Melcher Lab Publications
Wutz A, Drewes J, Melcher D. (2016). Nonretinotopic perception of orientation: Temporal integration of basic features operates in object-based coordinates. Journal of Vision, 16(10):3. doi: 10.1167/16.10.3.
Buonocore A & Melcher D (2015), Disrupting saccadic updating: visual interference prior to the first saccade elicits spatial errors in the secondary saccade in a double-step task. Experimental Brain Research, Vol. 233, Issue 6:1893-1905.
Fracasso A, Kaunitz L, Melcher D (2015). Saccade kinematics modulate perisaccadic perception. Journal of Vision, Mar 6;15(3), pii:4.
Cavicchio F., Melcher D. & Poesio M. (2014). The effect of linguistic and visual salience in visual world studies. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:176.
Corbett, J.E. & Melcher, D. (2014). Stable statistical representations facilitate visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception Performance, 40(5), 1915-25.
Corbett J. E., Melcher D. (2014). Characterizing ensemble statistics: Mean size is represented across multiple frames of reference. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 76 (3), 746-58. Download here.
Drewes J, Zhu W, Melcher D (2014). Dissociation Between Spatial and Temporal Integration Mechanisms in Vernier Fusion. Vision Research.
Fairhall S.L., Albi A., Melcher D. (2014). Temporal Integration Windows for Naturalistic Visual Sequences. PLOS One.
Kaunitz L., Fracasso A., Skujevskis M., Melcher D.P. (2014). Waves of visibility: probing the depth of inter-ocular suppression with transient and sustained targets. Consciousness Research in Frontiers in Psychology.
Knops A., Piazza M., Sengupta R., Eger E. & Melcher D. (2014). A shared, flexible neural map architecture reflects capacity limits in both visual short term memory and enumeration. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(30), 9857-9866. Download here.
Lanzoni L., Melcher D., Miceli G., Corbett J.E. (2014). Global statistical regularities modulate the speed of visual search in patients with focal attentional deficits. Frontiers in Psychology.
Sengupta R., Surampudi B.R. and Melcher D. (2014). A visual sense of number emerges from the dynamics of a recurrent on-center off-surround neural network. Brain Research.
Subramanian R., Shankar D., Sebe N. & Melcher D. (2014). Emotion modulates eye movement patterns and subsequent memory for the gist and details of movie scenes. Journal of Vision, 14(3):31.
Wutz A., Weisz N., Braun C. & Melcher D. (2014). Temporal windows in visual processing: 'Pre-stimulus brain state' and 'post-stimulus phase reset' segregate visual transients on different temporal scales. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(4), 1554-65.n Download here.
Wutz A., Melcher D.P.(2014). The temporal window of individuation limits visual capacity. Perception Science in Frontiers in Psychology.
Wutz, A. & Melcher, D. (2013). Temporal buffering and visual capacity: the time course of object formation underlies capacity limits in visual cognition. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 75(5): 921-933. Download here.
Melcher, D. & Bacci F. (2013). Perception of emotion in abstract artworks: a multidisciplinary approach. Progress in Brain Research, 204:191-216.
Fracasso, A., Targher, S., Zampini, M. & Melcher D. (2013). Fooling the eyes: the influence of a sound-induced visual motion illusion on eye movements. PLoS One. 26;8(4):e62131.
Kaunitz, L., Fracasso, A., Lingnau, A. & Melcher D. (2013). Non-conscious processing of motion coherence can boost conscious access. PLoS One. 8(4):e60787.
Dempere-Marco, L., Melcher, D. & Deco, G. (2012). Effective visual working memory capacity : an emergent effect from the neural dynamics in an attractor network. PLoS One, 7(8): e42719
Wutz, A., Caramazza, A. & Melcher, D. (2012). Rapid enumeration within a fraction of a single glance : the role of visible persistence in object individuation capacity. Visual Cognition, 20(6): 717-32. Download here.
Melcher, D. & Fracasso, A. (2012). Remapping of the line motion illusion across eye movements. Experimental Brain Research, 218(4): 503-14.
Melcher, D. & Piazza, M. (2011). The role of attentional priority and saliency in determining capacity limits in enumeration and visual working memory. PLoS One, 6(12): e29296
Kaunitz, L.N., Fracasso, A. & Melcher, D. (2011). Unseen complex motion is modulated by attention and generates a visual aftereffect. Journal of Vision, 11(13), 10. DOI: 10.1167/11.13.10.
Melcher, D. & Murphy, B. (2011). The role of semantic interference in limiting memory for the details of visual scenes. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI :10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00262.
Kaunitz LN, Kamienkowski JE, Olivetti E, Murphy B, Avesani P, Melcher D. (2011). Intercepting the first pass: rapid categorization is suppressed for unseen stimuli. Frontiers in Psychology, 2:198.
Piazza M, Fumarola A, Chinello A, Melcher D. (2011). Subitizing reflects visuo-spatial object individuation capacity. Cognition, 121(1):147-53.
Melcher, D. (2011). Visual stability. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B., 366, 468-475.
Fracasso, A., Caramazza, A. & Melcher, D. (2010). Continuous perception of motion and shape across saccadic eye movements. Journal of Vision, 10(13):14, DOI:10.1167/10.13.14
Melcher, D. (2010). Accumulating and remembering the details of neutral and emotional scenes. Perception, 39(8), 1011-1025.
Melcher, D. (2010). The missing link for attentional pointers: comment on Cavanagh et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(11), 473, DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2010.08.007.
De Pisapia, N., Kaunitz, L. & Melcher, D. (2010). Backward masking and unmasking across saccadic eye movements. Current Biology, 20, 613-7.