The first reading list Geoff got from Steve Luck in 1997. The notes at the bottom are papers Geoff realized he needed to add to the list. You know you are big when you’re entire name is just a single letter. Or you are Hilly.

Classic Papers that We Love

Walter, W.G. (1938). Critical review: The technique and application of electro-encephalography. Journal of Neurology & Psychiatry, 1, 359-385. 

    Amazing paper reporting the incredible amount of EEG work peformed in the first decade of the method. Extremely interesting comment at the beginning about the nature of research when a method is new.

Pashler, H. (1994). Dual-task interference in simple tasks: Data and theory. Psychological Bulletin, 116, 220-244. 

     Hal made a seemingly very complicated pattern of results so simple. It still seems to account for so much data!

Treisman, A.M. & Gelade, G. (1980). A feature-integration theory of attention. Cognitive Psychology, 12, 97-137. 

     It changed the world, and has probably become the modal model that people think of when they think of what attention does in a scene.

Nunez, P. L., & Srinivasan, R. (2006). Electric fields of the brain: The neurophysics of EEG (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, Inc.

     Okay, so it's a book. But this is a biblical  EEG book.

Pillsbury, W.B. (1908). Attention. New York: Macmillan.

     Okay, so it's another book. This is a great book though. Really fun to have him talk about many of the issues that we still study.

Oppenheimer, D. M. (2006). Consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity: Problems with using long words needlessly. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 139-156. 

     One of the most practically important cognitive papers that we have read. Write simply and be understood. Write simply and be perceived as intelligent.

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