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Conference Presentations

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Pannasch, S., Helmert, J. R., Hansen, B. C., Larson, A. M., & Loschky, L. C. (2013, May). Characteristics of Ambient and Focal Processing During the Visual Exploration of Aerial and Terrestrial Scenes.  Poster to be presented at the 13th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. 

Ringer, R.V., Dean, K.E., Larson, A.M., Coy, A., Walton, T., Sprat, J., Clark-Hargreaves, L., Johnson, A., Neider, M., Kramer, A., &Loschky, L.C. (2013, May). Blur detection in natural scenes is not affected by cognitive load. Poster session presented at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Naples, FL.

Loschky, L. C., Ringer, R. V., Larson, A. M., Hughes, G. A., Dean, K., Weiser, J., Flippo, L., Johnson, A. P., Neider, M. B. & Kramer, A. F. (2012, June). Developing a Gaze-Contingent Measure of the Useful Field of View in Dynamic Scenes.  Invited Talk presented at the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Science, Kaliningrad (former Königsberg), Russia.

Pannasch, S., Hansen, B. C., Larson, A. M. & Loschky, L. C. (2012, June). Further insights into ambient and focal modes: Evidence from the processing of aerial and terrestrial views. Invited Talk presented at the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Science, Kaliningrad (former Königsberg), Russia. 

Loschky, L.C., Magliano, J.P., & Larson, A.M. (2012, May). The need for an integrated theory of film perception and comprehension.  Talk presented at the WICED 2012 workshop.

Ringer, R. V., Hansen, B. C., Byrne, K., Larson, A. M., Zuercher, J., Loschky, L. C. (2012, May).  Amplitude Spectrum Slope is More Important than Orientation in Rapid Scene Categorization. Poster presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. 

Loschky, L. C., Ringer, R. V., Larson, A. M., Hughes, G. A., Dean, K., Weiser, J., Flippo, L., Johnson, A. P., Neider, M. B., & Kramer, A. F. (2012, May).  Developing a New Measure of the Useful Field of View for Use in Dynamic Real-World Scene Viewing.  Poster presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. 

Larson, A. M., Hendry, J., & Loschky, L. C. (2012, May). Scene Gist Meets Event Perception:  The Time Course of Scene Gist and Event Recognition. Poster presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Madsen, A., Larson, A., Loschky, L.C., & Rebello, N. S. (2012, March). Using scanmatch scores to understand differences in eye movements between correct and incorrect solvers of physics problems. Talk presented at the 7th biennial Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications, Santa Barbara, CA.

Ramkumar, P., Pannasch, S., Hansen, B. C., Larson, A.M. & Loschky, L.C. (2011, December). How does the brain represent visual scenes? A neuromagnetic scene categorization study. Poster presented at the Neural Information Processing Systems–Workshop on Machine Learning and Interpretation in Neuroimaging, Sierra Nevada, Spain.

Madsen, A., Larson, A. M., Loschky, L. C., & Rebello, N. S. (2011, July). Visual Cueing Influencing Eye Movements and Reasoning in Physics Problems. Paper presented at the American Association of Physics Teachers Summer Meeting, Omaha, NE.

Larson, A. M., Wallace, C., McQuade, M. M., Badke, C. C., & Loschky, L. C. (2011, May).  The Impact of Scrambling the Order of Episode Components on Perceived Events and Recognition Memory for a Picture Story.  Poster presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Stevens, T., Carmichael, A., Larson, A. M., Gire, E., Loschky, L. C., & Rebello, N. S. (2011, April).  Effects of Visual Attentional Cueing on Beginner Problem Solvers in Physics.  Paper presented at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL.

Larson, A. M., Wallace, C., Goddard, S., & Loschky, L. C. (2010, November).  The effects of scrambling episode components on memory for a picture story: not understanding, but recognizing what you saw. Poster presented at the annual meeting of The Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.

Rai, M.K., Loschky, L.C., Harris, R.J., Barros, P.C., & Hinds, R. (2010, August). The effects of inferential complexity, stress, and working memory capacity on foreign language readers' and native English readers’ comprehension of inferences. Talk presented at the meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago, IL.

Parker, J., Culbertson, S. S., Loschky, L., & Bowen, K. (2010, August). Detecting deception in structured employment interviews. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Diego, CA.

Carmichael, A., Larson, A., Gire, E., Loschky, L., & Rebello, S. (2010, July). Comparing expert and novice eye movements while solving physics problems. Talk presented at the American Association of Physics Teachers Summer Meeting, Portland, OR.

Freeman, T. E., Klinock, A., & Loschky, L. C. (2010, June). Low and high spatial frequencies are useful for drawing. Presented at the 2010 meeting of the Association for Psychological Science. Boston, MA.

Kirkpatrick, K., Ghormley, D., Guevara, M., Garcia, A., Sears, T., Hansen, B.C., & Loschky, L.C. (2010, May). Scene gist categorization in pigeons. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Quantitative Analysis of Behavior, San Antonio, TX.

Loschky, L.C., Ellis, K.M., Hansen, B.C., Sears, T., Ringer, R., & Davis, J. (2010, May). Broadening the horizons of scene gist recognition: Aerial and ground-based views. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Larson, A.M., Loschky, L.C., Ringer, R., & Kridner, C. (2010, May). Attention modulates gist performance between central and peripheral vision. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Freeman T. E. & Loschky L. C. (2010, May). Scene masking is affected by contrast of the blank screens with the target and mask at short SOAs (The sequel). Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Loschky, L.C., Rai, M.K., Harris, R.J., Barros, P.C., & Cook, L.G. (2009, Nov). Effects of stress, working memory capacity, and inferential complexity on foreign language reading comprehension. Talk presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

Zelinsky, G.J. & Loschky, L.C. (2009, July). Using eye movements to study working memory rehearsal. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2009, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Larson, A.M., Loschky, L.C., Pollack, W., Bjerg, A., Hilburn, S., & Smercheck, S. (2009, May).  Variation in scene gist recognition over time in central versus peripheral vision.  Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Freeman, T.E. &  Loschky, L.C. (2009, May).  Inter-stimulus screen contrast affects scene masking in early processing.  Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Loschky, L.C., Hansen, B.C., Fintzi, A., Bjerg, A., Ellis, K., Freeman, T., Hilburn, S., & Larson, A. (2009, May). Basic level scene categorization is affected by unrecognizable category-specific image features. Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Varakin, D.A. & Loschky, L.C. (2009, May). Object appearance is not integrated with scene viewpoint in long-term memory.  Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Varakin, D.A. & Loschky, L.C. (2009, April). From where did I see that?  Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Rai, M.K., Loschky, L.C., Harris, R.J., Peck, N.R., & Mann, K.N. (2008, July). The effects of stress and working memory capacity on second language learners' comprehension of facts, inferences, and pronoun referents. Poster presented at meeting of Society for Text and Discourse, Memphis TN.

Larson, A.M., Loschky, L.C., Matz, E., Smerchek, S., Weber, P., & Berger, L. (2008, May). The Roles of Central versus Peripheral Visual Information in Recognizing Scene Gist. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Loschky, L.C., Larson, A.M., Smerchek, S., & Finan, S. (2008, May). The Superordinate Natural/Man-made Distinction is Perceived  Before Basic Level Distinctions in Scene Gist Recognition. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Rai, M.K., Loschky, L.C., Harris, R.J., Peck, N.R., Mann, K.N., & McSpadden, B.N. (2008, May). Pronoun Reference Reading Comprehension Is Difficult For Intermediate Foreign Language Learners. Poster presented at the Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

Loschky, L.C., Simons, D.J., Smerchek, S., Matz, E., Bilyeu, B., & Artman, L. (2007, May). Is Unlocalized Amplitude Information of Any Use for Scene Gist Recognition? Poster presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Loschky, L.C., Sethi, A., Simons, D.J., Pydimarri, T.N., Forristal, N., Corbeille, J. & Gibb, K. (2006, May). The Roles Of Amplitude And Phase Information In Scene Gist Recognition And Masking. Talk presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Loschky, L.C., Sethi, A., Simons, D.J., Ochs, D., Corbeille, J. & Gibb, K. (2005, November). Using Visual Masking To Explore The Nature Of Scene Gist. Poster presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.

Loschky, L.C., & McConkie, G.W. (2005, September). How late can you update?  Detecting blur and transients in gaze-contingent multi-resolutional displays. Talk presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 49th Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL.