Publications

Peer-reviewed articles 

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2023 and "in press"


Cohn, N., van Middelaar, L., Foulsham, T. & Schilperoord, J. (In press) Anaphoric distance dependencies in visual narrative structure and processing. Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2024.101639


Martinez-Cedillo, A. P., and Foulsham, T. (In press). Don’t look now! Social elements are harder to avoid during scene viewing. Vision Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2023.108356

 

Martinez-Cedillo, A. P., Dent, K., & Foulsham, T. (In press). Social prioritisation in scene viewing and the effects of a spatial memory load. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02769-3

 

Morris, P. O., Hope, E., Foulsham, T., & Mills, J. P. (In press). Exploring the use of a dance-based exergame to enhance autistic children’s social communication skills in the home and school environments: a feasibility study. International Journal of Developmental Disabilities.

https://doi.org/10.1080/20473869.2023.2212985


Verghese, P., Nyström, M., Foulsham, T., & McGraw, P. V. (2023). Eye movements in visual impairment. Vision Research, 211, 108296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2023.108296

 

Cheng, J.T., Gerpott, F. H., Benson, A.J., Bucker, B., Foulsham, T., Lansu, T.A.M, Schulke, O. & Tsuchiya, K. (2023) Eye Gaze and Visual Attention as a Window Into Leadership and Followership: A Review of Empirical Insights and Future Directions. Leadership Quarterly, 34 (6), 101654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2022.101654

 

*Forby, L., Anderson, N., Karstadt, B., Dawson, J., Pazhoohi, F., Cheng, J.T., Foulsham, T., & Kingstone, A. (2023) Reading the room: High autistic trait individuals’ gaze behaviour and ability to infer social relations. PLOS One, 18(3), e0282310. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282310

 

Morris, P., Hope, E., Foulsham, T., & Mills, J. P. (2023). Dancing out for a voice; a narrative review of the literature exploring autism, physical activity, and dance. Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, 33, 202-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbmt.2022.09.016

 

*Morris, P. O., Hope, E., Foulsham, T., & Mills, J. P. (2023). Parent-reported social-communication changes in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. International Journal of Developmental Disabilities., 69 (2), 211-225. doi:10.1080/20473869.2021.1936870

 

Holmqvist, K. et al., (2023). Eye tracking: empirical foundations for a minimal reporting guideline. Behavior Research Methods, 55 (1) 364-416. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01762-8

 

Ferdowsi, S., Ognibene, D., Foulsham, T., Greco, A., Callara, A. L., Cervera-Torres, S., ... & Citi, L. (2023, June). Human body odour modulates neural processing of faces: effective connectivity analysis using EEG. In 2023 IEEE 36th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) (pp. 858-863). IEEE. doi.org/10.1109/CBMS58004.2023.00332

2022

Ognibene, D., Foulsham, T., Marchegiani, L., & Farinella, G. M. (2022). Active vision and perception in human-robot collaboration. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 16, 848065. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2022.848065

Cohn, N. & Foulsham, T. (2022) Meaning above (and in) the head: Combinatorial visual morphology from comics and emoji. Memory & Cognition, 50 (7), 1381-1398. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01294-2

Dawson, J., & Foulsham, T. (2022). Your turn to speak? Audiovisual social attention in the lab and in the wild. Visual Cognition, 30, 116-134. doi:10.1080/13506285.2021.1958038

Martinez-Cedillo, A., Dent, K., & Foulsham, T. (2022). Do cognitive load and ADHD traits affect the tendency to prioritise social information in scenes?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75 (10), 1904-1918. doi:10.1177/17470218211066475

2021

Morris, P., Hope, E., Foulsham, T., & Mills, J. P. (2021). The Effectiveness of Mirroring- and Rhythm-Based Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Systematic Review. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 8(4), 541-561. doi:10.1007/s40489-021-00236-z

Morgan, E. J., Foulsham, T., & Freeth, M. (2021). Sensitivity to Social Agency in Autistic Adults.. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51(9), 3245-3255. doi:10.1007/s10803-020-04755-2

Dawson, J., Kingstone, A., & Foulsham, T. (2021). Theory of mind affects the interpretation of another person's focus of attention. Scientific Reports, 11(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-021-96513-2

Holford, D. L., Juanchich, M., Foulsham, T., Sirota, M., & Clarke, A. D. F. (2021). Eye-tracking evidence for fixation asymmetries in verbal and numerical quantifier processing. Judgment and Decision Making, 16(4), 969-1009. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1930297500008056

Seernani, D., Ioannou, C., Damania, K., Hill, H., Foulsham, T., Smyrnis, N., . . . Klein, C. (2021). Social and non-social gaze cueing in autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and a comorbid group. Biological Psychology, 162, 108096. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108096

Morris, P. O., Hope, E., Foulsham, T., & Mills, J. P. (2021). Dance, rhythm, and autism spectrum disorder: An explorative study. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 73, 101755. doi:10.1016/j.aip.2020.101755

Foulsham, T., & Cohn, N. (2021). Zooming in on visual narrative comprehension. Memory & Cognition, 49(3), 451-466. doi:10.3758/s13421-020-01101-w

2020

Cohn, N., & Foulsham, T. (2020). Zooming in on the cognitive neuroscience of visual narrative. Brain and Cognition, 146, 105634.

Tymkiw, M., & Foulsham, T. (2020). Eye Tracking, Spatial Biases, and Normative Spectatorship in Museums. Leonardo, 53(5), 542-546.

Foulsham, T. (2020). Beyond the picture frame: the function of fixations in interactive tasks. Psychology of learning and motivation–Advances in research and theory, 73, 33-58.

Anderson, N. C., Bischof, W. F., Foulsham, T., & Kingstone, A. (2020). Turning the (virtual) world around: Patterns in saccade direction vary with picture orientation and shape in virtual reality. Journal of Vision, 20(8), 21-21. [LINK]

Seernani, D., Ioannou, C., Damania, K., Spindler, K., Hill, H., Foulsham, T., ... & Klein, C. (2020). Studying global processing in autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder with gaze movements: The example of a copying task. Plos one, 15(6). [LINK]

Brown, E., Foulsham, T., Lee, C. S., & Wilkins, A. (2020). Visibility of temporal light artefact from flicker at 11 kHz. Lighting Research & Technology, 52(3), 371-376.

Konings, M. J., Foulsham, T., Micklewright, D., & Hettinga, F. J. (2020). Athlete-Opponent Interdependency Alters Pacing and Information-seeking Behavior. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 52, 153-160.

2019

Foulsham, T., Gejdosova, M., & Caunt, L. (2019). Reading and Misleading: Changes in Head and Eye Movements Reveal Attentional Orienting in a Social Context. Vision, 3(3), 43. [LINK]

Thompson, S. J., Foulsham, T., Leekam, S. R., & Jones, C. R. (2019). Attention to the face is characterised by a difficult to inhibit first fixation to the eyes. Acta Psychologica, 193, 229-238.

Redhead, D. J., Cheng, J. T., Driver, C., Foulsham, T., & O'Gorman, R. (2019). On the dynamics of social hierarchy: A longitudinal investigation of the rise and fall of prestige, dominance, and social rank in naturalistic task groups. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(2), 222-234.

Kao, G. Y. M., Chiang, X. Z., & Foulsham, T. (2019). Reading behavior and the effect of embedded selfies in role-playing picture e-books: An eye-tracking investigation. Computers & Education, 136, 99-112.

2018

Dewhurst, R., Foulsham, T., Jarodzka, H., Johansson, R., Holmqvist, K., & Nystrom, M. (2018). How task demands influence scanpath similarity in a sequential number-search task..Vision Research, 149, 9-23. 

Foulsham, T., Frost, E., & Sage, L. (2018). Stable individual differences predict eye movements to the left, but not handedness or line bisection. Vision Research, 144, 38-46.

McIntyre, N. A., & Foulsham, T. (2018). Scanpath analysis of expertise and culture in teacher gaze in real-world classrooms. Instructional Science, 46(3), 435-455.

Heard, C. L., Rakow, T., & Foulsham, T. (2018). Understanding the effect of information presentation order and orientation on information search and treatment evaluation. Medical Decision Making, 38(6), 646-657.

2017

Boya, M., Foulsham, T., Hettinga, F., Parry, D., Williams, E. L., Jones, H. J., Sparks, A., Marchant, D., Ellison, P., Bridge, C.A. & McNaughton, L. (2017). Information acquisition differences of experienced and novice time trial cyclists. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 49(9), 1884-1898.

Lewis, J., Roberson, D., & Foulsham, T. (2017). The impact of facial abnormalities and their spatial position on perception of cuteness and attractiveness of infant faces. PloS one, 12(7), e0180499. [LINK] [GITHUB]

Foulsham, T. & Kingstone, A. (2017). Are fixations in static natural scenes a useful predictor of attention in the real world? Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(2), 172-181. [PROJECT PAGE]

Solman, G., Foulsham, T., and Kingstone, A. (2017). Eye and head movements are complementary in visual selection. Royal Society Open Science, 4 (1). [LINK]

Harvey, A. J., Callan, M. J., Sutton, R. M., Foulsham, T., & Matthews, W. J. (2017). Selective exposure to deserved outcomes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, 33-43.

2016

Astle, A. T., Foulsham, T., Foss, A. J. & McGraw, P.V. (2016) Is the frequency of adult strabismus surgery increasing? Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 36 (4), 487-493.

Astle, A. T., Foulsham, T. & McGraw, P.V. (2016) The consequences of strabismus and the benefits of adult strabismus surgery. Optometry in Practice, 17 (3),121-130. 

Foulsham, T. (2016). Functions of a quiet and un-quiet eye in natural tasks–comment on Vickers. Current Issues in Sport Science (CISS). [LINK]

Cohn, N., Murthy, B., & Foulsham, T. (2016). Meaning above the head: combinatorial constraints on the visual vocabulary of comics. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 28 (5), 559-574.

Foulsham, T., Wybrow, D., & Cohn, N. (2016). Reading Without Words: Eye Movements in the Comprehension of Comic Strips. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30 (4), 566-579.

Kaminska, O., & Foulsham, T. (2016). Eye-tracking Social Desirability Bias. Bulletin of Sociological Methodology, 130(1), 73-89.

Strukelj, A., Foulsham, T., & Nyström, M. (2016). Social context modulates basic properties of oculomotor control. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 9 (2), 5. [LINK] 

2015 and earlier

Nasiopoulos, E., Risko, E. F., Foulsham, T., & Kingstone, A. (2015). Wearable computing: Will it make people prosocial?. British Journal of Psychology, 106(2), 209-216.

Foulsham (2015). Scene perception. In J. Fawcett, E. F. Risko, & A. Kingstone (Eds.), The handbook of attention (pp. 257–280). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 

Foulsham, T. & Lock, M. (2015). How the eyes tell lies: Social gaze during a preference task. Cognitive Science, 39, 1704-1726.

Foulsham, T. (2015). Eye movements and their functions in everyday tasks. Eye, 29(2), 196-199.

Ho, S., Foulsham, T. and Kingstone, A (2015) Speaking and Listening with the Eyes: Gaze Signaling during Dyadic Interactions. PloS One, 10 (8). e0136905.

Walkowiak, S., Foulsham, T. & Eardley, A. (2015). Individual differences and personality correlates of navigational performance in the virtual route learning task. Computers in Human Behaviour, 45, 402-410.

Foulsham, T., Chapman, C, Nasiopoulos, E. & Kingstone, A. (2014). Top-down and bottom-up aspects of active search in a real-world environment. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(1), 8-19.  [PROJECT PAGE]

Anderson, G. M., Foulsham, T., Nasiopoulos, E., Chapman, C. S., & Kingstone, A. (2014). Hide and seek: The theory of mind of visual concealment and search. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 76(4), 907-913.

Kaminska, O. & Foulsham, T. (2014). Real-world eye-tracking in face-to-face and web modes. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 2, 343-359.

Foulsham, T. & Kingstone, A. (2013). Where have eye been? Observers can recognise their own fixations. Perception, 42, 1085-1089.

Foulsham, T. & Sanderson, L. (2013). Look who's talking? Sound changes gaze behaviour in a dynamic social scene. Visual Cognition, 21 (7), 922-944.

Kaminska, O. & Foulsham, T. (2013). Real-world Eye-tracking in Face-to-face, Web and SAQ Modes. ISER Working Paper Series, 2013-07, Colchester, Essex.

Kaminska, O. & Foulsham, T. (2013). Understanding Sources of Social Desirability Bias in Different Modes: Evidence from Eye-tracking. ISER Working Paper Series, 2013-04, Colchester, Essex.

Foulsham, T., & Kingstone, A. (2013). Fixation-dependent memory for natural scenes: An experimental test of scanpath theory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142(1), 41-56. [PUBMED]

Foulsham, T., Farley, J. & Kingstone, A. (2013). Mind wandering in sentence reading: Decoupling the link between mind and eye. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(1), 51-59. [PUBMED]

Foulsham, T. & Kingstone, A. (2013). Optimal and preferred eye landing positions in objects and scenes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66(9), 1707-1728. [PUBMED]

Levy, J., Foulsham, T. & Kingstone, A. (2013). Monsters are people too. Biology Letters, 9(1), 1-4. [PUBMED] [PROJECT PAGE]

Cheng, J. T., Tracy, J. L., Foulsham, T., Kingstone, A. & Henrich, J. (2013). Two ways to the top: Evidence that dominance and prestige are distinct yet viable avenues to social rank and influence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 103-125. [PUBMED]

Freeth, M., Foulsham, T. & Kingstone, A. (2013). What affects social attention? Social presence, eye contact and autistic traits. PLoS ONE, 8(1). [LINK TO PAPER]

Foulsham, T., Gray, A., Nasiopoulos, E. & Kingstone, A. (2013). Leftward biases in picture scanning and line bisection: A gaze-contingent window study. Vision Research, 78, 14-25. [PUBMED]

Risko, E., Foulsham, T., Dawson, S., & Kingstone, A. (2013). The Collaborative Lecture Annotation System (CLAS): A New Tool for Distributed Learning. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 6(1), 4-13.

Kwart, D., Foulsham, T. & Kingstone, A. (2012). Age and beauty are in the eye of the beholder. Perception, 41, 925-938. [PUBMED]

Foulsham, T., Dewhurst, R., Nystrom, M., Jarodzka, H., Johansson, R., Underwood, G. & Holmqvist, K. (2012). Comparing scanpaths during scene encoding and recognition: A multi-dimensional approach. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 5(4). [LINK TO PAPER] [PROJECT PAGE]

Foulsham, T. (2012). "Eyes closed" and "Eyes open" expectations guide fixations in real-world search. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 330-335). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [LINK TO PAPER] [PROJECT PAGE]

Risko, E. F., Laidlaw, K., Freeth, M., Foulsham, T. & Kingstone, A. (2012). Social attention with real versus reel stimuli: toward an empirical approach to concerns about ecological validity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6: 143. [LINK TO PAPER]

Foulsham, T., & Kingstone, A. (2012). Modelling the influence of central and peripheral information on saccade biases in gaze-contingent scene viewing. Visual Cognition, 20 (4 -5), 546-579. [PROJECT PAGE]

Dewhurst, R., Nystrom, M., Jarodzka, H., Foulsham, T., Johansson, R., & Holmqvist, K. (2012). It depends on how you look at it: Scanpath comparison in multiple dimensions with MultiMatch, a vector-based approach. Behaviour Research Methods, 44, 1079-1100. [PUBMED]

Foulsham, T., & Kingstone, A. (2012). Goal-driven and bottom-up gaze in an active real-world search task. In Spencer, S. N. (Ed.) Proceedings of the Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA '12) ACM, New York, NY, USA, 189-192. [LINK TO PAPER]

Dawson, S., Macfadyen, L., Risko, E.F, Foulsham, T. & Kingstone, A. (2012) Using technology to encourage self-directed learning: The Collaborative Lecture Annotation System (CLAS). In M. Brown, M. Hartnett & T. Stewart (Eds.). Future challenges, sustainable futures: Proceedings of ASCILITE 2012, 246-255. [LINK TO PAPER]

Foulsham, T., & Kingstone, A. (2011).  Look at my poster! Active gaze, preference and memory during a poster session.  Perception, 40(11) 1387 – 1389.

Foulsham, T., Walker, E. & Kingstone, A. (2011).  The where, what and when of gaze allocation in the lab and the natural environment.  Vision Research, 51 (17), 1920-1931. [PUBMED]

Foulsham, T., Alan, R. & Kingstone, A. (2011). Scrambled eyes? Disrupting scene structure impedes focal processing and increases bottom-up guidance. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 73 (7), 2008-2025. [PUBMED]

Foulsham, T., Barton, J.J.S., Kingstone, A., Dewhurst, R. & Underwood, G. (2011). Modeling eye movements in visual agnosia with a saliency map approach: bottom-up guidance or top-down strategy? Neural Networks, 24(6), 665-677. [PUBMED]

Foulsham, T. (2011). Correlation and cause when inferring attentional guidance in the rainforest and beyond. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5:53. [LINK] 

Laidlaw, K.E.W., Foulsham, T., Kuhn, G. & Kingstone, A. (2011). Potential social interactions are important to social attention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (14), 5548-5553. [PUBMED]

Freeth, M., Foulsham, T., & Chapman, P. (2011). The influence of visual saliency on fixation patterns in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Neuropsychologia, 49, 156-160. [PUBMED]

Foulsham, T., & Underwood, G. (2011). If saliency affects search then why? Evidence from normal and gaze-contingent search tasks in natural scenes. Cognitive Computation, 3, 48-63.

Foulsham, T., Teszka, R. & Kingstone, A. (2011). Saccade control in natural images is shaped by the information visible at fixation: Evidence from asymmetric gaze-contingent windows. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 73, 266-283. [PUBMED]

Foulsham, T., Cheng, J.T., Tracy, J.L., Henrich, J. & Kingstone, A. (2010).  Gaze allocation in a dynamic situation: Effects of social status and speaking.  Cognition, 117, 319-331. [PUBMED]

Foulsham, T. & Kingstone, A.  (2010).  Asymmetries in the direction of saccades during perception of scenes and fractals: Effects of image type and image features.  Vision Research, 50(8), 779-795. [PUBMED]

Foulsham, T., Barton, J., Kingstone, A., Dewhurst, R. & Underwood, G. (2009). Fixation and saliency during search of natural scenes: the case of visual agnosia. Neuropsychologia, 47, 1994-2003. [PUBMED]

Underwood, G., Humphrey, K. & Foulsham, T. (2009). Saliency and scan patterns in the inspection of real-world scenes. Visual Cognition, 17 (6), 812-834. 

Foulsham, T. & Underwood, G. (2009). Does conspicuity enhance distraction?  Saliency and eye landing position when searching for objects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62(6), 1088-1098.[PUBMED]

Foulsham, T., Kingstone, A. & Underwood, G. (2008). Turning the world around: patterns in saccade direction vary with picture orientation. Vision Research, 48, 1777–1790. [PUBMED]

Foulsham, T. & Underwood, G. (2008). What can saliency models predict about eye movements? Spatial and sequential aspects of fixations during encoding and recognition. Journal of Vision, 8 (2), 6, 1-17. [LINK] 

Foulsham, T. & Underwood, G. (2007). How does the purpose of inspection influence the potency of visual salience in scene perception? Perception, 36, 1123-1138. [PUBMED]

Underwood, G., Templeman, E., Lamming, L. & Foulsham, T. (2007). Is attention necessary for object identification? Evidence from eye movements during the inspection of real-world scenes. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 159-170. [PUBMED]

Underwood, G., Foulsham, T., van Loon, E., Humphreys, L., & Bloyce, J. (2006). Eye movements during scene inspection: A test of the saliency map hypothesis. European Journal Of Cognitive Psychology, 18(3), 321-343. 

Underwood, G., & Foulsham, T. (2006). Visual saliency and semantic incongruency influence eye movements when inspecting pictures. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59 (11), 1931 – 1949. [PUBMED]

Book Chapters


Foulsham, T. (In press). Comics and cognition: The experimental approach. To appear in Wildfeuer, J. (Ed). The Handbook of Comics Studies. De Gruyter.

Foulsham, T. (2023) Looking behaviour in real-world search. In Smith, A. (Ed) Cognition in the Real World (pp     16-42). OUP.

Foulsham, T. (2019). Scenes, saliency maps and scanpaths. In C. Klein, & U. Ettinger (Eds.),Eye Movement Research: An Introduction to its Scientific Foundations and Applications. Springer.

Foulsham, T. (2015). Scene Perception. In J. M. Fawcett, E. F. Risko, & A. Kingstone (Eds.),The Handbook of Attention. MIT Press.

Underwood, G., Humphrey, K., & Foulsham, T. (2008). Knowledge-Based Patterns of Remembering: Eye Movement Scanpaths Reflect Domain Experience. In HCI and usability for education and work, LNCS 5298. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008, 125-144.

Underwood, G., Foulsham, T., van Loon, E., & Underwood, J. (2005). Visual attention, visual saliency and eye movements during the inspection of natural scenes. In J. Mira and J. R. Alvarez (Eds.). Artificial intelligence and knowledge engineering applications: a bioinspired approach, LNCS 3562. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2005, 459-468.

Thesis

In the unlikely event that you want to read the whole of my PhD thesis, you can download it from Nottingham e-theses.