Professor Psychology

Lab site: Vision, Attention, Memory & Perception (VAMP lab)

Dr. Dodd received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Toronto in 2005 and was a Killam postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia before joining the faculty in 2007. His research encompasses many different aspects of human cognition, with a particular focus on visual attention (e.g., visual search; scene perception; task-induced changes in eye movements; task-switching and eye movements; inhibition of return; object-based attention; apparent motion; oculomotor programming; planning and execution of saccades in younger and older adults), memory (false memory, retrieval-induced forgetting, directed forgetting), and goal-directed activity, as well as the interactions between these cognitive systems (e.g., interactions between the spatial distribution of attention and memory, interactions between motor action and working memory, interactions between numbers/ordinal sequences and attention).  He is a core faculty member in the Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior (CB3) where he is also a part of a number of interdisciplinary collaborations relating to athletic performance, concussion, and attention in various real world domains.  He teaches Psychology 263 (Introduction to Cognitive Processes), Psychology 466/866 (Attention and Performance), and Psychology 907 (Cognitive Proseminar).  He is currently the Editor-in-Chief  for Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics.

If you are interested in graduate study, please contact me for more information as we may be taking on a student for fall 2020.

Selected Publications (full list and CV on my lab website, link above)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  • Neta, M., & Dodd, M. D. (2017). Through the eyes of the beholder: Simulated Eye-movement Experience (“SEE”) modulates valence bias in response to emotionalambiguity.  Manuscript accepted for publication in Emotion
  • Bahle, B., Mills, M., & Dodd, M. D. (2017). Human classifier: Can individuals deduce which task someone was performing based solely on their eye movements? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79, 1415-1425.
  • Hasanzadeh, S., Esmaeili, B., & Dodd, M. D. (2017).  Exploring the impact of construction workers’ hazard identification skills on their eye movements and visual attention.  Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143, 04017070-1-16.
  • Neta, M., Tong, T. T., Rosen, M. L., Enersen, A., Kim, M. J., & Dodd, M. D. (2017). All in the first glance: First fixation predicts individual differences in valence bias.  Cognition & Emotion, 31, 772-780.
  • Mills, M., Dalmaijer, E. S., Van der Stigchel, S., & Dodd, M. D. (2015). Effects of task and task-switching on temporal inhibition of return, facilitation of return, and saccadic momentum during scene viewing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41, 1300-1314.
  • Mills, M., Smith, K. B., Hibbing, J. R., & Dodd, M. D. (2015).  Obama cares about visuo-spatial attention: Perception of political figures moves attention and determines gaze direction. Behavioural Brain Research, 278, 221-225.
  • Mills, M., & Dodd, M. D. (2014).  Which way is which? Examining global/local processing with symbolic cues.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 1429-1436.
  • Mills, M., Smith, K. B., Hibbing, J. R., & Dodd, M. D. (2014).  The politics of the face-in-the-crowd.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 1199-1213.
  • Gervais, S.J., Holland, A., & Dodd, M. D. (2013).  My eyes are up here: The effects of appearance-focus and body shape on the objectifying gaze.  Sex Roles, 69, 557-570.
  • McDonnell, G., & Dodd, M. D. (2013).  Examining the influence of a spatially irrelevant working memory load on attentional allocation.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39, 933-940.
  • Dodd, M. D., Weiss, N., McDonnell, G. P., Sarwal, A., & Kingstone, A. (2012).  Gaze cues influence memory…but not for long.  Acta Psychologica, 141, 270-275.
  • Dodd, M. D., Balzer, A., Jacobs, C., Gruszczynski, M., Smith, K. B., &  Hibbing, J. R. (2012). The political left rolls with the good, the political right confronts the bad:Physiology and Cognition in Politics.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 367, 640-649.
  • Dodd, M. D., Hibbing, J. R., & Smith, K. B. (2011). The politics of attention: Gaze cuing effects are moderated by political temperament . Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 73, 24-29.
  • Mills, M., Van der Stigchel, S., Hollingworth, A., Hoffman, L., & Dodd, M. D. (2011).  Examining the influence of task-set on eye movements and fixations.  Journal of Vision, 11, 1-15.
  • Dodd, M. D., Van der Stigchel, S., & Hollingworth, A. (2009). Novelty is not always the best policy: Inhibition of return and facilitation of return as a function of visual task. Psychological Science, 20, 333-339.
  • Dodd, M. D., Van Der Stigchel, S., Leghari, A., Fung, G., & Kingstone, A. (2008). Attentional SNARC: There's something special about numbers (let us count the ways). Cognition, 108, 810-818.
  • Dodd, M. D., Castel, A. C., & Roberts, K. E. (2006). A strategy disruption component to retrieval-induced forgetting. Memory & Cognition, 34, 102-111.
  • Dodd, M. D., McAuley, T., & Pratt, J. (2005). An illusion of 3-D motion with the Ternus display. Vision Research, 45, 969-973.
  • Dodd, M. D., & MacLeod, C. M. (2004). False recognition without intentional learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 137-142.
  • Dodd, M. D., Castel, A. D., & Pratt, J. (2003). Inhibition of return with rapid serial shifts of attention: Implications for memory and visual search. Perception & Psychophysics, 65, 1126-1135.
  • Fischer, M. H., Castel, A. D., Dodd, M. D., & Pratt, J. (2003). Perceiving numbers causes spatial shifts of attention. Nature Neuroscience, 6, 555-556.
Books Or Chapters Published

MacLeod, C. M., Dodd, M. D., Sheard, E. D., Wilson, D. E., & Bibi, U. (2003). In opposition to inhibition. In B. H. Ross (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 43 (pp. 163-214). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Current Projects

For a list of the projects currently going on in the lab, please see the following page:

http://psychology.unl.edu/vamp/research.htm

If you are interested in getting some lab experience and are interested in any of the list projects, please contact Dr. Dodd.