18 April 2019: we're still in the the process of moving our PDFs to a new storage system, so the list below is incomplete and not all of the links below functional yet. Apologies for any inconvenience.

The following are a selected set of works from our lab. Please see our individual CVs for a complete listing of publications and presentations.

last update: 31 July 2019

• Wenger, M. J., & Rhoten, S. E. (2019, in press). Perceptual learning produces perceptual objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. (preprint PDF,HHS Public Access )
• Wenger, M. J., Rhoten, S. E., Murray-Kolb, L. E., Scott, S. P., Boy, E., Gahutu, J-B., & Haas, J. D., Changes in iron status are related to changes in brain activity and behavior in Rwandan female university students: Results from a randomized controlled efficacy trial involving iron-biofortified beans. Journal of Nutrition, 149 (4), 687–697. (PDF, supplement).
• Townsend, J. T., Wenger, M. J., & Houpt, J. W. (2018). Uncovering mental architecture and related mechanisms in elementary human perception, cognition, and action. In J. T. Wixted (Ed.,), Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Fourth Edition. Wiley. DOI: 10.1002/9781119170174.epcn511. (PDF). Book's main page here.
• Scott, S. P., Murray-Kolb, L. E., Wenger, M. J., Udipi, S. A., Ghughre, P. S., Boy, E., & Haas, J. D. (2018). Cognitive performance in Indian school-going adolescents is positively affected by consumption of iron-biofortified pearl millet: A 6-month randomized controlled efficacy trial. Journal of Nutrition. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/nxy113. (PDF)
  • Coverage of our work in the news: (HarvestPlus)
• Von Der Heide, R. J., Wenger, M. J., Bittner, J. L., & Fitousi, D. (2018). Converging operations and the role of perceptual and decisional influences on the perception of faces: Neural and behavioral evidence. Brain and Cognition 122, 59–75 (PDF)
• Wenger, M. J., DellaValle, D. M., Murray-Kolb, L. E., & Haas, J. D. (2017). Effect of iron deficiency on simultaneous measures of behavior, brain activity, and energy expenditure in the performance of a cognitive task. Nutritional Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1080/1028415X.2017.1360559. (PDF)
• Wenger, M. J., Murray-Kolb, L. E., Nevins, J. E. H., Venkatramanan, S., Reinhart, G. A., \& Haas, J. D. (2017). Consumption of a double-fortified salt improves perceptual, attentional, and mnemonic functioning in women in India. Journal of Nutrition. doi: 10.3945/jn.117.251587 (PDF, supplementary material)
• Murray-Kolb, L. E., Wenger, M. J., Scott, S. P., Lung'aho, M. G., & Haas, J. D. (2017). Consumption of iron-biofortified beans positively affects cognitive performance in 18-27 year old Rwandan female college students, findings from an 18-week randomized controlled efficacy trial. Journal of Nutrition. doi: 10.3945/jn.117.255356 (PDF)
• Haas, J. D., Luna, S. V., Lung'aho, M. G., Ngabo, F., Wenger, M. J., Murray-Kolb, L. E., Beebe, S., Gahutu, J-B., & Egli, I. M. (2016). Consuming iron biofortified beans increases iron status in Rwandan women after 18 weeks. Journal of Nutrition. doi: 10.3945/jn.115.224741 (PDF, supplementary material).
• Altieri, N., Lentz, J. J., Townsend, J. T., & Wenger, M. J. (2016). The McGurk effect: An Investigation of attentional capacity employing response times, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. DOI 10.3758/s13414-016-1133-4. (PDF)
• Finkelstein, J., Mehta,S., Udipi, S. A., Ghugre, P. S., Luna,S.V., Wenger, M. J., Murray-Kolb, L. E., Przybyszewski, E. M., & Haas, J. D. (2015). A Randomized trial of iron-biofortified pearl millet in school children in India. Journal of Nutrition, doi: 10.3945/jn.114.208009. (PDF)
• Mestry, N., Menneer, T., Wenger, M. J., Benikos, N. P.,& McCarthy, R. (2014). The role of configurality in the Thatcher illusion: An ERP study. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. (PDF)
• De Moura, F. F., Palmer, A. C., Finkelstein, J. L., Haas, J. D., Murray, L. E., Wenger, M. J., Birol, E., Boy, E., & Pena-Rosas, J. P. (2014). Are biofortified staple food crops improving vitamin A and iron status in women and children? New evidence from efficacy trials. Advances in Nutrition. 5, 568-570. (PDF).
• Haas, J. D., Rahn, M., Venkatramanan, S., Marquis, G. S., Wenger, M. J., Murray-Kolb, L. E., & Reinhart, G. A. (2014). Double-fortified salt is efficacious in improving indicators of iron deficiency in female Indian tea pickers. The Journal of Nutrition, 144(6), 957-964. (PDF)
• Coverage of our work in the news: (micronutrient.org)
• Altieri, N., Townsend, J. T., & Wenger, M. J. (2014). A measure for assessing the effects of audiovisual speech integration. Behavior Research Methods, 46, 406-415. (PDF)
• Townsend, J. T., & Wenger, M. J. (2014). On the dynamic perceptual characteristics of Gestalten: Theory-based methods. In J. Wagemans (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Perceptual Organization. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press. (PDF)
• Altieri, N., & Wenger, M. J. (2013). Neural dynamics of audiovisual speech integration under variable listening conditions: an individual participant analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, article 615 (PDF)
• Mestry, N., Menneer, T., Wenger, M. J., & Donnelly, N. (2012). Identifying sources of configurality in three face processing tasks. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 1-14. (PDF)
• Fitousi, D., & Wenger, M. J. (2012). Variants of independence in the perception of facial identity and expression. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0028001. (PDF)
• Fitousi, D., & Wenger, M. J. (2011). Processing capacity under perceptual and cognitive load: A closer look at load theory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37, 781-798. (PDF)
• Richards, H. J., Hadwin, J. A., Benson, V., Wenger, M. J., & Donnelly, N. (2011). The influence of anxiety on processing capacity for threat detection. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 883-889. (PDF)
• Cornes, K., Donnelly, N., Godwin, H., & Wenger, M. J. (2011). Perceptual and decisional factors influencing the discrimination of inversion in the Thatcher illusion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37, 645-668. (PDF)
• Wenger, M. J., Negash, S., Petersen, R. C., & Petersen, L. (2010). Modeling and estimating recall processing capacity: Sensitivity and diagnostic utility in application to mild cognitive impairment. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 54, 73-89. (PDF)
• Wenger, M. J., Copeland, A. M., Bittner, J. L., & Thomas, R. D. (2008). Evidence for criterion shifts in visual perceptual learning: Data and implications. Perception & Psychophysics, 70, 1248-1273. (PDF)
• Wenger, M. J., & Townsend, J. T. (2006). On the costs and benefits of faces and words: Characteristics of feature search in highly meaningful stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, 755-779 (PDF)
• Wenger, M. J., & Rasche, C. (2006). Perceptual learning in contrast detection: Presence and costs of shifts in response criteria. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 656-661. (PDF)
• Copeland, A. M., & Wenger, M. J. (2006). An investigation of perceptual and decisional influences on the perception of hierarchical forms. Perception, 35, 511-529. (PDF)
• Ingvalson, E. M., & Wenger, M. J. (2005). A strong test of the dual-mode hypothesis. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 14-35 (PDF)
• Wenger, M. J., & Gibson, B. S. (2004). Using hazard functions to assess changes in processing capacity in an attentional cuing paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30, 708-719. (PDF)
• Townsend, J. T., & Wenger, M. J. (2004). A theory of interactive parallel processing: New capacity measures and predictions for a response time inequality series. Psychological Review, 111, 1003-1035. (PDF)
• Townsend, J. T., & Wenger, M. J. (2004). The serial–parallel dilemma: A case study in a linkage of theory and method. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 391-418. (PDF)
• Wenger, M. J., & Ingvalson, E. M. (2003). Preserving informational separability and violating decisional separability in facial perception and recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 1106-1118. (PDF)
• Wenger, M. J., & Ingvalson, E. M. (2002). A decisional component of holistic encoding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 872-892. (PDF)