Postdoctoral fellow

Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

Office: WH 428
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Degrees

• Ph.D. University of Waterloo (2003)
• M.A. University of Waterloo (2000)
• B.A. University of Waterloo (1998)

Research Area

• Attention, dual-task performance

Current Research

• Multiple-object tracking
• Limits in dual-task performance
• Practice

Previous Positions

• NSERC postdoctoral fellow York University

Professional Societies

• VSS
• SFN

Representative Publications

• Tombu, M., & Tsotsos, J. (in press). Inhibitory surrounds in feature space. Perception & Psychophysics.
• Tombu, M., Bruce, N., Rothenstein, A., Tsotsos, J.K. (2005) Introduction and Historical Perspective. In L. Itti, G. Rees, and J.K. Tsotsos (Eds.), Neurobiology of Attention. Elsevier/Academic Press.
• Tombu, M., & Jolicœur, P. (2005). Testing the predictions of the central capacity sharing model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 790 – 802.
• Oriet, C., Tombu, M., & Jolicœur, P. (2005). Symbolic distance affects two processing loci in the number comparison task. Memory & Cognition, 33, 913 – 926.
• Richards, E., Tombu, M., Stolz, J., & Jolicœur, P. (2004). Features of perception: Exploring the perception of change in a psychological refractory period paradigm. Visual Cognition, 11, 751 – 780.
• Tombu, M., & Jolicœur, P. (2004). Virtually no evidence for virtually perfect time-sharing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30, 795 – 810.
• Tombu, M., & Jolicœur, P. (2003). A central capacity sharing model of dual-task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29, 3 – 18.
• Tombu, M., & Jolicœur, P. (2002). All-or-none bottleneck versus capacity sharing accounts of the psychological refractory period phenomenon. Psychological Research, 66, 274 – 286.
• Tombu, M., & Jolicœur, P. (2002). Does size rescaling require central attention? Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 56, 10 – 17.
• Jolicœur, P., Tombu, M., Oriet, C., & Stevanovski, B. (2002). From perception to action: Making the connection. In W. Prinz and B. Hommel (Eds.), Attention and Performance XIX: 558-586. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.