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Conference Presentations
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Kammerzell, D. & Leonard, C. J. (2023). Foveal capture: An investigation of distractors at fixation. Poster presented at the annual Rocky Mountain Psychological Association meeting in Albuquerque, NM.
Ringer, R. V., Japardze, T., & Leonard, C. J. (2023). An ERP investigation of sensory responses preceding first saccade onsets during visual search. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society in St. Pete's Beach, FL.
Ringer, R. V., Japaridze, T., Kammerzell, D., Tian, J., Wernersbach, J., & Leonard, C. J. (2022). At first glance: The effect of spatial attentional bias and individual differences in first-fixation behavior during visual search. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society in St. Pete’s Beach, FL.
Nguyen, L. & Leonard, C. J. (2020). Personality mediates individual differences in allocation of space-based attention. Poster presented at the annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory meeting (virtual).
Leonard, C. J., Vilanova-Goldstein, A., & Cruz, J. (2020). Intertrial priming is modulated by visual set size and memory set size in hybrid search. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society (virtual).
Leonard, C. J., Lister, J., & Salagovic, C. A. (2019). Differential use of color and shape cues in visual search. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Montreal, CA
Vilanova-Goldstein, A. & Leonard, C. J. (2019). Attention through learning: an electrophysiological investigation of priming in visual search. Poster presented at the annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory meeting in Montreal, CA.
Leonard, C. J. & Morales, A. (2019). The effect of unprovoked eye movements during visual working memory retention. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society in St. Pete’s Beach, FL.
Rosicke, S.*, Leonard, C. J., Carry, P. M., & Lee, LM. (2019). Does “See One and Do One” Work in Histology?: A Two-Phase Cross-Over Eye Tracking Study on Complex Histological Pattern Recognition Skills Acquisition. AAA. Orlando, FL. (Poster presentation award finalist)
Leonard, C. J. & Morales, A. (2019). The effect of unprovoked eye movements during visual working memory retention. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society in St. Pete’s Beach, FL.
Lister, J. R., & Leonard, C. J. (2019). Relative effectiveness of cue types in visual search. Poster presented at the CU Denver Research and Creative Activities Seminar (RaCAS).
Manfredo, M., Donavan, K., & Leonard, C. J. (2019). Further understanding the relationship between intertrial priming in visual search and visual working memory capacity. Poster presented at the CU Denver Research and Creative Activities Seminar (RaCAS).
Morales, A., & Leonard, C. J. (2019). The relationship between working memory performance and eye movements during memory maintenance. Poster presented at the CU Denver Research and Creative Activities Seminar (RaCAS).
Nguyen, T., & Leonard, C. J. (2019). The perception of correlations in graphical scatterplots. Poster presented at the CU Denver Research and Creative Activities Seminar (RaCAS).
Steed, A., Pitts, J., Deberard, M., & Leonard, C. J. (2019). Look into my eyes: Examining the relationship between individual differences in personality and strategic eye movements. Poster presented at the CU Denver Research and Creative Activities Seminar (RaCAS).
Vilanova-Goldstein, A., & Leonard, C. J. (2019). Attentional learning: Investigating in effect of intertrial priming on the P300 in visual search. Poster presented at the CU Denver Research and Creative Activities Seminar (RaCAS).
Koury, H.*, Lee, L. M. J., & Leonard, C. J. (2018). Monkey-see, Monkey-do: An Eye-tracking Study Assessing the Efficacy of Feed-forward Training in Histology Visual Literacy Development. Poster presented at the CU Denver Research and Creative Activities Seminar (RaCAS).
Koury, H.*, Lee, L. M. J., & Leonard, C. J. (2018). Monkey-see, Monkey-do: An Eye-tracking Study Assessing the Efficacy of Feed-forward Training in Histology Visual Literacy Development. Poster presented at FASEB. [Poster presentation award finalist; Platform presentation selection].
Koury, H.*, Lee, L. M. J., & Leonard, C. J. (2018). Monkey-see, Monkey-do: An Eye-tracking Study Assessing the Efficacy of Feed-forward Training in Histology Visual Literacy Development. Poster presented at Western Group of Educational Affairs, Denver, CO. [Platform presentation selection].
Leonard, C. J., Dewey, C., & Steed, A. (2018). The dynamics of eye movement behavior during a contour integration task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society in St. Pete’s Beach, FL.
Leonard, C. J. & Johnson, A. (2018). Understanding the relationship between intertrial priming in visual search and visual working memory capacity. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society in New Orleans, LA.
Nguyen, T. A. & Leonard, C. J. (2018). Effects of feature cues and target salience on eye movements in singleton search. Poster presented at the annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory meeting in New Orleans, LA.
Salagovic, C. & Leonard, C. (2018). Auditory alerting modulates processing of peripheral visual stimuli in Eriksen flanker task. Poster presented at the annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting in New Orleans, LA.
Salagovic, C. & Leonard, C. J. (2018). What we hear and where we look: Effects of irrelevant auditory stimuli on eye movement behavior. Poster presented at the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association meeting, Denver, CO.
Salagovic, C. & Leonard, C. J. (2018). The Effect of Irrelevant Sounds on Eye Movements During Visual Search Cailey. Talk (given by Salagovic) presented at the CU Denver Research and Creative Activities Seminar (RaCAS).
Salagovic, C. A. & Leonard, C. J. Crossmodal effects of irrelevant auditory stimuli on saccadic eye movement behavior. Talk (given by Salagovic) presented at the CU Denver Psychology Department Colloquium – Undergraduate Data Blitz.
Thomas, A. & Leonard, C. J. (2018). The role of implicit and explicit memory in visual search performance. Poster presented at the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association meeting, Denver, CO.
Thomas, A. & Leonard, C. J. (2018). The role of implicit and explicit memory in visual search performance. Talk (given by Thomas) presented at the CU Denver Research and Creative Activities Seminar (RaCAS).
Vilanova-Goldstein, A. & Leonard, C. J. (2018). The role of intertrial priming in hybrid search tasks. Poster presented at the annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory meeting in New Orleans, LA.
Koury, H.*, Leonard, C. J., & Lee, L. M. J. (2017). Monkey-see, monkey-do: An eye movement study assessing the efficacy of feed-forward training in histology visual literacy development. Poster presented at the Education Scholarship and Innovations Symposium, held by the Academy of Medical Educators, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO.
Salagovic, C. & Leonard, C. J. (2017). Crossmodal effect of irrelevant auditory stimuli on saccadic eye movement behavior. Poster presented at the Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, in Vancouver, Canada.
Salagovic, C. A. & Leonard, C. J. (2017). Listening with the Eyes: the effect of auditory stimuli on visual attention. Poster presented at the CU Denver Research and Creative Activities Symposium (RaCAS).
Publications
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Leonard, C. J. (2021). Consensus emerges and biased competition wins: A commentary on Luck et al. (2021). Visual Cognition. Link to Article
Salagovic, C. A. & Leonard, C. J. (2021). A nonspatial sound modulates processing of visual distractors in a flanker task. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83(2), 800-809.
Bansal, S., Gaspar, J.M., Robinson, B.M., Leonard, C. J., Hahn, B., Luck, S. J., & Gold, J. M. (2021). Antisaccade deficits in schizophrenia can be driven by attentional relevance of the stimuli. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 47(2), 363-372.
Bansal, S., Bae, G-Y. Frankovitch, K, Robinson, B. M., Leonard, C. J., Gold, J. M, & Luck, S. J. (2020). Increased repulsion of working memory representations in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 129(8), 845-857.
Hahn, B., Bae, G-Y., Robinson, B. M., Leonard, C. J., Luck, S. J., & Gold, J. M. (2020). Cortical hyperactivation at low working memory load: A primary processing abnormality in people with schizophrenia? Neuroimage: Clinical, 26, 102270.
Leonard, C. J., Robinson, B. M., Hahn, B., Gold, J. M., & Luck, S. J. (2020). Increased influence of a previously attended feature in people with schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 129(3), 305-311.
Bae, G-Y., Leonard, C. J., Hahn, B., Gold, J. M. & Luck, S. J. (2020). Assessing the information content of ERP signals in schizophrenia using multivariate decoding methods. Neuroimage: Clinical, 25, 102179.
Luck, S. J., Leonard, C. J., Hahn, B., Gold, J. M. (2019) Is attentional filtering impaired in schizophrenia? Schizophrenia Bulletin, 45(5), 1000-1011.
Luck, S. J., Hahn, B., Leonard, C. J., Gold, J. M. (2019) The hyperfocusing hypothesis: A new account of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 45(5), 991-1000.
Koury, H. F.*, Leonard, C. J., Carry, P. M., & Lee, L. M. J. (2018). An expert-derived feedforward histology module improves pattern recognition efficiency in novice students. Anatomical Sciences Education.
Hahn, B., Robinson, B. M., Leonard, C. J., Luck, S. J., & Gold, J. M. (2018). Posterior parietal cortex dysfunction is central to working memory storage and broad cognitive deficits in schizophrenia. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(39), 8378-8387.
Lee, J., Leonard, C. J., Luck, S. J., & Geng, J. J. (2018). Dynamics of feature-based attentional selection during color-shape conjunction search. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30(12), 1773-1787. PDF
Bansal, S., Robinson, B. M., Geng, J. J., Leonard, C. J., Hahn, B., Luck, S. J., & Gold, J. M. (2018). The impact of reward on attention in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, 12, 66-73. PDF
Leonard, C. J., Robinson, B. M., Hahn, B., Luck, S. J., & Gold, J. M. (2017). Altered spatial profile of distraction in people with schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 126(8), 1077-1086. PDF
Kreither, J., Lopez-Calderon, J., Leonard, C. J., Robinson, B. J., Ruffle, A., Hahn, B., Gold, J. M., & Luck, S. J. (2017). Electrophysiological evidence for hyperfocusing of spatial attention in schizophrenia. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(14), 3813-3823. PDF
Gaspelin, N., Leonard, C. J., Luck. S. J. (2017). Suppression of overt attentional capture by salient-but-irrelevant color singletons. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79(1), 45-62. PDF
Sawaki, R, Leonard, C. J., Kaiser, S. T., Hahn, B., Gold, J.M., Luck, S. J. (2017). Hyperfocusing of attention on goal-related information in schizophrenia: Evidence from electrophysiology. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 126(1), 106-116. PDF
Gaspelin, J., Leonard, C. J., & Luck, S. J. (2015). Direct evidence for active suppression of salient-but-irrelevant sensory inputs. Psychological Science, 26(11), 1740-1750. PDF
Leonard, C. J., Balestreri, A., & Luck, S. J. (2015). Interactions between space-based and feature-based attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41(1), 11-16. PDF
Erickson, M. A., Hahn, B., Leonard, C. J., Robinson, B., Gray, B., Luck, S. J., & Gold, J. M. (2015). Impaired working memory capacity is not caused by failures of selective attention in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 41(2), 366-373. PDF
Erickson, M. A., Hahn, B., Leonard, C. J., Robinson, B., Luck, S. J., & Gold, J. M. (2014). Enhanced vulnerability to distraction does not account for working memory capacity reduction in people with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, 1(3), 149-154. PDF
Luck, S. J., McClenon, C., Beck, V. M., Hollingworth, A., Leonard, C. J., Hahn, B., Robinson, B., & Gold, J. M. (2014). Hyperfocusing in schizophrenia: Evidence from interactions between working memory and eye movements. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 123(4), 783-795. PDF
Gray, B. E., Hahn, B., Robinson, B., Harvey, A., Leonard, C. J., Luck, S. J., & Gold, J. M. (2014). Relationships between divided attention and working memory impairment in people with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 40(6), 1462-1471. PDF
Leonard, C. J., Robinson, B. M., Hahn, B., Gold, J. M., & Luck, S. J. (2014). Enhanced distraction by magnocellular salience signals in schizophrenia. Neuropsychologia, 56, 359-366. PDF
Leonard, C. J., Robinson, B. M., Kaiser, S. T., Hahn, B., McClenon, C., Gold, J. M., & Luck, S. J. (2013). Testing sensory and cognitive explanations of the antisaccade deficit in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 122(4), 1111-1120. PDF
Leonard, C. J., Lopez-Calderon, J., Kreither, J., & Luck, S. J. (2013). Rapid feature-driven changes in the attentional window. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(7), 1100-1110. PDF
Johnson, M. K., McMahon, R. P., Robinson, B. M., Harvey, A. N., Hahn, B., Leonard, C. J., Luck, S. J., & Gold, J. M. (2013). The relationship between working memory capacity and broad measures of cognitive ability in healthy adults and people with schizophrenia. Neuropsychology, 27(2), 220-229. PDF
Leonard, C. J., Kaiser, S. T., Robinson, B. M., Kappenman, E. S., Hahn, B., Gold, J. M., & Luck, S. J. (2013). Toward the neural mechanisms of reduced working memory capacity in schizophrenia. Cerebral Cortex, 23, 1582-1592. PDF
Hahn, B., Robinson, B. M., Harvey, A. N., Kaiser, S. T., Leonard, C. J., Luck, S. J., & Gold, J. M. (2012). Visuospatial attention in schizophrenia: Deficits in broad monitoring. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121(1), 119-128. PDF
Kappenman, E. S., Kaiser, S. T., Robinson, B. M., Morris, S. E., Hahn, B., Beck, V., Leonard, C. J., Gold, J. M., & Luck, S. J. (2012). Response activation impairments in schizophrenia: Evidence from the lateralized readiness potential. Psychophysiology, 49(1), 73-84. PDF
Hahn, B., Hollingworth, A., Robinson. B. M., Kaiser, S. T., Leonard, C. J., Beck, V. M., Kappenman, E. S., Luck, S. J., & Gold, J. M. (2012). Control of working memory content in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 134(1), 70-75. PDF
Leonard, C. J. & Luck, S. J. (2011). The role of magnocellular input in oculomotor attentional capture. Journal of Vision, 11(13), 1-12. PDF
Leonard, C. J. & Luck, S. J. (2010). Temporal dynamics of spatial attention. Visual Cognition, 18(10), 1522-1525. PDF
Egeth, H., Leonard, C. J., & Leber, A. J. (2010). Why salience is not enough: Reflections on top-down selection in vision. Acta Psychologica, 135, 130-132. PDF
Hahn, B., Robinson, B. M., Kaiser, S. T., Harvey, A. N., Beck, V.M., Leonard, C. J., Kappenman, E. S., Luck, S. J., Gold, J. M. (2010). Failure of schizophrenia patients to overcome salient distractors during working memory encoding. Biological Psychiatry, 68(7), 603-609. PDF
Leonard, C. J., & Egeth, H. E. (2008). Attentional guidance in singleton search: An examination of top-down, bottom-up, and intertrial factors. Visual Cognition, 16(8), 1078-1091. PDF
Egeth, H., Leonard, C. J., & Palomares, M. (2008). The role of attention in subitizing: Is the magical number one? Visual Cognition, 16(4), 463-473. PDF
Leonard, C. J., & Chiu, Y. (2007). What you set is not what you see: Unconscious activation of cognitive control. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 11170-11171. PDF