Publications

 
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2023
Siritzky, E. M., Cox, P. H., Nadler, S. M., Grady, J. N., Kravitz, D. J., & Mitroff, S. R. (2023). Standard experimental paradigm designs and data exclusion practices in cognitive psychology can inadvertently introduce systematic “shadow” biases in participant samples. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 8(1), 66.

Kravitz, D. J., & Mitroff, S. R. (2023). Quantifying, and correcting for, the impact of questionable research practices on false discovery rates in psychological science. Journal of Reproducibility in Neuroscience. Published online July 21, 2023. doi:10.36850/jrn.2023.e44  


2022
Grady, J. N., Cox, P. H., Nag, S., & Mitroff, S.R. (2022). Conscientiousness protects visual search performance from the impact of fatigue. Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications, 7(1), 1-12. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41235-022-00410-9

Mitroff, S. R., Siritzky, E. M., Nag, S., Cox, P. H., Callahan-Flintoft, C., Tweedell, A., Kravitz, D. J., & Oie, K. S. (2022). The importance of assessing both expert and non-expert populations to inform expert performance. International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AFE). New York, NY.

Silverman, M. S., Nag, S., Kalishman, A., Cox, P. H., & Mitroff, S. R., (2022). Symptoms associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder among university students during the covid-19 pandemic. Journal of American College Health. DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2022.2080507

Treviño, M., Birdsong, G., Carrigan, A., Choyke, P., Drew, T., Eckstein, M., ...Mitroff, S. R.,… & Wolfe, J. M. (2022). Advancing Research on Medical Image Perception by Strengthening Multidisciplinary Collaboration. JNCI Cancer Spectrum.

Kramer, M. R., Cox, P. H., Mitroff, S. R., & Kravitz, D. J. (2022). A precise quantification of how prior experience informs current behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. DOI: 10.1037/xge0001119


2021
Kramer, M. R., Cox, P. H., Yu, A., Kravitz, D. J., & Mitroff, S. R. (2021). Moving beyond the keypress: As technology advances, so should psychology response time measurements. Perception.

Cox, P. H., Kravitz, D. J., & Mitroff, S. R. (2021). Great expectations: Minor differences in initial instructions have a major impact on visual search in the absence of feedback. Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications, 6(1), 1-14.

2020
Porfido, C. L., Cox, P. H., Adamo, S. H., & Mitroff, S. R. (2020). Recruiting from the shallow end of the pool: Differences in cognitive and compliance measures for subject pool participants based on enrollment time across an academic term. Visual Cognition, 28(1), 1-9. DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2019.1702602

Kravitz, D. J., Mitroff, S. R., & Bauer, P. J. (2020). Practicing good laboratory hygiene, even in a pandemic. Psychological Science, 31(5), 483-487.

2019
Biggs, A. T., & Mitroff, S. R. (2019). Visual search training via a consistency protocol: A pilot study. Visual Cognition, 27(9-10), 657-667. DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2019.1634662

Adamo, S. H., Cox, P. H., Kravitz, D. J., & Mitroff, S. R. (2019). How to correctly put the “subsequent” in subsequent search miss errors. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-10. (abstract | ​​pdf)

Kramer, M.S., Porfido, C.L., & Mitroff, S. R. (2019). Evaluation of Strategies to Train Visual Search Performance in Professional Populations. Current Opinion in Psychology. (abstract | ​​pdf)

2018
Adamo, S. H., Cain, M. S., & Mitroff, S. R. (2018). Satisfaction at last: Evidence for the “satisfaction” account for multiple-target search errors. Proceedings SPIE: Medical Imaging, Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment. 105770A, doi.org/10.1117/12.2293692. (abstract| ​​pdf)
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Biggs, A. T., Kramer, M. R., & Mitroff, S. R. (2018). Using cognitive psychology research to inform professional visual search operations. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 7(2), 189-198. (abstract | ​​pdf)
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Adamo, S. H., Ericson, J. M., Nah, J. C., Brem, R., & Mitroff, S. R. (2018). Mammography to tomosynthesis: examining the differences between two-dimensional and segmented-three-dimensional visual search. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 3(1), 17. (abstract | ​pdf)

​Mitroff, S. R., Ericson, J. M., & Sharpe, B. (2018). Predicting airport screening officers’ visual search competency with a rapid assessment. Human factors, 0018720817743886. (abstract | pdf)

2017
Mitroff, S. R., & Sharpe, B. (2017). Using big data to solve real problems through academic and industry partnerships. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 18C, 91-96. (abstract | ​pdf)

Chang, B. P., Cain, D., & Mitroff, S. R. (2017). Emergency department crowding associated with differences in CXR interpretations between emergency physicians and radiologists. American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 35(5), 793-794. (abstract | pdf)

Devyatko, D., Appelbaum, L. G., & Mitroff, S. R. (2017). A Common Mechanism for Perceptual Reversals in Motion-Induced Blindness, the Troxler Effect, and Perceptual Filling-In. Perception, 46(1), 50-77. (abstract | pdf)

Ericson, J. M., Kravitz, D. J., & Mitroff, S. R. (2017). Visual Search: You Are Who You Are (+ A Learning Curve). Perception, 0301006617721091. (abstract | pdf)

Biggs, A. T., Clark, K., & Mitroff, S. R. (2017). Who should be searching? Differences in personality can affect visual search accuracy. Personality and Individual Differences, 116, 353-358. (abstract | pdf)

​Adamo, S. H., Cain, M. S., & Mitroff, S. R. (2017). An individual differences approach to multiple-target visual search errors: How search errors relate to different characteristics of attention. Vision Research. ​(abstract | pdf)

2016

Dowd, E. W., Mitroff, S. R., & LaBar, K. S.  (2016). Fear generalization gradients in visuospatial attention. Emotion, 16(7),1011-1018.  (abstract | pdf)

Krasich, K., Ramger, B., Holton, L., Wang, L., Mitroff, S. R., & Appelbaum, L. G. (2016). Sensorimotor learning in a computerized athletic training battery. Journal of Motor Behavior, 48(5), 401-412. (abstract | pdf)
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2015
Adamo, S. H., Cain, M. S., & Mitroff, S. R. (2015). Targets need their own space: Effects of clutter on multiple-target visual search. Perception, 44(10), 1203-1214. (abstract | pdf)

Mitroff, S. R., Biggs, A. T., & Cain, M. S. (2015). Multiple-target visual search errors: Overview and implications for airport security. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2(1), 121-128. (abstract | pdf)

Biggs, A. T., Cain, M. S., Mitroff, S. R. (2015). Cognitive training can reduce civilian casualties in a simulated shooting environment. Psychological Science, 26(8), 1164-1176. (abstract | pdf)

Biggs, A. T., Adamo, S. H., & Mitroff, S. R. (2015). Mo’ money, mo’ problems: Monetary motivation can exacerbate the attentional blink. Perception, 44(4), 410-422. (abstract | pdf)

Clark, K., Appelbaum, L. G., van de berg, B., Mitroff, S. R., & Woldorff, M. G. (2015). Improvement in visual search with practice: Mapping learning-related changes in neurocognitive stages of processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(13): 5351-5359.  (abstract | pdf)

Dowd, E. W., Kiyonaga, A., Egner, T., & Mitroff, S. R. (2015). Attentional guidance by working memory differs by paradigm: An individual-differences approach. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 77, 704- 712. (abstract | pdf)

Wang, L., Krasich, K., Bel-Bahar, T., Hughes, L., Mitroff, S. R., & Appelbaum, L. G. (2015). Mapping the structure of perceptual and visual-motor abilities in healthy young adults. Acta Psychologica, 157, 74-84. (abstract | pdf)

Biggs, A. T., Adamo, S. H., Dowd, E. W., & Mitroff, S. R. (2015). Examining perceptual and conceptual set biases in multiple-target visual search. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 77, 844-855. (abstract | pdf)

Mitroff, S. R., Biggs, A. T., Adamo, S. H., Dowd, E. W., Winkle, J., & Clark, K. (2015). What can 1 billion trials tell us about visual search? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 41(1), 1-5. (abstract | pdf)

2014
Biggs, A. T., & Mitroff, S. R. (2014). Improving the efficacy of security screening tasks: A review of visual search challenges and ways to mitigate their adverse effects. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 29(1), 142-148. (abstract | pdf)

Biggs, A. T., & Mitroff, S. R. (2014). Differences in multiple-target visual search performance between non-professional and professional searchers due to decision-making criteria. British Journal of Psychology. (abstract | pdf)
 
Biggs, A. T., Adamo, S. H., & Mitroff, S. R. (2014). Rare, but obviously there: Effects of target frequency and salience on visual search accuracy. Acta Psychologica, 152, 158-165. (abstract | pdf)

Cain, M. S., Biggs, A. T., Darling, E. F., & Mitroff, S. R. (2014). A little bit of history repeating: Splitting up multiple-target visual searches decreases second-target miss errors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 20(2), 112-125. (abstract | pdf)

Clark, K., Cain, M. S., Adcock, R. A., & Mitroff, S. R. (2014). Context Matters: The structure of task goals affects accuracy in multiple-target visual search. Applied Ergonomics, 45(3), 528-533.  (abstract | pdf)

Mitroff, S. R., & Biggs, A. T. (2014). The Ultra-Rare-Item effect: Visual search for exceedingly rare items is highly susceptible to error. Psychological Science, 25(1), 284-289.  (abstract | pdf)

Biggs, A. T., & Mitroff, S. R. (2014). Different predictors of multiple-target search accuracy between nonprofessional and professional visual searchers. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(7), 1335- 1348. (abstract | pdf)

2013
Mitroff, S. R., Friesen, P., Bennett, D., Yoo, H., & Reichow, A. (2013). Enhancing ice hockey skills through stroboscopic visual training—A pilot study. Athletic Training & Sports Health Care, 5, 261-264. ( abstract | pdf)

Jackson, T. H., Mitroff, S. R., Clark, K., Proffit, W. R., Lee, J. Y., & Nguyen, T. T. (2013). Face symmetry assessment abilities: Clinical implications for diagnosing asymmetry. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, 114(5), 663-671. (abstract | pdf)

Adamo, S. H., Cain, M. S., & Mitroff, S. R. (2013). Self-induced attentional blink: A cause of errors in multiple-target search. Psychological Science, 24(12), 2569-2574. (abstract | pdf)

Cain, M. S., Adamo, S. H., & Mitroff, S. R. (2013). A taxonomy of multiple-target search errors. Visual Cognition, 21(7), 899-921.  (abstract | pdf)

Jackson, T. H., Clark, K., & Mitroff, S. R. (2013). Enhanced facial symmetry assessment in orthodontists. Visual Cognition, 21(7), 838-852. (abstract | pdf)

Appelbaum, L. G., Cain, M. S., Darling, E. F., & Mitroff, S. R. (2013). Action video game playing is associated with improved visual sensitivity, but not alterations in visual sensory memory. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 75(6), 1161-1167. (abstract | pdf)

Biggs, A. T., Cain, M. S., Clark, K., Darling, E. F., & Mitroff, S. R. (2013). Assessing visual search performance differences between Transportation Security Administration Officers and non-professional visual searchers. Visual Cognition, 21(3), 330-352. (abstract | pdf)

Dowd, E. W., & Mitroff, S. R. (2013). Attentional guidance by working memory overrides saliency cues in visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 39(6), 1786- 1796. (abstract | pdf)

Cain, M. S., & Mitroff, S. R. (2013). Memory for found targets interferes with subsequent performance in multiple-target visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 39(5), 1398-1408. (abstract | pdf)

2012
Smith, T. Q., & Mitroff, S. R. (2012). Stroboscopic training enhances anticipatory timing. International Journal of Exercise Science, 5(4), 344-353. (abstract | pdf)

Donohue, S. E., Darling, E. F., Mitroff, S. R. (2012). Links between multisensory processing and autism. Experimental Brain Research, 222, 377-387. (abstract | pdf)

Cain, M. S., Vul, E., Clark, K., & Mitroff, S. R. (2012). A Bayesian optimal foraging model of human visual search. Psychological Science, 23, 1047-1054. (abstract | pdf)

Appelbaum, L. G., Cain, M. S., Schroeder, J. E., Darling, E. F., & Mitroff, S. R. (2012). Stroboscopic visual training improves information encoding in short-term memory. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 74(8), 1681-1691. (abstract | pdf)

Donohue, S., James, B., Eslick, A. N., & Mitroff, S. R. (2012). Cognitive Pitfall!: Video game players are not immune from dual-task costs. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 74, 803-809. (abstract | pdf)

Appelbaum, L. G., Cain, M. S., Darling, E. F., Stanton, S. J., Nguyen, M. T., & Mitroff, S. R. (2012). What is the identity of a sports spectator? Personality and Individual Differences, 52, 422-427. (abstract | pdf)

Salazar, E., Cain, M., Darling, E., Mitroff, S., & Carin, L. (2012). Inferring latent structure from mixed real and categorical relational data. (abstract | pdf)

2011
Cain, M. S., & Mitroff, S. R. (2011). Distractor filtering in media multitaskers. Perception, 40(10), 1183- 1192. (abstract | pdf)

Appelbaum, L. G., Schroeder, J. E., Cain, M. S., & Mitroff, S. R. (2011). Improved visual cognition through stroboscopic training. Frontiers in Psychology, 2:276. (abstract | pdf)

Cain, M. S., Dunsmoor, J. E., LaBar, K. S., & Mitroff, S. R. (2011). Anticipatory anxiety hinders detection of a second target in dual-target search. Psychological Science, 22, 866-871.  (abstract | pdf)

Clark, K., Fleck, M. S., & Mitroff, S. R. (2011). Enhanced change detection performance reveals improved strategy use in avid action video game players. Acta Psychologica, 136, 67-72. (abstract | pdf)

Wu, W., Tiesinga, P., Tucker, T., Heiner, J., Mitroff, S. R., & Fitzpatrick, D. (2011). Dynamics of Population Response to Changes of Motion Direction in Primary Visual Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(36), 12767-12777. (abstract | pdf)

2010
Costello, M. C., Madden, D. J., Mitroff, S. R., & Whiting, W. L. (2010). Age-related decline of visual processing components in change detection. Psychology & Aging, 25(2), 356-368. 

Costello, M. C., Madden, D. J., Shepler, A. M., Mitroff, S. R., & Leber, A. B. (2010). Age-related preservation of top-down control over distraction in visual search. Experimental Aging Research, 36(3), 249-272. 

Donohue, S. E., Woldorff, M. G., & Mitroff, S. R. (2010). Video game players show more precise multisensory temporal processing abilities. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 72, 1120-1129. (abstract | pdf)

Jordan, K. E., Clark, K., & Mitroff, S. R. (2010). See an object, hear an object file: Object correspondence transcends sensory modality. Visual Cognition, 18, 492-503. (abstract | pdf)

Fleck, M. S., Samei, E., & Mitroff, S. R. (2010). Generalized ‘satisfaction of search’: Adverse influences on dual-target search accuracy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 16, 60-71. (abstract | pdf)

2009
Dunsmoor, J. E., Mitroff, S. R., & LaBar, K. S. (2009). Generalization of conditioned fear along a dimension of increasing fear intensity. Learning & Memory, 16, 460-469. (abstract | pdf)

Mitroff, S. R., Arita, J. T., & Fleck, M. S. (2009). Staying in bounds: Contextual constraints on object file coherence. Visual Cognition, 17, 195-211. (abstract | pdf)

Wang, S, & Mitroff, S. R. (2009). Preserved visual representations despite change blindness in infants. Developmental Science, 12, 681-687. (abstract | pdf)

2008
Cheries, E., Mitroff, S. R., Wynn, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2008). Cohesion as a constraint on object persistence in infancy. Developmental Science, 11, 427-432. (abstract | pdf)

2007 and earlier
Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Noles, N. S. (2007). Object files can be purely episodic. Perception, 36, 1730-1735. 

Mitroff, S. R., & Alvarez, G. A. (2007). Space and time, not surface features, underlie object persistence. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 14, 1199-1204. (abstract | pdf)

Fleck, M. S., & Mitroff, S. R. (2007). Rare targets are rarely missed in correctable search. Psychological Science, 18, 943-947. (abstract | pdf)

Mitroff, S. R., Sobel, D. M., Gopnik, A. (2006). Reversing how to think about ambiguous figure reversals: Spontaneous alternating by uninformed observers. Perception, 35, 709-715. 53. (abstract | pdf)

Noles, N. S., Scholl, B. J., & Mitroff, S. R. (2005). The persistence of object file representations. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 324-334. 54. (abstract | pdf)

Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Wynn, K. (2005). The relationship between object files and conscious perception. Cognition, 96, 67-92. 55. (abstract | pdf)

Mitroff, S. R. & Scholl, B. J. (2005). Forming and updating object representations without awareness: Evidence from motion-induced blindness. Vision Research, 45, 961-967. 56. (abstract | pdf)

Mitroff, S. R. & Scholl, B. J. (2004). Seeing the disappearance of unseen objects. Perception, 33, 1267- 1273. 57. (abstract | pdf)

Mitroff, S. R., Scholl, B. J., & Wynn, K. (2004). Divide and conquer: How object files adapt when a persisting object splits into two. Psychological Science, 15, 420-425. 58. (abstract | pdf)

Mitroff, S. R., Simons, D. J., & Levin, D. T. (2004). Nothing compares 2 views: Change blindness can occur despite preserved access to the changed information. Perception & Psychophysics, 66, 1268-1281. 59. (abstract | pdf)

Mitroff, S. R. & Simons, D. J. (2002). Changes are not localized until they are explicitly detected. Visual Cognition, 9, 937-968. 60. (abstract | pdf)

Mitroff, S. R., Simons, D. J., & Franconeri, S. L. (2002). The siren song of implicit change detection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 798-815. ​(abstract | pdf)



Book Chapters & Research Briefs 

Clark, K., Cain, M. S., & Mitroff, S. R. (2015). Perception and human information processing in visual search. In R. Hoffman, J. Szalma, P. Hancock, R. Parasuraman, & M. Scerbo (Eds.), Cambridge University Handbook on Applied Perception Research. Cambridge University Press. (pdf)

Harris, J. A., Barrack, D. L., McMahon, A. R., Mitroff, S.R., & Woldorff, M. G. (2014). Object-category processing during motion-induced blindness as revealed by electrophysiological recordings. In G. R. Mangun (Ed.), Cognitive Electrophysiology of Attention: Signals of the Mind (pp. 97-106). San Diego, CA: Elsevier Academic Press. 

Clark, K., Cain, M. S., Adamo, S. H., & Mitroff, S. R. (2012). Examining influences on applied visual search performance. In M. D. Dodd & J. H. Flowers (Eds.), The Influence of Attention, Learning, and Motivation on Visual Search (Vol. 59, pp. 147–181). New York: Springer. 

Mitroff, S. R., & Hariri, A. (2010). Identifying Predictive Markers of Field Performance: The Potential Role of Individual Differences in Threat Sensitivity. Institute for Homeland Security Solutions Research Brief. https://www.ihssnc.org (pdf)

Madden, D. J, & Mitroff, S. R. (2010). Aging and Top-Down Attentional Control in Visual Search. Institute for Homeland Security Solutions Research Brief. https://www.ihssnc.org  (pdf)

Cheries, E., Mitroff, S. R., Wynn, K. & Scholl, B. J. (2009). Constraints on Persisting Object Representations in Infants and Adults. In B. Hood & L. Santos (Eds.), The Origins of Object Knowledge. London: Oxford University Press. 

Simons, D. J., Mitroff, S. R., & Franconeri, S. L. (2003). Scene perception: What we can learn from visual integration and change detection. In M. Peterson & G. Rhodes (Eds.), Perception of faces, objects, and scenes: Analytic and holistic processes. Advances in visual cognition (pp. 335-351). London: Oxford University Press. (pdf)

Simons, D. J., & Mitroff, S. R. (2001). The role of expectation in change detection and attentional capture. In L.R. Harris & M. Jenkin (Eds.), Vision and Attention (pp. 189-207). Springer. Manuscripts under review & under revision. (pdf)

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