Scholl, B. J (2024). Unconscious intuitive physics: Prioritized breakthrough into visual awareness for physically unstable block towers. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/18/23, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 24(10), 452]

  19. Erdogan, M., Bi, W., Yildirim, I., & Scholl, B. J. (2024). Are rich percepts from point-light displays specific to biological motion?: A case study of dynamic point-light cloths. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/18/23, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 24(10), 1271]

  20. Walter-Terrill, R., Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2024). Are effects of perceptual (dis)fluency on social judgments specific to visual processing? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/18/23, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 24(10), 1413]

  21. Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2024). Attending to attention: Reverse correlation reveals how we perceive attentiveness in other people's faces. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Lake Ontario Visionary Establishment, 2/9/24, Niagara Falls, ON, CA.

  22. Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2023). Eye movements during 'everyday hallucinations': Scaffolded attention as a function of covert (rather than overt) attention. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the European Conference on Visual Perception, 8/28/23, Paphos, Cyprus.

  23. Erdogan, M., Troje, N., & Scholl, B. J. (2023). Percepts of biological motion disappear in slow-moving displays: Evidence for domain-specific agent perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/24/23, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 23(9), 5146]

  24. Ongchoco, J. D. K., Wong, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2023). The "unfinishedness" of dynamic events is spontaneously extracted in visual processing: A new 'Visual Zeigarnik Effect'. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/23/23, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 23(9), 4974]

  25. Shah, A., Wong, K., Yildirim, I., & Scholl, B. J. (2023). Perceiving precarity (beyond instability) in block towers. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/23/23, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 23(9), 5992]

  26. Ji, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2023). 'Visual verbs': Dynamic event types (such as twisting vs. rotating) are extracted quickly and spontaneously during visual perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/22/23, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 23(9), 5182]

  27. Wong, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2023). What memories are formed by dynamic 'visual routines'? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/22/23, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 23(9), 5211]

  28. Dhar, P., Ongchoco, J. D. K., Wong, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2023). Somehow, everything has changed: Event boundaries defined only by unnoticed changes in implicit visuospatial statistics drive active forgetting in visual working memory. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/20/23, St. Pete Beach, FL.

  29. McCrackin, S., Colombatto, C., Fratino, V., Scholl, B. J., & Ristic, J. (2022). Pupil dilation widens the perceived cone of direct gaze. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 11/19/22, Boston, MA.

  30. Ongchoco, J. D. K., Graves, K. N., & Scholl, B. J. (2022). Visual event boundaries automatically reset implicit statistical learning. Poster presented at the annual Object Perception, Attention, & Memory meeting, 11/17/22, Boston, MA.

  31. Colombatto, C., Guo, Y., Scholl, B. J., & Ristic, J. (2022). Pupil size modulates gaze cueing. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 11/17/22, Boston, MA.

  32. Scholl, B. J. (2022). Regularity, multiple realizability, and a naive metaphysics of computation. Invited talk given at the 'Metaphysics of Computation' session at the annual meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 11/10/22, Pittsburgh, PA.

  33. Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2022). Attending to attention: Reverse correlation reveals how we perceive attentiveness in other people's faces. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/17/22, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 22(14), 3339]

  34. Walter-Terrill, R., & Scholl, B. J. (2022). Postdiction enhances temporal experience. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/15/22, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 22(14), 3851]

  35. Wong, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2022). Spatial affordances can automatically trigger dynamic visual routines: Spontaneous path tracing in task-irrelevant mazes. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/14/22, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 22(14), 3353]

  36. Ongchoco, J. D. K., Walter-Terrill, R., & Scholl, B. J. (2022). Visual event boundaries promote cognitive reflection over gut intuitions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/14/22, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 22(14), 3305]

  37. Erdogan, M., & Scholl, B. J. (2022). How slow can you go?: Domain-specific psychophysical limits on the perception of animacy in slow-moving displays. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/14/22, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 22(14), 4387]

  38. Koller, W., Ongchoco, J. D. K., Bronstein, M. V., Scholl, B. J., & Cannon, T. (2021). Events are remembered as having occurred more recently in paranoia. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, 11/18/21, Online.

  39. Wong, K. W., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). From here to there: Automatic path tracing in task-irrelevant mazes via dynamic visual routines. Talk given at the annual Object Perception, Attention, & Memory meeting, 11/4/21, Online.

  40. Ongchoco, J. D. K., Koller, W. N., Bronstein, M. V., Yates, T. S., Cannon, T. D., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Out of sync in time and thought: The influence of perceived event segmentation on temporal memory is diminished for individuals high in paranoia. Poster presented at the annual Object Perception, Attention, & Memory meeting, 11/4/21, Online.

  41. Scholl, B. J. (2021). Seeing beyond: Visual perception of agency, causality, and history. Invited talk given at the Rutgers Religious Experience and Perception workshop, 10/8/21, New Brunswick, NJ.

  42. Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Is memory 'flushed' by the start of a new event, or by the end of an old event? Talk given at the annual meeting of the European Conference on Visual Perception, 8/24/21, Online.

  43. van Buren, B., Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Sensation and imagery combine to form hybrid object representations. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the European Conference on Visual Perception, 8/24/21, Online.

  44. Bi, W., Shah, A., Wong, K. W., Scholl, B. J., & Yildirim, I. (2021). Perception of soft materials relies on physics-based object representations: Behavioral and computational evidence. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 7/29/21, Online.

  45. Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). From eyes to minds: Perceiving perception, and attention to attention? Talk given at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 6/30/21, Online.

  46. Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Figments of imagination: 'Scaffolded attention' creates non-sensory object and event representations. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 6/29/21, Online. [Winner, 2021 William James Prize for best graduate student paper]

  47. Scholl, B. J. (2021). Object lessons: Seeing structure in space and time. Invited talk given at the Yale Object Cognition workshop, 6/15/21, New Haven, CT [Virtual].

  48. Berke, M. D., Walter-Terrill, R., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Flexible goals require that inflexible perceptual systems produce veridical representations: Implications for realism as revealed by evolutionary simulations. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/26/21, Online. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2416]

  49. Uddenberg, S., Kwak, J., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Reconstructing physical representations of block towers in visual working memory. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/24/21, Online. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2929]

  50. Ongchoco, J. D. K., Walter-Terrill, R., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Visual event boundaries eliminate anchoring effects: A case study in the power of visual perception to influence decision-making. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/24/21, Online. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2403]

  51. Wong, K. W., Bi, W., Yildirim, I., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Seeing cloth-covered objects: A case study of intuitive physics in perception, attention, and memory. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/23/21, Online. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2211]

  52. Belledonne, M., Butkus, E., Scholl, B. J., & Yildirim, I. (2021). Attentional dynamics during multiple object tracking are explained at subsecond resolution by a new 'hypothesis-driven adaptive computation' framework. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/23/21, Online. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2253]

  53. Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Gazing to look vs. gazing to think: Gaze cueing is modulated by the perception of others' external vs. internal attention. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/23/21, Online. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2800]

  54. Bi, W., Shah, A., Wong, K. W., Scholl, B. J., & Yildirim, I. (2021). Perception of soft materials relies on physics-based object representations: Behavioral and computational evidence. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/23/21, Online. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2624]

  55. Lopez-Brau, M., Colombatto, C., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Attentional prioritization for historical traces of agency. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/22/21, Online. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2748]

  56. Wang, V., Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Here it comes: Working memory is effectively 'flushed' even just by anticipation of an impending visual event boundary. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/22/21, Online. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2379]

  57. Walter-Terrill, R., Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Visual event boundaries eliminate anchoring effects in decision making. Poster presented at the annual Object Perception, Attention, & Memory meeting, 11/18/20, Online.

  58. Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Observed gaze dynamics in social interactions alter the perceived temporal order of events. Talk given at the annual Object Perception, Attention, & Memory meeting, 11/18/20, Online.

  59. Wong, K. W., Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). The temporal resolution of subjective time dilation: Is the 'oddball effect' specific to the oddball itself? Poster presented at the annual Object Perception, Attention, & Memory meeting, 11/18/20, Online.

  60. Yates, T. S., Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Rhythmic reproductions reveal how event segmentation structures temporal experience. Poster presented at the annual Object Perception, Attention, & Memory meeting, 11/18/20, Online.

  61. Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Hallucinating visual structure: Individual differences in 'scaffolded attention'. Poster presented at the annual Object Perception, Attention, & Memory meeting, 11/18/20, Online.

  62. Scholl, B. J. (2020). Roots of aesthetic experience in visual processing? Invited talk given at the American Society for Aesthetics, 11/14/20, Washington, DC [Virtual].

  63. Scholl, B. J. (2020). Teaching seeing: Visual perception as a case study for how to introduce students to the study of the mind. Invited talk given at the 19th International Convention on Psychology, International Education Circle, 10/10/20, Manila, Phillipines [Virtual].

  64. Butkus, E., Belledonne, M., Scholl, B. J., & Yildirim, I. (2020). Modeling temporal attention in dynamic scenes: Hypothesis-driven resource allocation using adaptive computation explains both objective tracking performance and subject effort judgments. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 8/1/20, Online.

  65. Hu, Y., Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). From causal perception to event segmentation: Using spatial memory to reveal how many visual events are involved in causal launching. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/20/20, Online. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 20(11), 469]

  66. Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). The hierarchy of experience: Visual memory is differentially disrupted by local vs. global event boundaries. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/20/20, Online. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 20(11), 464]

  67. Kwak, J., Uddenberg, S., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Will it fall?: Exploring the properties that mediate perceived physical instability. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/20/20, Online. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 20(11), 1750]

  68. Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2019). Scaffolded attention: How imagination creates object representations. Talk given at the annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory meeting, 11/14/19, Montreal, Canada.

  69. Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2019). Unconscious attentional contagion: Faster breakthrough into awareness for faces with dilated pupils. Poster presented at the annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory meeting, 11/14/19, Montreal, Canada

  70. Scholl, B. J. (2019). The science of seeing [in conversation with Larry Kagan]. Invited talk given for the 33rd Babson Lecture at the Montclair Art Museum, 10/24/19, Montclair, NJ.

  71. Scholl. B. J. (2019). From shape and motion to causality and animacy: How Michotte expanded our understanding of the scope of visual perception. Invited symposium talk given at the annual meeting of the European Conference on Visual Perception, 8/26/19, Leuven, Belgium.

  72. Kryven, M., Croom, S., Scholl, B. J., & Tenenbaum, J. (2019). Look out, it's going to fall!: Does physical instability capture attention and lead to distraction? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 7/26/19, Montreal, Canada.

  73. Scholl, B. J. (2019). Do my eyes deceive me? The science of visual awareness. Invited talk given for One Day University, 7/25/19, Philadelphia, PA.

  74. Kryven, M., Croom, S., Scholl, B. J., & Tenenbaum, J. (2019). Look out, it’s going to fall!: A connection between intuitive physics and visual attention? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 7/11/19, San Diego, CA.

  75. Lin, Q., Yousif, S., Scholl, B. J., & Chun, M. (2019). Image memorability is driven by visual and conceptual distinctiveness. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/22/19, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 19(10), 290c]

  76. Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2019). Unconscious pupillometry: Faces with dilated pupils gain preferential access to visual awareness. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/21/19, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 19(10), 218]

  77. Uddenberg, S., Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2019). The speed of demography in face perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/21/19, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 19(10), 229d]

  78. Chen, Y. -C., Chang, A., Rosenberg, M., Scholl, B. J., & Trainor, L. (2019). Are you the sort of person who would like this? Quantifying the typicality of aesthetic taste across seeing and hearing. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/20/19, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 19(10), 174b]

  79. Yousif, S., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2019). Systematic biases in the representation of visual space. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/20/19, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 19(10), 202b]

  80. Ongchoco, J., & Scholl, B. J. (2019). How to create objects with your mind: From object-based attention to attention-based objects. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/18/19, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 19(10), 46c]

  81. Scholl, B. J. (2019). Distinguishing between seeing and thinking helps to reveal how the mind works. Invited address given at the International Convention of Psychological Science, 3/9/19, Paris, France.

  82. Scholl, B. J. (2019). Teaching seeing: Visual perception as a case study for how to introduce students to cognitive science. Invited talk given at the annual Pre-Conference Teaching Institute at the International Convention of Psychological Science, 3/7/19, Paris, France.

  83. van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Who's chasing whom?: Changing background motion reverses impressions of chasing in perceived animacy. Talk given at the annual meeting of the European Conference on Visual Perception, 8/29/18, Trieste, Italy.

  84. Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Illusions of morality: Visual impressions of causality override overt judgment in moral decision making. Talk given at the annual meeting of the European Conference on Visual Perception, 8/27/18, Trieste, Italy.

  85. Kominsky, J., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Retinotopically specific visual adaptation reveals the structure of causal events in perception. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 7/27/18, Madison, WI.

  86. Scholl, B. J. (2018). Let's see what happens: Dynamic events as foundational representations for seeing and thinking. Keynote address given at the joint meeting of the Asia Pacific Conference on Vision and the China Vision Science Conference, 7/13/18, Hangzhou, China.

  87. Chen, Y. -C., Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Looking into the future: An inward bias in aesthetic experience driven only by gaze cues. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/23/18, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 18(10), 1333]

  88. Kominsky, J., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Retinotopically specific adaptation reveals different categories of causal events: Launching vs. entraining. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/23/18, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 18(10), 1323]

  89. Yousif, S., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). The origin of spatial biases: Memory, perception, or action? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/23/18, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 18(10), 1324]

  90. Lin, Q., Yousif, S., Scholl, B. J., & Chun, M. (2018). Visual memorability in the absence of semantic content. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/23/18, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 18(10), 1302]

  91. Uddenberg, S., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Ten angry men: Serial reproduction of faces reveals that angry faces are represented as more masculine. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/20/18, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 18(10), 608]

  92. Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Gaze cueing is tuned to extract the mind behind the gaze: Investigations of 'gaze deflection'. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/19/18, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 18(10), 197]

  93. Ongchoco, J., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). The end of motion: How the structure of simple visual events impacts working memory and enumeration. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/19/18, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 18(10), 84]

  94. van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). The 'Blindfold Test' for deciding whether an effect reflects visual processing or higher-level judgment. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/19/18, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 18(10), 56]

  95. Raila, H., & Scholl, B.J. (2018). Many effects of emotion on cognition may be driven by low-level visual features, rather than semantic content: Four very different case studies using the IAPS images. Poster presented at the annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Emotion Preconference, 3/1/18, Atlanta, GA.

  96. Scholl, B. J. (2017). Do my eyes deceive me? The science of visual awareness. Invited talk given for One Day University, 9/23/17, Providence, RI.

  97. Scholl, B. J. (2017). Cognition does not affect perception. Keynote address given at the annual meeting of the European Conference on Visual Perception, 8/29/17, Berlin, Germany. [Part of the 'Keynote dialogue': 'Two views, one vision: Does cognition penetrate perception?']

  98. Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2017). Gaze cueing is tuned to extract the mind behind the gaze: Investigations of 'gaze deflection'. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the European Conference on Visual Perception, 8/29/17, Berlin, Germany.

  99. Scholl, B. J. (2017). Awareness, access, and visual representation. Invited talk given at the Kavli Workshop on Neural Mechanisms of Attention and Awareness, 7/27/17, New Haven, CT.

  100. Van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2017). The 'blindfold test' for deciding whether an effect reflects visual processing or higher-level judgment. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 6/30/17, Baltimore, MD.

  101. Scholl, B J. (2017). How does seeing relate to thinking? Keynote address given at the first annual Simon Fraser Cognitive Science Workshop, 6/3/17, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

  102. Yousif, S. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2017). The one-is-more illusion: Sets of discrete objects appear less extended than equivalent continuous entities in both space and time. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/24/17, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 17(10), 1387]

  103. Lowet, A., Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2017). Seeing structure: Perceived similarity is driven by shape skeletons. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/24/17, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 17(10), 1380]

  104. Uddenberg, S., & Scholl, B. J. (2017). Angrier = Blacker?: The influence of emotional expression on the representation of race in faces, measured with serial reproduction. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/23/17, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 17(10), 912]

  105. Chen, Y. -C., Raila, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2017). Sad minds seeking happy stimuli: Trait happiness predicts how quickly happy faces reach visual awareness. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/23/17, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 17(10), 1210]

  106. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2017). Seeing physics in the blink of an eye. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/20/17, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 17(10), 203]

  107. Van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2017). Who's chasing whom?: Changing background motion reverses impressions of chasing in perceived animacy. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/20/17, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 17(10), 214]

  108. Colombatto, C., van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2017). 'Mind contact': Might eye-gaze effects actually reflect more general phenomena of perceived attention and intention? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/20/17, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 17(10), 60]

  109. Raila, H., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2017). Unhappy people quickly promote happy faces into awareness. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science, 4/29/17, Boston, MA

  110. Scholl, B. J. (2016). Now you see it, now you don't: The science of visual awareness. Invited talk given at the Branford Forum, 11/20/16, Branford, CT.

  111. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2016). Seeing stability: Perception and attention extract features of intuitive physics. Talk given at the annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory meeting, 11/17/16, Boston, MA.

  112. Scholl, B. J. (2016). Dynamic events as foundational units of perception and cognition. Invited talk given for the Rutgers 250 Celebration, 11/9/16, New Brunswick, NJ.

  113. Scholl, B. J. (2016). Do my eyes deceive me? The science of visual awareness. Invited talk given for One Day University, 9/25/16, Washington, DC.

  114. Scholl, B. J. (2016). Let's see what happens: Dynamic events as foundational units of perception and cognition. Invited keynote address given at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 8/11/16, Philadelphia, PA.

  115. Scholl, B. J. (2016). Perceiving the social and physical world. Invited talk given at the ONR MURI meeting on Understanding scenes and events through joint parsing, cognitive reasoning, and lifelong learning, 8/2/16, Oxford, England.

  116. Ward, E., Bear, A., & Scholl, B. J. (2016). Can you perceive ensembles without perceiving individuals?: The role of statistical perception in determining whether awareness overflows access. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 6/6/16, Austin, TX.

  117. van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2016). Minds in motion in memory: Enhanced spatial memory driven by the perceived animacy of simple shapes. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, 5/27/16, Chicago, IL.

  118. Scholl, B. J. (2016). Computation, Cognition, Pylyshyn. Invited talk given at the ZenFest meeting in honor of Zenon Pylyshyn, 5/20/16, Piscataway, NJ.

  119. Uddenberg, S., Newman, G., & Scholl, B. J. (2016). Perceptual averaging of scientific data: Implications of ensemble representations for the perception of patterns in graphs. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/17/16, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 16(12), 1081]

  120. van Buren, B., Gao, T., & Scholl, B. J. (2016). What are the underlying units of perceived animacy?: Chasing detection is intrinsically object-based. Talk Given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/15/16, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 16(12), 394]

  121. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2016). Seeing stability: Intuitive physics automatically guides selective attention. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/15/16, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 16(12), 689]

  122. Kominsky, J., & Scholl, B. J. (2016). Retinotopic adaptation reveals multiple distinct categories of causal perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/14/16, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 16(12), 333]

  123. Scholl, B. J. (2016). Some (mildly outrageous?) thoughts about the role of fMRI in Psychology. Invited presentation as part of a debate with Nancy Kanwisher on How (and How Much) Do fMRI Studies Contribute to Psychology?, Northwestern University Cognitive Science Program, 4/12/16, Evanston, IL.

  124. Scholl, B. J. (2016). Now you see it, now you don't: The science of visual awareness. Invited talk given at the Yale Club of Southern Arizona, 2/25/16, Tuscon, AZ.

  125. Scholl, B. J. (2015). Do my eyes deceive me? The science of visual awareness. Invited talk given for One Day University, 10/25/15, New York, NY.

  126. Samanez-Larkin, G., & Scholl, B. J. (2015). The science and practice of graphing data. Talk given at the Yale Department of Psychology Cognitive Lunch seminar, 9/22/15, New Haven, CT.

  127. Scholl, B. J. (2015). Seeing and representing visual events. Invited talk given at the Vision Meets Cognition workshop at CVPR, 6/11/15, Boston, MA.

  128. Scholl, B. J. (2015). Just look: Three things I learned from Ken, and one thing I didn't (yet). Invited comments delivered at the Harvard Vision Lab 100 Celebration (in honor of Ken Nakayama), 5/23/15, Cambridge, MA.

  129. van Buren, B., Uddenberg, S., & Scholl, B. J. (2015). The automaticity of perceiving animacy: Seeing goal-directed motion in simple shapes influences visuomotor behavior even when task-irrelevant. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/19/15, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 15(12), 1187]

  130. Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2015). The perception of history: Seeing causal history in static shapes is powerful enough to induce illusory motion perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/19/15, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 15(12), 1035]

  131. Uddenberg, S., & Scholl, B. J. (2015). Revealing mental defaults in face space with serial reproduction. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/19/15, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 15(12), 1214]

  132. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2015). Can you simultaneously represent a figure as both an object and an open contour? Hybrid shape representations revealed by the 'tap-the-shape' task. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/19/15, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 15(12), 1125]

  133. Ward, E. J., & Scholl, B. J. (2015). Inattentional blindness reflects limitations on perception, not memory: Evidence from repeated failures of awareness. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/16/15, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 15(12), 182]

  134. Scholl, B. J. (2015). There are no top-down effects on perception. Invited talk given at the annual Concepts, Actions, and Objects workshop, 5/9/15, Rovereto, Italy.

  135. Scholl, B. J. (2015). Core knowledge grows up. Keynote address given at the annual Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, 1/10/15, Budapest, Hungary.

  136. Scholl, B. J. (2014). There are no (interesting) top-down effects on perception. Invited talk given as part of an NYU Center for Mind, Brain, & Consciousness debate (moderated by Ned Block and Dave Chalmers), 12/4/14, New York, NY.

  137. Scholl, B. J. (2014). Vision from the top down. Invited talk given at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 6/20/14, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

  138. van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2014). Perceived animacy influences other forms of visual processing: Improved sensitivity to the orientations of intentionally moving objects. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/20/14, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 14(10), 1058a]

  139. Meyerhoff, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2014). Auditory-induced bouncing is a visual (rather than a cognitive) phenomenon: Evidence from illusory crescents. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/18/14, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 14(10), 1058a]

  140. Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2014). Seeing and liking from the outside in: Consistent inward biases in visual perception and aesthetic preferences. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/17/14, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 14(10), 1058a]

  141. Scholl, B. J. (2014). Philosophical vision. Invited talk given at the Carleton College Royfest gathering in honor of Roy Elveton, 4/19/14, Northfield, MN.

  142. Meyerhoff, H. S., & Scholl, B. J. (2014). Auditory-induced bouncing is a visual (rather than a cognitive) phenomenon: Evidence from illusory crescents. Talk given at the annual Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen / Conference of Experimental Psychology, 4/1/14, Giessen, Germany.

  143. Scholl, B. J. (2014). Optimality and the lack thereof in perception and choice. Invited commentary given at the Yale Workshop on Perception and Choice, 3/7/14, New Haven, CT.

  144. Raila, H., Scholl, B. J., & Gruber, J. (2014). Seeing the world through rose-colored glasses: People who are happy and satisfied with life preferentially attend to positive stimuli. Poster presented at the annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Emotion Preconference, 2/1/14, Austin, TX.

  145. Liverence, B. M., & Scholl, B. J. (2013). Object persistence and environmental geometry enhance spatial navigation: A case study in smartphone vision science. Talk given at the annual Object Perception Attention and Memory meeting, 11/14/13, Toronto, ON, Canada.

  146. Scholl, B. J. (2013). A vision of philosophy. Invited talk given at the Princeton seminar on Time, Consciousness, and Reality: Cognitive Science and/or the Armchair, 10/24/13, Princeton, NJ.

  147. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2013). 'Top-down' effects where none should be found: The El Greco fallacy in perception research. Talk given at the annual meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 7/9/13, Granady, Spain.

  148. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2013). 'Top-down' effects where none should be found: The El Greco fallacy in perception research. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 6/14/13, Providence, RI. [Winner, 2013 William James Prize for best graduate student paper]

  149. Scholl, B. J. (2013). Some (mildly outrageous?) thoughts about the role of fMRI in CogSci. Invited presentation as part of a debate with Rebecca Saxe on The Role of fMRI in Cognitive Science, Harvard University MBB Program, 5/2/13, Cambridge, MA.

  150. Ward, E., & Scholl, B. J. (2013). Making the switch: Transient unconscious cues can disambiguate bistable images. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/14/13, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 13(9), 1107a]

  151. Albrecht, A. R., Scholl, B. J., & McCarthy, G. (2013). Is perceptual averaging an ability or a reflex? Electrophysiological evidence for automatic averaging. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/14/13, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 13(9), 1058a]

  152. Chen, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2013). Congruence with items held in visual working memory boosts invisible stimuli into awareness: Evidence from motion-induced blindness. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/13/13, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 13(9), 808a]

  153. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2013). 'Top-down' effects where none should be found: The El Greco fallacy in perception research. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/13/13, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 13(9), 780a]

  154. Liverence, B. M., & Scholl, B. J. (2013). Object persistence enhances spatial navigation in visual menus: A case study in smartphone vision science. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/13/13, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 13(9), 809a]

  155. De Freitas, J., Liverence, B. M., & Scholl, B. J. (2013). Visual and auditory object-based attention driven by rhythmic structure over time. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/11/13, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 13(9), 152a]

  156. Chen, Y., & Scholl, B. J. (2013). Seeing and liking: Biased perception of ambiguous figures based on aesthetic preferences for how objects should face within a frame. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/13, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 13(9), 59a]

  157. Scholl, B. J. (2013). Now you see it, now you don't: The science of visual awareness. Invited talk given at the Science Saturdays program, 4/16/13, New Haven, CT.

  158. De Freitas, J., Liverence, B. M., & Scholl, B. J. (2013). Visual and auditory object-based attention driven by rhythmic structure over time. Talk given at the annual New England Sequencing and Timing meeting, 3/9/13, Amherst, MA.

  159. Scholl, B. J. (2013). Awareness, access, and visual representation. Invited talk given at the Oxford workshop on Perception, Awareness, and Competition, 2/2/13, Oxford, England.

  160. Scholl, B. J. (2013). Seeing (and not seeing). Invited talk given at the CogSci Connects conference, 1/5/13, University Town, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

  161. Scholl, B. J. (2012). Thoughts on "top-down" effects on perception. Invited commentary given at the NYU Workshop on the Modularity of Perception, 12/2/12, New York, NY.

  162. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2012). 'Please tap the shape, anywhere you like': An exceedingly simple measure exposes skeletal shape representations. Talk given at the annual Object Perception Attention and Memory meeting, 11/15/12, Minneapolis, MN. [Winner, OPAM Best Paper award]

  163. Scholl, B. J. (2012). Philosophical vision. Presidential address given at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 6/23/12, Boulder, CO.

  164. Strickland, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2012). Triggering "event types" in visual cognition: Containment, occlusion, and the visual cues that separate them. Talk given at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Infant Studies, 6/7/12, Minneapolis, MN.

  165. Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2012). "Please tap the shape, anywhere you like": The psychological reality of shape skeletons. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/15/12, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 12(9), 1155a]

  166. Strickland, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2012). "Event type" representations in vision are triggered rapidly and automatically: A case study of containment vs. occlusion. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/15/12, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 12(9), 1103a]

  167. Albrecht, A., & Scholl, B. J. (2012). Perceptual size averaging: It's not just for circles anymore. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/14/12, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 12(9), 930a]

  168. Liverence, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2012). Attentional selection increases the refresh rate of perception: Evidence from multiple-object tracking. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/13/12, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 12(9), 454a]

  169. Suben, A., & Scholl, B. J. (2012). Recently disoccluded objects are preferentially attended during multiple-object tracking. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/13/12, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 12(9), 542a]

  170. Kominsky, J., & Scholl, B. J. (2012). The window of 'postdiction' in visual perception is flexible: Evidence from causal perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/12/12, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 12(9), 309a]

  171. De Freitas, J., Liverence, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2012). Attentional rhythm: A temporal analogue of object-based attention. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/12/12, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 12(9), 257a]

  172. Scholl, B. J. (2011). Perceptual roots of metaphysical intuitions? Invited talk given at the annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern division), 12/30/11, Washington, DC.

  173. Scholl, B. J. (2011). Active inhibition of visual awareness. Invited talk given at the NYU/Donders meeting on Attention, Expectation, and Awareness, 11/20/11, New York, NY.

  174. Scholl, B. J. (2011). It's alive!: Some visual roots of social cognition. Keynote address given at the annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory meeting, 11/3/11, Seattle, WA.

  175. Liverence, B. M., & Scholl, B. J. (2011). Selective inhibition of change detection along the axis of motion: A case study of perception compensating for its own limitations. Talk given at the annual Object Perception Attention and Memory meeting, 11/3/11, Seattle, WA.

  176. Scholl, B. J. (2011). Social vision from motion. Invited talk given at the Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior Symposium on Social Vision, 9/18/11, Cambridge, MA.

  177. Scholl, B. J. (2011). Really perceiving animacy. Invited talk given at the McMaster workshop on Social Perception, 6/11/11, Hamilton, ON.

  178. Scholl, B. J. (2011). Perceiving animacy in geometric shapes. Invited talk given at the Images of Animate Movement: Representations of Life conference, 5/28/11, Basel, Switzerland.

  179. Gao, T., New, J. J., & Scholl, B. J. (2011). Perceived biological agency in a 'slithering snake' animation. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/11, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 11(11), 217a]

  180. Albrecht, A. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2011). Perceptual averaging by eye and ear: Computing visual and auditory summary statistics from multimodal stimuli. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/11, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 11(11), 1210a]

  181. Liverence, B. M., & Scholl, B. J. (2011). Sustained selective attention warps perceived space: Parallel and opposing effects on attended and inhibited objects. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/9/11, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 11(11), 223a]

  182. Scholl, B. J. (2010). Twelve minutes' worth of thoughts on the future of psychological science. Invited talk given at the Johns Hopkins University Futures Seminar on Psychological and Brain Sciences, 12/16/10, Baltimore, MD.

  183. Gao, T., & Scholl, B. J. (2010). Perceived intentionality controls attentional tracking. Talk given at the annual Object Perception Attention and Memory meeting, 11/18/10, St. Louis, MO.

  184. Gao, T., Scholl, B. J., & McCarthy, G. (2010). Distinguishing intentionality from animacy in the posterior superior temporal sulcus. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, 11/16/10, San Diego, CA.

  185. Scholl, B. J. (2010). It's alive!: Perceiving intentional objects. Invited talk given at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 6/12/10, Portland, OR.

  186. Strickland, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2010). Representations of "event types" in visual cognition: The case of containment vs. occlusion. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/12/10, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 10(7), 183a]

  187. Gao, T., & Scholl, B. J. (2010). Chasing vs. stalking: Interrupting the perception of animacy. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/11/10, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 10(7), 239a]

  188. Liverence, B. M., & Scholl, B. J. (2010). Do we experience events in terms of time, or time in terms of events? Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/10, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 10(7), 295a]

  189. Albrecht, A., & Scholl, B. J. (2010). The nature of perceptual averaging: Automaticity, selectivity, and simultaneity. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/9/10, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 10(7), 1252a]

  190. Scholl, B. J. (2009). The logic of seeing (and not seeing). Invited talk given at the ANU workshop on Attention and Consciousness, Australian National University, 6/25/09, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

  191. McCarthy, G., Gao, T., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). Processing animacy in the posterior superior temporal sulcus. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/13/09, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 9(8), 775a]

  192. Ellner, S., Flombaum, J. I., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). Extrapolation vs. individuation in multiple object tracking. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/12/09, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 9(8), 250a]

  193. Albrecht, A. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). Perceptually averaging in a continuous visual world: Extracting statistical summary representations over time. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/11/09, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 9(8), 957a]

  194. Gao, T., McCarthy, G., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). 'Directionality' as an especially powerful cue to perceived animacy: Evidence from 'wolfpack' manipulations. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/09, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 9(8), 680a]

  195. Betzler, R. J., Turk-Browne, N. B., Christiansen, M. H., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). Statistical learning in everyday perception: The case of variable segment lengths. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/09, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 9(8), 929a]

  196. New, J. J., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). The functional nature of motion-induced blindness: Further explorations of the 'perceptual scotoma' hypothesis. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/9/09, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 9(8), 253a]

  197. Sloane, S., Baillargeon, R., Simons, D. J., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). Can infants maintain their representations of hidden objects through an interrupting event? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, 4/2/09, Denver, CO.

  198. Turk-Browne, N. B., Scholl, B. J., Johnson, M. K., & Chun, M. M. (2008). Prospection during incidental visual statistical learning of predictive temporal regularities. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, 11/15/08, Washington, DC.

  199. Scholl, B. J. (2008). Varieties of social attention. Talk given at the working meeting on The Cognitive Phenotype in Autism, 9/7/08, New York, NY.

  200. Scholl, B. J. (2008). Two kinds of experimental philosophy, and their methodological dangers. Talk given at the SPP Workshop on Experimental Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 6/25/08, Philadelphia, PA.

  201. New, J. J., Schultz, R. T., Wolf, J., Niehaus, J. L., Klin, A., German, T., & Scholl, B. J. (2008). The scope of social attention deficits in autism: Prioritized orienting to people and animals in static natural scenes. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/12/08, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 8(6), 684a]

  202. Turk-Browne, N. B., Johnson, M. K., Chun, M. M., & Scholl, B. J. (2008). Neural evidence of statistical learning: Incidental detection and anticipation of regularities. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/12/08, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 8(6), 695a]

  203. Flombaum, J. J., & Scholl, B. J. (2008). How does attention operate during multiple object tracking?: Evidence from the 'slot-machine' task for parallel access to target features. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/08, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 8(6), 223a]

  204. Gao, T., Newman, G. E., & Scholl, B. J. (2008). The psychophysics of chasing. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/08, Naples, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 8(6), 314a]

  205. Cheries, E., Feigenson, L., Scholl, B. J., & Carey, S. (2008). Cues to object persistence in infancy: Tracking objects through occlusion vs. implosion. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, 3/29/08, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

  206. Scholl, B. J. (2008). Perceived animacy, modularity, and the psychophysics of chasing. Talk given at the ONR workshop on Spanning the Socio-Cognitive Modeling Gap: From Development to Social Simulation, MIT, 2/29/08, Cambridge, MA.

  207. Nurmsoo, E., & Scholl, B. J. (2007). Word learning and unlearning: Preschoolers revise the meanings of newly learned words. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 7/10/07, Geneva, Switzerland.

  208. Flombaum, J., & Scholl, B. (2007). Attending to moving vs. static stimuli: A surprising dissociation in multiple object tracking. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/15/07, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 7(9), 894a]

  209. Gao, T., & Scholl, B. (2007). Are objects required for object-files? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/15/07, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 7(9), 916a]

  210. New, J., & Scholl, B. (2007). A 'perceptual scotoma' theory of motion-induced blindness. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/15/07, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 7(9), 779a]

  211. Newman, G., Choi, H., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. (2007). The origins of causal perception: Evidence from postdictive processing in infancy. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/15/07, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 7(9), 917a]

  212. White, A., & Scholl, B. (2007). Inattentional blindness, object persistence, and foveal inhibition. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/13/07, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 7(9), 540a]

  213. Isola, P., Turk-Browne, N., & Scholl, B. (2007). Multidimensional visual statistical learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/11/07, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 7(9), 43a]

  214. Scholl, B. J., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2006). Constraints on visual statistical learning reveal its underlying nature. Talk given in the Statistical learning: Mechanisms and limitations symposium, Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 11/18/06, Houston, TX.

  215. Doran, M. M., Hoffman, J. E., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). The role of eye fixations in amplification and concentration effects during MOT. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 11/18/06, Houston, TX. [Abstract published in Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 11, p. 134]

  216. Scholl, B. J. (2006). The future of cognitive science (education). Invited discussion presented at the Cognitive Science Curriculum Workshop, Indiana University, 6/27/06, Bloomington, IN.

  217. Scholl, B. J. (2006). Object persistence. Invited talk given at the Mind & Language Workshop on 'Objects', 6/9/06, London, England.

  218. Franconeri, S. L., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). Spatiotemporal cues for tracking multiple objects through occlusion. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 1102a]

  219. Junge, J. A., Chun, M. M., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). Primacy effects in contextual cueing. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 1089a]

  220. Isola, P. J., Turk-Browne, N. B., Scholl, B. J., and Treat, T. A. (2006). The units of visual statistical learning: Features or objects? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/9/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 981a]

  221. Shankar, M. U., Flombaum, J. I., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). The role of topological change in object persistence. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/9/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 988a]

  222. Yi, D., Turk-Browne, N. B., Flombaum, J. I., Scholl, B. J., and Chun, M. M. (2006). Effects of spatiotemporal object continuity on repetition attenuation in human fusiform gyrus. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/9/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 815a]

  223. Flombaum, J. I., Scholl, B. J., and Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2006). 'Attentional high-beams' in tracking through occlusion. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/8/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 765a]

  224. Turk-Browne, N. B., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). The space-time continuum: Spatial visual statistical learning produces temporal processing advantages. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/8/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 676a]

  225. New, J. J., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). The spatial distribution of subjective time dilation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/7/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 597a]

  226. Cheries, E. W., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). Interrupting infants' persisting object representations: An object-based limit? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/6/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 298a]

  227. Choi, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2006). Blindness to swapping features in simple dynamic events. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/6/06, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 6(6), 299a]

  228. Scholl, B. J. (2006). Using MOT to study object persistence and object-based attention. Talk given at the Pre-Conference Workshop on 'Twenty years of multiple object tracking: What have we learned?', Vision Sciences Society, 5/5/06, Sarasota, FL.

  229. Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Wynn, K. (2005). One plus one equals one: The effects of merging on object files. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 11/11/05, Toronto, Canada.

  230. Franconeri, S. L., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Spatiotemporal cues for tracking multiple objects through occlusion. Talk given at the annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory meeting, 11/10/05, Toronto, Canada. [Summary published in Visual Cognition (2006), 14(1), 100-103]

  231. Scholl, B. J. (2005). The nature of causal perception. Invited talk given at the 2005 J. R. Nuttin Workshop, The Legacy of Albert Michotte, 9/24/05, Leuven, Belgium.

  232. Scholl, B. J. (2005). Objects and attention. Invited talk given at the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science Symposium (German-American meeting), 6/4/05, Irvine, CA.

  233. Turk-Browne, N. B., Junge, J. A., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Attention and automaticity in visual statistical learning. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/11/05, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 5(8), 1067a]

  234. Mitroff, S. R., Cheries, E. W., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Cohesion as a principle of object persistence in infants and adults. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/05, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 5(8), 1043a]

  235. Choi, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Can the perception of causality be measured with representational momentum? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/9/05, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 5(8), 655a]

  236. Scholl, B. J., & Alvarez, G. A. (2005). How does attention select and track spatially extended objects?: New effects of attentional concentration and amplification. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/9/05, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 5(8), 640a]

  237. Flombaum, J. I., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Visual working memory for dynamic objects: Manipulations of motion and persistence in sequential change detection. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/8/05, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 5(8), 613a]

  238. Junge, J. A., Turk-Browne, N. B., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Visual statistical learning through intervening noise. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/8/05, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 5(8), 421a]

  239. Noles, N. S., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). What's in an object file? Integral vs. separable features. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/8/05, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 5(8), 614a]

  240. Cheries, E., Feigenson, L., Scholl, B. J., & Carey, S. (2005). Cues to object persistence in infancy: Tracking objects through occlusion vs. implosion. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/7/05, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 5(8), 352a]

  241. DiMase, J. S., Chun, M. M., Scholl, B. J., Wolfe, J. M., & Horowitz, T. S. (2005). Learning scenes while tracking disks: The effect of MOT load on picture recognition. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/6/05, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 5(8), 73a]

  242. Scholl, B. J. (2005). The nature and importance of object tracking. Invited talk given at the 'Zencon' conference in honor of Zenon Pylyshyn, 5/1/05, Guelph, Ontario.

  243. Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Wynn, K. (2005). What vision researchers can learn from infants: Evidence of core principles guiding adult object persistence. Invited talk given at the ESRC Council Symposium on Comparative Issues in Object Representation, 4/23/05, New Haven, CT.

  244. Cheries, E., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). What infancy researchers can learn from adults: Evidence of core principles guiding infant object persistence. Invited talk given at the ESRC Council Symposium on Comparative Issues in Object Representation, 4/23/05, New Haven, CT.

  245. Flombaum, J. I., Santos, L. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Persisting object representations in adult monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and humans. Invited talk given at the ESRC Council Symposium on Comparative Issues in Object Representation, 4/22/05, New Haven, CT.

  246. Mitroff, S. R., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Exploring persisting object representations with infants and adults. Talk given at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, 4/10/05, Chicago, IL

  247. Scholl, B. J. (2005). The nature of causal perception. Invited talk given at the AHRB Workshop on Causal Understanding, 4/1/05, Warwick, England.

  248. Scholl, B. J. (2004). Persisting persisting objects. Invited symposium talk given at the First Joint Conference of the Society for Philosophy & Psychology and the European Society for Philosophy & Psychology, 7/6/04, Barcelona, Spain.

  249. Cheries, E., Santos, L. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). Units of visual identification in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): Objects or unbound visual features? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/4/04, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 4(8), 819a]

  250. Flombaum, J. I., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). A temporal same-object advantage for persisting objects: Change-detection studies of the 'tunnel effect'. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/4/04, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 4(8), 730a]

  251. Fiser, J., Scholl, B. J., & Aslin, R. N. (2004). Perception of object trajectories during occlusion constrains statistical learning of visual features. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/4/04, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 4(8), 189a]

  252. Mitroff, S. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). Online grouping and segmentation without awareness: Evidence from motion-induced blindness. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/4/04, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 4(8), 201a]

  253. Sussman, R. S., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). Finding the mean: The flexibility and limitations of visual statistical processing. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/4/04, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 4(8), 727a]

  254. Choi, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). The temporal dynamics of causal perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/3/04, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 4(8), 571a]

  255. Scholl, B. J., & Feigenson, L. (2004). When out of sight is out of mind: Perceiving object persistence through occlusion vs. implosion. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/1/04, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 4(8), 26a]

  256. Marino, A. C., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). The role of closure in defining the 'objects' of object-based attention. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 4/30/04, Sarasota, FL.[Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 4(8), 270a]

  257. Mitroff, S. R., Wynn, K., Scholl, B. J., Johnson, S. P., & Shuwairi, S. M. (2004). 'Bouncing vs. streaming' as a measure of infants' dynamic object individuation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society on Infant Studies, 5/?/04, Chicago, IL.

  258. Cheries, E., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). Limits on the number of active object indexes in infancy. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society on Infant Studies, 5/?/04, Chicago, IL.

  259. Nunes, A., & Scholl, B. J. (2004). Interactions between convergence angle, traffic load, and altitude distribution in air traffic control. Paper presented at the annual Human Performance, Situation Awareness and Automation Technology Conference, 3/?/04, Daytona Beach, FL. [Paper published in Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference on Human Performance, Situation Awareness and Automation Technology]

  260. Weierich, M. R., Treat, T. A., & Scholl, B. J. (2003). Attentional capture and disengagement in specific phobia. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, 11/21/03, Boston, MA.

  261. Scholl, B. J., Ben-Shahar, O., & Marino, A. (2003). What counts as an 'object' of object-based attention? Talk given at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 11/8/03, Vancouver, Canada. [Abstract published in Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 8, p. 176]

  262. Mitroff, S. R., & Scholl, B. J. (2003). Perceiving the disappearance of unseen objects in motion-induced blindness. Talk given at the annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory meeting, 11/6/03, Vancouver, Canada.

  263. Scholl, B. J., Noles, N. S., Pasheva, V., & Sussman, R. (2003). Talking on a cellular telephone dramatically increases 'sustained inattentional blindness'. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/13/03, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 3(9), 156a]

  264. Ben-Shahar, O., Scholl, B. J., & Zucker, S. (2003). Where objects come from: Attention, segmentation, and textons. Vision Sciences Society. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/10/03, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 3(9), 474a]

  265. Choi, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2003). Effects of grouping and attention on the perception of causality. Vision Sciences Society. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/11/03, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 3(9), 544a]

  266. Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Wynn, K. (2003). The relationship between object files and conscious perception. Vision Sciences Society. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/9/03, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 3(9), 338a]

  267. Noles, N. S., & Scholl, B. J. (2003). The persistence of object-file representations. Vision Sciences Society. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/9/03, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 3(9), 324a]

  268. vanMarle, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2003). Attentive tracking of objects vs. substances. Vision Sciences Society. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/11/03, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 3(9), 586a]

  269. Scholl, B. J., and Nevarez, H. G. (2002). Why so slow?: The role of speed discontinuities in maintaining object persistence through occlusion. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 11/22/02, Kansas City, MO. [Abstract published in Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 7, p. 19]

  270. Scholl, B. J. (2002). Perceiving persisting objects. Invited address given at the First International Workshop on Attention and Cognition, 10/8/02, Kyoto, Japan.

  271. Scholl, B. J. (2002). The units of attention. Invited address given at the Second International Symposium on the Integrative use of Internal Knowledge and External Information in Human Cognition, 10/4/02, Kyoto, Japan.

  272. Scholl, B. J. (2002). Attention, awareness, and metacognition. Talk given at the Kent Forum on Visual Metacognition, 6/3/02, Millersburg, OH.

  273. Scholl, B. J., & Feldman, J. (2002). The temporal dynamics of object formation in object-based attention. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/11/02, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 2(7), 248a]

  274. Scholl, B. J. (2002). Commentary on Gallistel (2000). Commentary given at the Hang Seng Workshop on Innateness and the Structure of Mind, 4/6/02, Sheffield, England.

  275. Scholl, B. J., & Nakayama, K. (2001). Causal capture: Contextual effects on the perception of collision events. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/8/01, Sarasota, FL.

  276. Scholl, B. J., & Nakayama, K. (2000). Contextual effects on the perception of causality. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 11/18/00, New Orleans, LA. [Abstract published in Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 5, 91]

  277. Scholl, B. J., Simons, D. J., & Levin, D. T. (2000). Implicit beliefs about change detection and change blindness. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 11/17/00, New Orleans, LA. [Abstract published in Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 5, 29]

  278. Most, S. B., Clifford, E., Scholl, B. J., & Simons, D. J. (2000). What you see is what you set: The role of attentional set in explicit attentional capture. Poster presented at the Object Perception and Memory meeting, 11/16/00, New Orleans, LA.

  279. Singh, M., & Scholl, B. J. (2000). Using attentional cueing to explore part structure. Poster presented at the Object Perception and Memory meeting, 11/16/00, New Orleans, LA.

  280. Scholl, B. J., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Feldman, J. (2000). What is a visual object? Evidence from 'target merging' in multiple object tracking. Talk given at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 5/4/00, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. [Abstract published as: (2000). Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 41(4), S759]

  281. Scholl, B. J., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Feldman, J. (1999). What is a visual object? Evidence from multi-element tracking. Poster presented at the Object Perception and Memory meeting, 11/18/99, Los Angeles, CA.

  282. Most, S., Simons, D., & Scholl, B. J. (1999). Prolonged inattentional blindness for a visually distinctive, dynamic event. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the European Conference on Visual Perception, 8/25/99, Trieste, Italy.

  283. Scholl, B. J. (1999). Two ways of asking 'What is a visual object?' (and some answers). Invited talk given at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 8/21/99, Vancouver, British Columbia.

  284. Scholl, B. J. (1999). Objecthood in cognitive development and visual attention. Invited talk given at the Rutgers Symposium on Learning: Object Cognition, 5/22/99, Piscataway, NJ.

  285. Scholl, B. J., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Franconeri, S. (1999). When are spatiotemporal and featural properties encoded as a result of attentional allocation? Talk given at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 5/13/99, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. [Abstract published as: (1999). Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 40(4), S797]

  286. Scholl, B. J. (1999). Detecting changes during 3 types of attentional allocation. Talk given at the vision/attention mini-conference at the Eastern Psychological Association, 4/16/99, Providence, RI.

  287. Scholl, B. J. (1998). Change blindness and exogenous attentional capture. Talk given at the Object Perception and Memory meeting, 11/19/98, Dallas, TX.

  288. Scholl, B. J., & Leslie, A. M. (1998). Modularity, development, and 'theory of mind'. Talk given at the 24th annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 6/11/98, Minneapolis, MN.

  289. Scholl, B. J., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (1998). Tracking multiple items through occlusion: Clues to visual objecthood. Talk given at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 5/14/98, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. [Abstract published as: (1998). Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 39(4), S872]

  290. Scholl, B. J. (1997). Cognitive development and cognitive architecture: Two senses of 'surprise'. Talk given at the 23rd annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 5/5/97, New York. [Winner: The 1997 William James prize for best graduate student paper]