Publications

* A student in my laboratory (graduate, postdoc, undergrad)

2025 and in press

• Gaspelin, N., Ma, X.*, & Luck, S.J. (in press). Signal suppression 2.0: A revised account of attentional capture and suppression. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. [PDF] 

• Gaspelin, N. & Cowan, N. (in press). Restoring a top-down control assumptions: Salience effects in working memory are overcome with time. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [PDF]

• Talcott, T.N.*, Kiat, J.E., Luck, S.J., & Gaspelin, N. (2025). Is covert attention necessary for programming accurate saccades? Evidence from saccade-locked event-related potentials. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 87, 172-190. [PDF] 

2024

• Zhang, Y.* & Gaspelin, N. (2024). Salience effects on attentional selection are enabled by task relevance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance. 50(11), 1131-1142. [PDF]

• Stilwell, B.T.*, Egeth, H.E., & Gaspelin, N. (2024). Evidence against the low-salience account of attentional suppression. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance. 50(10), 1033-1047. [PDF]

• Adams, O.J.* & Gaspelin, N. (2024). Attentional suppression of dynamic versus static salient distractors. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 86(5), 1-14. [PDF]

• Liesefeld, H.R., Lamy, D., Gaspelin, N., Geng, J.J., Kerzel, D., Schall, J.D, Allen, H.A., Anderson, B.A., Boettcher, S., Busch, N.A., Carlisle, N.B., Colonius, H., Draschkow, D., Egeth, H.E., Leber, A.B., Müller, H.J., Schubö, A., Slagter, H.A., Theeuwes, J., & Wolfe, J. (2024). Terms of debate: Consensus definitions to guide the scientific discourse on visual distraction. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. [PDF]
  
  

2023

• Gaspelin, N., Lamy, D., Egeth, H.E., Liesefeld, H.R., Kerzel, D., Mandal, A., Müller, M.M., Schall, J.D., Schubö, A., Slagter, H.A., Stilwell, B.T.*, van Moorselaar, D. (2023). The distractor positivity component and the inhibition of distracting stimuli. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 35(11). 1693-1715  [PDF]

• Stilwell, B.T., Adams, O.J., Egeth, H.E., & Gaspelin, N. (2023). The role of salience in suppression of distracting stimuli. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 30(6), 2262-2271. [PDF]

• Gaspelin, N., Egeth, H.E., & Luck, S.J. (2023). A critique of the attentional window account of capture failures. Journal of Cognition. 6(1), 39. [PDF]

• Adams, O. J., Ruthruff, E., & Gaspelin, N. (2023). Oculomotor suppression of abrupt onsets versus color singletons. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85(3), 613-633. [PDF]

• Rigsby, T.J., Stilwell, B.T., Ruthruff, E., & Gaspelin, N. (2023). A new technique for estimating the probability of attentional capture. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85(2), 543–559. [PDF]
  
  

2022

• Wöstmann, M., Störmer, V. S., Obleser, J., Addleman, D. A., Andersen,  ‪Søren K., Gaspelin, N., Geng, J. J., Luck, S. J., Noonan, M. P., Slagter, H. A., & Theeuwes, J. (2022). Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression. Progress in Neurobiology, 213, 102269. ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬[PDF]

• Talcott, T. N.*, Levy, A. P.*, & Gaspelin, N. (2022). Covert attention is attracted to prior target locations: Evidence from the probe paradigm. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84(4), 1098-1113. [PDF]

• Stilwell, B. T.*, Egeth, H. E., & Gaspelin, N. (2022). Electrophysiological evidence for the suppression of highly salient distractors. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 34(5), 787–805. [PDF]

• Blakley, E. C., Gaspelin, N., & Gerhardstein, P. (2022). The development of oculomotor suppression of salient distractors in children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 214, 105291. [PDF]
  
  

2021

• Stilwell, B.T.*, & Gaspelin, N. (2021).  Attentional suppression of highly salient color singletons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 47(10), 1313–1328. [PDF]

• Gaspelin, N., & Luck, S.J. (2021).  Progress and remaining issues: A response to the commentaries on Luck et al. (2021). Visual Cognition,  29(9), 650-656. [PDF]

• Bansal, S., Gaspelin N., Robinson, B.M., Hahn, B., Luck, S.J., & Gold, J.M. (2021).  Oculomotor suppression and location priming in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 130(6), 651. [PDF]

• Talcott, T.N.*, & Gaspelin, N. (2021). Eye movements are not mandatorily preceded by the N2pc component. Psychophysiology. 58(6), 1-17. [PDF]

• Adams, O.J.*, & Gaspelin, N. (2021). Introspective awareness of oculomotor attentional capture. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 47(3), 442–459. [PDF]

• Luck, S. J., Gaspelin, N., Folk, C. L., Remington, R. W., & Theeuwes, J. (2021). Progress toward resolving the attentional capture debate. Visual Cognition, 29(1), 1-21. [PDF]
  
  

2020

• Maxwell, J.W., Gaspelin, N., & Ruthruff, E. (2020).  No identification of abrupt onsets that capture attention: Evidence against a unified model of spatial attention. Psychological Research, 1–17. [PDF]

• Ruthruff, E., Faulks, M., Maxwell, J. W., & Gaspelin, N. (2020). Attentional dwelling and capture by color singletons. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 82, 3048–3064. [PDF]   

• Talcott, T. N.,* & Gaspelin, N. (2020). Prior target locations attract overt attention during search. Cognition, 201, 104282. [PDF]

• Adams, O. J.*, & Gaspelin, N. (2020). Assessing introspective awareness of attention capture. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82(4), 1586–1598. [PDF]  *Awarded Best Article of the Year by AP&P*
  
  

2019

• Zhang, Z., Gaspelin, N., & Carlisle, N.B. (2019). Probing early attention following negative and positive templates. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. [PDF]

• Gaspelin, N., Gaspar, J.M., & Luck, S.J. (2019). Oculomotor inhibition of salient distractors: Voluntary inhibition cannot override selection history.  Visual Cognition, 27 (3-4), 227-246. [PDF] 

• Ruthruff, E., Kuit, D., Maxwell, J. W., & Gaspelin, N. (2019). Can capture by abrupt onsets be suppressed? Visual Cognition, 27 (3-4), 279-290. [PDF]

• Gaspelin, N., & Luck, S. J. (2019). Inhibition as a potential resolution to the attentional capture debate. Current Opinion in Psychology, 29, 12–18. [PDF]
  
  

2018

• Gaspelin, N., & Luck, S.J. (2018).  Combined electrophysiological and behavioral evidence for the suppression of salient distractors. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 30(9), 1265-1280. [PDF]

• Gaspelin, N., & Luck, S. J. (2018). The role of inhibition in avoiding distraction by salient stimuli. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(1), 79–92. [PDF]

• Gaspelin, N. & Luck, S.J. (2018). “Top-down” does not mean “voluntary.”  [Commentary on "Visual selection: usually fast and automatic; seldom slow and volitional," by J. Theeuwes]. Journal of Cognition. [PDF]

• Ruthruff, E., & Gaspelin, N. (2018). Immunity to attentional capture at ignored locations. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 80(2), 325-336. [PDF]

• Gaspelin, N., & Luck, S.J. (2018). Distinguishing among potential mechanisms of suppression. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 44(4), 626-644. [PDF]
  
  

2017

• Gaspelin, N., Leonard, C.J., & Luck, S.J. (2017). Suppression of overt attentional capture by salient-but-irrelevant color singletons. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79(1), 45-62. [PDF] 

• Arexis, M., Maquestiaux, F., Gaspelin, N., Ruthruff, E., & Didierjean, A. (2017). Attention capture in driving displays. British Journal of Psychology, 108(2), 259-275. [PDF]

• Luck, S.J. & Gaspelin, N. (2017). How to get statistically significant effects in any ERP experiment (and why you shouldn't). Psychophysiology, 54, 146-157. [PDF]
  
  

2016

• Gaspelin, N., Ruthruff, E., & Lien, M.C. (2016). The problem of latent attentional capture: Easy search conceals capture by task-irrelevant abrupt onsets. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(8), 1104-1120. [PDF]
  
  

2015

• Gaspelin, N., Leonard, C. J., & Luck, S. J. (2015). Direct evidence for active suppression of salient-but-irrelevant sensory inputs. Psychological Science, 22(11), 1740-1750. [PDF]

• Gaspelin, N., Margett-Jordan, T., & Ruthruff, E. (2015). Susceptible to distraction: Children lack top-down control over spatial attention capture. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22(2), 461-468. [PDF]
  
  

2014

• Gaspelin, N., Ruthruff, E, & Jung, K. (2014). Slippage theory and the flanker paradigm: An early-selection account of selective attention failures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 40(3), 1257–1273. [PDF]
  
  

2013

• Gaspelin, N., Ruthruff, E., & Pashler, H. (2013). Divided attention: An undesirable difficulty in memory retention. Memory & Cognition, 41(7), 978–988. [PDF]

• Jung, K., Ruthruff, E., & Gaspelin, N. (2013). Automatic identification of familiar faces. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 75(7), 1438–1450. [PDF]
  
  

2012

• Gaspelin, N., Ruthruff, E., Lien, M.-C., & Jung, K. (2012). Breaking through the attentional window: Capture by abrupt onsets versus color singletons. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 75(7), 1438-1450. [PDF]

• Gaspelin, N., Ruthruff, E., Jung, K., Cosman, J., & Vecera, S. (2012). Does low perceptual load enable capture by colour singletons? Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 24(6), 735–750. [PDF]

• Jung, K., Ruthruff, E., Tybur, J. M., Gaspelin, N., & Miller, G. (2012). Perception of facial attractiveness requires some attentional resources: Implications for the “automaticity” of psychological adaptations. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33(3), 241–250.  [PDF]