San José State University, Vision Laboratory

Research Areas

• Multiple Object Tracking

  One current project is investigating how tracking of target objects is affected by distractor objects with different characteristics.

• Contextual Cueing

  This new project is investigating the effects of previous experience on visual search.

Selected Research Publications

• Feria, C. S. (2010). Attentional prioritizations based on spatial probabilities can be maintained on multiple moving objects. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 72, 926-938. download

• Feria, C. S. (2008). The distribution of attention within objects in multiple-object scenes: Prioritization by spatial probabilities and a center bias. Perception & Psychophysics, 70, 1185-1196. download

For a full list of Dr. Feria’s research publications, please see her curriculum vitae.

Recent Research Activities

• Cibotti, J., Tapia, B., Liang, J., Shaw, J., Southard, T., Davis-Ross, L., & Feria, C. (2011, April). Finding a target in a scene is affected by category learning. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA.download

• Feria, C. S. (2011, May). The effect of speed on multiple object tracking: Is it due solely to the number of close target-distractor interactions? Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

• Lim, J. J., Southard, T., Tapia, B., Gunawan, V., Malicevic, Z., Truong, T. A., & Feria, C. (2011, April). The influence of speed on the ability to track multiple moving objects. Poster to be presented at the California Cognitive Science Conference, Berkeley, CA.

• Truong, T. A., Gunawan, V., Malicevic, Z., Tapia, B., Lim, J. J., Southard, T., & Feria, C. (2011, May). Effects of speed and number of targets on multiple object tracking. Poster to be presented at the Spartan Psychological Association Research Conference, San Jose, CA.