BIOGRAPHY
Following an undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Sheffield (1995-1998), Kevin completed his PhD on visuo-spatial short-term memory at the University of Lancaster. He then worked as Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham (2003-2011) before joining the Department of Psychology at Essex as Lecturer in 2011.
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
Kevin has broad interests in visual cognition. His current primary focus is on understanding basic mechanisms of visuo-spatial attention. He is also interested in visuo-spatial short-term memory, and the effects of experience on object and word processing.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Catling, J. C., Dent, K., Preece, E., & Johnston, R. A. (in press). Age of acquisition effects in novel picture naming: A laboratory analogue. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Dent, K., Allen, H., Braithwaite, J. J., & Humphreys, G. W. (2012). Parallel distractor rejection as a binding mechanism in search. Frontiers in Psychology, 3:278.
Dent, K., Braithwaite, J. J., He, X., & Humphreys, G. W. (2012). Integrating space and time in visual search: How the preview benefit is modulated by stereoscopic depth. Vision Research, 65, 45-61.
Dent, K., Allen, H. A., Braithwaite, J. J., & Humphreys, G. W. (2012). Inhibitory guidance in visual search: the case of movement-form conjunctions. Attention Perception & Psychophysics, 74, 269-284
Dent, K., Humphreys, G. W., & Braithwaite, J. J. (2011). Spreading Suppression and the Guidance of Search by Movement: Evidence from negative color carry-over effects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 690-696.
Dent, K., Allen, H. A., & Humphreys, G. W. (2011). Comparing segmentation by time and by motion in visual search: An fMRI investigation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 1710-1722.
Braithwaite, J. J., & Dent, K. (2011). New Perspectives on Perspective-taking Mechanisms and the Out-of-Body Experience. Cortex, 47, 628-632.
Dent, K., & Humphreys, G. W. (2011). Neuropsychological evidence for a competitive bias against contracting stimuli. NeuroCase, 17, 112-121.
Dent, K., Lestou, V., & Humphreys, G. W. (2010). Deficits in visual search for conjunctions of motion and form after parietal damage but with spared hMT+/V5. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 27, 72-99.
Catling, J. C., Dent, K., Johnston, R. A., & Balding, R. (2010). Age of acquisition, word frequency, and picture - word interference. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 1304-1317.
Johnston, R. A., Dent, K., Humphreys, G. W., & Barry, C. (2010). British English norms and naming times for a set of 539 pictures: The role of age of acquisition. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 461-469.
Dent, K. (2010). Dynamic visual noise affects memory for colour shades, but not locations. Experimental Psychology, 57, 17-26.
Dent, K. (2009). Coding categorical and Co-ordinate spatial relations in visual-spatial short-term memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 2372-2387.
Chen, B., Dent, K., You, W., & Wu, G. (2009). Age of acquisition affects early orthographic processing in Chinese character recognition. Acta Psychologica, 130, 196-203.
Catling, J.C., Dent, K., & Williamson, S. (2008). Age of acquisition not word frequency affects object recognition: Evidence from the effects of visual degradation. Acta Psychologica. 129, 130-137.
Delvenne, J.F., & Dent, K. (2008). Distinctive shapes benefit short-term memory for colour associations, but not for colour. Perception & Psychophysics, 70, 1024-1031.
Dent, K., Johnston, R.A., & Humphreys, G.W. (2008). Age of acquisition and word frequency effects in picture naming: A dual task investigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 34, 282-301.
Dent, K., Catling, J.C., & Johnston, R.A. (2007). Age of acquisition affects object recognition: Evidence from visual duration thresholds. Acta Psychologica, 125, 301-318.
Dent, K., & Smyth, M. M. (2006). Capacity limitations and representational shifts in spatial short-term memory. Visual Cognition, 13, 529-572.
Dent, K., & Smyth, M. M. (2005). Verbal coding and the storage of form - position associations in visual spatial short-term memory. Acta Psychologica, 120, 113-140.
