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Daniel Simons

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Psychology, Faculty Member

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I rarely update my profile on Academia.edu. If you would like to follow me, I'm most frequently on Google+ (http://gplus.to/profsimons). You can also watch my website: http://www.dansimons.com. I occasionally post on Twitter under @profsimons.
Address: Department of Psychology
University of Illinois
603 E. Daniel Street
Champaign, IL 61820

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Books by Daniel Simons

Change blindness and visual memory

Book version of a special issue of the journal Visual Cognition.

The Invisible Gorilla, and Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us

The Invisible Gorilla will be released on May 18, 2010 from Crown. Check out www.theinvisiblegor... more

Papers by Daniel Simons

On the other side of the mirror: Priming in cognitive and social psychology

by Olivier Klein and Daniel Simons

Over the past several years, two largely separate traditions have collided, leading to controvers... more Over the past several years, two largely separate traditions have collided, leading to controversy over claims about priming. We describe and contrast the main accounts of priming effects in cognitive and social psychology, focusing especially on the role of awareness. In so doing, we consider one of the core points of contention, claims about the effects of subliminal priming. Whereas cognitive psychologists often are interested in exploring how priming operates with and without awareness, social psychologists more commonly assume subliminality in order to bolster claims about the automaticity of priming. We discuss the criteria necessary to claim that a stimulus was processed entirely without awareness, noting the challenges in meeting those criteria. Finally, we identify three sources of conflict between the fields: awareness, replicability, and the nature of the underlying processes. We close by proposing resolutions for each of them.!

The importance of information localization in scene gist recognition.

by Lester Loschky, Daniel Simons, Tejaswi Pydimarri, and A. Sethi

Journal of …, Jan 1, 2007

People can recognize the meaning or gist of a scene from a single glance, and a few recent studie... more People can recognize the meaning or gist of a scene from a single glance, and a few recent studies have begun to examine the sorts of information that contribute to scene gist recognition. The authors of the present study used visual masking coupled with image manipulations (randomizing phase while maintaining the Fourier amplitude spectrum; random image structure evolution [RISE]; J. Sadr & P. Sinha, 2004) to explore whether and when unlocalized Fourier amplitude information contributes to gist perception. In 4 experiments, the authors found that differences between scene categories in the Fourier amplitude spectrum are insufficient for gist recognition or gist masking. Whereas the global 1/f spatial frequency amplitude spectra of scenes plays a role in gist masking, local phase information is necessary for gist recognition and for the strongest gist masking. Moreover, the ability to recognize the gist of a target image was influenced by mask recognizability, suggesting that conceptual masking occurs even at the earliest stages of scene processing.

My reprint archive

My reprint archive has access to all my papers.

The effects of individual differences and task difficulty on inattentional blindness

The relationship between visual attention and expertise in sports

The effects of video game playing on attention, memory, and executive control

Better than average: Alternatives to statistical summary representations for rapid judgments of average size

Average size perception and the allure of a new mechanism

Examining cognitive interference and adaptive safety behaviours in tactical vehicle control

Estimates of crash avoidance: Discrepancies between drivers' judgments and actual performance

The importance of information localization in scene gist recognition

A role of action in category learning

Inattentional blindness

Ideas of Lasting Influence: Hochberg’s anticipation of research on change blindness and motion picture perception

Behavioral, neuroimaging, and neuropsychological approaches to implicit perception

Change detection as a tool for assessing attentional deployment in atypical populations: The case of Williams Syndrome

Assessing interference from mental workload using a naturalistic simulated driving task: A pilot study

Induced visual fading of complex images

Simons, D., Lleras, A., Martinez-Conde, S., Slichter, D., Caddigan, E., & Nevarez, G. (2006). Ind... more

Change blindness and visual memory

Book version of a special issue of the journal Visual Cognition.

The Invisible Gorilla, and Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us

The Invisible Gorilla will be released on May 18, 2010 from Crown. Check out www.theinvisiblegor... more

On the other side of the mirror: Priming in cognitive and social psychology

by Olivier Klein and Daniel Simons

Over the past several years, two largely separate traditions have collided, leading to controvers... more Over the past several years, two largely separate traditions have collided, leading to controversy over claims about priming. We describe and contrast the main accounts of priming effects in cognitive and social psychology, focusing especially on the role of awareness. In so doing, we consider one of the core points of contention, claims about the effects of subliminal priming. Whereas cognitive psychologists often are interested in exploring how priming operates with and without awareness, social psychologists more commonly assume subliminality in order to bolster claims about the automaticity of priming. We discuss the criteria necessary to claim that a stimulus was processed entirely without awareness, noting the challenges in meeting those criteria. Finally, we identify three sources of conflict between the fields: awareness, replicability, and the nature of the underlying processes. We close by proposing resolutions for each of them.!

The importance of information localization in scene gist recognition.

by Lester Loschky, Daniel Simons, Tejaswi Pydimarri, and A. Sethi

Journal of …, Jan 1, 2007

People can recognize the meaning or gist of a scene from a single glance, and a few recent studie... more People can recognize the meaning or gist of a scene from a single glance, and a few recent studies have begun to examine the sorts of information that contribute to scene gist recognition. The authors of the present study used visual masking coupled with image manipulations (randomizing phase while maintaining the Fourier amplitude spectrum; random image structure evolution [RISE]; J. Sadr & P. Sinha, 2004) to explore whether and when unlocalized Fourier amplitude information contributes to gist perception. In 4 experiments, the authors found that differences between scene categories in the Fourier amplitude spectrum are insufficient for gist recognition or gist masking. Whereas the global 1/f spatial frequency amplitude spectra of scenes plays a role in gist masking, local phase information is necessary for gist recognition and for the strongest gist masking. Moreover, the ability to recognize the gist of a target image was influenced by mask recognizability, suggesting that conceptual masking occurs even at the earliest stages of scene processing.

My reprint archive

My reprint archive has access to all my papers.

The effects of individual differences and task difficulty on inattentional blindness

The relationship between visual attention and expertise in sports

The effects of video game playing on attention, memory, and executive control

Better than average: Alternatives to statistical summary representations for rapid judgments of average size

Average size perception and the allure of a new mechanism

Examining cognitive interference and adaptive safety behaviours in tactical vehicle control

Estimates of crash avoidance: Discrepancies between drivers' judgments and actual performance

The importance of information localization in scene gist recognition

A role of action in category learning

Inattentional blindness

Ideas of Lasting Influence: Hochberg’s anticipation of research on change blindness and motion picture perception

Behavioral, neuroimaging, and neuropsychological approaches to implicit perception

Change detection as a tool for assessing attentional deployment in atypical populations: The case of Williams Syndrome

Assessing interference from mental workload using a naturalistic simulated driving task: A pilot study

Induced visual fading of complex images

Simons, D., Lleras, A., Martinez-Conde, S., Slichter, D., Caddigan, E., & Nevarez, G. (2006). Ind... more

Fruitful visual search: Inhibition of return in a virtual foraging task

Spatial updating relies on an egocentric representation of space: Effects of the number of objects