Post-doctoral Fellow

Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

Office: 402 Wilson Hall
Phone: 615-322-5540
Fax: 615-343-0884
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Personal Website

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Degrees

• Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008
• B.A., Washington University in St. Louis, 2002

Current Research

• links between action and cognition, perception of control

Representative Publications

• Higgins, J. S., Irwin, D. E., Wang, R. F., & Thomas, L. E. (in press). Visual direction constancy across eye blinks. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics.
• Thomas, L. E., & Lleras, A. (2009). Swinging into thought: Directed movement guides insight in problem solving. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 719-723.
• Thomas, L. E., & Lleras, A. (2009). Inhibitory tagging in an interrupted visual search. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71, 1241-1250.
• Thomas, L. E., & Lleras, A. (2009). Covert shifts of attention function as an implicit aid to insight. Cognition, 111, 168-174.
• Irwin, D. E., & Thomas, L. E. (2008). Visual sensory memory. In Luck, S. J., & Hollingworth, A. (Eds), Visual memory. (pp. 9-42). Oxford University Press.
• Thomas, L. E., & Lleras, A. (2007). Moving eyes and moving thought: On the spatial compatibility between eye movements and cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 663-668.
• Irwin, D. E., & Thomas, L. E. (2007). The effect of saccades on number comparison. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 450-458.
• Thomas, L. E., Ambinder, M. S., Hsieh, B., Levinthal, B., Crowell, J. A., Irwin, D. E., Kramer, A. F., Lleras, A., Simons, D. J., & Wang, R. F. (2006). Fruitful visual search: Inhibition of return in a virtual foraging task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 891-895.
• Thomas, L. E., & Irwin, D. E. (2006). Voluntary eyeblinks disrupt iconic memory. Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 475-488.
• Wang, R. F., Crowell, J. A., Simons, D. J., Irwin, D. E., Kramer, A. F., Ambinder, M. S., Thomas, L. E., Gosney, J. L., Levinthal, B. R., & Hsieh, B. B. (2006). Spatial updating relies on an egocentric representation of space: Effects of the number of objects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 281-286.