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Articles submitted or under revision

On-task, Off-task, Rinse, & Repeat: Fluctuating patterns of attentive and mind wandering states are associated with differential outcomes.

Pereira, E. J. & Ristic, J. (under review). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Attention in hindsight: Using stimulated recall to capture dynamic fluctuations in attentional engagement.

Pereira, E. J., Ayers-Glassey, S., Wammes, J. D., & Smilek, D. (under review). Behavior Research Methods.
 

• Co-first authorship; equal contribution to the manuscript

Articles published in peer-review journals

The importance of accounting for off-task behaviours during data collection.

Drody, A. C., Pereira, E. J., & Smilek, D. (2023). Nature Human Behavior.
   

• Co-first authorship; equal contribution to the manuscript

A desire for distraction: Uncovering the rates of media multitasking during online research studies.

Drody, A. C., Pereira, E. J., & Smilek, D. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 781.
     

Social attention as a general mechanism? Demonstrating the influence of stimulus content factors on social attentional biasing.

Pereira, E. J., Birmingham, E., & Ristic, J. (2022). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(4), 289 – 311.
     

Infrequent faces bias social attention differently in manual and oculomotor measures.

Pereira, E. J., Birmingham, E., & Ristic, J. (2022). Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84, 829 – 842.
     

Trait-level variability in attention modulates mind wandering and academic achievement.

Pereira, E. J., Gurguryan, L., & Ristic, J. (2020). Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 909.
   

Contextually-based social attention diverges across covert and overt measures.

Pereira, E. J., Birmingham, E., & Ristic, J. (2019). Vision, 3(2), 29.
 

Attentional Capture is Contingent on Scene Region: Using Surface Guidance Framework to Explore Attentional Mechanisms during Search.

Pereira, E. J. & Castelhano, M. S. (2019). Psychological Bulletin & Review, 26(4), 1273 – 1281.
   

The eyes don’t have it after all? Attention is not automatically biased towards faces and eyes.

Pereira, E. J., Birmingham, E., & Ristic, J. (2019). Psychological Research, 84(5), 1407 – 1423.
 

Smile! Social reward drives attention.

Hayward, D. A., Pereira, E. J., Otto, A. R., & Ristic, J. (2017). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 44(2), 206 – 214.
 

• Most Outstanding Empirical Paper, APA Division 3 Society for Experimental Psychology & Cognitive Science
• Co-first authorship; equal contribution to the manuscript

The Influence of Scene Context on Parafoveal Processing of Objects.

Castelhano, M. S. & Pereira, E. J. (2017). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Special Issue, 1 – 42.
 

Peripheral Guidance in Scenes: The Interaction of Scene Context and Object Content.

Pereira, E. J. & Castelhano, M. S. (2015). In Particularly Exciting Experiments in Psychology: Scene Context and Visual Search, 46.
 

Peripheral Guidance in Scenes: The Interaction of Scene Context and Object Content.

Pereira, E. J. & Castelhano, M. S. (2014). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40, 2056 – 2072.
 

Comparing a Combination of Validated Questionnaires and Level III Portable Monitor with Polysomnography to Diagnose and Exclude Sleep Apnea.

Pereira, E. J., Driver, H. S., Stewart, S. C., & Fitzpatrick, M. F. (2013). Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 9, 1259 – 1266.
 

The Effect of Inhaled Menthol on Upper Airway Resistance in Humans.

Pereira, E. J., Sim, L., Driver, H. S., Parker, C. J., & Fitzpatrick, M. F. (2013). Canadian Respiratory Journal, 20, 1 – 4.
 

CPAP reduces hypercoagulability, as assessed by thromboelastography, in severe obstructive sleep apnoea.

Toukh, M., Pereira, E. J., Falcon, B. J., Liak, C., Lerner, M., Hopman, W. M., Iscoe, S., Fitzpatrick, M. F., & Othman, M. (2012). Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, 183, 218 – 223.
 

Reverse atrial electrical remodeling induced by CPAP in patients with severe sleep apnea.

Pang, H., Redfearn, D. P., Simpson, C. S., Michael, K., Pereira, E. J., Munt, P. W., Fitzpatrick, M. F., & Baranchuk, A. (2011). Canadian Journal of Caridology, 27, 122 – 123.
 

Validation of the MediByte® Type 3 Portable Monitor compared with Polysomnography for the screening of Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

Driver, H. S., Pereira, E. J., Bjerring, K., Toop, F., Stewart, S. C., Munt, P., & Fitzpatrick, M. F. (2011). Canadian Respiratory Journal, 18, 137 – 143.
 

Testing Shneidman’s model of suicidality in incarcerated offenders and in undergraduates.

Pereira, E. J., Kroner, D. G., Holden, R. R., & Flamenbaum, R. (2010). Personality and Individual Differences, 49, 912 – 917.
 

Articles in preparation

Interested minds are predictable minds: Establishing a link between individual traits and temporal fluctuations of attentional engagement.

Pereira, E. J., Ayers-Glassey, S., Wammes, J. D., & Smilek, D.

Mind wandering in the real world diverges across social and digital activities.

Pereira, E. J., Gurguryan, L., & Ristic, J.

Variability in the social content of mind wandering is associated with intrinsic connectivity within the default network.

Pereira, E. J., Gurguryan, L., Sheldon, S., & Ristic, J.

Attentional allocation during impression formation.

Pereira, E. J., Kingstone, A., & Smilek, D.

Inhibition of attention to irrelevant scene regions: Investigating mechanisms of attention during visual search in scenes.

Pereira, E. J., Liu, Y. Q., & Castelhano, M. S.

Perceived attractiveness differentially modulates covert and overt measures of social attention.

Pereira, E. J. & Ristic, J.

Who are you again? Context and not content impairs memory for personal identity.

Pereira, E. J. & Ristic, J.

Unpredictable minds and dysfunctional emotions: The link between predictability of unintentional mind wandering and affective dysfunction in everyday life.

Pereira, E. J. & Smilek, D.

Online chatrooms impact attentional engagement during video lectures.

Pereira, E. J., Stuart, N., Ayers-Glassey, S., Korst-Fagundes, B., & Smilek, D.

Examining the presence of self-video in contributing to attentional and memorial deficits of Zoom fatigue.

Ayers-Glassey, S., Pereira, E. J., Hicks, L., Korst-Fagundes, B., & Smilek, D.

Searching through the Clutter: Using Surface Guidance Framework to Explore Set Size Effects in Scenes.

Castelhano, M. S., & Pereira, E. J.

Attention in our digital ecosystem: A risk assessment framework of voluntary media multitasking.

Drody, A. C., Pereira, E. J., & Smilek, D.

• Co-first authorship; equal contribution to the manuscript