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Department of Psychology

Faculty

Mike Dodd   
Office: 222 Burnett Hall
(402)472-0547
mdodd2@unl.edu
Office Hours: Thursday 11:00 - 11:30



Vision, Attention, Memory & Perception (VAMP lab)


Dr. Dodd received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Toronto in 2005 and was a Killam postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia before joining the faculty in 2007. His research encompasses many different aspects of human cognition, with a particular focus on visual attention (e.g., visual search; inhibition of return; object-based attention; apparent motion; sensory processing; scene perception; oculomotor programming; planning and execution of saccades in younger and older adults; task-induced changes in eye movements), memory (false memory, retrieval-induced forgetting, directed forgetting), and goal-directed activity, as well as the interactions between these cognitive systems (e.g., interactions between the spatial distribution of attention and memory, interactions between motor action and working memory, interactions between numbers/ordinal sequences and attention). He teaches Psychology 263 (Introduction to Cognitive Processes), Psychology 498/971 (Attention and Performance), and Psychology 907 (Cognitive Proseminar).

I hope to accept at least one graduate student beginning in the fall of 2010. If you are interested, please contact me for more information.
 

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Dodd, M. D. & Shumborski, S. (2009). Examining the influence of action on spatial working memory: The importance of selection. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1236-1247.

Dodd, M. D., Van der Stigchel, S., & Hollingworth, A. (2009). Novelty is not always the best policy: Inhibition of return and facilitation of return as a function of visual task. Psychological Science, 20, 333-339.

Dodd, M. D., & Wilson, D. E. (2009). Training attention: Interactions between central cues and reflexive attention. Visual Cognition, 17, 736-754.

Masson, M. E. J., Dodd, M. D., & Enns, J. T. (2009). The Bicycle Illusion: Sidewalk science informs the integration of motion and shape perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 133-145.

Dodd, M. D., Van Der Stigchel, S., Leghari, A., Fung, G., & Kingstone, A. (2008). Attentional SNARC: There's something special about numbers (let us count the ways). Cognition, 108, 810-818.



Dodd, M. D., & Pratt, J. (2007). The effect of previous trial type on inhibition of return. Psychological Research, 71, 411-417.

Dodd, M. D., & Pratt, J. (2007). Rapid onset and long-term Inhibition of return in the multiple cue paradigm. Psychological Research, 71, 576-582.

Dodd, M. D., Castel, A. C., & Roberts, K. E. (2006). A strategy disruption component to retrieval-induced forgetting. Memory & Cognition, 34, 102-111.

Dodd, M. D., Sheard, E. D., & MacLeod, C. M. (2006). Re-exposure to studied items at test does not influence false recognition. Memory, 14, 115-126.

Pratt, J., Dodd, M. D., & Welsh, T. N. (2006). Growing older does not always mean moving slower: Examining aging and the saccadic motor system. Journal of Motor Behavior, 38, 372-382.

Dodd, M. D., McAuley, T., & Pratt, J. (2005). An illusion of 3-D motion with the Ternus display. Vision Research, 45, 969-973.

Dodd, M. D., & Pratt, J. (2005). Allocating visual attention to grouped objects. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 17, 481-497.

Dodd, M. D., & MacLeod, C. M. (2004). False recognition without intentional learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 137-142.

Dodd, M. D., Castel, A. D., & Pratt, J. (2003). Inhibition of return with rapid serial shifts
of attention: Implications for memory and visual search. Perception & Psychophysics, 65, 1126-1135.

Fischer, M. H., Castel, A. D., Dodd, M. D., & Pratt, J. (2003). Perceiving numbers causes spatial shifts of attention. Nature Neuroscience, 6, 555-556.


Books Or Chapters Published

MacLeod, C. M., Dodd, M. D., Sheard, E. D., Wilson, D. E., & Bibi, U. (2003). In
opposition to inhibition. In B. H. Ross (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and
Motivation, Vol. 43 (pp. 163-214). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
 

Current Projects

For a list of the projects currently going on in the lab, please see the following page:

http://psych.unl.edu/mdodd/VAMP/research.htm

If you are interested in getting some lab experience and are interested in any of the list projects, please contact Dr. Dodd.