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Professor Alex Holcombe

Email

alex.holcombe@sydney.edu.au

Address

A19 - Griffith Taylor Building

The University of Sydney

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Latest research

Biographical details

Alex and his team investigate how the mind connects with the world, using experiments on perception designed to isolate information bottlenecks in the brain. Alex also does meta-science, investigating how science is done and how that may be made more effective and effiicient.

Research interests

As you read this text, your mind rapidly samples and processes the words on the page. Experiments in my lab reveal how such streams of visual information are buffered and prioritized for recognition and processing into memory. We have developed techniques that recently have provided insights into how naps can boost learning and into how damage to the parietal lobe of the brain affects rapid letter processing.

One challenge during reading and other tasks is keeping separated, while processing in parallel, the representations of rapidly encountered stimuli. This is also an issue when we try to keep track of multiple moving objects in a busy scene. Behavioral experiments, illustrated by some animations here, compare speed limits for different features and the dynamics of how these features are bound into a coherent percept.

I am also interested, along with others at the Centre for Time, in how the architecture of the mind affects our representations of the past, present, and future.

Themes

Cognition, Method and Theory, Perception

PhD and master's project opportunities

Processing capacity in healthy and aging visual cognition

Current research students

Project title	Research student
How Temporal Binding Organises Conscious Perception	Rasmus PEDERSEN
Tactile Perception of Surface Spatial Features: Visual and Temporal Influence on Tactile Orientation and Spatial Frequency Perception	Guandong WANG

Publications

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Books

Holcombe, A. (2023). Attending to Moving Objects. Online: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]

Book Chapters

Holcombe, A. (2015). The temporal organisation of perception. In Johan Wagemans (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Perceptual Organization, (pp. 820-839). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2014). Are There Cracks in the Facade of Continuous Visual Experience? In Valtteri Arstila, Dan Lloyd (Eds.), Subjective Time: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Temporality, (pp. 179-198). Cambridge: The MIT Press. [More Information]
Stiefel, K., Holcombe, A. (2014). Neurocomputation and Coding in the Claustrum: Comparisons with the Pulvinar. In John R. Smythies, Lawrence R. Edelstein, Vilayanur S. Ramachadran (Eds.), The Claustrum: Structural, Functional, and Clinical Neuroscience, (pp. 193-207). San Diego: Elsevier. [More Information]

Journals

Holford, D., McLean, J., Holcombe, A., Puebla, I., Kempe, V. (2024). Engaging undergraduate students in preprint peer review. Active Learning in Higher Education. [More Information]
Hosseini, M., Holcombe, A., Kovacs, M., Zwart, H., Katz, D., Holmes, K. (2024). Group authorship, an excellent opportunity laced with ethical, legal and technical challenges. Accountability in Research. [More Information]
Azadi, R., Holcombe, A., Edelman, J. (2024). Hypometria of saccadic eye movements to targets in rapid circular motion. Journal of Vision, 24(1), 2. [More Information]
Hosseini, M., Colomb, J., Holcombe, A., Kern, B., Vasilevsky, N., Holmes, K. (2023). Evolution and adoption of contributor role ontologies and taxonomies. Learned Publishing, 36(2), 275-284. [More Information]
Cottier, T., Turner, W., Holcombe, A., Hogendoorn, H. (2023). Exploring the extent to which shared mechanisms contribute to motion-position illusions. Journal of Vision, 23(10). [More Information]
Kaltenbrunner, W., Waltman, L., Barnett, A., Byrne, J., Chin, J., Holcombe, A., Pinfield, S., Vazire, S., Wilsdon, J. (2023). MetaROR - a new form of scholarly publishing and peer review for STS. European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, 42(1).
Chin, J., Zeiler, K., Dilevski, N., Holcombe, A., Gatfield-Jeffries, R., Bishop, R., Vazire, S., Schiavone, S. (2023). The transparency of quantitative empirical legal research published in highly ranked law journals (2018-2020): an observational study. F1000Research, 12, 144. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2022). Ad hominem rhetoric in scientific psychology. British Journal of Psychology, 113(2), 434-454. [More Information]
Chin, J., Holcombe, A. (2022). Rethinking Replication in Empirical Legal Research. University of Western Australia Law Review, 49(2), 76-112.
Latham, A., Holcombe, A. (2022). What do VR experiments teach us about time? Frontiers in Psychology, 13. [More Information]
Vazire, S., Holcombe, A. (2022). Where Are the Self-Correcting Mechanisms in Science? Review of General Psychology, 26(2), 212-223. [More Information]
Vater, C., Gray, R., Holcombe, A. (2021). A critical systematic review of the Neurotracker perceptual-cognitive training tool. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 28(5), 1458-1483. [More Information]
Nakayama, R., Holcombe, A. (2021). A dynamic noise background reveals perceptual motion extrapolation: The twinkle-goes illusion. Journal of Vision, 21(11), 1-14. [More Information]
Chin, J., DeHaven, A., Heycke, T., Holcombe, A., Mellor, D., Pickett, J., Steltenpohl, C., Vazire, S., Zeiler, K. (2021). Improving the Credibility of Empirical Legal Research: Practical Suggestions for Researchers, Journals and Law Schools. Law, Technology and Humans, 3(2), 107-132. [More Information]
Chin, J., Pickett, J., Vazire, S., Holcombe, A. (2021). Questionable Research Practices and Open Science in Quantitative Criminology. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. [More Information]
Kovacs, M., Holcombe, A., Aust, F., Aczel, B. (2021). Tenzing and the importance of tool development for research efficiency. Information Services & Use, 41(1-2), 123-130. [More Information]
Ludowici, C., Holcombe, A. (2021). The dynamics of buffered and triggered selection from rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) streams. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(2), 200-222. [More Information]
Greene, P., Holcombe, A., Latham, A., Miller, K., Norton, J. (2021). The Rationality of Near Bias toward both Future and Past Event. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12(4), 905-922. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2021). When average is over: Small N but many trials. Journal of Cognition, 4(1), 47. [More Information]
Callahan-Flintoft, C., Holcombe, A., Wyble, B. (2020). A delay in sampling information from temporally autocorrelated visual stimuli. Nature Communications, 11(1), 1852. [More Information]
Nakayama, R., Holcombe, A. (2020). Attention updates the perceived position of moving objects. Journal of Vision, 20(4), 21. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Kovacs, M., Aust, F., Aczel, B. (2020). Documenting contributions to scholarly articles using CRediT and tenzing. PloS One, 15(12), e0244611. [More Information]
Kerr, N., Kerr, J., Sheridan, M., Holcombe, A. (2020). Independent replication of classic trials in neurosurgery: A missing validation practice. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 82, 260-267. [More Information]
Miller, K., Holcombe, A., Latham, A. (2020). Temporal phenomenology: phenomenological illusion versus cognitive error. Synthese, 197, 751-771. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2019). Color and Categorical Claims. Metapsychology Online Reviews, 3, 1-5. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2019). Contributorship, Not Authorship: Use CRediT to Indicate Who Did What. Publications, 7(3), 1-11. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2019). Farewell authors, hello contributors. Nature, 571, 147. [More Information]
Miller, K., Holcombe, A., Latham, A. (2019). On Believing that Time does not Flow, but Thinking that it Seems to. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, 1-3. [More Information]
Morandini, J., Veldre, A., Holcombe, A., Hsu, K., Lykins, A., Bailey, J., Dar-Nimrod, I. (2019). Visual Attention to Sexual Stimuli in Mostly Heterosexuals. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48(5), 1371-1385. [More Information]
Ngiam, W., Khaw, K., Holcombe, A., Goodbourn, P. (2019). Visual working memory for letters varies with familiarity but not complexity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(10), 1761-1755. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Gershman, S. (2018). Bayesian belief updating after a replication experiment. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, 24-25. [More Information]
Ransley, K., Goodbourn, P., Nguyen, E., Moustafa, A., Holcombe, A. (2018). Reading Direction Influences Lateral Biases in Letter Processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(10), 1678-1686. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Nguyen, E., Goodbourn, P. (2017). Implied Reading Direction and Prioritization of Letter Encoding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(10), 1420-1437. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Brown, N., Goodbourn, P., Etz, A., Geukes, S. (2016). Does sadness impair color perception? Flawed evidence and faulty methods. F1000Research, 5, 1-9. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2016). Introduction to a Registered Replication Report on Ego Depletion. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(4), 545-545. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2016). Introduction to the Registered Replication Report: Hart & Albarracan (2011). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(1), 156-157. [More Information]
Goodbourn, P., Martini, P., Barnett-Cowan, M., Harris, I., Livesey, E., Holcombe, A. (2016). Reconsidering Temporal Selection in the Attentional Blink. Psychological Science, 27(8), 1146-1156. [More Information]
McIntyre, S., Birznieks, I., Vickery, R., Holcombe, A., Seizova-Cajic, T. (2016). The tactile motion aftereffect suggests an intensive code for speed in neurons sensitive to both speed and direction of motion. Journal of Neurophysiology, 115(3), 1703-1712. [More Information]
McIntyre, S., Seizova-Cajic, T., Holcombe, A. (2016). The tactile speed aftereffect depends on the speed of adapting motion across the skin, rather than other spatio-temporal features. Journal of Neurophysiology, 15(3), 1112-1121. [More Information]
Goodbourn, P., Holcombe, A. (2015). Pseudoextinction': Asymmetries in simultaneous attentional selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41(2), 364-384. [More Information]
Cellini, N., Goodbourn, P., McDevitt, E., Martini, P., Holcombe, A., Mednick, S. (2015). Sleep after practice reduces the attentional blink. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 77, 1945-1954. [More Information]
McIntyre, S., Seizova-Cajic, T., Birznieks, I., Holcombe, A., Vickery, R. (2014). Adaptation to Motion Presented with a Tactile Array. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 8618, 351-359. [More Information]
Simons, D., Holcombe, A., Spellman, B. (2014). An Introduction to Registered Replication Reports at Perspectives on Psychological Science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9(5), 552-555. [More Information]
Linares, D., Holcombe, A. (2014). Differences in perceptual latency estimated from judgments of temporal order, simultaneity and duration are inconsistent. i-Perception, 5(6), 559-571. [More Information]
Lo, S., Holcombe, A. (2014). How do we select multiple features? Transient costs for selecting two colors rather than one, persistent costs for color-location conjunctions. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 76(2), 304-321. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Chen, W., Howe, P. (2014). Object tracking: Absence of long-range spatial interference supports resource theories. Journal of Vision, 14(6), 1-21. [More Information]
Stiefel, K., Merrifield, A., Holcombe, A. (2014). The claustrum's proposed role in consciousness is supported by the effect and target localization of Salvia divinorum. Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 8(FEB), 1-7. [More Information]
Maruya, K., Holcombe, A., Nishida, S. (2013). Rapid encoding of relationships between spatially remote motion signals. Journal of Vision, 13(2), 1-20. [More Information]
Chen, W., Howe, P., Holcombe, A. (2013). Resource demands of object tracking and differential allocation of the resource. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 75(4), 710-725. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Chen, W. (2013). Splitting attention reduces temporal resolution from 7 Hz for tracking one object to (less than) 3 Hz when tracking three. Journal of Vision, 13(1), 1-19. [More Information]
Howe, P., Holcombe, A., Lapierre, M., Cropper, S. (2013). Visually tracking and localizing expanding and contracting objects. Perception, 42(12), 1281-1300. [More Information]
Saiki, J., Holcombe, A. (2012). Blindness to a simultaneous change of all elements in a scene, unless there is a change in summary statistics. Journal of Vision, 12(3), 1-11. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Chen, W. (2012). Exhausting attentional tracking resources with a single fast-moving object. Cognition, 123(2), 218-228. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Clifford, C. (2012). Failures to bind spatially coincident features: comment on Di Lollo. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18(8). [More Information]
Lo, S., Howard, C., Holcombe, A. (2012). Feature-based attentional interference revealed in perceptual errors and lags. Vision Research, 63(2012), 20-33. [More Information]
Howe, P., Holcombe, A. (2012). Motion information is sometimes used as an aid to the visual tracking of objects. Journal of Vision, 12(13), 1-10. [More Information]
McIntyre, S., Holcombe, A., Birznieks, I., Seizova-Cajic, T. (2012). Tactile Motion Adaptation Reduces Perceived Speed but Shows No Evidence of Direction Sensitivity. PloS One, 7(9), 1-12. [More Information]
Howe, P., Holcombe, A. (2012). The effect of visual distinctiveness on multiple object tracking performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(AUG), 1-7. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Linares, D., Vaziri-Pashkam, M. (2011). Perceiving spatial relationships via attentional tracking and shifting. Current Biology, 21(13), 1135-1139. [More Information]
Howard, C., Masom, D., Holcombe, A. (2011). Position representations lag behind targets in multiple object tracking. Vision Research, 51(17), 1907-1919. [More Information]
Howard, C., Holcombe, A. (2010). Unexpected changes in direction of motion attract attention. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 72(8), 2087-2095. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Altschuler, E., Over, H. (2009). A developmental theory of synaesthesia, with long historical roots: A comment on Hochel & MilÃ¡n (2008). Cognitive Neuropsychology, 26(2), 227-229. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2009). Seeing slow and seeing fast: two limits on perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13(5), 216-221. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2009). Temporal binding favours the early phase of colour changes, but not of motion changes, yielding the colour-motion asynchrony illusion. Visual Cognition, 17(1-2), 232-253. [More Information]
Linares-Herreros, D., Holcombe, A., White, A. (2009). Where is the moving object now? Judgements of instantaneous position show poor temporal precision (SD = 70 ms). Journal of Vision, 9(13), 9-1-9-14. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Seizova-Cajic, T. (2008). Illusory motion reversals from unambiguous motion with visual, proprioceptive, and tactile stimuli. Vision Research, 48, 1743-1757. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Cavanagh, P. (2008). Independent, synchronous access to color and motion features. Cognition, 107, 552-580. [More Information]
Cavanagh, P., Holcombe, A., Chou, W. (2008). Mobile computation: Spatiotemporal integration of the properties of objects in motion. Journal of Vision, 8(12), 1-23. [More Information]
Sumner, P., Holcombe, A., Grayson, L., Briscoe, J. (2008). Multisensory processing in autism spectrum disorders. Perception, 37(6), 965-965.
Linares-Herreros, D., Holcombe, A. (2008). Position perception: Influence of motion with displacement dissociated from the influence of motion alone. Journal of Neurophysiology, 100, 2472-2476. [More Information]
Howard, C., Holcombe, A. (2008). Tracking the changing features of multiple objects: Progressively poorer perceptual precision and progressively greater perceptual lag. Vision Research, 48, 1164-1180. [More Information]
White, A., Linares-Herreros, D., Holcombe, A. (2008). Visuomotor timing compensates for changes in perceptual latency. Current Biology, 18(20), R951-R953. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Judson, J. (2007). Visual binding of English and Chinese word parts is limited to low temporal frequencies. Perception, 36(1), 49-74. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2006). Provoking the desire. The Lancet, 368(9540), 990. [More Information]
Kline, K., Holcombe, A., Eagleman, D. (2005). Illusory motion reversal does not imply discrete processing: Reply to Rojas et al. Vision Research, 46(6-7), 1158-1159. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Clifford, C., Eagleman, D., Pakarian, P. (2005). Illusory motion reversal in tune with motion detectors. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(12), 559-560. [More Information]
Eagleman, D., Tse, P., Buonomano, D., Janssen, P., Nobre, A., Holcombe, A. (2005). Time and the Brain: How Subjective Time Relates to Neural Time. Journal of Neuroscience, 25(45), 10369-10371. [More Information]
Horowitz, T., Holcombe, A., Wolfe, J., Arsenio, H., DiMase, J. (2004). Attentional pursuit is faster than attentional saccade. Journal of Vision, 4(7), 585-603. [More Information]
Kline, K., Holcombe, A., Eagleman, D. (2004). Illusory motion reversal is caused by rivalry, not by perceptual snapshots of the visual field. Vision Research, 44(23), 2653-2658. [More Information]
Clifford, C., Holcombe, A., Pearson, J. (2004). Rapid Global Form Binding With Loss Of Associated Colors. Journal of Vision, 4(12), 1090-1101. [More Information]
Huang, L., Holcombe, A., Pashler, H. (2004). Repetition priming in visual search: Episodic retrieval, not feature priming. Memory & Cognition, 32(1), 12-20. [More Information]
Eagleman, D., Holcombe, A. (2003). Improving science through online commentary: The Internet offers a timely opportunity to widen, and reduce delays in, scientific debate. Nature, 423(6935), 15. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2003). Occlusion cues resolve sudden onsets into morphing or line motion, disocclusion, and sudden materialization. Journal of Vision, 3(8), 562-572. [More Information]
Eagleman, D., Holcombe, A. (2002). Causality and the perception of time. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6(8), 323-325.
Holcombe, A. (2001). A purely temporal transparency mechanism in the visual system. Perception, 30(11), 1311-1320.
Holcombe, A., Cavanagh, P. (2001). Early binding of feature pairs for visual perception. Nature Neuroscience, 4(2), 127-128. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Kanwisher, N., Treisman, A. (2001). The midstream order deficit. Perception and Psychophysics, 63(2), 322-329.

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Conferences

Holcombe, A., Pashler, H. (2010). Online Evidence Charts To Help Students Systematically Evaluate Theories And Evidence. 16th UniServe Science Annual Conference 2010, Sydney: University of Sydney.
Holcombe, A. (2007). Ancient history of sexual arousal and alcohol. World Congress for Sexual Health, Sydney, Australia.
Cavanagh, P., Holcombe, A. (2007). Non-retinotopic crowding. Vision Sciences Society.
Holcombe, A., Cavanagh, P. (2006). Apparent asynchrony between the perception of color and motion: An issue of different latencies or of attention? Vision Sciences Society.
Grayson, L., Holcombe, A., Briscoe, J. (2006). Broader Autistic Phenotype, weak central coherence and perceptual causality. European Conference for Visual Perception, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Howard, C., Holcombe, A. (2006). Progressively poorer perceptual precision and progressively greater perceptual lag: Tracking the changing features of one, two and four objects. Vision Sciences Society.
Cavanagh, P., Holcombe, A. (2006). Successive rivalry does not occur without attention. Vision Sciences Society.
Cavanagh, P., Holcombe, A. (2005). Distinguishing pre-selection from post-selection processing limits using a moving window of selection. Vision Sciences Society.
Howard, C., Holcombe, A. (2005). Limits on continuous monitoring of the features of multiple objects. XXVIII Annual Meeting: European Conference on Visual Perception. Pion Ltd.
Holcombe, A., Over, H., Altschuler, E. (2005). Old roots of a theory of synesthesia in Rousseau's Emile and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California.
Grayson, L., Briscoe, J., Holcombe, A. (2005). Perceptual reversal of ambiguous figures: How do children with ASD respond under non-directed conditions? British Psychological Society Developmental Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Kline, K., Holcombe, A., Eagleman, D. (2005). The visual system does not take global snapshots of the visual field. Vision Sciences Society.
Holcombe, A., MacLeod, D., Mitten, S. (2004). Positive afterimages caused by a filled-in representation. Holcombe. Vision Sciences Society.
Holcombe, A. (2003). Perceptual binding of letters into a word is low temporal resolution. Vision Sciences Society.
Clifford, C., Holcombe, A., Pearson, J. (2003). Temporal limitations on extracting global form and binding it with local colour. European Conference On Visual Perception, Paris, France.

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Other

Holcombe, A. (2012), Spread the word: Scientists are tearing down publishers' walls.

By Year

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2024

Holford, D., McLean, J., Holcombe, A., Puebla, I., Kempe, V. (2024). Engaging undergraduate students in preprint peer review. Active Learning in Higher Education. [More Information]
Hosseini, M., Holcombe, A., Kovacs, M., Zwart, H., Katz, D., Holmes, K. (2024). Group authorship, an excellent opportunity laced with ethical, legal and technical challenges. Accountability in Research. [More Information]
Azadi, R., Holcombe, A., Edelman, J. (2024). Hypometria of saccadic eye movements to targets in rapid circular motion. Journal of Vision, 24(1), 2. [More Information]

2023

Holcombe, A. (2023). Attending to Moving Objects. Online: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Hosseini, M., Colomb, J., Holcombe, A., Kern, B., Vasilevsky, N., Holmes, K. (2023). Evolution and adoption of contributor role ontologies and taxonomies. Learned Publishing, 36(2), 275-284. [More Information]
Cottier, T., Turner, W., Holcombe, A., Hogendoorn, H. (2023). Exploring the extent to which shared mechanisms contribute to motion-position illusions. Journal of Vision, 23(10). [More Information]
Kaltenbrunner, W., Waltman, L., Barnett, A., Byrne, J., Chin, J., Holcombe, A., Pinfield, S., Vazire, S., Wilsdon, J. (2023). MetaROR - a new form of scholarly publishing and peer review for STS. European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, 42(1).
Chin, J., Zeiler, K., Dilevski, N., Holcombe, A., Gatfield-Jeffries, R., Bishop, R., Vazire, S., Schiavone, S. (2023). The transparency of quantitative empirical legal research published in highly ranked law journals (2018-2020): an observational study. F1000Research, 12, 144. [More Information]

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2022

Holcombe, A. (2022). Ad hominem rhetoric in scientific psychology. British Journal of Psychology, 113(2), 434-454. [More Information]
Chin, J., Holcombe, A. (2022). Rethinking Replication in Empirical Legal Research. University of Western Australia Law Review, 49(2), 76-112.
Latham, A., Holcombe, A. (2022). What do VR experiments teach us about time? Frontiers in Psychology, 13. [More Information]
Vazire, S., Holcombe, A. (2022). Where Are the Self-Correcting Mechanisms in Science? Review of General Psychology, 26(2), 212-223. [More Information]

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2021

Vater, C., Gray, R., Holcombe, A. (2021). A critical systematic review of the Neurotracker perceptual-cognitive training tool. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 28(5), 1458-1483. [More Information]
Nakayama, R., Holcombe, A. (2021). A dynamic noise background reveals perceptual motion extrapolation: The twinkle-goes illusion. Journal of Vision, 21(11), 1-14. [More Information]
Chin, J., DeHaven, A., Heycke, T., Holcombe, A., Mellor, D., Pickett, J., Steltenpohl, C., Vazire, S., Zeiler, K. (2021). Improving the Credibility of Empirical Legal Research: Practical Suggestions for Researchers, Journals and Law Schools. Law, Technology and Humans, 3(2), 107-132. [More Information]
Chin, J., Pickett, J., Vazire, S., Holcombe, A. (2021). Questionable Research Practices and Open Science in Quantitative Criminology. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. [More Information]
Kovacs, M., Holcombe, A., Aust, F., Aczel, B. (2021). Tenzing and the importance of tool development for research efficiency. Information Services & Use, 41(1-2), 123-130. [More Information]
Ludowici, C., Holcombe, A. (2021). The dynamics of buffered and triggered selection from rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) streams. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(2), 200-222. [More Information]
Greene, P., Holcombe, A., Latham, A., Miller, K., Norton, J. (2021). The Rationality of Near Bias toward both Future and Past Event. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12(4), 905-922. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2021). When average is over: Small N but many trials. Journal of Cognition, 4(1), 47. [More Information]

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2020

Callahan-Flintoft, C., Holcombe, A., Wyble, B. (2020). A delay in sampling information from temporally autocorrelated visual stimuli. Nature Communications, 11(1), 1852. [More Information]
Nakayama, R., Holcombe, A. (2020). Attention updates the perceived position of moving objects. Journal of Vision, 20(4), 21. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Kovacs, M., Aust, F., Aczel, B. (2020). Documenting contributions to scholarly articles using CRediT and tenzing. PloS One, 15(12), e0244611. [More Information]
Kerr, N., Kerr, J., Sheridan, M., Holcombe, A. (2020). Independent replication of classic trials in neurosurgery: A missing validation practice. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 82, 260-267. [More Information]
Miller, K., Holcombe, A., Latham, A. (2020). Temporal phenomenology: phenomenological illusion versus cognitive error. Synthese, 197, 751-771. [More Information]

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2019

Holcombe, A. (2019). Color and Categorical Claims. Metapsychology Online Reviews, 3, 1-5. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2019). Contributorship, Not Authorship: Use CRediT to Indicate Who Did What. Publications, 7(3), 1-11. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2019). Farewell authors, hello contributors. Nature, 571, 147. [More Information]
Miller, K., Holcombe, A., Latham, A. (2019). On Believing that Time does not Flow, but Thinking that it Seems to. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, 1-3. [More Information]
Morandini, J., Veldre, A., Holcombe, A., Hsu, K., Lykins, A., Bailey, J., Dar-Nimrod, I. (2019). Visual Attention to Sexual Stimuli in Mostly Heterosexuals. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48(5), 1371-1385. [More Information]
Ngiam, W., Khaw, K., Holcombe, A., Goodbourn, P. (2019). Visual working memory for letters varies with familiarity but not complexity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(10), 1761-1755. [More Information]

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2018

Holcombe, A., Gershman, S. (2018). Bayesian belief updating after a replication experiment. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, 24-25. [More Information]
Ransley, K., Goodbourn, P., Nguyen, E., Moustafa, A., Holcombe, A. (2018). Reading Direction Influences Lateral Biases in Letter Processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(10), 1678-1686. [More Information]

2017

Holcombe, A., Nguyen, E., Goodbourn, P. (2017). Implied Reading Direction and Prioritization of Letter Encoding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(10), 1420-1437. [More Information]

2016

Holcombe, A., Brown, N., Goodbourn, P., Etz, A., Geukes, S. (2016). Does sadness impair color perception? Flawed evidence and faulty methods. F1000Research, 5, 1-9. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2016). Introduction to a Registered Replication Report on Ego Depletion. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(4), 545-545. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2016). Introduction to the Registered Replication Report: Hart & Albarracan (2011). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(1), 156-157. [More Information]
Goodbourn, P., Martini, P., Barnett-Cowan, M., Harris, I., Livesey, E., Holcombe, A. (2016). Reconsidering Temporal Selection in the Attentional Blink. Psychological Science, 27(8), 1146-1156. [More Information]
McIntyre, S., Birznieks, I., Vickery, R., Holcombe, A., Seizova-Cajic, T. (2016). The tactile motion aftereffect suggests an intensive code for speed in neurons sensitive to both speed and direction of motion. Journal of Neurophysiology, 115(3), 1703-1712. [More Information]
McIntyre, S., Seizova-Cajic, T., Holcombe, A. (2016). The tactile speed aftereffect depends on the speed of adapting motion across the skin, rather than other spatio-temporal features. Journal of Neurophysiology, 15(3), 1112-1121. [More Information]

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2015

Goodbourn, P., Holcombe, A. (2015). Pseudoextinction': Asymmetries in simultaneous attentional selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41(2), 364-384. [More Information]
Cellini, N., Goodbourn, P., McDevitt, E., Martini, P., Holcombe, A., Mednick, S. (2015). Sleep after practice reduces the attentional blink. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 77, 1945-1954. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2015). The temporal organisation of perception. In Johan Wagemans (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Perceptual Organization, (pp. 820-839). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]

2014

McIntyre, S., Seizova-Cajic, T., Birznieks, I., Holcombe, A., Vickery, R. (2014). Adaptation to Motion Presented with a Tactile Array. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 8618, 351-359. [More Information]
Simons, D., Holcombe, A., Spellman, B. (2014). An Introduction to Registered Replication Reports at Perspectives on Psychological Science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9(5), 552-555. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2014). Are There Cracks in the Facade of Continuous Visual Experience? In Valtteri Arstila, Dan Lloyd (Eds.), Subjective Time: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Temporality, (pp. 179-198). Cambridge: The MIT Press. [More Information]
Linares, D., Holcombe, A. (2014). Differences in perceptual latency estimated from judgments of temporal order, simultaneity and duration are inconsistent. i-Perception, 5(6), 559-571. [More Information]
Lo, S., Holcombe, A. (2014). How do we select multiple features? Transient costs for selecting two colors rather than one, persistent costs for color-location conjunctions. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 76(2), 304-321. [More Information]
Stiefel, K., Holcombe, A. (2014). Neurocomputation and Coding in the Claustrum: Comparisons with the Pulvinar. In John R. Smythies, Lawrence R. Edelstein, Vilayanur S. Ramachadran (Eds.), The Claustrum: Structural, Functional, and Clinical Neuroscience, (pp. 193-207). San Diego: Elsevier. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Chen, W., Howe, P. (2014). Object tracking: Absence of long-range spatial interference supports resource theories. Journal of Vision, 14(6), 1-21. [More Information]
Stiefel, K., Merrifield, A., Holcombe, A. (2014). The claustrum's proposed role in consciousness is supported by the effect and target localization of Salvia divinorum. Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 8(FEB), 1-7. [More Information]

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2013

Maruya, K., Holcombe, A., Nishida, S. (2013). Rapid encoding of relationships between spatially remote motion signals. Journal of Vision, 13(2), 1-20. [More Information]
Chen, W., Howe, P., Holcombe, A. (2013). Resource demands of object tracking and differential allocation of the resource. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 75(4), 710-725. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Chen, W. (2013). Splitting attention reduces temporal resolution from 7 Hz for tracking one object to (less than) 3 Hz when tracking three. Journal of Vision, 13(1), 1-19. [More Information]
Howe, P., Holcombe, A., Lapierre, M., Cropper, S. (2013). Visually tracking and localizing expanding and contracting objects. Perception, 42(12), 1281-1300. [More Information]

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2012

Saiki, J., Holcombe, A. (2012). Blindness to a simultaneous change of all elements in a scene, unless there is a change in summary statistics. Journal of Vision, 12(3), 1-11. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Chen, W. (2012). Exhausting attentional tracking resources with a single fast-moving object. Cognition, 123(2), 218-228. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Clifford, C. (2012). Failures to bind spatially coincident features: comment on Di Lollo. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18(8). [More Information]
Lo, S., Howard, C., Holcombe, A. (2012). Feature-based attentional interference revealed in perceptual errors and lags. Vision Research, 63(2012), 20-33. [More Information]
Howe, P., Holcombe, A. (2012). Motion information is sometimes used as an aid to the visual tracking of objects. Journal of Vision, 12(13), 1-10. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2012), Spread the word: Scientists are tearing down publishers' walls.
McIntyre, S., Holcombe, A., Birznieks, I., Seizova-Cajic, T. (2012). Tactile Motion Adaptation Reduces Perceived Speed but Shows No Evidence of Direction Sensitivity. PloS One, 7(9), 1-12. [More Information]
Howe, P., Holcombe, A. (2012). The effect of visual distinctiveness on multiple object tracking performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(AUG), 1-7. [More Information]

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2011

Holcombe, A., Linares, D., Vaziri-Pashkam, M. (2011). Perceiving spatial relationships via attentional tracking and shifting. Current Biology, 21(13), 1135-1139. [More Information]
Howard, C., Masom, D., Holcombe, A. (2011). Position representations lag behind targets in multiple object tracking. Vision Research, 51(17), 1907-1919. [More Information]

2010

Holcombe, A., Pashler, H. (2010). Online Evidence Charts To Help Students Systematically Evaluate Theories And Evidence. 16th UniServe Science Annual Conference 2010, Sydney: University of Sydney.
Howard, C., Holcombe, A. (2010). Unexpected changes in direction of motion attract attention. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 72(8), 2087-2095. [More Information]

2009

Holcombe, A., Altschuler, E., Over, H. (2009). A developmental theory of synaesthesia, with long historical roots: A comment on Hochel & MilÃ¡n (2008). Cognitive Neuropsychology, 26(2), 227-229. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2009). Seeing slow and seeing fast: two limits on perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13(5), 216-221. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2009). Temporal binding favours the early phase of colour changes, but not of motion changes, yielding the colour-motion asynchrony illusion. Visual Cognition, 17(1-2), 232-253. [More Information]
Linares-Herreros, D., Holcombe, A., White, A. (2009). Where is the moving object now? Judgements of instantaneous position show poor temporal precision (SD = 70 ms). Journal of Vision, 9(13), 9-1-9-14. [More Information]

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2008

Holcombe, A., Seizova-Cajic, T. (2008). Illusory motion reversals from unambiguous motion with visual, proprioceptive, and tactile stimuli. Vision Research, 48, 1743-1757. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Cavanagh, P. (2008). Independent, synchronous access to color and motion features. Cognition, 107, 552-580. [More Information]
Cavanagh, P., Holcombe, A., Chou, W. (2008). Mobile computation: Spatiotemporal integration of the properties of objects in motion. Journal of Vision, 8(12), 1-23. [More Information]
Sumner, P., Holcombe, A., Grayson, L., Briscoe, J. (2008). Multisensory processing in autism spectrum disorders. Perception, 37(6), 965-965.
Linares-Herreros, D., Holcombe, A. (2008). Position perception: Influence of motion with displacement dissociated from the influence of motion alone. Journal of Neurophysiology, 100, 2472-2476. [More Information]
Howard, C., Holcombe, A. (2008). Tracking the changing features of multiple objects: Progressively poorer perceptual precision and progressively greater perceptual lag. Vision Research, 48, 1164-1180. [More Information]
White, A., Linares-Herreros, D., Holcombe, A. (2008). Visuomotor timing compensates for changes in perceptual latency. Current Biology, 18(20), R951-R953. [More Information]

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2007

Holcombe, A. (2007). Ancient history of sexual arousal and alcohol. World Congress for Sexual Health, Sydney, Australia.
Cavanagh, P., Holcombe, A. (2007). Non-retinotopic crowding. Vision Sciences Society.
Holcombe, A., Judson, J. (2007). Visual binding of English and Chinese word parts is limited to low temporal frequencies. Perception, 36(1), 49-74. [More Information]

2006

Holcombe, A., Cavanagh, P. (2006). Apparent asynchrony between the perception of color and motion: An issue of different latencies or of attention? Vision Sciences Society.
Grayson, L., Holcombe, A., Briscoe, J. (2006). Broader Autistic Phenotype, weak central coherence and perceptual causality. European Conference for Visual Perception, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Howard, C., Holcombe, A. (2006). Progressively poorer perceptual precision and progressively greater perceptual lag: Tracking the changing features of one, two and four objects. Vision Sciences Society.
Holcombe, A. (2006). Provoking the desire. The Lancet, 368(9540), 990. [More Information]
Cavanagh, P., Holcombe, A. (2006). Successive rivalry does not occur without attention. Vision Sciences Society.

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2005

Cavanagh, P., Holcombe, A. (2005). Distinguishing pre-selection from post-selection processing limits using a moving window of selection. Vision Sciences Society.
Kline, K., Holcombe, A., Eagleman, D. (2005). Illusory motion reversal does not imply discrete processing: Reply to Rojas et al. Vision Research, 46(6-7), 1158-1159. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Clifford, C., Eagleman, D., Pakarian, P. (2005). Illusory motion reversal in tune with motion detectors. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(12), 559-560. [More Information]
Howard, C., Holcombe, A. (2005). Limits on continuous monitoring of the features of multiple objects. XXVIII Annual Meeting: European Conference on Visual Perception. Pion Ltd.
Holcombe, A., Over, H., Altschuler, E. (2005). Old roots of a theory of synesthesia in Rousseau's Emile and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California.
Grayson, L., Briscoe, J., Holcombe, A. (2005). Perceptual reversal of ambiguous figures: How do children with ASD respond under non-directed conditions? British Psychological Society Developmental Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Kline, K., Holcombe, A., Eagleman, D. (2005). The visual system does not take global snapshots of the visual field. Vision Sciences Society.
Eagleman, D., Tse, P., Buonomano, D., Janssen, P., Nobre, A., Holcombe, A. (2005). Time and the Brain: How Subjective Time Relates to Neural Time. Journal of Neuroscience, 25(45), 10369-10371. [More Information]

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2004

Horowitz, T., Holcombe, A., Wolfe, J., Arsenio, H., DiMase, J. (2004). Attentional pursuit is faster than attentional saccade. Journal of Vision, 4(7), 585-603. [More Information]
Kline, K., Holcombe, A., Eagleman, D. (2004). Illusory motion reversal is caused by rivalry, not by perceptual snapshots of the visual field. Vision Research, 44(23), 2653-2658. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., MacLeod, D., Mitten, S. (2004). Positive afterimages caused by a filled-in representation. Holcombe. Vision Sciences Society.
Clifford, C., Holcombe, A., Pearson, J. (2004). Rapid Global Form Binding With Loss Of Associated Colors. Journal of Vision, 4(12), 1090-1101. [More Information]
Huang, L., Holcombe, A., Pashler, H. (2004). Repetition priming in visual search: Episodic retrieval, not feature priming. Memory & Cognition, 32(1), 12-20. [More Information]

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2003

Eagleman, D., Holcombe, A. (2003). Improving science through online commentary: The Internet offers a timely opportunity to widen, and reduce delays in, scientific debate. Nature, 423(6935), 15. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2003). Occlusion cues resolve sudden onsets into morphing or line motion, disocclusion, and sudden materialization. Journal of Vision, 3(8), 562-572. [More Information]
Holcombe, A. (2003). Perceptual binding of letters into a word is low temporal resolution. Vision Sciences Society.
Clifford, C., Holcombe, A., Pearson, J. (2003). Temporal limitations on extracting global form and binding it with local colour. European Conference On Visual Perception, Paris, France.

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2002

Eagleman, D., Holcombe, A. (2002). Causality and the perception of time. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6(8), 323-325.

2001

Holcombe, A. (2001). A purely temporal transparency mechanism in the visual system. Perception, 30(11), 1311-1320.
Holcombe, A., Cavanagh, P. (2001). Early binding of feature pairs for visual perception. Nature Neuroscience, 4(2), 127-128. [More Information]
Holcombe, A., Kanwisher, N., Treisman, A. (2001). The midstream order deficit. Perception and Psychophysics, 63(2), 322-329.

Selected Grants

2024

Using object tracking to understand reward-driven attention and ageing, Holcombe A, School of Psychology/Core Funding Grant

2016

The word bottleneck Internal Bridging, Holcombe A, DVC Research/Bridging Support Grant
BrainVision 64-channel EEG system, Alais D, Holcombe A, Harris J, DVC Research/Equipment Grant

2015

Sampling, buffering of words , Holcombe A, DVC Research/Bridging Support Grant

2013

Multisensory and configural processes in tracking moving targets, Holcombe A, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2011

New agendas for the study of time: Connecting the disciplines, Price H, Rickles D, Holcombe A, Miller K, Templeton World Charity Foundation/Research Support

2010

Perceiving and tracking moving objects, Holcombe A, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2009

Position perception, object motion, attention and action, Holcombe A, DVC Research/Bridging Support Grant
Position perception, attention, object motion, and action, Holcombe A, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Future Fellowships (FT)

2006

Mobile computation in human perception and feature binding, Cavanagh P, Holcombe A, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)
Probing human visual feature binding, Holcombe A, University of Sydney/Newly Appointed Staff

Improving Scientific Practice

Alex contributes to initiatives that improve reproducibility in science and advance open access. He co-founded the Registered Replication Reports format, now published at a journal he also co-founded, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. He occasionally speaks about open science, and also writes about it, e.g.:

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