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., & 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 & Psychophysics, 70(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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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.






Carlson, T. C., Alvarez, G. A., Wu, D., Verstraten, F. (in press). Rapid assimilation of external objects into the body schema. Psychological Science.
Shim, W., Vickery, T., Alvarez, G. A., Jiang, Y. (in press). The number of attentional foci and their precision are dissociated in the posterior parietal cortex. Cerebral Cortex
Franconeri, S. L., Bemis, D., & Alvarez, G. A. (2009). Number estimation relies on a set of segmented objects. Cognition, 113, 1-13.

