Selected publications

 Wager, E.E., Peterson, M.A., Folstein, J.R. & Scalf, P.E. (in press). "Ground-based inhibition: suppressive perceptual mechanisms interact with top-down attention to reduce distractor interference." Journal of Vision

 

Scalf, P.E., Ahn, J.W., Beck, D.M., & Lleras, A. (2014). Trial history effects in the ventral attentional network. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(12): 2789-97. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00678.

 

Scalf, P. E., Torralbo, A., Tapia, E., & Beck, D. M. (2013). Competition explains limited attention and perceptual resources: implications for perceptual load and dilution theories. Frontiers in psychology, 4.

 

Savazzi, S., Emanuele, B., Scalf, P., & Beck, D. (2012). Reaction times and perceptual adjustments are sensitive to the illusory distortion of space. Experimental brain research, 218(1), 119-128.

 

Peterson, M. A., Cacciamani, L., Barense, M. D., & Scalf, P. E. (2012). The perirhinal cortex modulates V2 activity in response to the agreement between part familiarity and configuration familiarity. Hippocampus, 22(10), 1965-1977.

 

Scalf, P. E., Dux, P. E., & Marois, R. (2011). Working Memory Encoding Delays Top–Down Attention to Visual Cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(9), 2593-2604.

 

Scalf, P. E., Basak, C., & Beck, D. M. (2011). Attention does more than modulate suppressive interactions: attending to multiple items. Experimental brain research, 212(2), 293-304.

 

Scalf, P., & Beck, D. (2011). The effects of dividing attention on target enhancement and distractor inhibition. Journal of Vision, 11(11), 104-104.

 

Scalf, P., Basak, C., & Beck, D. (2010). Does dividing attention help at all? Competition among multiple attended items. Journal of Vision, 10(7), 144-144.

 

Scalf, P. E., & Beck, D. M. (2010). Competition in visual cortex impedes attention to multiple items. The Journal of neuroscience, 30(1), 161-169.

 

Scalf, P. E., Banich, M. T., & Erickson, A. B. (2009). Interhemispheric interaction expands attentional capacity in an auditory selective attention task. Experimental brain research, 194(2), 317-322.

 

Scalf, P. E., Banich, M. T., Kramer, A. F., Narechania, K., & Simon, C. D. (2007). Double take: parallel processing by the cerebral hemispheres reduces attentional blink. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33(2), 298-329.

 

Scalf, P. E., Colcombe, S. J., McCarley, J. S., Erickson, K. I., Alvarado, M., Kim, J. S., ... & Kramer, A. F. (2007). The neural correlates of an expanded functional field of view. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 62(Special Issue 1), 32-44.

 

Erickson, K. I., Colcombe, S. J., Wadhwa, R., Bherer, L., Peterson, M. S., Scalf, P. E., & Kramer, A. F. (2005). Neural correlates of dual-task performance after minimizing task-preparation. Neuroimage, 28(4), 967-979.

 

Compton, R. J., Banich, M. T., Mohanty, A., Milham, M. P., Herrington, J., Miller, G. A., ... & Heller, W. (2003). Paying attention to emotion. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 3(2), 81-96.

 

Colcombe, S.J., Kramer, A.F., Erickson, K.I., Scalf, P.E., McAuley, E., Cohen, N., Webb, A., Jerome, G.G., Marquez,D. X. & Elavsky, S. (2004) Cardiovascular fitness, cortical plasticity and aging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101, 3316-3321.

 

Scalf, P. E., Banich, M. T., Narechania, K., & Liebler, C. (2001). Results from the attentional blink demonstrate that the benefits of parallel processing by the cerebral hemispheres vary with visual attention demands. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Supplement, 149.