Preprints Keefe, J. M., Pokta, E., Störmer, V.S. (2020). Cross-modal orienting of exogenous attention results in visual-cortical facilitation, not suppression. BioRxiv. | Preprint Geweke, F., Pokta, E., Störmer, V.S. (2020). Spatial distance of target locations affects the time course of both endogenous and exogenous attentional deployment. PsyArXiv. | Preprint Brady, T.F. & Störmer, V.S. (2020). The role of meaning in visual working memory: Real-world objects, but not simple features, benefit from deeper processing. PsyArXiv. | Preprint Brady, T.F. & Störmer, V.S. (2020). Comparing memory capacity across stimuli requires maximally dissimilar foils: Using deep convolutional neural networks to understand visual working memory capacity for real-world objects. PsyArXiv. | Preprint. Keefe, J.M. & Störmer, V.S. (2019).Alpha-band oscillations and slow potentials shifts over visual cortex track the time course of both endogenous and exogenous orienting of attention. BioRxiv. | Preprint Williams, J., Brady, T.F., & Störmer, V.S. (2019). Natural variation in the fidelity of working memory representations cause only one item to guide attention. PsyArXiv. | Preprint Chapman, A.F. & Störmer, V.S. (2018). Feature-based attention is not confined by object boundaries: spatially global enhancement of irrelevant features. PsyArXiv. | Preprint Asp, I.E., Störmer, V.S., & Brady, T.F. (2019). Greater visual working memory capacity for visually-matched stimuli when they are recognized as meaningful. PsyArXiv. | Preprint Journal articles Rimsky-Robert, D., Störmer, V.S., Sackur, J. & Sergent, C. (2019). Retrospective auditory cues can improve detection of near-threshold visual targets. Nature Scientific Reports 9, 18966. |open access link Amadeo, M.B., Störmer, V.S., Campus, C., & Gori, M. (2019). Peripheral sounds elicit stronger activity in contralateral occipital cortex in blind than sighted individuals. Nature Scientific Reports, 9, 11637. | open access link Störmer, V.S. (2019). Orienting spatial attention to sounds enhances visual processing. Current Opinion in Psychology, 29, 193-198. | PDF Störmer, V.S., McDonald, J.J., & Hillyard, S.A. (2019). Involuntary orienting of attention to sight or sound relies on similar neural biasing mechanisms in early visual processing. Neuropsychologia, 132, 107122. | PDF Störmer, V.S., Cohen, M.A. & Alvarez, G.A. (2019). Tuning attention to object categories: Spatially global effects of attention to faces in visual processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(7), 937-947.| PDF Brady, T. F., Alvarez, G. A. & Störmer, V.S. (2019). The role of meaning in visual memory: Face-selective brain activity predicts memory for ambiguous face stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience, 39(6), 1100-1108. | PDF Long, B.L., Störmer, V.S., & Alvarez, G.A. (2017). Mid-level perceptual features contain early cues to animacy. Journal of Vision, 17(6), 1-20. | open access link Feng, W., Störmer, V.S., Martinez, A., McDonald, J.J.,& Hillyard, S.A. (2017). Involuntary orienting of attention to sounds elicits lateralized blocking of the occipital alpha rhythm that predicts visual discrimination accuracy. NeuroImage, 150, 318-328. | PDF Brady T.F., Störmer, V.S., & Alvarez, G.A. (2016). Working memory is not fixed capacity: More active storage capacity for real-world objects than simple stimuli. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 113, 7459-7464. |PDF Störmer, V.S., & Alvarez, G.A. (2016). Attention alters perceived attractiveness. Psychological Science, 27(4), 563-571.| PDF Störmer, V.S., Feng, W., Martinez, A., McDonald, J.J.,& Hillyard, S.A. (2016). Salient, irrelevant sounds reflexively induce alpha rhythm desynchronization in parallel with slow potential shifts in visual cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28(3), 433-445. | PDF Hillyard, S.A., Störmer, V.S., Feng, W., Martinez, A., & McDonald, J.J. (2015). Cross-modal orienting of visual attention. Neuropsychologia, 83, 170-178. | PDF Störmer, V.S., & Alvarez, G.A. (2014). Feature-based attention elicits surround suppression in feature space. Current Biology, 24(17), 1985-1988. | PDF Störmer, V.S., Alvarez, G.A., & Cavanagh, P. (2014). Within-hemifield competition in early visual areas limits the ability to track multiple objects with attention. The Journal of Neuroscience, 34(35), 11526-11533. | PDF Feng, W., Störmer, V.S., Martinez, A., McDonald, J.J.,& Hillyard, S.A. (2014). Sounds activate visual cortex and improve visual discrimination. The Journal of Neuroscience, 34(29), 9817-9824. | PDF Störmer, V.S., Eppinger, B., & Li, S.-C. (2014). Reward speeds up and increases consistency of visual selective attention: a lifespan comparison. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-13. |PDF McDonald, J.J., Störmer, V.S., Martinez, A., Feng, W., & Hillyard, S.A. (2013). Salient sounds activate human visual cortex automatically. The Journal of Neuroscience, 33(21), 9194-9201. | PDF Störmer, V.S., Winther, G.N., Li, S.-C., & Andersen, S.K. (2013). Sustained multifocal attentional enhancement of stimulus processing in early visual areas predicts tracking performance. The Journal of Neuroscience, 33(12), 5346-5351. | PDF Störmer, V.S., Li, S.-C., Heekeren, H.R., Lindenberger, U. (2013). Normative shifts of cortical mechanisms of encoding contribute to adult age differences in visual-spatial working memory.NeuroImage, 73, 167-175. | PDF Störmer, V.S., Li, S.-C., Heekeren, H.R., Lindenberger, U., (2013). Normal aging delays and compromises early multifocal visual attention during object tracking. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(2), 188-202. | PDF Störmer, V.S., Passow, S., Biesenack, J., Li, S.-C. (2012). Dopaminergic and cholinergic modulation of working memory and attention: insights from genetic research and implications for cognitive aging.Developmental Psychology, 48, 875-889. | PDF Störmer, V.S., Li, S.-C., Heekeren, H.R., Lindenberger, U., (2011). Feature-based interference from unattended visual field during attentional tracking in younger and older adults. Journal of Vision, 11,1-12. | PDF Gaschler, R., Mata, J., Störmer, V.S., Kühnel, A., & Bilalic, M. (2010). Change detection for new food labels. Food Quality and Preference, 21, 140-147. | PDF Störmer, V.S., McDonald, J.J., & Hillyard, S.A. (2009). Cross-modal cueing of attention alters appearance and early cortical processing of visual stimuli. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 106, 22456-22461. | PDF Störmer, V.S., Green, J.J., & McDonald, J.J. (2009). Tracking the voluntary control of auditory spatial attention with event-related brain potentials. Psychophysiology, 46, 357-366. | PDF Book Chapters Brady, T.F., Störmer, V.S., Shafer-Skelton, A., Williams, J.R., Chapman, A.F., Schill, H. (in press). Scaling up visual attention and visual working memory to the real world. Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 70. |PDF McDonald, J.J., Green, J.J., Störmer, V.S., & Hillyard, S.A. (2012). Cross-modal spatial cueing of attention influences visual perception. In M.M. Murray & M.T. Wallace (Eds.), Frontiers in the Neural Basis of Multisensory Processes, CRC Press. (p. 509-528). McDonald, J. J., Whitman, J., Störmer, V. S., & Hillyard, S. A. (2013). Involuntary cross-modal spatial attention influences visual perception. Invited chapter for Mangun, G. R. (ed.), Cognitive electrophysiology of attention: Signals of the mind. |