Publications (Cognitive Science)

Josephs, E., Fosco, C., & Oliva, A. (2024).
Effects of browsing conditions and visual alert design on human susceptibility to deepfakes.
Journal of Online Trust and Safety
arXiv Paper

Tuckute*, G., Mahowald*, K., Isola, P., Oliva, A., Gibson, E., & Fedorenko, E. (2023).
Intrinsically memorable words have unique associations with their meanings.
Submitted
PsyArXiv Preprint

Bylinskii, Z., Goetschalckx, L., Newman, A., & Oliva, A. (2021).
Memorability: An image-computable measure of information utility.
Chapter in Human Perception of Visual Information (pp. 207–239). Springer, Cham.
arXiv Paper

Singh, I., Oliva, A., & Howard, M.
Visual memories are stored along a compressed timeline.
Submitted manuscript.
bioRxiv Paper

Bylinskii, Z., Borkin, M.A., Kim, N.W., Pfister, H., & Oliva, A. (2017). Eye Fixation Metrics for Large Scale Evaluation and Comparison of Information
Visualizations. In Burch, M., Chuang, L., Fisher, B., Schmidt,
A., Weiskopf, D. (Eds.), Eye Tracking and Visualization: Foundations, Techniques, and Applications
(pp. 235–255). Springer International Publishing. Paper Website


Oliva, A., & Schyns, P.G. (2017). Hybrid Image Illusion. In The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions, Ed. Shapiro and Todorovic, Oxford
University Press, Chapter 111 (p 763–766). Paper

Vo, M., Bylinskii, Z., & Oliva, A. (2017). Image Memorability in the
Eye of the Beholder: Tracking the Decay of Visual Scene Representations. BioRxiv:141044 2017 bioRxiv Paper

Oliva, A., & Teng, S. (2016). The Cognitive Society.In Handbook of Society and Technology Convergence (W.S Bainbridge and M. C. Roco, Eds),
Springer International Publishing Switzerland (pp 743–751).
Paper

Bylinskii, Z., Isola, P., Bainbridge, C.M., Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (2015). Intrinsic and Extrinsic Effects on Image Memorability. Vision Research, 116, 165-178. Paper Supplementary Material Poster Website


Bainbridge, C. M., Bainbridge, W.A, & Oliva, A. (2015). Quadri-stability of a spatially ambiguous auditory illusion.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. The Future of Perceptual Illusions : From
Phenomenology to Neuroscience. PaperSound file Continuous Sound


Oliva, A., Isola, P., Khosla, A., & Bainbridge, W.A. (2013). What
makes a picture memorable? SPIE Newsroom Article, 7 May 2013, DOI:
10.1117/2.1201304.004806
Paper
SPIE Website



Oliva, A. (2013). The Art of Hybrid Images: Two for the View of One.
Art & Perception, 1(1-2), 65-74.
Paper

Laprevote, V., Oliva, A., Ternois, A.S., Schwan, R., Thomas, P., & Boucart, M. (2013).
Low spatial frequency bias in schizophrenia is not face specific: when the integration
of coarse and fine information fails. Frontiers in Psychopathology,
4:248
Paper
Frontiers Website

MacGregor, D., Baba, M., Oliva, A., McLaughlin, A.C., Scacchi, W., Scassellati, B., Rubin, P., Mason, R.M., & Spohrer, J.R. (2013).
Convergence Platforms: Human-Scale Convergence and the Quality of Life.
In Convergence of Knowledge, Technology and Society: Beyond Convergence of Nano-Bio-Info-Cognitive Technologies (M. C. Roco, W. S. Bainbridge, B. Tonn and G. Whitesides, Eds), Springer Publishing (pp. 53–93)
Chapter

Olds, J.L., MacGregor, D., Madou, M., McLaughlin, A., Oliva, A., Scassellati, B., & Wong, P. (2013).
Implications: Human Cognition and Communication and the Emergence of the Cognitive Society
In Convergence of Knowledge, Technology and Society: Beyond Convergence of Nano-Bio-Info-Cognitive Technologies (M. C. Roco, W. S. Bainbridge, B. Tonn and G. Whitesides, Eds), Springer Publishing (pp. 223–253)
Chapter


Brady, T.F., & Oliva, A. (2012). Spatial Frequency Integration
During Active Perception: Perceptual Hysteresis When an Object Recedes.
Frontiers in Perception Science, 3:462.
Paper
Frontiers
Website

Konkle, T. & Oliva, A. (2011). Canonical visual size for real-world
objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception &
Performance, 37(1), 23.
Paper
Stimuli Download

Gagnier, K.M., Intraub, H., Oliva, A., & Wolfe, J. (2011). Why Does
Vantage Point Affect Boundary Extension? Visual Cognition, 19:2, 234–257.
Paper

Oliva, A., Park, S., & Konkle, T. (2011). Representing, perceiving
and remembering the shape of visual space. In L.R. Harris and M. Jenkin
(Eds.), Vision in 3D Environments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pp 308–339).
Chapter



Greene, M.R. & Oliva, A. (2010). High-Level Aftereffects to Global
Scene Properties. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception
& Performance, 36(6), 1430–1442.
Paper

Hidalgo-Sotelo, B. & Oliva, A. (2010). Person, place, and past
influence eye movements during visual search. In S. Ohlsson & R.
Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CSS), (pp.
820–825). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Paper

Laprevote, V., Oliva, A., Delerue, C., Thomas, P., & Boucart, M. (2010). Patients
with schizophrenia are biased toward low spatial frequency to decode facial expression at a glance.
Neuropsychologia, 48, 4164–4168.
Paper

Oliva, A. (2010). Seeing and Thinking in the Mist (Book review of the
Invisible Gorilla). Science, 329, 1017. Paper

Oliva, A. (2010).
Understanding the Physics of the Mind: a proposal for a Perceptual Science Initiative.
White paper submitted to the National Science Foundation SBE 2020.
Paper

Greene, M.R., & Oliva, A. (2009). The briefest of glances: the time
course of natural scene understanding. Psychological Science, 20
(4), 464–472.
Paper

Greene, M.R., & Oliva, A. (2009). Recognition of Natural Scenes from
Global Properties: Seeing the Forest Without Representing the Trees.
Cognitive Psychology, 58(2), 137–179.
Paper

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.
Paper

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, 106, 7345–7350.
Paper

Oliva, A. (2009). Visual Scene Perception.
In Encyclopaedia of Perception, Ed: Bruce Goldstein. Sage Edition.
Paper



Alvarez, G.A., & Oliva, A. (2008). The Representation of Simple
Ensemble Visual Features Outside the Focus of Attention. Psychological
Science, 19(4), 392–398.
Paper


Boucart, M., Dinon, J.F., Despretz, P., Desmettre, T., Hladiuk, K., & Oliva, A.
(2008). Recognition of facial emotion in low vision: A flexible usage of facial
features. Visual Neuroscience, 25(4), 603–609.
Paper

Alvarez, G. A, Konkle, T., & Oliva, A. (2007). Searching in Dynamic
Displays: Effects of Configural and Spatiotemporal Predictability. Journal of Vision, 7(14), 12-12.
Paper

Konkle, T., & Oliva, A. (2007). Normative representation of objects:
evidence for an ecological bias in object perception and memory. In D.S.
McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.). Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society (CSS), (p 407–412), Nashville, TN: Cognitive Science Society 2007.
Paper

Alvarez, G., & Oliva, A. (2007). The Role of Global Layout in Visual
Short-term Memory. Visual Cognition, 15(1), 70–73.
Paper




Oliva, A. (2005). Gist of the scene. In the
Encyclopedia of Neurobiology of Attention. L. Itti, G. Rees, and J.K. Tsotsos (Eds.), Elsevier, San Diego,
CA (pages 251–256).Paper

Oliva, A., Mack, M., Shrestha, M., & Peeper, A. (2004).
Identifying the Perceptual Dimensions of Visual Complexity of Scenes.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CSS), 26 (26)
Paper

Oliva, A., Wolfe, J. M, & Arsenio, H. (2004). Panoramic Search: The
interaction of Memory and Vision in Search through a Familiar Scene. Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30, 1132–1146.
Paper

Oliva, A., & Schyns, P.G. (2000).
Diagnostic colors mediate scene recognition.
Cognitive Psychology, 41, 176–210.
Paper

Schyns, P.G. & Oliva, A. (1999). Dr. Angry and Mr. Smile: when
categorization flexibly modifies the perception of faces in rapid visual presentations. Cognition, 69, 243–265.
Paper

Oliva, A. & Schyns, P.G. (1997). Coarse blobs or fine edges?
Evidence that information diagnosticity changes the perception of complex visual stimuli. Cognitive Psychology, 34, 72–107.
Paper

Schyns, P.G. & Oliva, A. (1997). Flexible, diagnostically-driven,
rather than fixed, perceptually determined scale selection in scene and face recognition. Perception, 26, 1027–1038.

Oliva, A., & Schyns, P. G. (1995).
Mandatory scale perception promotes flexible scene categorization.
In Proceedings of the XVII Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 159–163.

Schyns, P.G. & Oliva, A. (1994). From blobs to boundary edges:
Evidence for time- and spatial-scale-dependent scene recognition.
Psychological Science, 5, 195–200.
Paper
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