Journal Articles
- Bias-free measure of distractor avoidance in visual search
Ma, X., & Abrams, R. A.
Cognition [2025]
[PDF] [data] [watch talk] - Visual distraction’s “silver lining”: Distractor suppression boosts attention to competing stimuli
Ma, X., & Abrams, R. A.
Psychological Science [2023]
[PDF] [data] [press release] - Feature-blind attentional suppression of salient distractors
Ma, X., & Abrams, R. A.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics [2023]
[PDF] [data] - Longer duration intertrial intervals without visual stimuli have reinforcement value and increase the rate of reinforcement and punishment learning in computer-based discriminations in humans
Ma, X., Bracciano, B., Hoppas, N., Zimmerman, S., & Pickens, C. L.
Learning and Motivation [2023]
[PDF] - Ignoring the unknown: Attentional suppression of unpredictable visual distraction
Ma, X., & Abrams, R. A.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance [2023]
[PDF] [data] [watch talk] - Spatial task relevance modulates value-driven attentional capture
Ma, X., & Abrams, R. A.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics [2022]
[PDF] [data] [watch talk] - Sequential biases on subjective judgments: Evidence from face attractiveness and ringtone agreeableness judgment
Huang, J., He, X., Ma, X., Ren, Y., Zhao, T., Zeng X, et al.
PLoS ONE [2018]
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Conference Presentations
- Abrams, R. A., & Ma, X. (2024, Nov). Bias-free measure of distractor suppression in visual search [Talk presentation]. Psychonomic Society 65th Annual Meeting, New York City, NY. [video]
- Ma, X., Luck, S. J., Gaspelin, N. (2024, Nov). Suppression of salient distractors inside versus outside the attentional window [Poster presentation]. Psychonomic Society 65th Annual Meeting, New York City, NY.
- Ma, X., & Abrams, R. A. (2023, Nov). Tipping the balance of attentional priority: Suppressing a distractor enhances the remaining elements in a perceptual group [Talk presentation]. Psychonomic Society 64th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
- Ma, X., & Abrams, R. A. (2023, Nov). Cognitive control settings from Stroop tasks transfer to visual search [Poster presentation]. Psychonomic Society 64th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
- Ma, X., & Abrams, R. A. (2023, May). Enhanced representation of visual stimuli near a suppressed distractor [Poster presentation]. Vision Sciences Society 23rd Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL.
- Ma, X., & Abrams, R. A. (2022, Nov). Feature-blind attentional suppression of salient distractors [Talk presentation]. Psychonomic Society 63rd Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. [video]
- Ma, X., & Abrams, R. A. (2022, May). Rewarded stimuli do not capture attention at task-irrelevant locations [Poster presentation]. Vision Sciences Society 22nd Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL.
- Ma, X., & Abrams, R. A. (2021, Nov). Absence of value-driven attentional capture at task-irrelevant locations [Poster presentation]. Psychonomic Society 62nd Annual Meeting, delivered virtually. [video]
- Ma, X., & Abrams, R. A. (2019, Nov). Motor outputs, but not mere preparation of actions, affect subsequent visual perception [Poster presentation]. Psychonomic Society 60th Annual Meeting, Montréal, QB, Canada.
- Ma, X., Wolters, C., & Pickens, C. (2017, May). Computer-based autoshaping and omission contingency learning in humans [Poster presentation]. Annual Kansas State University Undergraduate Convocation, Manhattan, KS.
