BIOGRAPHY

I joined the Department in September 2009. Previously I spent eight years at the University of Durham first as a post-doc research associate (2001-2004) and then lecturer (2004-2009). Prior to Durham, I was at the University of Keele where I obtained a PhD in visual attention (1996-2000) before being appointed as a research associate (2000-2001). I was awarded a BSc (Hons.) in Psychology from Bolton Institute in 1996.

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

My main research interests concern visual cognition and attention. Attention is the mechanism by which our brain processes certain aspects of the environment at the expense of other aspects. I have examined issues such as attentional capture by new objects, the role of the parvocellular visual pathway in attention, segmentation/grouping processes, and inhibition of return. I have also published research on the neuropsychology of colour vision. Additionally, I have recently undertaken comparative work examining memory and attention in fish.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Cole, G. G., & Wilkins, A. (in press). The fear of holes. Psychological Science.

Skarratt, P.A., Gellatly, A.R.H., Cole, G. G., Pilling, M. & Hulleman, J.(in press). Looming motion primes the visuomotor system. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Cole, G. G., Skarratt, P.A., & Billing R-C. (2012). Do action goals mediate social inhibition of return? Psychological Research, 76, 736-746.

Skarratt, P.A., Cole, G. G., & Kuhn, G. (2012). Visual cognition during real social interaction. Frontiers in Social Neuroscience, 16, 196.

Cole, G. G., Kuhn, G., & Skarratt, P. (2011). Non-transient luminance changes do not capture attention.  Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 73, 1407-1421.

de-Wit, L., Cole, G. G., Kentridge, R. W., & Milner, D. A. (2011). The parallel representation of the objects selected by attention.  Journal of Vision, 11.

Cole, G. G., & Kuhn, G. (2010). What the experimenter’s prime tells the observer’s brain. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 72, 1367-1376.

Skarratt, P.A., Cole, G. G., & Kingstone, A. (2010).  Social inhibition of return. Acta Psychologica, 134, 48-54.

Cole, G. G., & Kuhn, G. Attentional capture by object appearance and disappearance. (2010). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 147-159.

Kuhn, G, Tatler, B. W., & Cole, G. G. (2009). You look where I look! Effect of gaze cues on overt and covert attention in misdirection. Visual Cognition, 17, 925-944.

Cole, G. G., & Kuhn, G.  (2009). Appearance matters: Attentional orienting by new objects in the precuing paradigm.  Visual Cognition, 17, 755-776.

Skarratt, P.A., & Cole, G. G., & Gellatly, A.R.H. (2009). Prioritisation oflooming and receding objects: Equal slopes, different intercepts. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 71, 964-970.

Cole, G. G., Kuhn, G., Heywood, C. A., & Kentridge, R. W. (2009). The priotization of feature singletons in the allocation of visual attention. Experimental Psychology, 56, 134-146.

Crundall, D., Cole, G. G., & Underwood, G. (2008). Attentional and automatic processes in line tracing: Is tracing obligatory? Perception and Psychophysics, 70, I422-1430.

Kuhn, G, Tatler, B. W., Findlay, J. M., & Cole, G. G. (2008). Misdirection in magic: Implications for the relationship between eye gaze and attention. Visual Cognition, 16, 391-405.

Cole, G. G., Kuhn, G., & Liversedge, S. P. (2007). Onset of illusory figures attenuates change blindness. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 939-942.

Cole, G. G., Skarratt, P., & Gellatly, A. R. H. (2007). Object and spatial representations in the corner enhancement effect. Perception and Psychophysics, 69, 400-412.

Crundall, D., Cole, G. G., & Galpin, A. (2007). Object-based attention is mediated by collinearity of targets. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 137-153.

Gellatly, A.R.H., Pilling, M., & Cole, G. G. (2006). What is being masked in object substitution masking? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, 1422-1435.

Cole, G. G., & Liversedge, S. L. (2006). Change blindness and the primacy of object appearance. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 588-593.

Cole, G. G., Kentridge, R. W., & Heywood, C. A. (2005). Object onset and parvocellular guidance of attentional allocation. Psychological Science, 16, 270-274.

Cole, G. G., Kentridge, R. W., & Heywood, C. A. (2004). Visual salience in the change detection paradigm: The special role of object onset. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30, 464-477.

Kentridge, R. W., Cole, G. G., & Heywood, C. A. (2004). The primacy of Chromatic edge processing in normal and cerebrally achromatopsic subjects. Progress in Brain Research, 144, 161-167.

Cole, G. G. (2004). Rethinking vision and attention. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18, 781-783.

Cole, G. G., Heywood, C. A., Kentridge, R. W., Fairholm, I. & Cowey, A. (2003). Attentional capture by colour and motion in cerebral achromatopsia. Neuropsychologia, 41, 1837-1846.

Cole, G. G., Kentridge, R. W., Gellatly, A.R.H., & Heywood, C. A. (2003). Detectability of onsets versus offsets in the change detection paradigm. Journal of Vision, 3, 22-31.

Gellatly, A.R.H., Cole, G. G., Fox, C., & Johnson, M. (2003). Motor inhibition may determine the relative duration of reaction times to abrupt onset displays. Perception, 32, 1377-1391.

Cole, G. G., Gellatly, A. R. H., & Blurton, A. (2001). The effect of object onset on the distribution of visual attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 1356-1368.

Gellatly, A.R.H., & Cole, G. G. (2000). Accuracy of target detection in new object and old object displays. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26, 889-899.

Gellatly, A.R.H., Cole, G. G., & Blurton, A. (1999). Do equiluminant object onsets capture visual attention? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 1609-1624.