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Research Publications

Journal Articles

Muir, A.B., Tribe, B., Forster, S. (2024) Creativity on tap? The effect of creativity anxiety under evaluative pressure. Creativity Research Journal

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Cabbai, G., Dance, C., Dienes, Z., Simner, J., Forster, S., Lush, P. (2024) Investigating relationships between trait visual imagery and phenomenological control: the role of context effects. Collabra: Psychology, 10(1).

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Cabbai, G., Racey, C., Simner, J., Dance, C., Ward, J., Forster, S. (2024). Sensory representations in primary visual cortex are not sufficient for subjective imagery. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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Cabbai, G., Brown, C.R.H., Dance, C., Simner, J., Forster, S. (2023). Mental imagery and visual attentional templates: a dissociation. Cortex, 169:259-278.

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Lunn, J., Berggren, N., Ward, J., & Forster, S. (2023). Irrelevant sights and sounds require spatial suppression: ERP evidence. Psychophysiology, e14181.

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Brown, C. R., & Forster, S. (2022). Lapses in the person radar: ADHD symptoms predict difficulty in interpersonal distancing. Journal of Attention Disorders, 10870547221149200.

 

Forster, S., Lavie, N. (2021). Faces are not always special for attention: Effects of response relevance and identity. Vision Research. 189, 1-10

 

Husain, L., Berggren, N., Remington, A., & Forster, S. (2021). Intact Goal-Driven Attentional Capture in Autistic Adults. Journal of Cognition, 4(1).

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Morris, J., Yeomans, M. R., & Forster, S. (2020). Testing a load theory framework for food-related cognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 149(12), 2406–2421.

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Morris, J., Thanh Vi, C., Obrist, M., Forster, S. & Yeomans, M. R.. (2020). Ingested but not perceived: response to satiety cues disrupted by perceptual load. Appetite, p.104813.

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Morris, J., Ngai, M. Y. K., Yeomans, M. R., & Forster, S. (2020). A high perceptual load task reduces thoughts about chocolate, even while hungry. Appetite, p.104694.

 

Brown, C. R., Berggren, N., & Forster, S. (2020). Not Looking for Any Trouble? Purely Affective Attentional Settings Do Not Induce Goal-Driven Attentional Capture. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics. 82(3), 1150-1165.

 

Brown, C. R., Berggren, N., & Forster, S. (2020). Testing a goal-driven account of involuntary attentional capture by threat. Emotion. 20(4), 572–589

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Lunn, J., Sjoblom, A., Ward, J., Soto-Faraco, S., & Forster, S. (2019). Multisensory enhancement of attention depends on whether you are already paying attention. Cognition, 187, 38-49.

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Forster, S., Spence, C. (2018). “What smell?” Temporarily loading visual attention induces a prolonged loss of olfactory awareness. Psychological Science. 29(10), p.1642-1652.

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Brown, C.R.H.,  Forster, S.,  Duka, T. (2018). Goal-driven attentional bias towards appetitive and aversive smoking-related cues in nicotine dependent smokers. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 190, p.209-215.

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​Brown, C.R.H., Duka, T., Forster, S. (2018). Attentional capture by alcohol related stimuli may be activated involuntarily by top-down search goals. Psychopharmacology. In Press. doi: 10.1007/s00213-018-4906-8

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Lancaster, Claire, Forster, Sophie, Tabet, Naji and Rusted, Jennifer (2017) Putting attention in the spotlight: the influence of APOE genotype on visual search in mid adulthood. Behavioural Brain Research, 334. pp. 97-104. ISSN 0166-4328

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Nord, Camilla L, Forster, Sophie, Halahakoon, D. Chamith, Penton-Voak, Ian S, Munafò, Marcus R and Roiser, Jonathan P (2017) Prefrontal cortex stimulation does not affect emotional bias, but may slow emotion identification. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12 (5). pp. 839-847. ISSN 1749-5016

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Forster, Sophie and Lavie, Nilli (2016) Establishing the attention-distractibility trait. Psychological Science, 27 (2). pp. 203-212. ISSN 1467-9280

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Forster, S, Nunez Elizalde, A O, Castle, E and Bishop, S J (2015) Unraveling the anxious mind: anxiety, worry, and frontal engagement in sustained attention versus off-task processing. Cerebral Cortex, 25 (3). pp. 609-618. ISSN 1047-3211

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Forster, Sophie, Nunez-Elizalde, Anwar O, Castle, Elizabeth and Bishop, Sonia J (2014) Moderate threat causes longer lasting disruption to processing in anxious individuals. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8. p. 626. ISSN 1662-5161

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Bijsterbosch, Janine, Smith, Stephen, Forster, Sophie, John, Oliver P and Bishop, Sonia J (2014) Resting state correlates of subdimensions of anxious affect. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26 (4). p. 914-926. ISSN 0898-929X

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Forster, Sophie and Lavie, Nilli (2014) Distracted by your mind? Individual differences in distractibility predict mind wandering. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40 (1). pp. 251-260. ISSN 0278-7393

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Forster, Sophie, Robertson, David J, Jennings, Alistair, Asherson, Philip and Lavie, Nilli (2014) Plugging the attention deficit: perceptual load counters increased distraction in ADHD. Neuropsychology, 28 (1). pp. 91-97. ISSN 0894-4105

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Forster, Sophie (2013) Distraction and mind-wandering under load. Frontiers in Psychology, 4. p. 283. ISSN 1664-1078

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Forster, Sophie and Lavie, Nilli (2011) Entirely irrelevant distractors can capture and captivate attention. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18 (6). pp. 1064-1070. ISSN 1531-5320

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Forster, Sophie and Lavie, Nilli (2009) Harnessing the wandering mind: the role of perceptual load. Cognition, 111 (3). pp. 345-355. ISSN 0010-0277

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Forster, Sophie and Lavie, Nilli (2008) Failures to ignore entirely irrelevant distractors: the role of load. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 14 (1). pp. 73-83. ISSN 1076-898X

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Forster, Sophie and Lavie, Nilli (2008) Attentional capture by entirely irrelevant distractors. Visual Cognition, 16 (2-3). pp. 200-214. ISSN 1350-6285

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Forster, Sophie and Lavie, Nilli (2007) High perceptual load makes everybody equal: eliminating individual differences in distractibility with load. Psychological Science, 18 (5). pp. 377-381. ISSN 0956-7976

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Books and Book sections

Bishop, Sonia and Forster, Sophie (2013) Trait anxiety, neuroticism and the brain basis of vulnerability to affective disorder. In: Armony, Jorge and Vuilleumier, Patrik (eds.) The Cambridge handbook of human affective neuroscience. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107001114

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