2024

Object, Perception, Attention and Memory conference (OPAM) 2024

Ortego, K., & Störmer, V.S. (2024). Incidental learning of distractor features speeds early attentional selection: Evidence from behavior and electrophysiology. Talk presented at the Object Perception Attention & Memory (OPAM) Conference, New York City, NY.

Chung, Y., Shlipak, K.K., & Störmer, V.S. (2024). Can you remember them better because they are familiar or because they look real? – Testing the contribution of “object-ness” in visual working memory using novel objects. Poster presented at the Object Perception Attention & Memory Conference (OPAM) , New York City, NY.

Psychonomics 2024

Störmer, V.S., Addleman, D., & Ortego, K. (2024). Experience-Driven Feature Attention Speeds Early Target Selection and Modulates Feature Representations Proactively. Talk presented at the Psychonomics Society Meeting, New York City, NY.

American Psychological Association Convention 2024

Chung, Y., Shlipak, K.K., & Störmer, V.S. (2024). Improved Visual Working Memory for Meaningful Objects and Its Relation to Fluid Intelligence. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association Convention.

Vision Science Society 2024

Addleman, D.,   & Störmer, V.S. (2024). Differential effects of learned and cued feature-based attention on visual search slopes. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

Chung, Y., Williams, J. & Störmer, V.S. (2024). Looking for the red shirt: Meaningful objects strengthen memory and attentional guidance. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

Ortego, K. & Störmer, V.S. (2024). Continuous psychophysics reveals a temporal cost of real-time distractors suppression during ensemble processing. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

Özkan, M., Chapman, A. & Störmer, V.S. (2024). Flexible allocation of feature-based attention to narrow and broad ranges of colors as assessed by steady-state visual evoked potentials. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

Shlipak, K., Chung, Y.,  & Störmer, V.S. (2024). Exploring the relationship between fluid intelligence and visual working memory for simple and real-world objects. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

Simpson, D.,  Williams, L., Störmer, V.S. , & Brady, T. (2024). Looking for Tampa Buccaneers: Familiar sport logos are found more efficiently in hybrid search. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

 

2023

European Cognitive Psychology Conference

Störmer, V.S. (2023). The role of meaningfulness in visual working memory: Real-world objects provide an effective scaffold for remembering simple visual features. Invited symposium talk presented at the Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Porto, Portugal

Vision Science Society 2023

Williams, J., Brady, T.,  & Störmer, V.S. (2023). Precise Memories and Imprecise Guidance: Why attention is guided towards colors that I’m certain I didn’t see. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

Addleman, D., Rajasingh, R.,  & Störmer, V.S. (2023). Attention to object categories: Selection history determines the breadth of attentional tuning during real-world object search. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

Chapman, A.F.,  & Störmer, V.S. (2023). Highly efficient attentional selection of colors despite high target-distractor similarity. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

Ortego, K. & Störmer, V.S. (2023). Incidental learning of frequent target features speeds early attentional selection as indexed by the N2pc. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

Chung, Y., Tam, J., Wyble, B. & Störmer, V.S. (2023). Meaningful objects are privileged in working memory: better incidental memory of recognizable relative to unrecognizable objects. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

Özkan, M., & Störmer, V.S. (2023). Multifocal attention within a single hemifield results in broad tuning of attention across relevant and irrelevant locations. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

V-VWM Symposium 2023

Chung, Y., Brady, T.F. & Störmer, V.S. (2023). Sequential encoding helps working memory for meaningful object’s identity but not for their colors. Talk presented at the virtual Working Memory Symposium.

2022

Object, Perception, Attention and Memory conference (OPAM)

Chapman, A.F., Chunharas, C., & Störmer, V.S. (2022). Adaptive biases in attention and working memory revealed by precues and retrocues. Talk presented at the Object, Perception, Attention & Memory (OPAM) conference in Boston.

Ortego, K. & Störmer, V.S. (2022). Imperfect feature-based selection: ensemble representations are biased towards task-irrelevant information under conditions of high feature similarity. Poster presented at the Object, Perception, Attention & Memory (OPAM) conference in Boston.

Chung, Y., Wells, A., Chi, E., & Störmer, V.S. (2022). Contributions of high-level and low-level adaptations in the flashed face distortion effect. Poster presented at the Object, Perception, Attention & Memory (OPAM) conference in Boston.

Özkan, M., & Störmer, V.S. (2022). Splitting and broadening the spatial focus of attention within a hemifield. Poster presented at the Object, Perception, Attention & Memory (OPAM) conference in Boston.

 

Society for Neuroscience 2022

Chung, Y.  & Störmer, V.S.(2022). Uncovering the time course of perceiving spatial locations. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. POSTER PDF

Heller, N.H., Ortego, K., Duchaine, B., Tse, P.U., Y.  & Störmer, V.S.(2022). High-level stimulus-selective response potentiation? Late ERP modulation following prolonged 6Hz presentation of faces and houses. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. POSTER PDF

 

V-VWM Symposium 2022

Chung, Y.,  Brady, T.F., & Störmer, V.S.(2022). Active working memory capacity for simple features benefits from meaningful stimuli. Talk presented at the virtual Working Memory Symposium. RECORDED TALK (~11min)

Vision Science Society 2022

Addleman, D.A., & Störmer., V.S. (2022). Proactive suppression of learned distractor features. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl. POSTER PDF

Chapman, A., & Störmer., V.S. (2022). Reconstructing attended and unattended colors from human scalp electroencephalography. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl. 

Chung, Y.,  Brady, T.F., & Störmer, V.S.(2022). Working Memory for Simple Features Benefits from Meaningful Stimuli. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach , Fl. POSTER PDF; VIDEO TOUR

Ortego, K. & Störmer, V.S. (2022). Imperfect feature-based selection: Ensemble representations are biased towards task-irrelevant information under conditions of high feature similarity. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl. POSTER PDF

Rajasingh, R., Addleman, D.A., & Störmer., V.S. (2022). Frequent target objects are found faster in search for real-world objects. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.  POSTER PDF

Williams., L., Störmer, V.S., & Brady, T.F. (2022). Hybrid search performance is better for target sets with greater memory strength. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl. POSTER PDF

Neurobiology of Language

Wray, A., McPherson, L., Fausey, J., Diabate, M., Chung, Y., Ortego, K., Störmer, V. S. (2022). When music is language: electroencephalography of a musical speech surrogate. Poster presented at Society of Neurobiology of Language.

 

2021

OPAM & Psychonomics 2021

Chung, Y. & Störmer, V.S.(2021). Neural correlates of Frame-Induced Position Shifts. Poster presented at the virtual OPAM conference. POSTER PDF; VIDEO TOUR (5min)

Chapman, A.F., Chunharas, C., & Störmer, V.S.(2021). Feature-based attention warps perception of color. Poster presented at the virtual OPAM conference. POSTER PDF; VIDEO TOUR (5min)

Williams, L., Störmer, V.S., & Brady, T.F. (2021). The working memory advantage for meaningful stimuli persists under high levels of proactive interference. Talk presented at the virtual OPAM conference. RECORDED TALK (~12min)

Addleman, D.A., & Störmer, V.S. (2021). No evidence for proactive suppression: Enhancement of explicitly cued distractor features. Poster presented at the Psychonomics meeting. POSTER PDF

Virtual Working Memory Symposium 2021

Addleman, D.A., & Störmer, V.S. (2021). No evidence for proactive suppression: Enhancement of explicitly cued distractor features. Talk presented at the virtual-WM Symposium. RECORDED TALK (~12min)

Chung, Y.,  Brady, T.F., & Störmer, V.S.(2021). Better memory for simple features when embedded in realistic objects. Talk presented at the virtual-WM Symposium. RECORDED TALK (~12min)

Virtual-VSS 2021

Addleman, D.A., & Störmer, V.S. (2021). Long-term selection history both enhances and suppresses visual features. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society. POSTER PDF; VIDEO TOUR (~6min)

Chapman, A.F., & Störmer, V.S. (2021). Quantifying the effects of feature similarity on attentional selection using psychophysical scaling. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society. POSTER PDF;  VIDEO TOUR (~6min)

Chung, Y.,  Keefe, J.M., & Störmer, V.S.(2021). The spatial distribution of exogenous attention within and across hemifields. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society. POSTER PDF;  VIDEO TOUR (~6min)

Keefe, J.M., Pokta, E, & Störmer, V.S. (2021). Exogenous attention improves perception through visual-cortical facilitation, not suppression. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society. POSTER PDF;  VIDEO TOUR (~6min)

Marin, A. Störmer, V.S., & Carver, L. (2021). Occlusion of dynamic objects influences visual expectations of ensuing sounds. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society. POSTER PDF;  VIDEO TOUR (~6min)

Störmer, V.S. & Brady, T.F. (2021). The role of meaning in visual working memory: Real-world objects, but not simple features, benefit from deeper processing. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society. POSTER PDF;  VIDEO TOUR (~6min)

Williams, J.R., Markov, Y.A.,  Tiurina, N.A. & Störmer, V.S. (2021). Auditory Context Alters Visual Perception. Talk presented at the Vision Sciences Society. RECORDED TALK (~12min)

Williams, L.H., Brady, T.F., & Störmer, V.S. (2021). Category labels do not improve working memory performance for ambiguous shapes. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society. POSTER PDF;  VIDEO TOUR (~6min)

2020

Virtual-VSS 2020

Barszcz, A. Chapman, A.F., Chunharas, C. & Störmer, V.S. (2020). Feature-based attention warps perception of color. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society. POSTER PDF;  VIDEO TOUR (~6min)

Chapman, A.F., & Störmer, V.S. (2020). Flexible focus in feature-based attention: efficient tuning of attention to narrow and broad ranges of task-relevant feature values. Talk presented at the Vision Sciences Society. RECORDED TALK (~12min)

Itthipuripat, S., Störmer, V.S., Woodman, G.F., & Serences, J.T. (2020). Dissociable neural mechanisms underlie effects of attention on visual appearance and response bias. Talk presented at the Vision Sciences Society. RECORDED TALK (~12min)

Keefe, J.M., Utochkin, I., Lau, J., Brady, T.F. & Störmer, V.S., (2020). Information about all items is actively held in mind when subjects compute ensemble statistics. Poster presented at the Vision Science Society. POSTER PDF;  VIDEO TOUR (~6min)

Marin, A. Störmer, V.S., & Carver, L. (2020). Multisensory expectations about dynamic visual objects facilitates early sensory processing of congruent sounds. Poster presented at the Vision Science Society. POSTER PDF;  VIDEO TOUR (~6min)

Wennberg, J., & Störmer, V.S. (2020). The effects of cross-modal feature and location mappings on visual performance. Poster to be presented at the Vision Sciences Society. POSTER PDF;  VIDEO TOUR (~6min)

Williams, J.R., Brady, T.F., & Störmer, V.S. (2020). Natural variation in the representational fidelity between multiple working memory items can explain which item guides attention. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society. POSTER PDF;  VIDEO TOUR (~6min)

Virtual-WM symposium 2020

Williams, J.R., Brady, T.F., & Störmer, V.S. (2020). Natural variation in the fidelity of working memory representations causes only one items to guide attention. Talk presented at the Virtual Working Memory Symposium.

Keefe, J.M., Utochkin, I., Lau, J., Brady, T.F. & Störmer, V.S., (2020). Information about all items is actively held in mind when computing ensemble statistics about a set. Talk presented at the Virtual Working Memory Symposium. 

Virtual-CNS 2020

Keefe, J.M., Pokta, E. & Störmer, V.S. (2020). Exogenous attention improves perception through facilitation, not suppression. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

2019

Chapman, A. F., Geweke, F., & Störmer, V. S. (2019). Feature-based attention resolves differences in target-distractor similarity through multiple mechanisms. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

Keefe, J.M., & Störmer, V. S. (2019). Voluntary and involuntary attention elicit distinct biasing signals in visual cortex. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

Störmer, V.S. (2019). Ensemble perception of faces within the focus of attention is biased towards unattended and task-irrelevant faces. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

Williams, J.R. & Störmer, V.S. (2019) Auditory information facilitates sensory evidence accumulation during visual object recognition. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

2018

Chapman, A. F., & Störmer, V. S. (2018). Feature-based attention spreads within and between objects. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA

Keefe, J. & Störmer, V. S. (2018). How involuntary and voluntary attention interact: Examining neural biasing mechanisms during the cue-target interval. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA

Asp, I., Störmer, V.S., & Brady, T.F. (2018). Perceptually-matched images that are meaningful are remembered better and result in increased CDA in visual working memory. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA

Williams., J.R., Brady, T.F., & Störmer, V.S. (2018). Multiple visual working memory items can guide attention and facilitate perceptual processing. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA

Asp, I., Störmer, V.S., & Brady, T.F. (2018). Perceptually-matched images that are meaningful are remembered better and result in increased CDA in visual working memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

Geweke, F., Li, S.-C., & Störmer, V.S. (2018). Feature-based attention is constrained to attended locations in older adults. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

Störmer, V.S., McDonald, J.J., & Hillyard, S.A. (2018). Involuntary orienting to visual and auditory stimuli elicits similar biasing mechanisms in early visual cortex to facilitate target processing. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

Williams., J.R., Brady, T.F., & Störmer, V.S. (2018). Multiple visual working memory items can guide attention and facilitate perceptual processing. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

Amadeo, M.B., Störmer, V.S., Campus, C., & Gori, M. (2018). Peripheral, task-irrelevant sounds activate contralateral visual cortex even in blind individuals. Poster presented at the Annual International Multisensory Research Forum, Toronto, Canada.

2017

Störmer, V.S. (2017). Salient sounds activate visual cortex automatically. Talk presented at the symposium “Multisensory influences on vision” (organized by V.S. Störmer) at the  European Conference on Visual Perception, Berlin, Germany.

Pailian, H., Störmer, V.S., & Alvarez, G.A. (2017). Neurophysiological marker of visual working memory manipulation. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl.

2016

Störmer, V.S. & Cavanagh, P. (2016). Ipsilateral positivity as neurophysiological evidence for predictive remapping in humans. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

2015

Störmer, V.S., Cohen, M.C., & Alvarez, G.A. (2015). Tuning attention to high-level objects: Spatially global effects of attention to faces in visual processing. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

Cavanagh, P., Duyck, M., Eymond, C., Maus, G., Schumann, F., Störmer, V.S., Veenemans, A., Whitney, D., & Wu, D. (2015). Feeling the future. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

Feng, W., Störmer, V.S., Martinez, A., McDonald, J.J., & Hillyard, S.A. (2015). Decreases in alpha- band power over contralateral visual cortex elicited by task-irrelevant sounds predict visual discrimination performance. Poster presented at the International Multisensory Research Forum, Pisa, Italy.

Störmer, V.S., Feng, W., Martinez, A., McDonald, J.J.,& Hillyard, S.A. (2015). Salient sounds elicit slow potential shifts paralleled by alpha rhythm desynchronization in contralateral visual cortex. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

McDonald, J.J., Wallace, A.T., Livingstone, A.C., Störmer, V.S., Feng, W., & Hillyard, S.A. (2015). Salient sounds activate visual cortex: disentangling automatic and voluntary effects with event-related potentials. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

2014

Störmer, V.S., & Alvarez, G.A. (2014). Feature-based attention results in active suppression of similar features throughout the visual field. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

Störmer, V.S., Alvarez, G.A., & Cavanagh, P. (2014). Multifocal attention modulates early visual processing when attention is divided across hemifields, but not within a hemifield. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Hamburg, Germany.

Störmer, V.S., & Alvarez, G.A. (2014). Feature-based attention elicits surround-suppression in color space. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

Brady, T.F., Störmer, V.S., & Alvarez, G. A. (2014). Working memory accumulates more information from real-world objects than from simple stimuli: Evidence from contralateral delay activity. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

Long, B.L., Störmer, V.S., & Alvarez, G.A. (2014).Rapid extraction of category-specific shape statistics: Evidence from event-related potentials. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

Störmer, V.S., Alvarez, G.A., & Cavanagh, P. (2014). Multifocal attention modulates early visual processing when attention is divided across hemifields, but not within a hemifield. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.

before 2013

Störmer, V.S., Cavanagh, P., & Alvarez, G.A. (2013). The profile of multifocal attention: surround-suppression between and within hemifields. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Störmer, V. S., Winther, G. N., Li, S. C., & Andersen, S. K. (2012). Continuous attentional modulation of early visual processing during multifocal attention. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA.

Störmer, V.S., Li, S.-C., Heekeren, H.R., Lindenberger, U. (2012). Normative shifts of cortical mechanisms of encoding contribute to adult age differences in visual-spatial working memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago, IL.

Störmer, V.S., Li, S.-C., Heekeren, H.R., Lindenberger, U. (2011). Neural mechanisms underlying age-related decline in early visual attentional selection and working memory capacity. Invited poster presented at the Einstein Fellowship Symposium, Berlin, Germany.

Störmer, V.S., McDonald, J.J., & Hillyard, S.A. (2011). Attentional cueing modulates perceived
stimulus contrast and early cortical processing. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco. CA.

Störmer, V.S. (2011). Age-related deficits in attentional selection at early stages of cortical processing: the case of tracking multiple moving objects. Talk presented at the Rovereto Attention Workshop (RAW), Rovereto, Italy.

Störmer, V.S. (2010). Age-related changes in cortical processing during multiple-object tracking and visual-spatial working memory. Talk presented at the LIFE Spring Academy at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

Störmer, V.S., Li, S.-C., Heekeren, H.R., Lindenberger, U. (2010). Adult age differences in cortical processing during multiple-object tracking. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.

Störmer, V.S., McDonald, J.J., & Hillyard, S.A. (2009). Cross-modal cueing of attention alters visual appearance comparisons and early cortical processing. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Störmer, V.S. (2009). Individual and age differences in ‘Dynamic Visual Attention’: The case of tracking multiple moving objects. Talk presented at the LIFE Fall Academy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.