Publications

2026

• Joubran-Spinelli, S. C., McCabe, R., Young, K., & Al-Aidroos, N. (2026). Searched for but never found: Long-term memory attentional control settings are updated through selection history. [Manuscript submitted for publication].
• Kespe, J. M., Noack, M., & Al-Aidroos, N. (2026). Investigating the control over the timing of LTM reinstatement. [Manuscript submitted for publication].
• Kazatchkova, A., Elkins, S., & Al-Aidroos, N., Fiacconi, C. M. (2026). The benefits of choice for self-regulated learning: Learner control enhances recognition memory [Manuscript submitted for publication].
• Kespe, J.M., Lippert, R. & Al-Aidroos, N. (2026) Task-dependent reinstatement of irrelevant features from long-term memory into visual working memory templates. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 88 (3).

2024

• Lockhart, H. A., Dube, B., MacDonald, K. J., Al-Aidroos, N., & Emrich, S. M. (2024). Limitations on flexible allocation of visual short-term memory resources with multiple levels of goal-directed attentional prioritization. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 86(1), 159–170.
• Plater, L., Giammarco, M., Joubran, S., & Al-Aidroos, N. (2024). Control over attentional capture within 170 ms by long-term memory control settings: Evidence from the N2pc. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 31(1), 283-292.

2023

• Kespe, M. J., Narkar, N., & Al-Aidroos, N. (2023). Object feature reinstatement into working-memory? Separating the direct and indirect effects of long-term memory on attentional selection. Visual Cognition, 31(7), 542-558.
• Plater, L., Nyman, S., Joubran, S., & Al-Aidroos, N. (2023). Repetition enhances the effects of activated long-term memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17470218221095755.

2022

• Plater, L., Dube, B., Giammarco, M., Donaldson, K., Miller, K., & Al-Aidroos, N. (2022). Revisiting the role of visual working memory in attentional control settings. Visual Cognition, 1-21.

2021

• Al-Aidroos, N. (2021). Dividing attentional capture. Visual Cognition, 29(9), 592.595.
• Giammarco, M., Plater, L., Hryciw, J., & Al-Aidroos, N. (2021). Getting it right from the start: Attentional control settings without a history of target selection. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83(1), 133-141.

2020

• Plater, L., Giammarco, M., Fiacconi, C., & Al-Aidroos, N. (2020). No role for activated long-term memory in attentional control settings. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(2), 209-221.

2019

• Dube, B. & Al-Aidroos, N. (2019). Distinct prioritization of visual working memory representations for search and for recall. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81(5), 1253-1261.
• Dube, B., Lumsden, A., & Al-Aidroos, N. (2019). Probabilistic retro-cues do not determine state in visual working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26(2), 641-646.
• Salahub, C., Lockhart, H. A., Dube, B., Al-Aidroos, N. & Emrich, S. M (submitted). Electrophysiological correlates of the flexible allocation of visual working memory resources. Scientific Reports, 9, 19428.

2018

• De Vito, D., Ferrey, A. E., Fenske, M. J., & Al-Aidroos, N. (2018). Cognitive-behavioural and electrophysiological evidence of the affective consequences of ignoring stimulus representations in working memory. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioural Neuroscience, 18(3), 460-475.
• Tompary, A., Al-Aidroos, N., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2018). Attending to what and where: Background connectivity integrates categorical and spatial attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30(9), 1281-1297.

2017

• Dube, B., Emrich, S. M., & Al-Aidroos, N. (2017). More than a filter: Feature-based attention regulates the distribution of visual working memory resources. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(10), 1843-1854.
• De Vito, D., Al-Aidroos, N., & Fenske, M. J. (2017). Neural evidence that inhibition is linked to the affective devaluation of distractors that match the contents of working memory. Neuropsychologia, 99, 259-269
• Emrich, S. M., Lockhart, H. A., & Al-Aidroos, N. (2017). Attention mediates the flexible allocation of visual working memory resources. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(7), 1454-1465.
• Huffman, G., Al-Aidroos, N., Pratt, J. (2017). Salience drives feature repetition in cueing tasks. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79(1), 212-222.

2016

• Giammarco, M., Paoletti, A., Guild, E. &Al-Aidroos, N. (2016). Attentional capture by items that match episodic long-term memory representations. Visual Cognition, 24 (1), 78-101.
• Dube, B., Basciano, A., Emrich, S.M., & Al-Aidroos, N. (2016). Visual working memory simultaneously guides facilitation and inhibition during visual search. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 78(5), 1232-1244.

2014

• Guild, E. B., Cripps, J. M., Anderson, N. D., & Al-Aidroos, N. (2014). Recollection can support hybrid visual-memory search. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21(1), 142-148. doi:10.3758/s13423-013-0483-3

2013

• West, G. L., Al-Aidroos, N., & Pratt, J. (2013). Action video game experience affects oculomotor performance. Acta Psychologica, 142(1), 38-42.
• Zhao, J., Al-Aidroos, N., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2013). Attention is spontaneously biased towards regularities. Psychological Science, 24(5), 667-677.

2012

• Al-Aidroos, N., Said, C. P., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2012). Top-down attention switches coupling between low-level and high-level areas of human visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(56), 14675-14680.
• Al-Aidroos, N., Emrich, S. M., Ferber, S., & Pratt, J. (2012). Visual working memory supports the inhibition of previously processed information: Evidence from preview search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38(3), 643-663.
• Qian, C., Al-Aidroos, N., West, G. L., Abrams, R. A., & Pratt, J. (2012). The visual P2 is attenuated for attended objects near the hands. Cognitive Neuroscience, 3(2), 98-104.

2011

• Radulescu, P. V., Al-Aidroos, N., Adam, J. J., Fisher, M. J., & Pratt, J. (2011). Modulating Fitts’s Law: Perceiving targets at the last placeholder. Acta Psychologica, 137(1), 101-105.
• West, G. L., Al-Aidroos, N., Susskind, J., & Pratt, J. (2011). Emotion and action: The effect of fear on saccadic performance. Experimental Brain Research, 209(1), 153-158.

2010

• Al-Aidroos, N., Guo, R-M., & Pratt, J. (2010). You can’t stop new motion: Attentional capture despite a control set for colour. Visual Cognition, 18(6), 859-880.
• Al-Aidroos, N., Harrison, S., & Pratt, J. (2010). Attentional control settings prevent abrupt onsets from capturing visual spatial attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63(1), 31-41.&
• Al-Aidroos, N. & Pratt, J. (2010). Top-down control in time and space: Evidence from saccadic latencies and trajectories. Visual Cognition, 18(1), 26-49.
• Campbell, K. L., Al-Aidroos, N., Fatt, R., Pratt, J., & Hasher, L. (2010). The effects of multisensory targets on saccadic trajectory deviations. Experimental Brain Research, 201(3), 385-392.
• Emrich, S. M., Al-Aidroos, N., Pratt, J., & Ferber, S. (2010). Finding memory in search: The effect of visual working memory load on visual search. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63(8), 1457-1466.

2009

• Campbell, K. L. Al-Aidroos, N., Pratt, J., & Hasher, L. (2009). Repelling the young and attracting the old: Examining age-related differences in saccade trajectory deviations. Psychology and Aging, 29(1), 163-168.
• Emrich, S. M., Al-Aidroos, N., Pratt, J., & Ferber, S. (2009). Visual search elicits the electrophysiological marker of visual working memory. PLoS ONE, 4(11): e8042.

2008

• Al-Aidroos, N., Fischer, M., Adam, J. J., & Pratt, J. (2008). Structured perceptual arrays and the modulation of Fitts’s law: Examining saccadic eye movements. Journal of Motor Behavior, 40(2), 155-164.
• Emrich, S. M., Ruppel, J. D. N., Al-Aidroos, N., Pratt, J., & Ferber, S. (2008). Out with the old: Inhibition of old items in a preview search is limited. Perception & Psychophysics, 70(8), 1552-1557.
• Stevens, S. A., West, G. L., Al-Aidroos, N., Weger, U. W., & Pratt, J. (2008). Testing whether gaze cues and arrow cues produce reflexive or volitional shifts of attention. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15(6), 1148-1153.
• Weger, U. W., Al-Aidroos, N., & Pratt, J. (2008). Objects do not aid inhibition of return in crossing the vertical meridian. Psychological Research, 72(2), 176-182.