Alvarez, G. A., & Oliva, A. (2008). The representation of simple ensemble features outside the focus of attention. Psychological Science, 19(4), 392-398.

Alvarez, G. A., & Cavanagh, P. (2008). Visual short-term memory operates more efficiently on boundary features than it does on the surface features.   Perception & Psychophysics70(2), 346-364.

Battelli, L., Alvarez, G. A., Carlson, T. A., & Pascual-Leone, A. (2009). The role of the parietal lobe in visual extinction studied with transcranial magnetic stimulation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(10), 1946-1955.

Wolfe, J. M., Alvarez, G. A., & Horowitz, T. S. (2000). Attention is fast but volition is slow.  Nature, 406, 691.

Alvarez, G. A., & Cavanagh, P. (2004). The capacity of visual short-term memory is set both by visual information load and by number of objects. Psychological Science, 15(2), 106-111.

Alvarez, G. A., & Cavanagh, P. (2005). Independent resources for attentional tracking in the left and right visual hemifields. Psychological Science, 16(8), 637-643.

Alvarez, G. A., Horowitz, T. S., Arsenio, H. C., & DiMase, J. S., & Wolfe, J. M. (2005). Do multielement visual tracking and visual search draw continuously on the same visual attention resources? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31(4), 643-667.

Cavanagh, P. & Alvarez, G. A. (2005). Tracking multiple targets with multifocal attention. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(7), 349-354.

Alvarez, G. A., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). How does attention select and track spatially extended objects? New effects of attentional concentration and amplification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 134(4), 461-476.

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

Horowitz, T. S., Klieger, S. B., Fencsik, D. E., Yang, K. K., Alvarez, G. A., & Wolfe, J. M. (2007). Tracking unique objects. Perception & Psychophysics, 69(2), 172-184.

Franconeri, S. L., Alvarez, G. A., & Enns, J. (2007). How many locations can be selected at once? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33(5), 1003-1012.

Carlson, T. A., Alvarez, G. A., & Cavanagh, P. (2007). Quadrantic deficit reveals anatomical constraints in attentional tracking. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 104(33), 13496-13500.

Alvarez, G. A., & Oliva, A. (2007). The role of global layout in visual short-term memory. Visual Cognition, 15(1), 70-73.

Alvarez, G. A., Konkle, T., & Oliva, A. (2007). Searching in dynamic displays: Effects of configural predictability and spatio-temporal continuity. Journal of Vision, 7(14):12, 1-12.                                http://journalofvision.org/7/14/12/, doi:10.1167/7.14.12.

Alvarez, G. A., & Franconeri, S. L. (2007). How many objects can you attentively track?: Evidence for a resource-limited tracking mechanism. Journal of Vision, 7(13):14, 1-10.                                             http://journalofvision.org/7/13/14/, doi:10.1167/7.13/14.

Shim, W., Alvarez, G. A., & Jiang, Y. (2008). Spatial separation between targets constrains maintenance of attention on multiple objects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15(2), 390-397.

Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G. A., & Oliva, A. (2008). Visual long-term memory has a massive  storage capacity for object details. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105(38), 14325-14329.

Alvarez, G. A., & Thompson, T. W. (2009). Overwriting and rebinding: why feature-switch detection tasks underestimate the binding capacity of visual working memory. Visual Cognition, 17(1-2), 141-159.

Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Oliva, A., & Alvarez, G. A. (2009). Detecting changes in real-world objects: The relationship between visual long-term memory and change blindness. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2:1, 1-3.

Horowitz, T. S., Wolfe, J. M., Alvarez, G. A., Cohen, M. A., & Kuzmova, Y. I. (2009). The speed of free will. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Alvarez, G. A., & Oliva, A. (2009). Spatial ensemble statistics are efficient codes that can be represented with reduced attention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 106, 7345-7350.

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2011

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Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., & Alvarez, G. A. (2009). Compression in visual working memory: Using statistical regularities to form more efficient memory representations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138(4), 487-502.

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Carlson, T. C., Alvarez, G. A., Wu, D., Verstraten, F. (2010). Rapid assimilation of external objects into the body schema. Psychological Science, 21(7), 1000-1005.

Shim, W., Vickery, T., Alvarez, G. A., Jiang, Y. (2010). The number of attentional foci and their precision are dissociated in the posterior parietal cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 20, 1341-1349.

Franconeri, S. L., Bemis, D., & Alvarez, G. A. (2009). Number estimation relies on a set of segmented objects. Cognition, 113, 1-13.

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2010

Suchow, J. W., & Alvarez, G. A. (2011). Motion silences awareness of visual change. Current Biology, 21(2), 1-4. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2010.12.019

Brady, T. F., Alvarez, G. A. (2011). Hierarchical encoding in visual working memory: ensemble statistics bias memory for individual items. Psychological Science, 22(3), 384-392.

Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., Alvarez, G. A., & Oliva, A. (2010). Conceptual distinctiveness supports detailed visual long-term memory for real-world objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 139(3), 558-578.

Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., Alvarez, G. A., & Oliva, A. (2010). Scene memory is more detailed than you think: the role of categories in visual long-term memory. Psychological Science, 21(11), 1551-1556.

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Alvarez, G. A. (2011). Representing multiple objects as an ensemble enhances visual cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15(3), 122-131.

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2012 / in Press

Fougnie, D., & Alvarez, G. A. (2011). Object features fail independently in visual working memory: Evidence for a probabilistic feature-store model. Journal of Vision, 11(12):3,1-12.

Alvarez, G.A. (in press). Attention and Action. In Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience (Ochsner, K., and Kosslyn, S., eds), Oxford University Press.

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Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., & Alvarez, G. A. (2011). A review of visual memory capacity: beyond individual items and towards structured representations. Journal of Vision, 11(5), 1-34.

Cohen, M. C., Alvarez, G. A., & Nakayama, K. (2011). Natural scene perception requires attention. Psychological Science, 22(9), 1165-1172.

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Wolfe, J. M., Alvarez, G. A., Rosenholtz, R., Kuzmova, Y. I., Sherman, A. M. (2011). Visual search for arbitrary objects in real scenes. Attention, Perception, and Psychopysics, 73(6), 1650-1671.

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Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G. A., & Oliva, A. (in press). Are real-world objects represented as bound units?: Independent forgetting of different object details from visual memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Fougnie, D., Cormeia, S. & Alvarez, G. A. (in press). Object-based benefits without object-based representations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Alvarez, G. A., Gill, J., & Cavanagh, P. (2012). Anatomical constrains on attentional selection: hemifield independence is a signature of multifocal spatial selection. Journal of Vision, 12(5):9, 1-20.

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Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Gill, J., Oliva, A., & Alvarez, G. A. (in press). Visual long-term memory has the same limit on fidelity as visual working memory. Psychological Science.

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