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

Kim, N.*, Bylinskii, Z.*, Borkin, M., Gajos, K., Oliva, A., Durand, F., & Pfister, H. (2017). BubbleView: replacing eye-tracking to crowdsource image importance. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 24(5), 36 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

Kim, N.W., Bylinskii, Z., Borkin, A.M., Oliva, A., Gajos, K.Z., & Pfister, H. (2015). A Crowdsourced Alternative to Eye-tracking for Visualization Understanding.ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2015 Extended Abstracts . Paper Poster

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

Bainbridge, W.A., Isola, P., & Oliva, A. (2013). The Intrinsic Memorability of Face Photographs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142(4), 1323–1334. Paper Website

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

Brady, T.F., Konkle, T., Gill, J., Oliva, A., & Alvarez, G.A. (2013). Visual long-term memory has the same limit on fidelity as visual working memory. Psychological Science, 24(6), 981–990. Paper Website

Brady, T.F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G.A, & 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. Paper Stimuli

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

Konkle, T. & Oliva, A. (2012). A familiar-size Stroop effect: Real-world Size is an automatic property of object representation.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, (3), 561–569. Paper Stimuli

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

Konkle, T.*, Brady, T.F.*, Alvarez, G.A., & 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. Paper Website Press

Konkle, T., Brady, T.F., Alvarez, G.A & Oliva, A. (2010). Conceptual distinctiveness supports detailed visual long-term memory for real-world objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 139 (3), 558–578. Website Paper

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

Ehinger, K.A. *, Hidalgo-Sotelo, B. *, Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (2009). Modelling Search for People in 900 Scenes: A combined source model of eye guidance. Visual Cognition, 17, 945–978. Website Paper

Brady, T.F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G.A., & Oliva, A. (2008). Visual long-term memory has a massive storage capacity for object details. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, vol 105 (38), 14325–14329. Website 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

Brady, T.F., & Oliva, A. (2008). Statistical Learning using Real World Scenes: Extracting Categorical Regularities without Conscious Intent. Psychological Science, 19(7), 678–685. Poster 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

Torralba, A., Oliva, A., Castelhano, M., & Henderson, J.M. (2006). Contextual guidance of eye movements and attention in real-world scenes: the role of global features in object search. Psychological Review, 113, 766–786. Paper Website

Oliva, A., Torralba, A., & Schyns, P.G. (2006). Hybrid Images. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Siggraph), 25, 3, 527–532. Paper Slides

Greene, M.R., & Oliva, A. (2006). Natural scene categorization from the conjunction of ecological global properties. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CSS), 291–296. Paper Poster

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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