the vision
and memory lab

department of psychology, university of california, san diego

Publications

Publications and Preprints

Book

Brady, T.F., and Bainbridge, W.A. (Eds.) (2022). Visual Memory. Routledge. Book link, including table of contents.

Submitted

Schurgin, M. W., Cunningham, C. A., Egeth, H. E. and Brady, T.F. (2018). Visual Long-term Memory Can Replace Active Storage in Visual Working Memory. bioRxiv. Preprint.
Babic, Z., Schurgin, M.W., and Brady, T.F. (2019). Is short-term storage correlated with fluid intelligence? Strategy use explains the apparent relationship between 'number of remembered items' and fluid intelligence. PsyArXiv. Preprint. OSF Data/Analysis.
Khvostov, V.A., Markov, Y.A., Brady, T.F., and Utochkin, I.S. (2020). Limitations on animacy categorization in ensemble perception. PsyArXiv. Preprint. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis.
Fougnie, D.L., Karabay, A., Alvarez, G.A.A., and Brady, T.F. (2022). If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again: Second chances reveal more information in working memory. PsyArXiv. Preprint.
Robinson, M. M., Williams, J.R., Brady, T.F. (2022). What does it take to falsify a psychological theory? A case study on recognition models of visual working-memory. PsyArXiv. Preprint.
Wang, Y., Brady, T.F. (2022). Intuitive Global Mean Estimation in Scatterplots with Spatial Clusters. PsyArXiv. Preprint.
Chunharas, C., Brady, T.F. (2023). Chunking, attraction, repulsion and ensemble effects are ubiquitous in visual working memory. PsyArXiv. Preprint.
Williams, L., Störmer, V.S., Brady, T.F. (2023). The working memory advantage for meaningful stimuli persists under high levels of proactive interference. PsyArXiv. Preprint.
Chung, Y.H., Brady, T.F., Störmer, V.S., (2023). Meaningfulness and familiarity expand visual working memory capacity. PsyArXiv. Preprint.
Shafer-Skelton, A., Brady, T.F., Serences, J.T., (2024). A 2D Gabor-wavelet baseline model out-performs a 3D surface model in scene-responsive cortex. bioRxiv. Preprint.

Publications

Bays, P.M., Schneegans, S., Ma, W.J., Brady, T.F. (in press). Representation and computation in working memory. Nature Human Behaviour. Preprint.
Jabar, S.B., Sreenivasan, K.K. Lentzou, S., Kanabar, A., Brady, T.F., and Fougnie, D. (in press). Probabilistic and rich individual working memories revealed by a betting game. Scientific Reports. PDF. Preprint.
Brady, T.F. and Störmer, V.S. (in press). Comparing memory capacity across stimuli requires maximally dissimilar foils: Using deep convolutional neural networks to understand visual working memory capacity for real-world objects. Memory and Cognition. Preprint. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis.
Chung, Y.H, Brady, T.F., and Störmer, V.S. (in press). Sequential encoding aids working memory for meaningful objects' identities but not for their colors. PsyArXiv. Memory and Cognition. Preprint. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis.
Brady, T.F., Robinson, M. M., Williams, J.R. (in press). Noisy and hierarchical visual memory across time scales. Nature Reviews Psychology. PDF.
Robinson, M. M., DeStefano, I., Brady, T.F., Vul, E. (in press). Local but not global graph theoretic measures of semantic networks generalize across tasks. Behavior Research Methods. PDF. Preprint. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis.
Robinson, M. M., DeStefano, I., Vul, E., Brady, T.F. (2023). How do people build up visual memory representations from sensory evidence? Revisiting two classic models of choice. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 117, 102805. Preprint.
Cohen, M., Keefe, J. M. and Brady, T.F. (2023). Perceptual awareness occurs along a graded continuum: No evidence of all-or-none failures in continuous reproduction tasks. Psychological Science, 34(9), 1033-1047. Preprint. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis.
Robinson, M. M., Brady, T.F. (2023). A quantitative model of ensemble perception as summed activation in feature space. Nature Human Behaviour, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01602-z. Preprint. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis.
Schill, H.M., Gray, S., and Brady, T.F. (2023). Visual Hindsight Bias for Abnormal Mammograms in Radiologists. Journal of Medical Imaging, 10(S1), S11910. PDF.
Chung, Y.H, Brady, T.F., and Störmer, V.S. (2023). No fixed limit for storing simple visual features: Realistic objects provide an efficient scaffold for holding features in mind. Psychological Science. PDF. Preprint.
Chung, Y.H, Schurgin, M.W. Brady, T.F. (2023). The role of motion in visual working memory for dynamic stimuli: more lagged but more precise representations of moving objects. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02635-8. PDF. Preprint. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis.
Wang, Y., Lew, T.F., Brady, T.F., Vul, E. (2023). Structured Visuospatial Representations Revealed through Serial Reproduction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 10.1037/xhp0001086. PDF.. Preprint.
Brady, T.F., Robinson, M. M., Williams, J. R., & Wixted, J. (2023). Measuring memory is harder than you think: How to avoid problematic measurement practices in memory research. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 30(2):421-449. doi: 10.3758/s13423-022-02179-w. Preprint. PDF..
Williams, J.R.*, Robinson, M. M.*, Brady, T.F. (2022). There is no theory-free measure of "swaps" in visual working memory experiments. Computational Brain & Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42113-022-00150-5. PDF. Preprint. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis.
Williams, J. R., Robinson, M. M., Schurgin, M.W., Wixted, J.T., and Brady, T.F. (2022). You can’t "count" how many items people remember in working memory: The importance of signal detection-based measures for understanding change detection performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(12):1390-1409. doi: 10.1037/xhp0001055. PDF. Preprint. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis.
Goldenberg, A., Schöne, J., Huang, Z., Sweeny, T., Ong, D. C., Brady, T.F., Robinson, M.M., Levari, D., Zaki, J., Gross, J. (2022). Amplification in the Evaluation of Emotional Expressions Over Time. Nature Human Behaviour, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01390-y. Paper. Preprint. PDF. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis.
Chunharas, C., Rademaker, R. L., Brady, T.F., and Serences, J. (2022). An adaptive perspective on visual working memory distortions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. PDF. Preprint. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis.
Williams, J., Brady, T.F., and Störmer, V.S. (2022). Guidance of attention by working memory is a matter of representational fidelity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(3) https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000985. PDF. Preprint. Presentation at Virtual WM symposium (~12 min)..
McColeman, C. M., Yang, F., Brady, T. F., Franconeri, S. (2021). Rethinking the Ranks of Visual Channels. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Preprint. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis.   won honorable mention award, top 5%
O'Neill, K., Liu, A., Yin, S., Brady, T.F., and De Brigard, F. (2021). Effects of Category Learning Strategies on Recognition Memory. Memory and Cognition, 50, 512-526. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01207-9. PDF. Preprint. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis.
DeStefano, I.C. and Brady, T.F., Vul. E. (2021). A Framework for Predicting Memory Errors with a Bayesian Model of Concept Generalization. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. Preprint. PDF.
Allen, M.G., DeStefano, I.C. and Brady, T.F. (2021). Chunks are not "Content-Free": Hierarchical Representations Preserve Perceptual Detail within Chunks. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. Preprint. PDF.
Schill, H.M., Wolfe, J.M., and Brady, T.F. (2021). Relationships between expertise and distinctiveness: abnormal medical images lead to enhanced memory performance only in experts. Memory and Cognition, 49, 1067-1081. doi: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01160-7. Paper from journal. Preprint.
Markov, Y., Utochkin, I.S., and Brady, T.F. (2021). Real-world objects are not stored in holistic representations in visual working memory. Journal of Vision, 21(3): 18. Preprint. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis.
Asp, I.E., Störmer, V.S., and Brady, T.F. (2021). Greater visual working memory capacity for visually-matched stimuli when they are recognized as meaningful. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33 (5): 902–918, https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01693. PDF. Preprint. OSF Data/Analysis.
Brady, T.F. and Störmer, V.S. (2021). The role of meaning in visual working memory: Real-world objects, but not simple features, benefit from deeper processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. PDF. Preprint. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis.
Lau, J.S., Pashler, H., and Brady, T.F. (2021). Target Templates in Low Target-Distractor Discriminability Visual Search Have Higher Resolution, but the Advantage They Provide is Short-lived. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 83(4), 1435-1454, doi: 10.3758/s13414-020-02213-w PDF.Preprint. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis.
Schurgin, M. W., Wixted, J. T., and Brady, T.F. (2020). Psychophysical Scaling Reveals a Unified Theory of Visual Memory Strength. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(11), 1156-1172, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-00938-0. PDF. Preprint. OSF Data/Analysis.
Lau, J.S., and Brady, T.F. (2020). Noisy Perceptual Expectations: Multiple Object Tracking Benefits When Objects Obey Features of Realistic Physics. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(11), 1280-1300. Preprint. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis
DeStefano, I., Vul, E., and Brady, T.F. (2020). Influences of both prior knowledge and recent history on visual working memory. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. Preprint. PDF. Presentation at Virtual WM symposium (~12 min)..
Miner, A.E., Schurgin, M.W., and Brady, T.F. (2020). Is working memory inherently more ‘precise’ than long-term memory? Extremely high fidelity visual long-term memories for frequently encountered objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(8), 813-830. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000748. PDF. Preprint.
Utochkin, I.S., and Brady, T.F. (2020). Individual representations in visual working memory inherit ensemble properties. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(5): 458-473. 10.1037/xhp0000727. Preprint. PDF. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis
Rahnev, D., ... Brady, T.F. et al. (2020). The confidence database. Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 317-325. Preprint. PDF. OSF Data/Analysis.
Urgolites, Z., Brady, T.F., and Wood, J. (2020). Verbal interference suppresses object-scene binding in visual long-term memory. PsyArXiv. Preprint.
Utochkin, I.S., and Brady, T. F. (2020). Independent storage of different features of real-world objects in long-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(3), 530-549. 10.1037/xge0000664. Preprint. PDF. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis
Brady, T. F. and Utochkin, I.S. (2019). Entities also require relational coding and binding (commentary on Bastin et al.). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, E285. doi:10.1017/S0140525X19001924. Preprint: Our commentary. PDF: Bastin et al. target article. PDF: Our commentary.
Yin, S., O'Neill, K., Brady, T.F., and De Brigard, F. (2019). The Effect for Category Learning on Recognition Memory: A Signal Detection Theory Analysis. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. Preprint. PDF.
Hurwitz, E., Brady, T.F., and Schachner, A. (2019). Detecting social transmission in the design of artifacts via inverse planning. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. Preprint. PDF.
Schurgin, M. W., and Brady, T.F. (2019). When "capacity" changes with set size: Ensemble representations support the detection of across-category changes in visual working memory. Journal of Vision, 19(5):3. Preprint. PDF.
Brady, T.F., Störmer, V.S., Shafer-Skelton, A., Williams, J.R., Chapman, A.F., and Schill, H. (2019). Scaling up visual attention and visual working memory to the real world. Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 70. Preprint. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Alvarez, G., and Störmer, V. (2019). The role of meaning in visual memory: Face-selective brain activity predicts memory for ambiguous face stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience, 39 (6) 1100-1108. Preprint. PDF. OSF Data.
Shafer-Skelton, A. and Brady, T.F. (2019). 'Scene layout priming' relies primarily on low-level features rather than scene layout. Journal of Vision, 19 (14), doi:10.1167/19.1.14. Preprint. PDF.
Chunharas, C., Rademaker, R. L., Sprague, T. C., Brady, T.F., and Serences, J. (2019). Separating memoranda in depth increases visual working memory performance. Journal of Vision, 19(4), doi:10.1167/19.1.4. Preprint. PDF. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis.
Lau, J. S. and Brady, T.F. (2018). Ensemble Statistics Accessed through Proxies: Range Heuristic and Dependence on Low-Level Properties in Variability Discrimination. Journal of Vision, 18(3), doi:10.1167/18.9.3. Preprint. PDF.
Schachner, A., Brady, T. F., Oro, K., and Lee, M. (2018). Intuitive Archeology: Detecting social transmission in the design of artifacts. In C. Kalisch, M. Rau, T. Rogers, & J. Zhu, Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pg. 1037-1042. Preprint. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Schacter, D.L., and Alvarez, G.A. (2018). The adaptive nature of false memories is revealed by gist-based distortion of true memories. PsyArXiv. Preprint.
Chunharas, C., Brady, T.F., and Ramachandran, V.S. (2018). Selective Amplification of Salient Features of Visual Memories During Early Memory Consolidation. PsyArXiv. Preprint. OSF Data/Stimuli/Analysis.
Carr, E., Brady, T. F., and Winkielman, P. (2017). Are you smiling or have I seen you before? Familiarity makes faces look happier. Psychological Science., 28(8), 1087-1102. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Shafer-Skelton, A., and Alvarez, G.A. (2017). Global ensemble texture representations are critical to rapid scene perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(6), 1160-1176. Preprint. PDF.
De Brigard, F., Brady, T.F., Ruzic, L. and Schacter, D.L. (2017). Tracking the emergence of memories: A category-learning paradigm to explore schema-driven recognition. Memory and Cognition, 45(1), 105-120. Preprint. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Störmer, V., and Alvarez, G. A. (2016). Working memory is not fixed capacity: More active storage capacity for real-world objects than simple stimuli. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(27), 7459-7464. Preprint.. PDF.
Brady, T. F. and Alvarez, G.A. (2015). Contextual effects in visual working memory reveal hierarchically structured memory representations. Journal of Vision, 15(15):6. PDF. Open Access on JoV website.
Brady, T. F. and Alvarez, G.A. (2015). No evidence for a fixed object limit in working memory: Ensemble representations inflate estimates of working memory capacity for complex objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 41(3), 921-9. PDF.
Haberman, J., Brady, T. F. and Alvarez, G.A. (2015). Individual differences in ensemble perception reveal multiple, independent levels of ensemble representation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(2), 432-446. PDF.
Suchow, J., Fougnie, D., Brady, T. F. and Alvarez, G.A. (2014). Terms of the debate on the format and structure of visual memory. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 76(7), 2071-2079. PDF.   review
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G.A., and Oliva, A. (2013). Real-world objects are not represented as bound units: Independent forgetting of different object details from visual memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142(3), 791-808. PDF.  selected as best JEP:General paper of the year by editoral board
Suchow, J. W.*, Brady, T. F.*, Fougnie, D. and Alvarez, G. A. (2013). Modeling visual working memory with the MemToolbox. Journal of Vision, 13(1), 9. PDF. Download MemToolbox.     * = authors contributed equally.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T.F., Gill, J., Oliva, A. and Alvarez, G.A. (2013). Visual long-term memory has the same limit on fidelity as visual working memory. Psychological Science, 24(6), 981-990. PDF.
Brady, T. F., and Tenenbaum, J.B. (2013). A probabilistic model of visual working memory: Incorporating higher-order regularities into working memory capacity estimates. Psychological Review, 120(1), 85-109. PDF.
Brady, T. F., and Oliva, A. (2012). Spatial frequency integration during active perception: Perceptual hysteresis when an object recedes. Frontiers in Perception Science, 3 (462), doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00462. PDF. Open Access on Frontiers website.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T, and Alvarez, G.A. (2011). A review of visual memory capacity: Beyond individual items and towards structured representations. Journal of Vision, 11(5):4, 1-34. PDF. Open Access on JoV website.   review
Brady, T. F. and Alvarez, G.A. (2011). Hierarchical encoding in visual working memory: ensemble statistics bias memory for individual items. Psychological Science, 22(3), 384-392. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Fougnie, D., and Alvarez, G.A. (2011). Comparisons between different measures of working memory capacity must be made with estimates that are derived from independent data [Response to Anderson et al.] Journal of Neuroscience, Oct. 14th. Paper.
Park, S., Brady, T. F., Greene, M.R., and Oliva, A. (2011). Disentangling scene content from spatial boundary: Complementary roles for the PPA and LOC in representing real-world scenes. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(4), 1333-1340. PDF.
Konkle, T.*, Brady, T. F.*, Alvarez, G.A. and 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. PDF.     * = authors contributed equally
Brady, T. F. and Tenenbaum, J.B. (2010). Encoding higher-order structure in visual working memory: A probabilistic model. In S. Ohlsson & R.Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 411-416). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science. PDF.
Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., Alvarez, G. A. and Oliva, A. (2010). Conceptual distinctiveness supports detailed visual long-term memory for real-world objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 139(3), 558-78. PDF.
Brady, T. F. and Alvarez, G. A. (2010). Ensemble statistics of a display influence the representation of items in visual working memory. Visual Cognition, 18 (1), 114-118. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., and 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. PDF.
Junge, J. A., Brady, T. F. and Chun, M. M. (2009). The contents of perceptual hypotheses: evidence from rapid resumption of interrupted visual search. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 71, 681-689. PDF.
Schachner, A., Brady, T. F., Pepperberg, I. and Hauser, M. (2009). Spontaneous motor entrainment to music in multiple vocal mimicking species. Current Biology, 19(10), 831-836. Sample videos of birds dancing. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Oliva, A. and 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. Open Access on CIB website. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G. A. and 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. Open Access on PNAS website. Stimuli and Demos. PDF.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., and Alvarez, G. A. (2008). Efficient coding in visual short-term memory: Evidence for an information-limited capacity. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 887-892). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF.
Brady, T. F. and Oliva, A. (2008). Statistical learning using real-world scenes: extracting categorical regularities without conscious intent. Psychological Science, 19(7), 678-685. PDF.
Brady, T. F. and Chun, M. M. (2007). Spatial constraints on learning in visual search: Modeling contextual cueing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 33(4), 798-815. PDF.
Conference Presentations

2019

Brady, T. F, Miner, A.E., Wixted, J.T., Schurgin, M.W. (2019). Shared Constraints on the Precision of Visual Working vs. Visual Long-Term Memory. To be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montreal, Canada.
Allen, M.G. & Brady, T. F (2019). What is in the focus of attention? The role of conceptual activation in memory formation. To be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montreal, Canada.
Schill, H., Wolfe, J. & Brady, T. F (2019). The crowd-within effect in expert radiologists: independent ratings of the same case lead to better performance in mammography diagnosis. To be presented at the Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, IL.
Schill, H., Wolfe, J. & Brady, T. F (2019). Memory capacity for normal vs. abnormal mammograms. Talk to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Image Perception Society, Salt Lake City, UT.
Allen, M.G. & Brady, T. F (2019). Attribute Amnesia Reveals a Dependency on Conceptual Activation for Memory Consolidation. Poster to be presented at the 2019 Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Yin, S., O’Neill, K., Brady, T.F., and De Brigard, F. (2019). The Effect for Category Learning on Recognition Memory: A Signal Detection Theory Analysis. Poster to be presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Hurwitz, E., Brady, T.F., Schachner, A. (2019). Detecting social transmission in the design of artifacts via inverse planning. Talk to be presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Shafer-Skelton, A. & Brady, T. F (2019). Dissociating visual working memory for objects and scene layout. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Chunharas, C. & Brady, T. F (2019). Is set size 6 really set size 6? Relational encoding in visual working memory. Talk to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Schill, H., Wolfe, J. & Brady, T. F (2019). Memory capacity meets expertise: increased capacity for abnormal images in expert radiologists. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Lam, K., Schurgin, M.W., & Brady, T. F. (2019). The contributions of visual details vs semantic information to visual long-term memory. Talk to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Allen, M.G. & Brady, T. F (2019). Attribute Amnesia Reveals a Dependency on Conceptual Activation for Memory Consolidation. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Brady, T. F, Schurgin,M.W., Wixted, J.T. (2019). The importance of distinguishing between subjective and objective guessing in visual working memory. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Schurgin, M.W., Wixted, J.T. & Brady, T. F, (2019). Unambiguous evidence in favor of a signal detection model of visual working memory. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

2018

Schurgin, M.W., & Brady, T. F. (2018). Isolating Visual Details in Memory via Texforms. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.
Brady, T. F., Schurgin, M.W., & Wixted, J.T. (2018). Psychological Scaling Reveals a Single Parameter Framework For Visual Working Memory. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.
Lau, J. S-H. & Brady, T. F. (2018). Intuitive physics in Multiple Object Tracking. Talk presented at the Object, Perception, Attention and Memory conference (OPAM) preconference to Psychonomics, New Orleans, LA.
Schurgin, M.W., Wixted, J.T. & Brady, T. F. (2018). Psychological Scaling Reveals a Single Parameter Framework For Visual Working Memory. Poster presented at the Object, Perception, Attention and Memory conference (OPAM) preconference to Psychonomics, New Orleans, LA.
Asp, I., Störmer, V., & 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.
Williams, J., Brady, T. F. & Störmer, V. (2018). Multiple visual working memory items can guide attention and facilitate perceptual processing. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
Schurgin, M.W., Cunningham, C.A., Egeth, H.E. & Brady, T. F. (2018). Episodic memory can substitute for active storage in visual working memory. Talk presented at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
Coco, M.I., Brady, T.F., Merendino, G., Zapalla, G., Baddeley, A., & Della Salla, S. (2018). Forgetting in normal and pathological ageing as a function of semantic interference. Poster presented at the Alzheimers’ Association International Conference, Chicago, IL.
Brady, T. F. (2018). Introduction to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Talk presented at Big Data Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Brady, T. F. (2018). Perceptual factors explain a huge number of results from visual working memory and visual long-term memory. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Brady, T. F, Schurgin,M.W., Wixted, J.T. (2018). No distinction between capacity and resolution in working memory: A single memory strength parameter explains the shape of visual working memory response distributions. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Shafer-Skelton, A. & Brady, T. F. (2018) “Scene layout” priming relies primarily on low-level features rather than scene layout. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Miner, A. & Brady, T. F. (2018). Repetition allows for long-term memories that are as precise as the best working memories. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Lau, J. S-H. & Brady, T. F. (2018). Ensemble Statistics are (only) Accessed through Proxies: Range and Spatial Texture Heuristics in Variability Discrimination. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Schurgin, M.W., Cunningham, C.A., Egeth, H.E. & Brady, T. F. (2018). Episodic Memory Can Replace Active Maintenance in Working Memory When Available. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Walter, R. & Brady, T. F. (2018). The minimal proactive interference observed with real-world objects in a visual working memory task is not location-specific. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Markov, Y., Utochkin, I. S., & Brady, T.F. (2018). Real-world objects are not stored in bound representations in visual working memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Asp, I., Störmer, V., & Brady, T. F. (2018). Perceptually-matched images are remembered better in visual working memory and result in increased CDA when they are meaningful. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Williams, J., Brady, T. F. & Störmer, V. (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.
Chunharas, C., Brady, T. F., Rademaker, R.L., & Serences, J. (2018). Similar items repel each other in visual working memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Carr, E.W., Oh, D., Brady, T. F., Winkielman, P., Todorov, A. (2018). Can average faces look happier? The seemingly counter-intuitive link between facial blending and emotion-perception. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Affective Science, Boston, MA.

2017

Schurgin, M.W., Cunningham, C.A., Egeth, H.E. & Brady, T. F. (2017). The Effect of Episodic Memory on Active Storage in Visual Working Memory. Talk presented at Object, Perception, Attention and Memory conference (OPAM) preconference to Psychonomics, Vancouver, Canada.
Shafer-Skelton, A. & Brady, T. F. (2017). How is scene layout information stored across brief delays? Poster presented at Object, Perception, Attention and Memory conference (OPAM) preconference to Psychonomics, Vancouver, Canada.
Schachner, A., Brady, T. F, & Lee, M. (2017). Intuitive archeology in childhood: Detecting social transmission in the design of artifacts. Poster presented at the 2017 Cognitive Development Society Conference, Portland, OR.
Carr, E., Brady, T. F., Winkielman, P. (2017). Are you smiling or have I seen you before? Familiarity makes faces look happier. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
Brady, T. F. (2017). The role of spatial ensemble statistics in visual working memory and scene perception. Talk presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Brady, T. F. (2017). Proactive interference results from visual working memory, not just traces left over in visual long-term memory. Talk presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Sbeiti, M., Brady, T. F., & Fougnie, D. (2017). Reconsidering the focus of attention: Cued items contain more information but are not more accessible. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Chunharas, C., Rademaker, R.L., Sprague, T.C., Brady, T. F., Serences, J. (2017). Remembering stimuli in different depth planes increases visual working memory precision and reduces swap errors. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Utochkin, I., & Brady, T. F. (2017). Binding errors in long-term memory: Independent storage of different features of real-world objects. Talk presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

2016

Brady, T. F. (2016). Visual working memory relies on separate viewpoint-specific ensemble and viewpoint-invariant object representations in visual working memory. Talk presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Fougnie, D., Kanabar, A., Brady, T. F., & Alvarez, G. A. (2016). Asymmetric confidence judgements show hidden information in working memory. Talk presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Sbeiti, M., Brady, T. F., & Fougnie, D. (2016). Reconsidering the focus of attention:Cued items contain more information but are not more accessible. Poster presented at Object, Perception, Attention and Memory conference (OPAM), Boston, MA.

2015

Brady, T. F., Schacter, D.L., & Alvarez, G. A.(2015). The adaptive nature of false memories is revealed by gist-based distortion of true memories. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Fougnie, D., Kanabar, A., Brady, T. F., & Alvarez, G. A. (2015). Using a betting game to directly reveal the rich nature of visual working memories. Talk presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Brady, T. F., Störmer, V., & Alvarez, G. A.(2015). The Role of Meaning in Visual Memory: The N170 Predicts Memory for Ambiguous Mooney Faces. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.
Fougnie, D., Kanabar, A., Brady, T. F., & Alvarez, G. A. (2015). Using a betting game to directly reveal the rich nature of visual working memories. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

2014

Brady, T. F., Shafer-Skelton, A., & Alvarez, G. A.(2014). Sensitivity to spatial ensemble statistics predicts rapid scene perception ability. Talk presented at the Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention and Memory, Long Beach, CA.
selected as best talk of the conference
Brady, T. F., Störmer, V., & 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 14th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Fougnie, D., Brady, T. F. & Alvarez, G. A.(2014). If at first you don’t retrieve, try, try again: The role of retrieval failures in visual working memory. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Shafer-Skelton, A., Brady, T. F. & Alvarez, G. A.(2014). Sensitivity to spatial ensemble statistics predicts rapid scene perception ability. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Haberman, J., Brady, T. F. & Alvarez, G. A.(2014). Independent ensemble processing mechanisms for high-level and low-level perceptual features. Talk presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Brady, T. F., Störmer, V., & Alvarez, G. A.(2014). Working memory accumulates more information from real-world objects than from simple stimuli: Evidence from contralateral delay activity. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Brady, T. F., Schacter, D. L., & Alvarez, G. A.(2014). The Adaptive Nature of False Memories is Revealed by Gist-based Distortion of True Memories. To be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Long Beach, CA.
Brady, T. F., Störmer, V., & Alvarez, G. A.(2014). Working memory accumulates more information from real-world objects than from simple stimuli: Evidence from contralateral delay activity. To be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.

2013

Alvarez, G. A., Brady, T. F., Fougnie, D. & Suchow, J. (2013). Beyond Slots vs. Resources. Talk presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Brady, T. F. & Alvarez, G. A.(2013). Ensemble representations inflate estimates of working memory capacity. Talk presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

2012

Brady, T. F. & Alvarez, G. A. (2012). The problem with slot and resource models: Visual working memory is not limited only by the number of individual items. Poster presented at the Portland Working Memory Conference, Portland, OR.
Brady, T. F., Suchow, J., Fougnie, D. & Alvarez, G. A. (2012). MemToolbox: A MATLAB toolbox for analyzing visual working memory experiments. Poster presented at the Portland Working Memory Conference, Portland, OR.
Rhee, J., Konkle, T., Brady, T. F. & Alvarez, G. A. (2012). Does memory enhancement training alter perceptual representations? Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Brady, T. F. & Alvarez, G. A. (2012). Structured representations in visual working memory: Using results from individual displays to constrain cognitive theory. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Brady, T. F. (2012). The fidelity of visual memory. Talk presented at Cognition, Brain & Behavior Research Seminar, Harvard University.

2011

Brady, T. F. (2011). Structured representations in visual working memory: Using individual displays to constrain cognitive theory. Talk presented at Rovereto Attention Workshop (RAW), Rovereto, Italy.
Brady, T. F. (2011). Structured representations in visual working memory. Talk presented at Cognition, Brain & Behavior Research Seminar, Harvard University.
Brady, T. F. (2011). Trial-by-trial variance in visual working memory capacity estimates as a window into the architecture of working memory. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Sciences Society, Boston, MA.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G. A., & Oliva, A. (2011). Are real-world objects represented as bound units? Independent decay of object details from short-term to long-term memory. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Rhee, J., Konkle, T., Brady, T. F. & Alvarez, G. A. (2011). Learning statistical regularities speeds the encoding of information into working memory. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Brady, T. F. (2011). Trial-by-trial variance in visual working memory capacity estimates as a window into the architecture of working memory. Talk presented at Visual Attention Seminar Series, Spring 2011.

2010

Brady, T. F. & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2010). Hierarchical encoding in visual working memory. Talk presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Alvarez, G. A. & Brady, T. F. (2010). Ensemble statistics influence the representation of items in visual working memory. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Brady, T. F. & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2010). Encoding higher-order structure in visual working memory: A probabilistic model. Talk presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, OR.

2009

Schachner, A., Brady, T. F., and, Hauser, M.D. (2009). Good vocal mimics are also good entrainers: Individual differences suggest a shared mechanism for entrainment and vocal mimicry. Presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Indianapolis, IN.
Brady, T. F. (2009). Hierarchical encoding in visual working memory. Talk presented at MIT Cognitive Lunch.
Oliva, A., Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., & Alvarez, G. A. (2009). Remembering Thousands of Images with High Fidelity. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Boston, MA.
Brady, T. F., Vul, E., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2009). Probabilistic models of change detection and multiple object tracking: How is working memory allocated in attentionally demanding tasks? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Boston, MA.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., and Oliva, A. (2009). Examining object representation via object memory: exemplar and state-level object properties are supported by the same underlying features. Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Park, S., Greene, M. R., Brady, T. F., and Oliva, A. (2009). Natural scene categorization by global scene properties: Evidence from patterns of fMRI activity. Talk presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Alvarez, G. A., Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., Gill, J., and Oliva, A. (2009). Comparing the Fidelity of Perception, Short-term Memory, and Long-term Memory: Evidence for Highly Detailed Long-term Memory Representations. Talk presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Oliva, A., Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., and Alvarez, G. A. (2009). The high fidelity of scene representation in visual long-term memory. Talk presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

2008

Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., Alvarez, G. A. and Oliva, A. (2008). Remembering Thousands of Objects with High Fidelity. Invited talk at the University of Liège.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G. A. and Oliva, A. (2008). Remembering Thousands of Objects with High Fidelity. Poster presented at the European Conference on Visual Perception, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., & Alvarez, G. A. (2008). Efficient Coding in Visual Short-Term Memory: Evidence for an Information-Limited Capacity. Talk presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington, DC.
Schachner, A., Brady, T. F., Pepperberg, I., & Hauser, M. (2008). Spontaneous entrainment to auditory rhythms in vocal-mimicking bird species. Talk presented at Music, Language and the Mind, Medford, MA.
Brady, T. F. (2008). Tracking Statistical Regularities to Form More Efficient Memory Representations. Talk presented at MIT Cognitive Lunch, Spring 2008.
Schachner, A., Brady, T. F., Pepperberg, I., & Hauser, M. (2008). Spontaneous entrainment to auditory rhythms in vocal-learning bird species. Poster presented at The Neurosciences and Music III (Neuromusic), Montreal, Canada.
Brady, T. F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G. A., and Oliva, A. (2008). Compression in Visual Short-term Memory: Using Statistical Regularities to Form More Efficient Memory Representations. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Abstract published in the Journal of Vision, 8(6), pp. 199.
Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., Alvarez, G. A. and Oliva, A. (2008). Remembering Thousands of Objects with High Fidelity. Talk presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Abstract published in the Journal of Vision, 8(6), pp. 694.
Oliva, A. and Brady, T. F. (2008). Perceptual organization across spatial scales in natural images: Seeing more high spatial frequency than meet the eyes. Talk presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Abstract published in the Journal of Vision, 8(6), pp. 71.
Konkle, T., Brady, T. F., Alvarez, G. A. and Oliva, A. (2008). Remembering Thousands of Objects with High Fidelity. Poster presented at the Second Annual Tufts University Conference on Emerging Trends in Behavioral, Affective, Social, and Cognitive Neurosciences, Medford, MA.
Oliva, A., Alvarez, G. A., Konkle, T., & Brady, T. F. (2008). Remembering Thousands of Natural Images With High Fidelity. Talk presented at the Scene Understanding Symposium, MIT.
Brady, T. F. (2008). Tracking Statistical Regularities to Form More Efficient Memory Representations. Talk presented at Visual Attention Seminar Series, Spring 2008.

before 2008

Brady, T. F. and Oliva, A. (2007). Perceptual Organization Across Spatial Scales In Natural Images. Talk presented at MIT Cognitive Lunch, Fall 2007.
Brady, T. F., and Oliva, A. (2007). Statistical learning of temporal predictability in scene gist. Poster presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Abstract in the Journal of Vision, 7(9), pp. 1050.
Brady, T. F. and Oliva, A. (2007). Automatic and implicit encoding of scene gist. Talk presented at the Scene Understanding Symposium, MIT, Spring 2007.
Brady, T. F. and Chun, M. M. (2006). The effects of local context in visual search. Talk presented at MIT Cognitive Lunch, Fall 2006.
Brady, T. F., Junge, J. A. and Chun, M. M. (2006). Local and global influences on hypothesis testing during rapidly resumed search. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.
Brady, T. F. and Chun, M. M. (2005). The effects of local context in visual search: a connectionist model and behavioral study of contextual cueing. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Abstract in the Journal of Vision, 5(8), pp. 860.