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(615) 322-0049
502 Wilson Hall
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Education
B.S. University of Iowa, 1997
Ph.D. University of Iowa, 2002
Curriculum Vitae
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Geoffrey F. Woodman
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Geoffrey Woodman's research examines how mechanisms of visual attention and visual working memory influence how we interact with the world around us. Specifically, how the primate visual system performs figure-ground segregation, attentional deployment during the processing of complex scenes, temporary storage of information in visual working memory, and cognitive control during task performance.
Representative Publications
- Woodman, G.F., & Luck, S. J. (1999). Electrophysiological measurement of rapid shifts of attention during visual search. Nature, 400, 867-869.
- Luck, S. J., Woodman, G. F., & Vogel, E. K. (2000). Event-related potential studies of attention. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 432-440.
- Vogel, E. K., Woodman, G. F., & Luck, S. J. (2001). Storage of features, conjunctions, and objects in visual working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 92-114.
- Woodman, G.F., Vogel, E.K., & Luck, S.J. (2001). Visual search remains efficient when visual working memory is full. Psychological Science, 12, 219-224.
- Vecera, S.P., Vogel, E.K., & Woodman, G.F. (2002). Lower region: A new cue for figure-ground segregation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131, 194-205.
- Schmidt, B.K., Vogel, E. K., Woodman, G. F., & Luck, S. J. (2002). Voluntary and automatic attentional control of visual working memory. Perception & Psychophysics, 64, 754-763.
- Hopf, J.-M., Vogel, E.K., Woodman, G.F., Heinze, H.-J., & Luck, S.J. (2002). Localizing visual discrimination processes in time and space. Journal of Neurophysiology, 88, 2088-2095.
- Woodman, G.F. & Luck, S.J. (2003). Serial deployment of attention during visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29,121-138.
- Woodman, G.F. Vecera, S.P., & Luck, S.J. (2003). Perceptual organization influences visual working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 80-87.
- Woodman, G.F. & Luck, S.J. (2003). Dissociations among attention, perception, and awareness during object-substitution masking. Psychological Science, 14, 605-611.
- Woodman, G.F. & Luck, S.J. (2004). Visual search is slowed when visuospatial working memory is occupied. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 269-274.
- Yi, D.-J., Woodman, G.F., Widders, D., Marios, R. & Chun, M.M. (2004, August 01). Neural fate of ignored stimuli: Dissociable effects of perceptual and working memory load. Nature Neuroscience, 7(9), 992-996.
- Woodman, G.F. & Vogel, E.K. (2005). Fractionating working memory: Encoding and maintenance are independent processes. Psychological Science, 16(2), 106-113.
- Vogel, E. K., Woodman, G.F. & Luck, S.J. (2006). Pushing around the locus of selection: Evidence for the flexible-selection hypothesis. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17(12), 1907-1922.
- Vogel, E. K., Woodman, G. F., & Luck, S. J. (in press). The time course of consolidation in visual working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
- Woodman, G.F. & Chun, M.M. (in press). The role of working memory and long-term memory in visual search. Visual Cognition.
- Woodman, G.F. & Luck, S.J. (in press). Do the contents of visual working memory automatically influence attentional selection during visual search? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.