Faculty
Bradley S. Gibson
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona
Profile
Dr. Gibson's research interests are in the areas of perception, attention, and visual cognition. A fundamental attribute of visual perception is the organization of visual inputs into perceptual objects. Dr. Gibson's research has focused on "top-down" and "bottom-up" influences on the perceptual organization of visual objects. The salience of objects in visual processing might also be reflected in the way visual attention is allocated in the visual field. The focus of this research has been to show that attention can be directed to object representations as well as to representations of the spatial locations occupied by objects. Finally, an important outcome of visual object processing is the recognition of familiar shape. Theories of visual object recognition are often distinguished by their ability to account for the recognition of misoriented objects. Dr. Gibson has studied the recognition of misoriented objects as a means of characterizing the nature of the representations underlying object recognition.
Recent Papers
Gibson, B.S., & Bryant, T. (in press). The identity intrusion effect:
Attentional capture or perceptual load? Visual Cognition.
Gibson, B.S., & Kingstone, A.F. (2006). Visual attention and the semantics of space: Beyond central and peripheral cues. Psychological Science, 17, 622-627.
Gibson, B.S., & Bryant, T. (2005). Variation in cue duration reveals top-down modulation of involuntary orienting to uninformative symbolic cues. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 749-758.
Gibson, B.S., Eberhard, K.M., & Bryant, T. (2005). Linguistically mediated visual search: The critical role of speech rate. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 276-281.
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.
Folk, C.L., & Gibson, B.S. (2001). Attraction, Distraction, and Action: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Attentional Capture. Elsevier: Oxford, UK.
Gibson, B.S., & Peterson, M.A. (2001). Inattentional capture and attentional capture: Evidence for attention-based theories of visual salience. In C.L. Folk & B.S. Gibson (Eds.), Attraction, Distraction, and Action: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Attentional Capture. Elsevier: Oxford, UK.
Gibson, B.S., & Jiang, Y. (2001). Visual marking and the perception of salience in visual search. Perception & Psychophysics, 63, 59-73.
Gibson, B.S., & Amelio, J. L. (2000). Inhibition of return and attentional control settings. Perception & Psychophysics, 62, 496-504.
Gibson, B.S., Li, L., Skow, E., Salvagni, K.S., & Cooke, L. (2000) Searching for one versus two identical targets: When visual search has a memory. Psychological Science, 11, 324-327.
Gibson, B.S., & Jiang, Y. (1998). Surprise! An unexpected color singleton does not capture attention in visual search. Psychological Science, 9, 176-182.
Gibson, B.S., & Kelsey, E.M. (1998). Stimulus-driven attentional capture is contingent on attentional set for displaywide visual features. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24, 699-706.
Contact Information
Office: 105 Haggar Hall
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Phone: (574) 631-7138
Email: bgibson@nd.edu
Website: http://www.nd.edu/~bgibson