I'm a cognitive scientist who studies human perceptual cognition: how people reason about and gain knowledge of the perceptual world. In doing so, I use a range of tools from psychology and neuroscience, including human behavioral methods, eye-tracking, and EEG. Most of my research aims to understand how people focus on certain information and ignore other information to achieve their goals, a process called selective attention. Recent projects of mine include studies of how people can implicitly bias their attention to task-relevant information, the most effective ways for people to ignore visual distractions, and how visual impairments like macular degeneration influence everyday tasks like visual search.
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- Lande, K., Addleman, D., Buehler, D., & Baker, N. (in press). Structured representations in perception. Book chapter invited for Neuroscience & Philosophy (Vol. 2), The MIT Press.
- Ortego, K. M., Addleman, D. A., Störmer, V. S. (2025). Early cortical sensitivity and speeded attentional selection underlie incidentally learned prioritization of visual features. Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0607-25.2025
- Chapman, A. F., Störmer, V. S., & Addleman, D. A. (2025). In defense of attention: Why perceptual selection cannot be replaced by decision boundaries. Commentary on “Visual attention in crisis” by Rosenholtz, R. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X2500010X
- Addleman, D. A., Rajasingh, R., & Störmer, V. S. (2024). Attention to object categories: Selection history determines the breadth of attentional tuning during real-world object search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001575. Open Materials.
- Xiong, Y., Addleman, D. A., Nguyen, N. A., Nelson, P., & Legge, G. L. (2023). Dual sensory impairment: Impact of central vision loss and hearing loss on visual and auditory localization. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.64.12.23
- Addleman, D. A., & Störmer, V. S. (2023). Distractor ignoring is as effective as target enhancement when incidentally learned but not when explicitly cued. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02588-y. Open Materials.
- Wöstmann, M., Störmer, V.S., Obleser, J., Addleman, D. A.,* Andersen, S.,* Gaspelin, N.,* Geng, J.,* Luck, S.,* Noonan, M.,* Slagter, H.,* & Theeuwes, J.* (2022). 10 simple rules to study distractor suppression. Progress in Neurobiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2022.102269
- Xiong, Y.,* Addleman, D. A.,* Nguyen, N. A., Nelson, P., & Legge, G. L. (2022). Visual and auditory spatial localization in younger and older Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2022.838194
- Addleman, D. A., & Störmer, V. S. (2022). No evidence for proactive suppression of explicitly cued distractor features. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02071-7. Open Materials.
- Addleman, D. A., & Lee, V. G. (2022). Simulated central vision loss does not impair implicit location probability learning when participants search through simple displays. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02416-9. Open Materials.
- Addleman, D. A., Legge, G. L., & Jiang, Y. V. (2021). Simulated central vision loss impairs implicit location probability learning. Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.02.009. Open Materials.
- Addleman, D. A., & Jiang, Y. V. (2019). Experience-driven auditory attention. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.08.002
- Addleman, D. A., Schmidt, A., Remington, R. W., & Jiang, Y. V. (2019). Implicit location probability learning does not lead to baseline shifts of visuospatial attention. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01588-8
- Addleman, D. A., & Jiang, Y. V. (2019). The influence of attentional selection history on auditory spatial attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000620
- Addleman, D. A., Tao, J., Remington, R. W., & Jiang, Y. V. (2018). Explicit goal-driven attention, unlike implicitly learned attention, spreads to secondary tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000457
Perception and Attention Lab Website
- Selective attention
- Cross-modal perception
- Behavioral effects of sensory impairment
