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2025

  • Robbins, A., Hout, M. C., Ercolino, A., Schmidt, J., Godwin, H. J., & MacDonald, J. (2025). The Pictures by Category and Similarity (PiCS) database: A multidimensional scaling database of 1200 images across 20 categories. Behavior Research Methods, 57(8), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02732-0 Impact factor: 3.9 
  • Paquette, N. A., & Schmidt, J. (2025). How expectations alter search performance. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 87(2), 334-353. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03022-9 Impact factor: 1.7

2024

  • Palazzo, S., Spampinato, C., Kavasidis, I., Giordano, D., Schmidt, J., and Shah, M. (2024). Rebuttal to “Comments on ‘Decoding Brain Representations by Multimodal Learning of Neural Activity and Visual Features’ ”, in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 11540-11542, Dec. 2024, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2024.3426296 Impact factor: 18.6
  • Smith, K.G., McWilliams, S. C., Schmidt, J. (2024). Eye Movements of Persons with Aphasia During Connected-Text Reading.  Aphasiology, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2024.2413620 Impact factor 2.1 

2023

  • Bohil, C. J., Phelps, A., Neider, M. B., & Schmidt, J. (2023). Explicit and implicit category learning in categorical visual search. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02789-z Impact factor: 1.7 
  • Adamo, S. H., Roque, N., Barufaldi, B., Schmidt, J., Mello-Thoms, C., & Lago, M. (2023). Assessing satisfaction of search in virtual mammograms for experienced and novice searchers. Journal of Medical Imaging, 10(S1), S11917-S11917. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.10.S1.S11917 Impact factor 1.7

2022

  • Miuccio, M.T., Zelinsky, G. J., & Schmidt, J. (2022) Are all real-world objects created equal? Estimating the “set-size” of the search target in visual working memory. Psychophysiology 59(4):e13998 https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13998
  • Phelps, A. M., Alexander, R. G., & Schmidt, J. (2022) Negative cues minimize visual search specificity effects. Vision Research 196 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2022.108030

2021

  • Adamo, S. H., Gereke, B., Shomstein, S, & Schmidt, J. (2021) From “Satisfaction of Search” to “Subsequent Search Misses”: A review of multiple-target search errors across radiology and cognitive science. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 6 https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00318-w
  • Salgari, G. C., Potts, G. F., Schmidt, J., Chan, C. C., Spencer, C. C., & Bedwell, J. S. (2021) Event-Related Potentials to Rare Visual Targets and Negative Symptom Severity in a Transdiagnostic Psychiatric Sample. Clinical Neurophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2021.02.398
  • Moser, C., Schmitt, L., Schmidt, J., Fairchild, A., & Klusek, J. (2021) Response Inhibition Deficits in Women with the FMR1 Premutation are Associated with Age and Fall Risk. Brain and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105675

2020

  • Ercolino, A. M., Patel, P., Bohil, C. J., Neider, M. B., & Schmidt, J. (2020) Target specificity improves search, but how universal is the benefit? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02111-1
  • Palazzo, S., Spampinato, C., Kavasidis, I., Giordano, D., Schmidt, J., & Shah, M. (2020) Decoding Brain Representations by Multimodal Learning of Neural Activity and Visual Features.  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2020.2995909
  • Kelleher, B. L., Hogan, A. L., Ezell, J., Caravella, K., Schmidt, J., Wang, Q., and Roberts, J. E. (2020) Anxiety and threat‐related attentional biases in adolescents with fragile X syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 64: 296– 302. doi.org/10.1111/jir.12715

2019

  • MacDonald, J., Schmidt, J., & Hout, M. (2019). A greedy algorithm for the construction of minimum-length incomplete block designs. Behavior Research Methods https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01326-x 
  • Klusek, J., Moser, C., Schmidt, J., Abbeduto, L., & Roberts, J.E.  (2019) A Novel Eye Tracking Paradigm for Tapping Social Avoidance-Related Phenotypes in Fragile X Syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics, Neuropsychiatric Genetics Part B 183(1), 5-16 doi: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32757

2018

  • Smith, K.G., Schmidt, J., Wang, B., Henderson, J.M., & Fridriksson, J. (2018). Task-Related Differences in Eye Movements in Individuals with Aphasia. Frontiers in Psychology. 9:2430 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02430
  • Bedwell, J.S., Spencer, C.C., Chan, C.C., Butler, P.D., Sehatpour, P., & Schmidt, J. (2018). The P1 visual-evoked potential, red light, and transdiagnostic psychiatric symptoms. Brain Research. 1687, 144-154. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2018.03.002
  • Henderson, J. M., Choi, W., Luke, S. G., & Schmidt, J. (2018) Neural correlates of individual differences in fixation duration during natural reading. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(1), 314-323. doi:10.1080/17470218.2017.1329322

2017

  • Klusek, J., Schmidt, J., Fairchild, A.J., Porter, A., & Roberts, J.E. (2017).  Altered Sensitivity to Social Gaze in the FMR1 Premutation and Pragmatic Language Competence. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 9(1), 31. doi:10.1186/s11689-017-9211-z
  • Schmidt, J., & Zelinsky, G. J.  (2017) Adding details to an attentional template offsets search difficulty: Evidence from Contralateral Delay Activity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(3), 429-437 doi: 10.1037/xhp0000367

<2016

  • Ferri, J., Schmidt, J., Proudfit, G. H., & Canli, T. (2016) Emotion regulation and amygdala-precuneus connectivity: Focusing on attentional deployment. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, 991–1002. doi: 10.3758/s13415-016-0447-y
  • Kardan, O., Berman, M. G., Yourganov, G., Schmidt, J., Henderson, J. M. (2015) Classifying Mental States From Eye Movements During Scene Viewing Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41(6), 1502-1514. doi: 10.1037/a0039673
  • Luke, S. G., Smith, T. J., Schmidt, J., & Henderson J. M. (2014) Dissociating temporal inhibition of return and saccadic momentum across multiple eye-movement tasks. Journal of Vision, 14(9). doi:10.1167/14.14.9
  • Alexander, R. G., Schmidt, J., & Zelinsky, G. J. (2014). Are summary statistics enough? Evidence for the importance of shape in guiding visual search. Visual Cognition, 22(3-4), 595-609. doi: 10.1080/13506285.2014.890989
  • Henderson, J. M., Olejarczyk, J., Luke, S. G., & Schmidt, J. (2014). Eye movement control during scene viewing: Immediate degradation and enhancement effects of spatial frequency filtering. Visual Cognition, 22(3-4), 486-502. doi: 10.1080/13506285.2014.897662
  • Schmidt, J., MacNamara, A., Proudfit, G. H., & Zelinsky, G. J. (2014). More target features in visual working memory leads to poorer search guidance: Evidence from contralateral delay activity. Journal of Vision, 14(3):8, 1–19. http://www.journalofvision.org/content/14/3/8, doi:10.1167/14.3.8.
  • Luke, S. G., Schmidt, J., & Henderson, J. M. (2013). Temporal Oculomotor Inhibition of Return and Spatial Facilitation of Return in a Visual Encoding Task. Frontiers in Psychology, 4. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00400
  • Henderson, J. M., Luke, S. G., Schmidt, J., & Richards, J. E. (2013). Co-registration of Eye Movements and Event-Related Potentials in Connected-Text Paragraph Reading. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 7. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2013.00028
  • Ferri, J., Schmidt, J., Hajcak, G., & Canli, T. (2013). Neural correlates of attentional deployment within unpleasant pictures. NeuroImage, 70(0), 268-277. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.12.030
  • Macnamara, A., Schmidt, J., Zelinsky, G. J., & Hajcak, G. (2012). Electrocortical and ocular indices of attention to fearful and neutral faces presented under high and low working memory load. Biol Psychol, 91(3), 349-356. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.08.005
  • Schmidt, J., & Zelinsky, G. J. (2011). Visual search guidance is best after a short delay. Vision Research, 51(6), 535-545. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.01.013
  • Schmidt, J., & Zelinsky, G. J. (2009). Search guidance is proportional to the categorical specificity of a target cue. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62(10), 1904-1914. doi: 10.1080/17470210902853530
  • Zelinsky, G. J., & Schmidt, J. (2009). An effect of referential scene constraint on search implies scene segmentation. Visual Cognition, 17(6-7), 1004-1028. doi: 10.1080/13506280902764315

Presentations

2025

  • Sinclair, G., & Schmidt, J. (2025) Examining the Impact of Perceptual Span Size on Search Guidance. Poster Presentation at Psychonomics conference 
  • Paquette, N., & Schmidt, J. (2025) An Evaluation of the Stability of the Expectancy Effect in Visual Search. Poster Presentation at OPAM conference 
    Sinclair, G., & Schmidt, J. (2025) Characterizing Eye Movements During Visual Word Search. Poster Presentation at OPAM conference 
  • Schmidt, J., Ford, S., Ercolino, A. M., Neider, M. B., & Bohil, C. J. (2025) Two separate category learning systems govern categorical search. Journal of Vision Poster Presentation at Vision Science Society International Meeting 

2024

  • Ford, S. & Schmidt, J. (2024) Oculomotor Predictors of Usability: Visual Search Guidance and Object Recognition. Submitted to ASPIRE: the 2024 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 
  • Ford, S., Cole, R., Collins, Y., Jeffries, S., & Schmidt, J. (2024) Reducing the barriers to neuroergonomic and psychophysiological research through usability. Submitted to ASPIRE: the 2024 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 
    Ford, S., Collins, Y., Go, D. &  Schmidt, J. (2024) Exploring the limits of relational guidance using categorical and non-categorical text cues. Journal of Vision Poster Presentation at Vision Science Society International Meeting 

2022

  • Bohil, C. J., Phelps, A. M., Neider, M. B., Schmidt, J. (2022) Evidence of Separate Learning System Contributions in Categorical Visual Search. Journal of Vision Poster Presentation at Vision Science Society International Meeting 
  • Ford, S., Zelinsky, G., & Schmidt, J.  (2022) Functionally Related Objects Capture Attention and Guide Search. Journal of Vision Talk at Vision Science Society International Meeting 

2021

  • Ford, S., Zelinsky, G., & Schmidt, J.  (2021) Search Guidance From the Relative Arrangement Between Objects. Journal of Vision Poster Presentation at Vision Science Society International Meeting – virtual presentation 
  • Miuccio, M., Zelinsky, G., & Schmidt, J. (2021) Proto-objects are a good approximation of set-size in real-world objects, evidence from contralateral delay activity and eye movements during visual search. Journal of Vision Poster Presentation at Vision Science Society International Meeting – virtual presentation  
  • Paquette, N. A., & Schmidt, J. (2021) How Do Expectations of the Upcoming Search Alter Search Performance? Journal of Vision Poster Presentation at Vision Science Society International Meeting – virtual presentation 

2020

  • Ercolino, A. M., Killingsworth, C. D., Bohil, C. J., Neider, M. B., & Schmidt, J. (2020) Category Rule Learning Transfers to Target Verification but Often Fails to Transfer to Search Guidance Journal of Vision Presentation at Vision Science Society – virtual presentation
  • Miuccio, M., Piercey, C., & Schmidt, J. (2020) Are target representations affected by search prevalence rates? Journal of Vision Presentation at Vision Science Society – virtual presentation
  • Paquette, N. A., & Schmidt, J. (2020) How Does Expected Search Difficulty Affect Target Template Generation and Search Performance? Journal of Vision Presentation at Vision Science Society – virtual presentation

2019

  • Paquette, N. A., & Schmidt, J. (2019) Expected Task Difficulty Effects on Visual Search Behavior during Simple and Real-World Search Tasks. Presentation at Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM)
  • Paquette, N. A., Bohil, C. J., & Schmidt, J. (2019) Effects of Actual versus Expected Task Difficulty on Search Behavior. Presentation at the annual Psychonomics conference
  •  Ercolino, A. M. & Schmidt, J. (2019) Category Repetition Reduces the Reliance on Visual Working Memory as Measured by Contralateral Delay Activity Journal of Vision Presentation at Vision Science Society
  • Killingsworth, C. D., Ercolino, A. M., Schmidt, J., Neider, M. B., & Bohil, C. J. (2019) The effects of information integration on categorical visual search Journal of Vision Presentation at Vision Science Society
  • Robbins, A., Scherer, K., Sabic, E., MacDonald, J., Ercolino, A. M., Schmidt, J. & Hout, M. C. (2019) Using Multidimensional Scaling to Quantify Category Heterogeneity Effects in Visual Search Journal of Vision Presentation at Vision Science Society
  • Lopez, S. D., Ercolino, A. M. & Schmidt, J. (2019) Examining the Utility of Negative Search Cues with Real-World Object Categories Journal of Vision Presentation at Vision Science Society
  • Miuccio, M., & Schmidt, J. (2019) Using Metacognition to Predict Search Performance Journal of Vision Presentation at Vision Science Society
  • Robbins, A., MacDonald, J., Ercolino, A., Schmidt, J., Sabic, E., & Hout, M.C. (2019). The Pictures by Category and Similarity (PICS) Database: A database of 1200 pictures from 20 object categories rated for similarity using multidimensional scaling. Poster to be presented at the APS Convention in Washington D.C. (May 2019)

2018

  • Ercolino, A.M., & Schmidt, J. (2018) Target Category Repetition Reduces the Reliance on Visual Working Memory as Measured by Contralateral Delay Activity. Journal of Vision Presentation at Vision Science Society
  • Fernandez, K. N., Schmidt, J., Kuhnen, C., & Lighthall, N. (2018) Predictors of Bias: Roles of Attention and Estimation Frame Incongruence.  Presentation at the Southeastern Psychological Association
  • Fernandez, K. N., Schmidt, J., Kuhnen, C., & Lighthall, N. (2018) Attentional Differences and Estimation Frame Incongruence Predict Bias in Economic Judgments.  25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society
  • Klusek, J., Moser, C., Schmidt, J., Abbeduto, L., & Roberts, J.E. (2018) A novel eye tracking paradigm for indexing core social phenotypes of fragile X syndrome. 51st Gatlinburg Conference on Research in Developmental Disabilities. San Diego, CA.

2017

  • Fernandez, K. N., Merz, M., Kuhnen, C., Schmidt, J., & Lighthall, N. (2017) Gain/loss framing effects on economic decision making investigated with eye tracking. Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
  • Patel, P., Ercolino , A.M., Neider, M.B., Schmidt, J., & Bohil, C.J. (2017) Visual Search Following Category Rule Training. Presentation at Psychonomics Society 58th Annual Meeting
  • Bedwell, J.S., Spencer, C.C., Chan, C.C., Butler, P.D., Sehatpour, P., Schmidt, J. (2017) The P1 Visual-Evoked Potential and Transdiagnostic Psychiatric Symptoms. 31st annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology
  • Ercolino, A.M., Patel, P., Bohil, C.J., Neider, M.B., & Schmidt, J. (2017) Comparing Visual Search For Categories Defined With An Explicit Versus Implicit Rule. Journal of Vision Presentation at Vision Science Society 17(10). doi:10.1167/17.10.1123

<2016

  • Schmidt, J., & Zelinsky, G. J. (2016) Expected visual search difficulty modulates the target representation. Journal of Vision Presentation at Vision Science Society 16(12). doi:10.1167/16.12.1286
  • Klusek, J., Schmidt, J., Porter, A., & Roberts, J.E. (2016, May). Cardiac vagal tone predicts eye gaze fixation in the broad autism phenotype. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Baltimore, MD.
  • Schworer, E., Klusek, J., Hahn, L. J., Schmidt, J., & Roberts, J. E. (2015). Anxiety and eye gaze in males with fragile X. Gatlinburg Conference on Research in Developmental Disabilities, New Orleans, LA., March
  • Klusek, J., Schmidt, J., Porter, A., & Roberts, J. E. (2015) Pragmatic language ability in the FMR1 premutation is associated with autonomic reactivity and viewing patterns during gaze processing. 2nd International Conference on the FMR1 Premutation: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Involvement, Barcelona, Spain, September