Associate Professor Stefanie Becker
Associate Professor
School of Psychology
+61 7 334 69517
McElwain Building (24A)
Level 4, Room 459
Level 4, Room 459
Researcher biography
Stefanie was awarded a PhD in Cognitive Psychology / Experimental Psychology in 2007, from the University of Bielefeld, Germany, and was subsequently awarded two awards for it (amongst them the National German Dissertation Award). She then took up a 1-year post-doc position with Prof Roger Remington at UQ. Subsequently, her work was supported by various fellowships from UQ and the ARC, allowing Stefanie to focus mainly on research from 2009 - 2018. Afterwards she was employed on a Teaching and Research position at UQ, where she is currently employed as an Associate Professor.
Personal website: www.sibecker.com
Book Chapter
Becker, Stefanie I. (2014). Guidance of attention by feature relationships: the end of the road for feature map theories?. Current trends in eye tracking research. (pp. 37-49) edited by Mike Horsley, Matt Eliot, Bruce Allen Knight and Ronan Reilly. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-02868-2_3
Journal Articles
Qiu, Zeguo, Lei, Xue, Becker, Stefanie I. and Pegna, Alan J. (2023). Faces capture spatial attention only when we want them to: an inattentional blindness EEG study. Biological Psychology, 183 108665. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108665
Becker, Stefanie I., Hamblin-Frohman, Zachary, Xia, Hongfeng and Qiu, Zeguo (2023). Tuning to non-veridical features in attention and perceptual decision-making: An EEG study. Neuropsychologia, 188 108634, 108634. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108634
Qiu, Zeguo, Becker, Stefanie I., Xia, Hongfeng, Hamblin-Frohman, Zachary and Pegna, Alan J. (2023). Fixation-related electrical potentials during a free visual search task reveal the timing of visual awareness. iScience, 26 (7) 107148, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107148
Hamblin-Frohman, Zachary and Becker, Stefanie I. (2023). Attentional selection is a sufficient cause for visual working memory interference. Journal of Vision, 23 (7) 15, 1-11. doi: 10.1167/jov.23.7.15
Becker, Stefanie I., Grubert, Anna, Horstmann, Gernot and Ansorge, Ulrich (2023). Which processes dominate visual search: bottom-up feature contrast, top-down tuning or trial history?. Cognition, 236 105420, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105420
Yu, Xinger, Zhou, Zhiheng, Becker, Stefanie I., Boettcher, Sage E. P. and Geng, Joy J. (2023). Good-enough attentional guidance. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27 (4), 391-403. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.01.007
Qiu, Zeguo, Jiang, Jiaqin, Becker, Stefanie I. and Pegna, Alan J. (2023). Attentional capture by fearful faces requires consciousness and is modulated by task-relevancy: a dot-probe EEG study. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17 1152220, 1152220. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1152220
Hamblin-Frohman, Zachary, Low, Jia Xuan and Becker, Stefanie I. (2023). Attentional prioritisation and facilitation for similar stimuli in visual working memory. Psychological Research, 87 (7), 1-8. doi: 10.1007/s00426-023-01790-3
Becker, Stefanie I., Retell, James D. and Wolfe, Jeremy M. (2023). Mirror blindness: our failure to recognize the target in search for mirror-reversed shapes. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 85 (2), 418-437. doi: 10.3758/s13414-022-02641-w
Dai, Chenglong, Wu, Jia, Monaghan, Jessica J. M., Li, Guanghui, Peng, Hao, Becker, Stefanie I. and McAlpine, David (2022). Semi-supervised EEG clustering with multiple constraints. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 35 (8), 1-15. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2022.3206330
Qiu, Zeguo, Becker, Stefanie I. and Pegna, Alan J. (2022). Spatial attention shifting to fearful faces depends on visual awareness in attentional blink: an ERP study. Neuropsychologia, 172 108283, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108283
Hamblin-Frohman, Zachary, Chang, Seah, Egeth, Howard and Becker, Stefanie I. (2022). Eye movements reveal the contributions of early and late processes of enhancement and suppression to the guidance of visual search. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 84 (6), 1913-1924. doi: 10.3758/s13414-022-02536-w
Li, Guanghui, Shen, Jiahua, Dai, Chenglong, Wu, Jia and Becker, Stefanie I. (2022). ShVEEGc: EEG clustering with improved cosine similarity-transformed shapley value. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, PP (99), 1-15. doi: 10.1109/tetci.2022.3189385
Qiu, Zeguo, Becker, Stefanie I. and Pegna, Alan J. (2022). The effects of spatial attention focus and visual awareness on the processing of fearful faces: an ERP study. Brain Sciences, 12 (7) 823. doi: 10.3390/brainsci12070823
Qiu, Zeguo, Lei, Xue, Becker, Stefanie I. and Pegna, Alan J. (2022). Neural activities during the processing of unattended and unseen emotional faces: a voxel-wise meta-analysis. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 16 (5), 2426-2443. doi: 10.1007/s11682-022-00697-8
Qiu, Zeguo, Becker, Stefanie I. and Pegna, Alan J. (2022). Spatial attention shifting to emotional faces is contingent on awareness and task relevancy. Cortex, 151, 30-48. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.02.009
Hamblin-Frohman, Zachary and Becker, Stefanie I. (2022). Inhibition continues to guide search under concurrent visual working memory load. Journal of Vision, 22 (2) 8, 1-17. doi: 10.1167/jov.22.2.8
Martin, Aimee and Becker, Stefanie I. (2021). A relational account of visual short-term memory (VSTM). Cortex, 144, 151-167. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.08.013
Hamblin-Frohman, Zachary and Becker, Stefanie I. (2021). The attentional template in high and low similarity search: Optimal tuning or tuning to relations?. Cognition, 212 104732, 104732. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104732
Dai, Chenglong, Wu, Jia, Pi, Dechang, Cui, Lin, Johnson, Blake and Becker, Stefanie I. (2021). Electroencephalogram signal clustering with convex cooperative games. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, PP (99), 1-1. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2021.3060742
Martin, Aimee, Becker, Stefanie I. and Pegna, Alan J. (2021). Attention is prioritised for proximate and approaching fearful faces. Cortex, 134, 52-64. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.10.011
York, Ashley A., Sewell, David K. and Becker, Stefanie I. (2020). Dual target search: attention tuned to relative features, both within and across dimensions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance., 46 (11), 1368-1386. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000851
Dai, Chenglong, Pi, Dechang and Becker, Stefanie I. (2020). Shapelet-transformed multi-channel EEG channel selection. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 11 (5) 58, 1-27. doi: 10.1145/3397850
Harris, Anthony M., Jacoby, Oscar, Remington, Roger W., Becker, Stefanie I. and Mattingley, Jason B. (2020). Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for a dissociation between working memory capacity and feature-based attention. Cortex, 129, 158-174. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.04.009
York, Ashley and Becker, Stefanie I. (2020). Top-down modulation of gaze capture: feature similarity, optimal tuning, or tuning to relative features?. Journal of Vision, 20 (4) 6, 1-16. doi: 10.1167/jov.20.4.6
Dai, Chenglong, Wu, Jia, Pi, Dechang, Becker, Stefanie I., Cui, Lin, Zhang, Qin and Johnson, Blake (2020). Brain EEG time-series clustering using maximum-weight clique. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 52 (1), 1-15. doi: 10.1109/tcyb.2020.2974776
Ernst, Daniel, Becker, Stefanie and Horstmann, Gernot (2020). Novelty competes with saliency for attention. Vision Research, 168, 42-52. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2020.01.004
Dai, Chenglong, Pi, Dechang, Becker, Stefanie I., Wu, Jia, Cui, Lin and Johnson, Blake (2020). CenEEGs: valid EEG selection for classification. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 14 (2) A18, 18-25. doi: 10.1145/3371153
Remington, Roger W., Vromen, Joyce M. G., Becker, Stefanie I., Baumann, Oliver and Mattingley, Jason B. (2020). The role of the frontoparietal cortex across the functional stages of visual search. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33 (1), 1-14. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01632
Becker, Stefanie I., Manoharan, Rheaa T. and Folk, Charles L. (2020). The attentional blink: a relational account of attentional engagement. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 28 (1), 219-227. doi: 10.3758/s13423-020-01813-9
Schönhammer, Josef G., Becker, Stefanie I. and Kerzel, Dirk (2020). Attentional capture by context cues, not inhibition of cue singletons, explains same location costs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46 (6), 1-19. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000735
Horstmann, Gernot, Becker, Stefanie I. and Grubert, Anna (2020). Dwelling on simple stimuli in visual search. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 82 (2), 607-625. doi: 10.3758/s13414-019-01872-8
Becker, Stefanie I., Martin, Aimee and Hamblin-Frohman, Zachary (2019). Target templates in singleton search vs. feature-based search modes. Visual Cognition, 27 (5-8), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/13506285.2019.1676352
Becker, Stefanie I., Atalla, Marina and Folk, Charles L. (2019). Conjunction search: can we simultaneously bias attention to features and relations?. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 82 (1), 246-268. doi: 10.3758/s13414-019-01807-3
Horstmann, Gernot, Ernst, Daniel and Becker, Stefanie (2019). Dwelling on distractors varying in target-distractor similarity. Acta Psychologica, 198 102859, 102859. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.05.011
Hamblin-Frohman, Zachary and Becker, Stefanie I. (2019). Attending object features interferes with visual working memory regardless of eye-movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45 (8), 1049-1061. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000651
Horstmann, Gernot and Becker, Stefanie I. (2019). More efficient visual search for happy faces may not indicate guidance, but rather faster distractor rejection: Evidence from eye movements and fixations. Emotion, 20 (2), 206-216. doi: 10.1037/emo0000536
Cornish, Lillian, Hill, Andrew, Horswill, Mark S., Becker, Stefanie I. and Watson, Marcus O. (2019). Eye-tracking reveals how observation chart design features affect the detection of patient deterioration: an experimental study. Applied Ergonomics, 75, 230-242. doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2018.10.005
Martin, Aimee and Becker, Stefanie I. (2018). How feature relationships influence attention and awareness: Evidence from eye movements and EEG. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44 (12), 1865-1883. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000574
Remington, Roger W., Burt, Jennifer S. and Becker, Stefanie I. (2018). The curious case of spillover: does it tell us much about saccade timing in reading?. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 80 (7), 1-8. doi: 10.3758/s13414-018-1544-5
Becker, Stefanie I. (2018). Reply to Theeuwes: Fast Feature-based Top-down Effects, but Saliency May be Slow. Journal of Cognition, 1 (1) 28, 28. doi: 10.5334/joc.23
Becker, Stefanie I., Harris, Anthony M., York, Ashley and Choi, Jessica (2017). Conjunction search is relational: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43 (10), 1828-1842. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000371
Enns, James T., Becker, Stefanie I., Brockmole, James, Castelhano, Monica, Creem-Regehr, Sarah, Gray, Rob, Hecht, Heiko, Juhasz, Barbara, Philbeck, John and Woodman, Geoffrey (2017). Linking contemporary research to the classics: Celebrating 125 years at APA. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43 (10), 1695-1700. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000473
Horstmann, Gernot, Becker, Stefanie and Ernst, Daniel (2017). Dwelling, rescanning, and skipping of distractors explain search efficiency in difficult search better than guidance by the target. Visual Cognition, 25 (1-3), 291-305. doi: 10.1080/13506285.2017.1347591
Schonhammer, Josef G., Becker, Stefanie I. and Kerzel, Dirk (2017). Which kind of attention is captured by cues with the relative target colour?. Visual Cognition, 25 (7-8), 703-714. doi: 10.1080/13506285.2017.1323811
Becker, Stefanie I., Dutt, Neelam, Vromen, Joyce M. G. and Horstmann, Gernot (2017). The capture of attention and gaze in the search for emotional photographic faces. Visual Cognition, 25 (1-3), 241-261. doi: 10.1080/13506285.2017.1333182
Constable, Merryn D. and Becker, Stefanie I. (2017). Right away: A late, right-lateralized category effect complements an early, left-lateralized category effect in visual search. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24 (5), 1611-1619. doi: 10.3758/s13423-017-1246-3
Becker, Stefanie I., Lewis, Amanda J. and Axtens, Jenna E. (2017). Top-down knowledge modulates onset capture in a feedforward manner. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 24 (2), 436-446. doi: 10.3758/s13423-016-1134-2
Horstmann, Gernot, Becker, Stefanie and Ernst, Daniel (2016). Perceptual salience captures the eyes on a surprise trial. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 78 (7), 1889-1900. doi: 10.3758/s13414-016-1102-y
Vromen, Joyce M. G., Lipp, Ottmar V., Remington, Roger W. and Becker, Stefanie I. (2016). Threat captures attention, but not automatically: top-down goals modulate attentional orienting to threat distractors. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 78 (7), 2266-2279. doi: 10.3758/s13414-016-1142-3
Horstmann, Gernot, Herwig, Arvid and Becker, Stefanie I. (2016). Distractor dwelling, skipping, and revisiting determine target absent performance in difficult visual search. Frontiers in Psychology, 7 (1152) 01152, 1-13. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01152
Schonhammer, Josef G., Grubert, Anna, Kerzel, Dirk and Becker, Stefanie I. (2016). Attentional guidance by relative features: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Psychophysiology, 53 (7), 1074-1083. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12645
Retell, James D., Becker, Stefanie I. and Remington, Roger W. (2016). An effective attentional set for a specific colour does not prevent capture by infrequently presented motion distractors. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69 (7), 1340-1365. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2015.1080738
Retell, James D., Becker, Stefanie I. and Remington, Roger W. (2016). Previously seen and expected stimuli elicit surprise in the context of visual search. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 78 (3), 774-788. doi: 10.3758/s13414-015-1052-9
Savage, Ruth A, Becker, Stefanie I and Lipp, Ottmar V (2016). Visual search for emotional expressions: effect of stimulus set on anger and happiness superiority. Cognition and Emotion, 30 (4), 713-730. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2015.1027663
Harris, Anthony M., Becker, Stefanie I. and Remington, Roger W. (2015). Capture by colour: evidence for dimension-specific singleton capture. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 77 (7), 2305-2321. doi: 10.3758/s13414-015-0927-0
Becker, Stefanie (2015). Feature-based attention modulates onset capture in a feed-forward manner. Journal of Vision, 15 (12). doi: 10.1167/15.12.1260
Retell, James, Venini, Dustin and Becker, Stefanie (2015). Oculomotor capture by the unexpected: exploring the temporal profile of surprise in visual search. Journal of Vision, 15 (12). doi: 10.1167/15.12.310
Constable, Merryn and Becker, Stefanie (2015). Right away! Early, lateralised color category effect revealed by first-saccade dynamics. Journal of Vision, 15 (12). doi: 10.1167/15.12.1168
Ziaei, Maryam, von Hippel, William, Henry, Julie D. and Becker, Stefanie I. (2015). Are age effects in positivity influenced by the valence of distractors?. PLoS One, 10 (9) e0137604, 1-15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137604
Retell, James D, Venini, Dustin and Becker, Stefanie I (2015). Oculomotor Capture by New and Unannounced Color Singletons during Visual Search. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 77 (5), 1529-1543. doi: 10.3758/s13414-015-0888-3
Becker, Stefanie I. and Lewis, Amanda Jane (2015). Oculomotor capture by irrelevant onsets with and without color contrast. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1339 (1), 60-71. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12685
Becker, Stefanie I., Grubert, Anna and Dux, Paul E. (2014). Distinct neural networks for target feature versus dimension changes in visual search, as revealed by EEG and fMRI. NeuroImage, 102 (P2), 798-808. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.08.058
Schneider, Dana, Slaughter, Virginia P., Becker, Stefanie I. and Dux, Paul E. (2014). Implicit false-belief processing in the human brain. NeuroImage, 101, 268-275. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.07.014
Becker, Stefanie I., Valuch, Christian and Ansorge, Ulrich (2014). Color priming in pop-out search depends on the relative color of the target. Frontiers in Psychology, 5 (APR) Article 289, 289. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00289
Ansorge, Ulrich and Becker, Stefanie I. (2014). Contingent capture in cueing: the role of color search templates and cue-target color relations. Psychological Research, 78 (2), 209-221. doi: 10.1007/s00426-013-0497-5
Becker, Stefanie I., Horstmann, Gernot and Herwig, Arvid (2014). Eye movement control. Journal of Ophthalmology, 2014 (262541) 262541, 1-2. doi: 10.1155/2014/262541
Becker, Stefanie I., Harris, Anthony M., Venini, Dustin and Retell, James D. (2014). Visual search for color and shape: when is the gaze guided by feature relationships, when by feature values?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40 (1), 264-291. doi: 10.1037/a0033489
Venini, Dustin, Remington, Roger W., Horstmann, Gernot and Becker, Stefanie I. (2014). Centre-of-gravity fixations in visual search: when looking at nothing helps to find something. Journal of Ophthalmology, 2014 237812, 237812-14. doi: 10.1155/2014/237812
Craig, Belinda M., Becker, Stefanie I. and Lipp, Ottmar V. (2014). Different faces in the crowd: a happiness superiority effect for schematic faces in heterogeneous backgrounds. Emotion, 14 (4), 794-803. doi: 10.1037/a0036043
Becker, Stefanie I. (2013). Why you cannot map attention: a relational theory of attention and eye movements. Australian Psychologist, 48 (6), 389-398. doi: 10.1111/ap.12028
Savage, Ruth A., Lipp, Ottmar V., Craig, Belinda M., Becker, Stefanie I. and Horstmann, Gernot (2013). In search of the emotional face: anger versus happiness superiority in visual search. Emotion, 13 (4), 758-768. doi: 10.1037/a0031970
Becker, Stefanie I., Folk, and Remington, Roger W. (2013). Everything is relative: contingent capture depends on feature relationships. Journal of Vision, 13 (9), 772-772. doi: 10.1167/13.9.772
Valuch, Christian, Becker, Stefanie I. and Ansorge, Ulrich (2013). Task-dependent priming of fixation selection for recognition of natural scenes. Journal of Vision, 13 (9), 924-924. doi: 10.1167/13.9.924
Becker, Stefanie I. (2013). Simply shapely: relative, not absolute shapes are primed in pop-out search. Attention Perception and Psychophysics, 75 (5), 845-861. doi: 10.3758/s13414-013-0433-1
Harris, Anthony M., Remington, Roger W. and Becker, Stefanie I. (2013). Feature specificity in attentional capture by size and color. Journal of Vision, 13 (3) 12, 12.1-12.15. doi: 10.1167/13.3.12
Becker, Stefanie I., Folk, Charles L. and Remington, Roger W. (2013). Attentional capture does not depend on feature similarity, but on target-nontarget relations. Psychological Science, 24 (5), 634-647. doi: 10.1177/0956797612458528
Becker, Stefanie I. and Ansorge, Ulrich (2013). Higher set sizes in pop-out search displays do not eliminate priming or enhance target selection. Vision Research, 81, 18-28. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2013.01.009
Barutchu, Ayla, Becker, Stefanie I., Carter, Olivia, Hester, Robert and Levy, Neil L. (2013). The role of task-related learned representations in explaining asymmetries in task switching. PLoS One, 8 (4) e61729, e61729.1-e61729.10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061729
Bayliss, Andrew P., Murphy, Emily, Naughtin, Claire K., Kritikos, Ada, Schilbach, Leonhard and Becker, Stefanie I. (2013). "Gaze Leading": initiating simulated joint attention influences eye movements and choice behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology-General, 142 (1), 76-92. doi: 10.1037/a0029286
Valuch, Christian, Becker, Stefanie I. and Ansorge, Ulrich (2013). Priming of fixations during recognition of natural scenes. Journal of Vision, 13 (3) 3, 3.1-3.22. doi: 10.1167/13.3.3
Horstmann, Gernot, Lipp, Ottmar V. and Becker, Stefanie I. (2012). Of toothy grins and angry snarls-Open mouth displays contribute to efficiency gains in search for emotional. Journal of Vision, 12 (5) 7, 7.1-7.15. doi: 10.1167/12.5.7
Priess, Heinz-Werner, Scharlau, Ingrid, Becker, Stefanie I. and Ansorge, Ulrich (2012). Spatial mislocalization as a consequence of sequential coding of stimuli. Attention Perception and Psychophysics, 74 (2), 365-378. doi: 10.3758/s13414-011-0239-y
Ansorge, Ulrich and Becker, Stefanie I. (2012). Automatic priming of attentional control by relevant colors. Attention Perception and Psychophysics, 74 (1), 83-104. doi: 10.3758/s13414-011-0231-6
Schneider, Dana, Bayliss, Andrew P., Becker, Stefanie I. and Dux, Paul E. (2012). Eye movements reveal sustained implicit processing of others' mental states. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141 (3), 1-6. doi: 10.1037/a0025458
Becker, Stefanie I., Horstmann, Gernot and Remington, Roger W. (2011). Perceptual grouping, not emotion, accounts for search asymmetries with schematic faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37 (6), 1739-1757. doi: 10.1037/a0024665
Horstmann, Gernot and Becker, Stefanie I. (2011). Evidence for goal-independent attentional capture from validity effects with unexpected novel color cues - A response to Burnham (2007). Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 18 (3), 512-517. doi: 10.3758/s13423-011-0080-2
Becker, Stefanie I. (2011). Determinants of dwell time in visual search: Similarity or perceptual difficulty?. PLoS One, 6 (3) e17740, 1-5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017740
Becker, Stefanie I. and Horstmann, Gernot (2011). Novelty and saliency in attentional capture by unannounced motion singletons. Acta Psychologica, 136 (3), 290-299. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.12.002
Becker, SI, Folk, CL and Remington, RW (2010). The role of relational information in contingent capture. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36 (6), 1460-1476. doi: 10.1037/a0020370
Becker, Stefanie I. (2010). Testing a postselectional account of across-dimension switch costs. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 17 (6), 853-861. doi: 10.3758/PBR.17.6.853
Becker, Stefanie I. (2010). Oculomotor capture by colour singletons depends on intertrial priming. Vision Research, 50 (21), 2116-2126. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.08.001
Horstmann, Gernot, Becker, Stefanie I., Bergmann, Steffi and Burghaus, Ludger (2010). A reversal of the search asymmetry favouring negative schematic faces. Visual Cognition, 18 (7), 981-1016. doi: 10.1080/13506280903435709
Becker, Stefanie I. (2010). The role of target–distractor relationships in guiding attention and the eyes in visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 139 (2), 247-265. doi: 10.1037/a0018808
Ansorge, Ulrich, Carbone, Elena, Becker, Stefanie I. and Turatto, Massimo (2010). Attentional capture by motion onsets is spatially imprecise. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 22 (1), 62-105. doi: 10.1080/09541440902733190
Becker, Stefanie I., Ansorge, Ulrich and Turatto, Massimo (2009). Saccades reveal that allocentric coding of the moving object causes mislocalization in the flash-lag effect. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 71 (6), 1313-1324. doi: 10.3758/APP.71.6.1313
Becker, Stefanie I., Ansorge, Ulrich and Horstmann, Gernot (2009). Can intertrial priming account for the similarity effect in visual search?. Vision Research, 49 (14), 1738-1756. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.04.001
Becker, Stefanie I. and Horstmann, Gernot (2009). A feature-weighting account of priming in conjunction search. Attention Perception & Psychophysics, 71 (2), 258-272. doi: 10.3758/APP.71.2.258
Ansorge, Ulrich, Becker, Stefanie I. and Breitmeyer, Bruno (2009). Revisiting the metacontrast dissociation: Comparing sensitivity across different measures and tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62 (2), 286-309. doi: 10.1080/17470210801908492
Becker, Stefanie I. (2008). Can intertrial effects of features and dimensions be explained by a single theory?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34 (6), 1417-1440. doi: 10.1037/a0011386
Horstmann, Gernot and Becker, Stefanie I. (2008). Attentional effects of negative faces: Top-down contingent or involuntary?. Perception & Psychophysics, 70 (8), 1416-1434. doi: 10.3758/PP.70.8.1416
Becker, Stefanie I. (2008). The mechanism of priming: Episodic retrieval or priming of pop-out?. Acta Psychologica, 127 (2), 324-339. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2007.07.005
Becker, Stefanie I. (2008). The stage of priming: Are intertrial repetition effects attentional or decisional?. Vision Research, 48 (5), 664-684. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.10.025
Horstmann, Gernot and Becker, Stefanie I. (2008). Effects of stimulus-onset asynchrony and display duration on implicit and explicit measures of attentional capture by a surprising singleton. Visual Cognition, 16 (2-3), 290-306. doi: 10.1080/13506280701461725
Becker, Stefanie (2007). Irrelevant singletons in pop-out search: Attentional capture or filtering costs?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33 (4), 764-787. doi: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.4.764
Ansorge, Ulrich, Neumann, Odmar, Becker, Stefanie I., Kalberer, Holger and Cruse, Holk (2007). Sensorimotor Supremacy: Investigating Conscious and Unconscious Vision by Masked Priming. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 3 (1-2), 257-274. doi: 10.2478/v10053-008-0029-9
Ansorge, U., Breitmeyer, B. G. and Becker, S. I. (2007). Comparing sensitivity across different processing measures under metacontrast masking conditions. Vision Research, 47 (27), 3335-3349. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.09.009
Conference Papers
Becker, Stefanie I., Martin, Aimee and Finlayson, Nonie J. (2019). At what stage of the visual processing hierarchy is visual search relational and context-dependent vs. feature-specific?. VSS 2019, St. Pete Beach, Florida, 17-22 May 2019. Rockville, MD, United States: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology . doi: 10.1167/19.10.132b
Hamblin-Frohman, Zachary and Becker, Stefanie (2019). Contrasting relational and optimal tuning accounts in attentional and perceptual selection. Vision Sciences Society Nineteenth Annual Meeting, St Pete Beach, FL, United States, 17-22 May 2019. Rockville, MD, United States: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. doi: 10.1167/19.10.268a
Martin, Aimee and Becker, Stefanie I. (2019). Feature relations among colours modulate visual short-term memory. *, *, *. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications .
Becker, Stefanie and Judd, Courtney (2018). Saliency capture, contingent capture and onset capture in visual search and spatial cueing. Vision Sciences Society Eighteenth Annual Meeting, St Pete's Beach, FL, United States, 18-23 May 2018. Rockville, MD, United States: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. doi: 10.1167/18.10.466
Schönhammer, Josef, Becker, Stefanie and Kerzel, Dirk (2018). Attentional capture by contextual cues can cause inverse cueing effects (same location costs). Vision Sciences Society Eighteenth Annual Meeting, St Pete Beach, FL, United States, 18-23 May 2018. Rockville, MD, United States: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. doi: 10.1167/18.10.459
Martin, Aimee and Becker, Stefanie (2018). Stimuli are encoded relationally, not independently in visual short-term memory. VSS 2018, St. Pete Beach, Florida, 18-23 May 2018. Rockville, MD, United States: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. doi: 10.1167/18.10.881
Becker, Stefanie (2017). Which features guide visual attention, and how do they do it?. Vision Sciences Society Seventeenth Annual Meeting, St Pete's Beach, FL, United States, 19-24 May 2017. Rockville, MD, United States: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. doi: 10.1167/17.10.6
Schoenhammer, Josef, Becker, Stefanie and Kerzel, Dirk (2017). Tuning attention to relative features results in feature-based enhancement and suppression. Vision Sciences Society Seventeenth Annual Meeting, St Pete Beach, FL, United States, 19-24 May 2017. Rockville, MD, United States: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. doi: 10.1167/17.10.51
Horstmann, Gernot, Becker, Stefanie and Ernst, Daniel (2017). Is efficiency of difficult visual search determined by dwelling, skipping, and revisiting, rather than by guidance by the target?. Vision Sciences Society Seventeenth Annual Meeting, St Pete's Beach, FL, United States, 19-24 May 2017. Rockville, MD, United States: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. doi: 10.1167/17.10.1122
Venini, Dustin, Ditges, Ernst, Sibbald, Nicholas, Jach, Hayley and Becker, Stefanie (2016). Object localisation using visual to tactile and visual to auditory sensory substitution. Vision Sciences Society Sixteenth Annual Meeting, St Pete Beach, FL, United States, 13-18 May 2016. Rockville, MD, United States: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. doi: 10.1167/16.12.1198
Becker, Stefanie and Martin, Aime (2016). Conjunction search is guided by the relative, context-dependent features of the target. VSS 2016, St. Pete Beach, Florida, 13-18 May 2016. Rockville, MD, United States: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. doi: 10.1167/16.12.190
Schenhammer, Josef, Kerzel, Dirk and Becker, Stefanie (2016). Relational or optimal tuning of visual attention. Vision Sciences Society Sixteenth Annual Meeting, St Pete's Beach, FL, United States, 13-18 May 2016. Rockville, MD, United States: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. doi: 10.1167/16.12.683
Vromen, Joyce, Becker, Stefanie, Remington, Roger and Mattingley, Jason (2015). Goal-directed orienting and target-set maintenance in the fronto-parietal attention network. 38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2015, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 24-27 August, 2015. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications.
Schoenhammer, Josef G., Grubert, Anna, Kerzel, Dirk and Becker, Stefanie I. (2015). The influence of context on visual selectivity as indexed by the N2pc. *, *, *. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications .
Retell, James, Becker, Stefanie and Remington, Roger (2013). The contributions of expectancy and prior exposure to the surprise response in visual search. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting 2013, Naples, FL United States, 10 - 15 May 2013. Rockville, MD United States: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. doi: 10.1167/13.9.165