Refereed Publications

(under review) The Binding Problem. Holcombe, A.O. In The Sage Encyclopedia of Perception

(in press) Visuomotor timing compensates for changes in perceptual latency. White, A.L., Linares, D.L., & Holcombe, A.O. Current Biology (preprint)

(in press) A developmental theory of synaesthesia, with long historical roots. Holcombe, A.O., Altschuler, E.L., & Over, H.J. Cognitive Neuropsychology (preprint)

(in press) Temporal binding favors the early phase of color changes, but not of motion changes, yielding the color-motion asynchrony illusion. Holcombe, A.O. Visual Cognition- Special issue on feature binding. (preprint)

(in press) Mobile computation: Spatiotemporal integration of the properties of objects in motion. Cavanagh, P., Holcombe, A.O., & Chou, W-L., Journal of Vision. (preprint) (demo)

(2008) Illusory motion reversals from unambiguous motion with visual, proprioceptive, and tactile stimuli. Holcombe, A.O. and Seizova-Cajic, T. Vision Research, 48(17), 1743-57. (preprint)

(2008) Tracking the changing features of multiple objects: Progressively poorer precision and progressively greater lag. Howard, C.J. & Holcombe, A.O. Vision Research, 48(9), 1164-1180. (demo) (pdf)

(2008) Independent, synchronous access to color and motion features. Holcombe, A.O. & Cavanagh, P., Cognition, 107(2):552-580. (preprint) (demo)

(2007) Visual binding of English and Chinese word parts is limited to low temporal frequencies. Holcombe, A.O. & Judson, J., Perception, 36(1):49-74. (pdf) (demo)

(2005) Illusory motion reversal in tune with motion detectors. (Letter to the editor). Holcombe, A.O., Clifford, C.W.G., Eagleman, D.M, & Pakarian, P. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(12), 559-560. (pdf)

(2005) Time and the brain: How subjective time relates to neural time. Eagleman, D.M., Tse, P.U., Janssen, P., Nobre, A.C., Buonomano, D., & Holcombe, A.O. Journal of Neuroscience, 25(45):10369-10371,

(2004) Rapid global form binding with loss of associated colors. Clifford, C.W.G., Holcombe, A.O., & Pearson, J. Journal of Vision, 4(12), 1090-1101, doi:10.1167/4.12.8. (demo)

(2004) Illusory motion reversal is caused by rivalry, not by perceptual snapshots of the visual field. Kline, K., Holcombe, A.O., Eagleman, D.M. Vision Research, 44(23), 2653-2658.

(2004) Attentional pursuit is faster than attentional saccades. Horowitz, T., Holcombe, A.O., Wolfe, J.M., Arsenio, H., & DiMase, J.S. Journal of Vision, 4(7), 585-603, doi:10.1167/4.7.6.

(2004) Repetition effects in visual search: Episodic memory, not feature priming. Huang, L., Holcombe, A.O., & Pashler, H. Memory & Cognition, 32(1), 12-20. (pdf) (abstract)

(2003) Occlusion cues resolve sudden onsets into morphing or line motion, disocclusion, and sudden materialization . Holcombe, A.O. Journal of Vision, 3(8), 562-572.

(2001) A purely temporal transparency mechanism in the visual system. Holcombe, A.O. Perception, 30(11), 1311-1320. (demo)

(2001) Early binding of feature pairs for visual perception. Holcombe, A.O., Cavanagh, P. Nature Neuroscience, 4(2), 127-128. (pdf) (demo and abstract)

(2000) Tracking an object through feature-space. Blaser, E., Pylyshyn, Z., & Holcombe, A.O. Nature, 408, pp.196-199. (pdf) (news&views) (SciAm article)

(2001) The midstream order deficit. Holcombe, A.O., Kanwisher, N. , & Treisman, A. Perception & Psychophysics, 63(2): 322-9. (demo) (pdf)

(2000) The spoke brightness illusion originates at an early motion processing stage. Holcombe, A.O., Intriligator, J., & Tse, P.U. Perception & Psychophysics, 62(8), 1619-1624. (pdf)

(1999) Wakes and spokes: New motion-induced brightness illusions. Holcombe, A. O., Macknik, S., Intriligator, J., Seiffert, A.E., Tse, P.U. Perception , 28(10), 1231-1242. (abstract) (demo)

(1998) On the lawfulness of grouping by proximity. Kubovy, M. Holcombe, A.O., & Wagemans, J. Cognitive Psychology, 35(1), 71-98. (pdf)

Other Publications

Illusory motion reversal does not imply discrete processing: Reply to Rojas et al. Eagleman, D.M. & Holcombe, A.O. (2006). Vision Research, 46:1158-9.

Improving science through online commentary. Eagleman, D.M. & Holcombe, A.O. (2003). Nature, 423(6935):15.

Causality and the perception of time. Eagleman, D.M. & Holcombe, A.O. (2002). Trends in Cognitive Science, 6(8), 323-325. (pdf)

Wikipedia contributions

[Politics: Concerns about the university's U.S. Studies Centre]

Unpublished

The role of the fronto-parietal cortical network in dynamic visual feature binding. Wang, Z., Chen, X., Sun, X., Zhang, D., Holcombe, A.O., Hu, X., & He, S.

Positive afterimages caused by a filled-in representation. (In preparation). Holcombe, A.O., MacLeod, D.I.A..

Neglected thought of ancient India. Holcombe, A.O. (a related note in Nature on ancient Western knowledge of perception)

Recent Conference Presentations

Surface-based, unpaired feature representations mediate detection of change to feature pairings. Saiki, J. & Holcombe, A.O. (2008).Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida.

Poor temporal precision in judging the position of a moving object, imposed at a late visual processing stage. Holcombe, A.O. & Linares, D. (2008).Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida.

Old roots of a theory of synesthesia in Rousseau's Emile and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Holcombe, A.O., Over, H.J., & Altschuler, E.L. (2007). Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California. (press book summary)

Non-retinotopic crowding. Cavanagh, P. & Holcombe, A.O. (2007). Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Florida.

Ancient history of sexual arousal and alcohol. Holcombe, A.O. (2007). World Congress for Sexual Health, Sydney, Australia (pdf)

Broader Autistic Phenotype, weak central coherence and perceptual causality. Grayson, L.E., Holcombe, A.O., & Briscoe, J. (2006). European Conference for Visual Perception, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Progressively poorer perceptual precision and progressively greater perceptual lag: Tracking the changing features of one, two and four objects. Howard, C. & Holcombe, A.O. (2006). Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Florida

Apparent asynchrony between the perception of color and motion: An issue of different latencies or of attention? Holcombe, A.O. & Cavanagh, P. (2006). Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Florida

Successive rivalry does not occur without attention. Cavanagh, P. & Holcombe, A.O. (2006). Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Florida

The speeds of perception. Holcombe, A.O. (2005) Invited talk in mini-symposium "Time and the Brain" at the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.

Perceptual reversal of ambiguous figures: How do children with ASD respond under non-directed conditions? Grayson, L., Briscoe, J., & Holcombe, A.O. (2005). British Psychological Society Developmental Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland

Limits on continuous monitoring of the features of multiple objects. Howard, C.J. & Holcombe, A.O. (2005). European Conference On Visual Perception, A Coruna, Spain

Distinguishing pre-selection from post-selection processing limits using a moving window of selection. Cavanagh, P. & Holcombe, A.O. (2005) Vision Sciences Society. (demo)

The visual system does not take global snapshots of the visual field. Kline, K., Holcombe, A. & Eagleman D. (2005). Vision Sciences Society.

Positive afterimages caused by a filled-in representation. Holcombe, A.O., MacLeod, D.I.A., & Mitten, S.T. Journal of Vision, 4(8). (VSS 2004 abstract).

Dynamics of binding global form. Clifford, C.W.G., Holcombe, A.O. & Pearson, J. (2004). Visual Cortex Satellite of the Australian Neuroscience Society Meeting, Melbourne

Temporal limitations on extracting global form and binding it with local colour. Clifford, C.W.G. , Holcombe, A.O., & Pearson, J. (2003) European Conference On Visual Perception, Paris, France.

Perceptual binding of letters into a word is low temporal resolution. Holcombe, A.O. (2003). Journal of Vision 3(9) VSS abstract #185.