Department of Psychology, McMaster University

Dr. Bruce Milliken
(Ph.D. - Waterloo)

Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1 - PC-414
PHONE: (905)525-9140, Ext. 24361 LAB: 27156
FAX: (905)-529-6225
EMAIL: millike@mcmaster.ca

The aim of research conducted in our laboratory is to better understand processes that comprise the interface between perception and cognition in humans. Although these two subjects are often taught separately at the undergraduate level, even the simplest of interactions with our environment involve what must be a complex interplay between low level perceptual and higher level cognitive processes. In particular, visual selective attention is the focus of much of the research conducted in our lab.

This work looks at how selection of visual information can be both under the control of the observer, and yet also modulated implicitly by past experience. This fundamental theoretical issue plays itself out across a wide range of experimental scenarios. Currently, we are using several attentional paradigms (e.g. negative priming, inhibition of return) to help us identify mechanisms that allow us to respond preferentially to familiar over novel visual stimuli in some situations, but to novel over familiar visual stimuli in others.

Crump, M., Gong, Z. & Milliken, B. (in press). Location as a contextual cue for the item-specific proportion congruent effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Lupianez, B., Ruz, M., Funes, M.J., & Milliken, B. (in press). The manifestation of IOR depends on attentional capture: Facilitation or IOR depends on task demands. Special issue of Psychological Research.

Milliken, B. & Lupianez, J. (in press). Repetition costs in word identification. Evaluating a stimulus-response integration account. Special Issue of Psychological Research.

Catena, A., Castillo, A., Fuentes, L., & Milliken, B. (in press). Processing of distractors inside and outside the attentional focus in a priming procedure. Visual Cognition.

Leboe, J., Whittlesea, B.W.A., & Milliken, B. (in press). Selective and nonselective transfer: Positive and negative priming in a múltiple task environment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Funes, M.J., Lupiáñez, J., & Milliken, B. (in press). The role of spatial attention and other processes on the magnitude and time course of cueing effects. Cognitive Processing.

Lupianez, J., Decaix, C., Sieroff, B., Milliken, B., & Bartolomeo, P. (2004). Independent effects of endogenous and exogenous spatial cueing: Inhibition of return for endogenously attended target locations. Experimental Brain Research, 159, 447-457.

Leboe, J. & Milliken. B. (2004). Single-prime negative priming in the shape matching task: Implications for the role of perceptual segmentation processes. Visual Cognition, 11, 603-630.

Correa, A., Lupianez, J., Milliken, B., & Tudela, P. (2004). Endogenous temporal orienting in detection and discrimination tasks. Perception & Psychophysics, 66, 264-278.

Francis, L., & Milliken, B. (2003). Inhibition of return for the length of a line? Perception & Psychophysics, 65, 1208- 1221.

Marczinski, C., Milliken, B., & Nelson, S. (2003). Aging and repetition effects: Separate specific and nonspecific influences. Psychology and Aging, 18, 780-790.

Milliken, B., Lupianez, J., Roberts, M., & Stevanovski, B. (2003). Orienting in space and time: Joint contributions to exogenous spatial cueing effects. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 10, 877-883.

Leboe, J. & Milliken, B. (2003). Another look at negative priming and surprising intervening events. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57, 115-124.

Lupianez, J., Milliken, B., Solano, C., Weaver, B., & Tipper, S.P. (2001). On the strategic modulation of the time course of facilitation and inhibition of return. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54A, 753-773.

Milliken, B., Tipper, S.P., Houghton, G., & Lupianez, J. (2000). Attending, ignoring, and repetition: On the relation between negative priming and inhibition of return. Perception & Psychophysics, 62, 1280-1296.

Milliken, B., Lupianez, J., Debner, J., & Abello, B. (1999). Automatic and controlled processing in Stroop negative priming: The role of attentional set. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25, 1384-1402.

Lupianez, J. & Milliken, B. (1999). Exogenous cuing effects and the attentional set for integrating vs. differentiating information. Journal of General Psychology. Special issue on attention, 126, 392-418.

Milliken, B., Joordens, S., Merikle, P., & Seiffert, A. (1998). Selective attention: A re-evaluation of the implications of negative priming. Psychological Review, 105, 203-229.

Wood, T. & Milliken, B. (1998). Negative priming without ignoring. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 5, 470-475.

Mondor, T.A., Breau, L.M., & Milliken, B. (1998). Inhibitory processes in auditory selective attention: Evidence of location-based and frequency-based inhibition of return. Perception & Psychophysics, 60, 296-302.

Milliken, B., & Rock, A. (1997). Negative priming, attention, and discriminating the present from the past. Invited submission to Consciousness and Cognition, 6, 308-327.

Milliken, B., & Joordens, S. (1996). Negative priming without overt prime selection. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 50, 333-346.

Tipper, S. P., Weaver, B., & Milliken, B. (1995). Spatial negative priming without mismatching: A reply to Park and Kanwisher. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 21, 1220-1229.

Milliken, B., Tipper, S.P., & Weaver, B. (1994). Negative priming in a spatial localization task: Feature mismatching and distractor inhibition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 20, 624-646.

Milliken, B., & Jolicoeur, P. (1992). Size effects in recognition memory are determined by perceived size. Memory & Cognition, 20, 83-95.

Jolicoeur, P., & Milliken, B. (1989). Identification of disoriented objects: Effects of context of prior presentation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15, 200--210.