Publications and Talks

Journal Articles

  1. Cramer ES, Dusko MJ, and Rensink RA (2016). Group-level differences in visual search asymmetry. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-18.
  2. Kuhn G, and Rensink RA (2016). The vanishing ball illusion: A new perspective on the perception of dynamic events. Cognition, 148, 64-70.
  3. Olson JA, Amlani AA, Raz A, and Rensink RA (2015). Influencing choice without awareness. Consciousness and cognition, 37, 225-236.
  4. Rensink RA and Kuhn G (2015). The possibility of a science of magic. Frontiers in psychology, 6.
  5. Rensink RA, Domik G, and Owen S. (2015). Preparing Undergraduates for Visual Analytics. Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, 35(2), 16-20.
  6. Olson JA, Amlani AA, Raz A, and Rensink RA. (2015). Influencing choice without awareness. Consciousness and cognition.
  7. Rensink RA and Kuhn G (2015). A framework for using magic to study the mind. Front. Psychol. 5:1508. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01508
  8. Kuhn G, Caffaratti HA, Teszka R, and Rensink RA. (2014). A psychologically-based taxonomy of misdirection. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1392. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01392
  9. Boy J, Rensink RA, Bertini E, and Fekete J. (2014). A Principled Way of Assessing Visualization Literacy. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Impact Factor: 1.92). 12/2014; 20:1963-1972. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2014.2346984
  10. Rensink RA (2014). Limits to the usability of iconic memory. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 971. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00971
  11. Rensink RA (2012). Invariance of Correlation Perception. Journal of Vision, 2012;12(9):433. doi: 10.1167/12.9.433.
  12. Gauchou HL, Rensink RA, and Fels S. (2012). Expression of nonconscious knowledge by ideomotor actions.  Consciousness and Cognition,21: 976-982.
  13. Olson JA, Amlani AA, and Rensink RA.  (2012). Perceptual and cognitive characteristics of common playing cards.   Perception, 41: 268-286.
  14. Shih DC, Ho KC, Melnick KM, Rensink RA, Kollmann TR, & Fortuno III ES (2011). Facilitating the analysis of immunological data with visual analytic techniques. Journal of Visualized Experimentse2397 doi: 10.3791/2397.
  15. Rensink RA (2010). Seeing seeing. Psyche16: 68-78.
  16. Rensink RA, and Baldridge G (2010). The perception of correlation in scatterplots. Computer Graphics Forum, 29: 1203-1210.
  17. Kuhn G, Amlani AA, and Rensink RA (2008). Towards a science of magic. Trends in Cognitive Sciences12: 349-354.
  18. Rensink RA (2008). On the applications of change blindness. Psychologia51: 100-106. (Introduction to special issue on change blindness).
  19. Huggett M, Hoos H, and Rensink R (2007). Cognitive Principles for Information Management: The Principles of Mnemonic Associative Knowledge. Minds and Machines17: 445-485.
  20. Lleras A, Rensink RA, and Enns JT (2007). Consequences of display changes during interrupted visual search: Rapid resumption is target-specific. Perception & Psychophysics69: 980-993.
  21. Corbett JE, Oriet C, and Rensink RA (2006). The rapid extraction of numeric meaning. Vision Research, 46: 1559-1573.
  22. Lleras A, Rensink RA, and Enns JT (2005). Rapid resumption of interrupted visual search: New insights into the interactions between memory and vision. Psychological Science. To appear.
  23. Simons DJ, and Rensink RA (2005a). Change blindness: Past, present, and future. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9: 16-20.
  24. Simons DJ, and Rensink RA (2005b). Change blindness, representations, and consciousness: Reply to Noë. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9: 219.
  25. Harrison J, Rensink RA, and van de Panne M (2004). Obscuring length changes during animated motion. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 23: 569-573.
  26. Rensink RA (2004). Visual sensing without seeing. Psychological Science, 15:27-32.
  27. Rensink RA, and Cavanagh P (2004). Influence of cast shadows on visual search. Perception, 33: 1339-1358. (Special issue on shadow perception).
  28. Simons DJ, and Rensink RA (2003). Induced failures of visual awareness . Journal of Vision, 3, i. http://www.journalofvision.org/3/1/i.
  29. DiLollo V, Enns JT, and Rensink RA (2002). Object substitution without reentry? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131:594-596.
  30. Rensink RA (2002). Change detection. Annual Review of Psychology, 53:245-277.
  31. Thornton IM, Rensink RA, and Shiffrar M (2002). Active vs. passive processing of biological motion. Perception, 31: 837-853.
  32. DiLollo V, Enns JT, and Rensink RA (2000). Competition for consciousness among visual events: The psychophysics of reentrant visual processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129:481-507.
  33. O’Regan JK, Deubel H, Clark JJ, and Rensink RA (2000). Picture changes during blinks: Looking without seeing and seeing without looking.Visual Cognition, 7:191-211.
  34. Rensink RA (2000a). The dynamic representation of scenes. Visual Cognition, 7:17-42.
  35. Rensink RA (2000b). Visual search for change: A probe into the nature of attentional processing. Visual Cognition, 7:345-376.
  36. Rensink RA (2000c). Seeing, sensing, and scrutinizing. Vision Research, 40: 1469-1487.
  37. Rensink RA (2000d). When good observers go bad: Change blindness, inattentional blindness, and visual experience. Psyche, 6, http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v6/psyche-6-09-rensink.html.
  38. Rensink RA, O’Regan JK, and Clark JJ (2000). On the failure to detect changes in scenes across brief interruptions. Visual Cognition, 7:127-145.
  39. Albert WS, Rensink RA, and Beusmans JM (1999). Learning relative directions between landmarks in a desktop virtual environment. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 1:131-144.
  40. O’Regan JK, Rensink RA, and Clark JJ (1999). Change blindness as a result of ‘mudsplashes’. Nature, 398:34.
  41. Rensink RA, and Enns JT (1998). Early completion of occluded objects. Vision Research, 38:2489-2505.
  42. Aginsky V, Harris CL, Rensink RA, and Beusmans JM (1997). Two strategies for learning a route in a driving simulator. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 17:317-331.
  43. Rensink RA, O’Regan JK, and Clark JJ (1997). To see or not to see: The need for attention to perceive changes in scenes. Psychological Science, 8:368-373.
  44. Rensink RA, and Enns JT (1995). Preemption effects in visual search: Evidence for low-level grouping. Psychological Review, 102:101-130.
  45. Enns JT, and Rensink RA (1991a). Preattentive recovery of three-dimensional orientation from line drawings. Psychological Review, 98:335-351.
  46. Enns JT, and Rensink RA (1991b). Vsearch Color: Full-color visual search experiments on the Macintosh II. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 23:265-272.
  47. Enns JT, and Rensink RA (1990a). Influence of scene-based properties on visual search. Science, 247:721-723.
  48. Enns JT, and Rensink RA (1990b). Sensitivity to three-dimensional orientation in visual search. Psychological Science, 1:323-326.
  49. Enns JT, Ochs EP, and Rensink RA (1990). VSearch: Macintosh software for experiments in visual search. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 22:118-122.
  50. Rensink RA (1990). Toolbox-based routines for Macintosh timing and display. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 22:105-117.

Book Chapters and Commentaries

  1. Rensink RA (2015b). A Function-Centered Taxonomy of Visual Attention. In P. Coates and S. Coleman (Eds.) Phenomenal Qualities: Sense, Perception, and Consciousness. Oxford: University Press. pp. 347-375.
  2. Rensink RA (2015a). Attention and Perception. In R.A. Scott and S.M. Kosslyn (Eds.) Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisicplinary, Searchable, and Linkable Resource. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage Publications. (15 pages).
  3. Rensink RA (2014a). On the Prospects for a Science of Visualization.  In W. Huang (Ed.) Handbook of Human Centric Visualization: Theories, Methodologies, and Case Studies. New York: Springer.  pp. 147-175.
  4. Rensink RA (2014b). A Function-Centered Taxonomy of Visual Attention.  In P. Coates and S. Coleman (Eds.) Phenomenal Qualities: Sense, Perception, and Consciousness. Oxford: University Press. (31 pages.)
  5. Rensink RA (2013). Perception and Attention.  In D. Reisberg (Ed). Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology. Oxford: University Press. pp. 97-116.
  6. Rensink RA (2012). Change blindness. In Scholarpedia.
  7. Rensink RA (2011a). The Management of Visual Attention in Graphic Displays. In C. Roda (ed.),Human Attention in Digital Environments. (40 pages) Cambridge: University Press.
  8. Rensink RA (2011b). Four Futures and a Past. Interaction-Design.org. [Commentary on Data Visualization for Human Perception (Stephen Few).] http://www.interaction-design.org/ encyclopedia/data_visualization_for_human_perception.html
  9. Rensink RA (2009). Change Detection. In E. Bruce Goldstein (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Perception. (pp.241-244). Thousand Oaks CA: Sage Publications.
  10. Rensink RA (2009). Visual Displays. In E. Bruce Goldstein (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Perception. (pp.1071-1074). Thousand Oaks CA: Sage Publications.
  11. Rensink RA (2009). Attention: Change Blindness and Inattentional Blindness. In W. Banks (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Consciousness, Vol 1,(pp.47-59). New York: Elsevier.
  12. Rensink RA (2007). The Modeling and Control of Visual Perception. In W. Gray (ed).Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems. (pp. 132-148). New York: Oxford University Press.
  13. Rensink RA (2005a). Change blindness. In L. Itti, G. Rees, and J.K. Tsotsos (eds). Neurobiology of Attention. (pp. 76-81). San Diego, CA: Elsevier.
  14. Rensink RA (2005b). Change blindness. In McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology (2005). (pp. 44-46). New York: McGraw-Hill.
  15. Rensink RA (2003). Visual attention. In L Nadel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: Nature Publishing Group.
  16. Rensink RA (2002). Changes. In J Hyönä, DP Munoz, W Heide, R Radach (eds.), The Brain’s Eye. (pp. 197-207). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
  17. Rensink RA (2001a). Four-sight in hindsight: On the existence of magical numbers in vision. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24:141-142.
  18. Rensink RA (2001b). Change blindness: Implications for the nature of attention. In MR Jenkin and LR Harris (eds.) Vision and Attention (pp. 169-188). New York: Springer.
  19. O’Regan JK, Deubel H, Clark JJ, and Rensink RA (2000). Picture changes during blinks: Looking without seeing and seeing without looking. In DJ Simons (ed.) Change Blindness and Visual Memory (pp. 191-211). London: Psychology Press.
  20. Rensink RA (2000a). Scene perception. In AE Kazdin (ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
  21. Rensink RA (2000b). The dynamic representation of scenes. In DJ Simons (ed.) Change Blindness and Visual Memory (pp. 17-42). London: Psychology Press.
  22. Rensink RA (2000c). Visual search for change: A probe into the nature of attentional processing. In DJ Simons (ed.) Change Blindness and Visual Memory (pp. 345-376). London: Psychology Press.
  23. Rensink RA, O’Regan JK, and Clark JJ (2000). On the failure to detect changes in scenes across brief interruptions. In DJ Simons (ed.)Change Blindness and Visual Memory (pp. 127-145). London: Psychology Press.
  24. Rensink RA (1996a). Ideal observers, real observers, and the return of Elvis. In DC Kersten and W Richards (eds.) Perception as Bayesian Inference (pp. 451-455). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  25. Rensink RA (1996b). The world, the brain, and the speed of sight. In DC Kersten and W Richards (eds.), Perception as Bayesian Inference (pp. 495-498). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  26. Enns JT, and Rensink RA (1992). A model for the rapid interpretation of line drawings in early vision. In D Brogan (ed.), Visual Search II (pp. 73-89). London: Taylor & Francis.

Refereed Conference Papers

  1. Rensink RA. (2015). Visual Features as Carriers of Information. Journal of vision, 15(12), 890-890.
  2. Elliott M, and Rensink RA. (2015). Interference in the Perception of Two-Population Scatterplots. Journal of vision, 15(12), 893-893.
  3. Rensink RA (2008). Perceptual Limits on the Visual Monitoring Task. Proceedings of the30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1030-1031. [EMBC 08, Vancouver BC, Canada. Aug 2008.]
  4. Lam H, Rensink RA, and Munzner T. (2006, July). Effects of 2D geometric transformations on visual memory. In Proceedings of the 3rd symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization (pp. 119-126). ACM.
  5. Lau K, Rensink RA, and Munzner TM (2004). Perceptual invariance of nonlinear focus+context transformations. Proceedings of the First Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV 2004), 65-72. [SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, CA. August 2004.]
  6. Rensink RA (2002). Internal vs. external information in visual perception. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Smart Graphics: 63-70. [Smart Graphics 2; Hawthorne, NY, USA.]
  7. Beusmans JM, Aginsky V, Harris CL, and Rensink RA (1995). Analyzing situation awareness during wayfinding in a driving simulator.Proceedings of the International Conference on Experimental Analysis and Measurement of Situation Awareness Nov 1-3, 1995, Daytona Beach, FL. pp. 245-251.
  8. Rensink RA, and Provan G (1991). The analysis of resource-limited vision systems. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Chicago IL, August 7 – August 10, 1991. pp 311-316.
  9. Rensink RA (1987). On the discrimination of self-similar random textures. In Proceedings of the IEEE Society Workshop on Computer Vision.Miami Beach FL, Nov 30 – December 2, 1987. pp. 240-242.

Refereed Conference Abstracts

  1. Rensink RA. (2015). A function-centered taxonomy of visual attention. Phenomenal Qualities: Sense, Perception, and Consciousness, 31.
  2. Rensink RA. (2015). Attention and Perception. In book: Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, SAGE Publications, Editors: R.A. Scott and S.M. Kosslyn
  3. Rensink RA. (2014). On the Prospects for a Science of Visualization. In Handbook of Human Centric Visualization (pp. 147-175). Springer New York.
  4. Olson J, Amlani A, and Rensink RA (2013). Using Magic to Influence Choice in the Absence of Visual Awareness. Journal of Vision, 13: 1133. http://www.journalofvision.org/content/13/9/1133.short  [Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA.  May 2013.]
  5. Rensink RA, and Cramer EC (2013). The Effect of Grouping on Knock-Out. Journal of Vision, 13: 822. http://www.journalofvision.org/content/13/9/822.short   [Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA.  May 2013.]
  6. Saiki J, Ueda Y, Chen R, Kopecky J, Rensink R, Meyer D, and Kitayama, S (2013). Cultural Differences in Visual Search with Culturally Neutral Items. Journal of Vision, 13: 1254. http://www.journalofvision.org/content/13/9/1254.short   [Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA.  May 2013.]
  7. Rensink R (2012). The Perception of Correlation in Datasets. Perception, 41 (suppl.): 5. http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=v120248  [ECVP 2012; Alghero, Italy]
  8. Cramer, EC, and Rensink RA (2012). Knock-Out: A New Form of Visual Masking. Journal of Vision12: 354. http://www.journalofvision.org/content/12/9/354.short  [Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA.  May 2012.]
  9. Dusko, MJ, Cramer, EC, and Rensink RA (2012). Dependence of Perceptual Style on Culture. Journal of Vision12: 1153. http://www.journalofvision.org/content/12/9/1153.short  [Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA.  May 2012.]
  10. Gauchou HL, and Rensink RA (2012). Stress and Visual Attention. Journal of Vision12: 918. http://www.journalofvision.org/content/12/9/918.short [Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA.  May 2012.]
  11. Gauchou HL, Rensink RA, and Fels S (2012). Zombies, Ouija, and the Ideomotor Effect: When Implicit Cognition Turns Explicit. [Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Brighton, England.  July 2012.]
  12. Rensink RA (2012). Invariance of Correlation Perception. Journal of Vision12: 433. http://www.journalofvision.org/content/12/9/433.short  [Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA.  May 2012.]
  13. Gauchou H, and Rensink R (2011). Stress and Visual Search. Perception,40. [ECVP 2011; Toulouse, France]
  14. Rensink RA (2011). The Rapid Perception of Correlation in Scatterplots. Journal of Vision,11. [Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, USA. May 2011.]
  15. Gauchou H, and Rensink RA (2010). Another Look at Mindsight. Journal of Vision,10: 740a. http://www.journalofvision.org/content/10/7/740. [Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, USA. May 2010.]
  16. Gauchou H, Rensink RA, and Fels S (2010). Ouija and the Ideomotor Effect: When Implicit Memory Turns Explicit. Abstracts of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness,. [ASSC 14; Toronto, ON Canada. Jun 2010.]
  17. Rensink RA, and Baldridge G (2010). The Visual Perception of Correlation in Scatterplots. Journal of Vision,10: 975a. http://www.journalofvision.org/content/10/7/975. [Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, USA. May 2010.]
  18. Rensink RA (2008). Limits to the Use of Iconic Memory. Perception,37 (suppl.): 45. [ECVP 2008; Utrecht, The Netherlands]
  19. Lam H, Munzner TM, and Rensink RA (2006). The Invariance of Visual Long-term Memory to Geometric Transformation. Journal of Vision,6: 983a. http://journalofvision.org/6/6/983. [Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA. May 2006.]
  20. Rensink RA (2006). Further Adventures with the Magical Number One. Journal of Vision,6: 1076a. http://journalofvision.org/6/6/1076. [Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA. May 2006.]
  21. Chuang SY, and Rensink RA (2005). Seeing more than meets the eye: The ghost illusion. Journal of Vision, 5: . http://journalofvision.org/5. [Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA.]
  22. Rensink RA (2005). Robust inattentional blindness. Journal of Vision, 5: . http://journalofvision.org/5. [Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA.]
  23. Amlani AA, and Rensink RA (2004). Indifference of mindsight to mental set. Journal of Vision, 4: 631a. http://journalofvision.org/4/8/631. [Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA.]
  24. Corbett JE, and Rensink RA (2004). Evidence for rapid extraction of average numeric value. Journal of Vision, 4: 721a. http://journalofvision.org/4/8/721. [Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA.]
  25. Harrison J, Rensink RA, and van de Panne M (2004). Length changes are difficult but not impossible to detect without attention. Journal of Vision, 4: 633a. http://journalofvision.org/4/8/633. [Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA.]
  26. Lleras A, Rensink RA, and Enns JT (2004). Rapid resumption is modulated by high-level strategies. Journal of Vision, 4:180a. http://journalofvision.org/4/8/180. [Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA.]
  27. Rensink RA (2004a). The invariance of visual search to geometric transformation. Journal of Vision, 4: 178a. http://journalofvision.org/4/8/178. [Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA.]
  28. Rensink RA (2004b). Attentional and nonattentional processes in vision. SIGGRAPH Notes: Course 75. [SIGGRAPH 2004; Los Angeles, CA, USA. August 2004.]
  29. Enns JT, Rensink RA, Vandenbeld LA, and Lleras A (2003). Rapid resumption: A new form of memory in visual search. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 8:80. [Psychonomics 2003; Vancouver, BC.]
  30. Harrison J, Rensink RA, and van de Panne M (2003). Detecting changes of velocity of smoothly moving objects. Journal of Vision, 3: 401a. http://journalofvision.org/3/9/401. [VSS 2003; Sarasota, FL, USA.]
  31. Rensink RA (2003a). Attentional and nonattentional processes in human vision. SIGGRAPH Notes: Course 42. [SIGGRAPH 2003; San Diego, CA, USA.]
  32. Rensink RA (2003b). Attentional and nonattentional processes in vision: Implications for display design. CHI Tutorial Notes: Tutorial 3. [CHI 2003; Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA.]
  33. Rensink RA, and Cavanagh P (2003). Constraints on the rapid interpretation of cast shadows.Journal of Vision, 3: 633a. http://journalofvision.org/3/9/633. [VSS 2003; Sarasota, FL, USA.]
  34. Vandenbeld LA, and Rensink RA (2003). The decay characteristics of size, color, and shape information in visual short-term memory.Journal of Vision, 3: 682a. http://journalofvision.org/3/9/682. [VSS 2003; Sarasota, FL, USA.]
  35. Rensink RA (2002a). Failure to see more than one change at a time. Journal of Vision, 2: 245a. http://journalofvision.org/2/7/245. [VSS 2002; Sarasota, FL, USA.]
  36. Rensink RA (2002b). Attentional and nonattentional processes in human vision. SIGGRAPH Notes: Course 15. [SIGGRAPH 2002; San Antonio, TX, USA.]
  37. Vandenbeld LA, and Rensink RA (2002). Visual search strategies in a change detection task.Journal of Vision, 2: 525a. http://journalofvision.org/2/7/525. [VSS 2002; Sarasota, FL, USA.]
  38. Rensink RA (2001a). Grouping in visual short-term memory. Journal of Vision, 1:126a. http://journalofvision.org/1/3/126. [VSS 2001; Sarasota, FL, USA.]
  39. Rensink RA (2001b). The influence of structure on visual short-term memory. Proc. Third International Conference on Memory: 47. [ICOM 3; Valencia, Spain.]
  40. Rensink RA (2001c). Change blindness: Implications for the study of attentional and nonattentional processes in vision. http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~escop/abstracts/522.html. [European Society of Cognitive Psychology, Edinburgh, Scotland. 2001.]
  41. Rensink RA (2000). Differential Grouping of Features. Perception, 29(suppl.):99-100. [ECVP 2000; Groningen, The Netherlands.]
  42. Rensink RA, Deubel H, and Schneider WX (2000). The incredible shrinking span: Estimates of memory capacity depend on interstimulus interval. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 41:425. [ARVO 2000; Ft. Lauderdale, FL.]
  43. Harp CJ, and Rensink RA (1999). A comparison of attentional processing in younger and older observers. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 40:50. [ARVO 1999; Ft. Lauderdale, FL.]
  44. Rensink RA (1999a). The magical number one, plus or minus zero. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 40:52. [ARVO 1999; Ft. Lauderdale, FL.]
  45. Rensink RA (1999b). Attentional processing of geometric figures. Perception, 28(suppl.):55-56. [ECVP 1999; Trieste, Italy.]
  46. Rensink RA (1999c). Seeing, sensing, and scrutinizing. Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Vision Research Conference :83. [Ft. Lauderdale FL, USA.]
  47. Thornton IM, Rensink RA, and Shiffrar, MM (1999). Biological motion processing without attention. Perception, 28(suppl.):51. [ECVP 1999; Trieste, Italy.]
  48. Rensink RA (1998a). On the failure to detect changes in scenes under flicker conditions. Proceedings of the 69th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, 69:89. 1998. [EPA 1998; Boston, MA.]
  49. Rensink RA (1998b). Mindsight: Visual sensing without seeing. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 39:631. [ARVO 1998; Ft. Lauderdale, FL.]
  50. Rensink RA (1998c). Limits to attentional selection for orientation. Perception, 27(suppl.):36. [ECVP 1998; Oxford, England.]
  51. Rensink RA (1998d). Change blindness and the dynamic nature of vision. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 3:53. [Psychonomics 1998; Dallas, TX.]
  52. Rensink RA, and Cavanagh P (1998). The influence of shadows on visual search. Proceedings of the 69th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, 69:89. 1998. [EPA 1998; Boston, MA.]
  53. Rosenholtz RE, and Rensink RA (1998). Change detection in textured patterns. Perception, 27(suppl.):205-206. [ECVP 1998; Oxford, England.]
  54. Thornton IM, Rensink RA, and Shiffrar, MM (1998). Active versus passive processing of biological motion. Perception, 27(suppl.):68. [ECVP 1998; Oxford, England.]
  55. Aginsky V, Tarr MJ, and Rensink RA (1997). The stability of color, location, and object presence in mental representations of natural scenes.Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 38:1009. [ARVO 1997; Ft. Lauderdale, FL.]
  56. Albert WS, Beusmans JM, and Rensink RA (1997). The effects of spatio-temporal disorder on the acquisition of relative location knowledge.Proceedings of the Cognitive Mapping Symposium – AAG’97.
  57. O’Regan JK, Deubel H, Clark JJ, and Rensink RA (1997). Picture changes during blinks: Not seeing where you look and seeing where you don’t look. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 38:707. [ARVO 1997; Ft. Lauderdale, FL.]
  58. Rensink RA (1997a). How much of a scene is seen? The role of attention in scene perception. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 38:707. [ARVO 1997; Ft. Lauderdale, FL.]
  59. Rensink RA (1997b). Iconoclasm redux: Limits to the involvement of iconic memory in visual search. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 38:364. [ARVO 1997; Ft. Lauderdale, FL.]
  60. O’Regan JK, Rensink RA, and Clark JJ (1996). “mud splashes” render picture changes invisible. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 37:213. [ARVO 1996; Ft. Lauderdale, FL.]
  61. Rensink RA (1996). The attentional capacity of visual search under flicker conditions. Perception, 25(suppl.):2. [ECVP 1996; Strassburg, France.]
  62. Rensink RA, O’Regan JK, and Clark JJ (1996a). To see or not to see: The need for attention to perceive changes in scenes. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 37:213. [ARVO 1996; Ft. Lauderdale, FL.]
  63. Rensink RA, O’Regan JK, and Clark JJ (1996b). To see or not to see: The need for attention to perceive changes in scenes. International Journal of Psychology, 31(3/4):257. [26th International Congress of Psychology; Montreal, QC, Canada.]
  64. Rensink RA, O’Regan JK, and Clark JJ (1995). Image flicker is as good as saccades in making large scene changes invisible. Perception, 24(suppl.):26-28. [ECVP 1995; Tuebingen, Germany.]
  65. Rensink RA, and Cavanagh P (1994). Identification of highlights in early vision. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 35:1623. [ARVO 1994; Sarasota, FL.]
  66. Enns JT, and Rensink RA (1993). Conditional vs. unconditional pop-out. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 34:1236. [ARVO 1993; Sarasota, FL.]
  67. Rensink RA, and Cavanagh P (1993). Processing of shadows at preattentive levels. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 34:1288. [ARVO 1993; Sarasota, FL.]
  68. Enns JT, and Rensink RA (1992). An object completion process in early vision. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 33:1263. [ARVO 1992; Sarasota, FL.]
  69. Enns JT, and Rensink RA (1991). Apparent length in preattentive vision: Evidence for low-level grouping. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 32:1039. [ARVO 1991; Sarasota, FL.]
  70. Enns JT, Rensink RA, and Douglas R (1990). The influence of line relations on visual search. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 31:105. [ARVO 1990; Sarasota, FL.]

Theses and Reports

  1. Thornton IM, Rensink RA, and Shiffrar M (1999). Active Versus Passive Processing Of Biological Motion. CBR TR-99-7.
  2. Rensink RA (ed.) (1998). Cambridge Basic Research: 1998 Annual Report. CBR TR-98-6.
  3. Beusmans JM, Aginsky V, Harris CL, and Rensink RA (1997). Two Strategies For Learning A Route. Nissan Technical Review, 41:49-52.
  4. Rensink RA, O’Regan JK, and Clark JJ (1997). The Need for Attention to See Changes in Scenes. Nissan Technical Review, 41:57-60.
  5. Rensink RA, and Boer ER (eds.) (1996). Cambridge Basic Research: 1996 Annual Report. CBR TR-96-10.
  6. Beusmans JM, Aginsky V, Harris CL, and Rensink RA (1995). Analyzing Situation Awareness During Wayfinding in a Driving Simulator. CBR TR-95-4.
  7. Beusmans JM, and Rensink RA (eds.) (1995). Cambridge Basic Research: 1995 Annual Report. CBR TR-95-7.
  8. O’Regan JK, Rensink RA, and Clark JJ (eds.) (1995). CBR Scene Perception Workshop. CBR TR-95-2.
  9. Rensink RA, O’Regan JK, and Clark JJ (1995). Global Transients Disrupt Visual Perception of Changes in Scenes. CBR TR-95-6.
  10. Rensink RA (1992). The Rapid Recovery of Three-Dimensional Structure from Line Drawings. PhD Dissertation, Computer Science Department, University of British Columbia. [Also available as UBC CS Technical Report 92-25 (September 1992).]
  11. Rensink RA (1989a). Toolbox-Based Routines for Macintosh Timing and Display. Technical Report 89-11 (June 1989). Computer Science Department, University of British Columbia,
  12. Rensink RA (1989b). A New Proof of the NP-Completeness of Visual Match. Technical Report 89-22 (September 1989), Computer Science Department, University of British Columbia.
  13. Rensink RA (1988). Spatial and Spectral Descriptions of Stationary Gaussian Fractals. Technical Report 88-14 (July 1988), Computer Science Department, University of British Columbia.
  14. Rensink RA (1986). On the Visual Discrimination of Self-Similar Random Textures. MSc Dissertation, Computer Science Department, University of British Columbia. [Also available as UBC CS Technical Report 86-16 (September 1986).]

Talks

  1. When Vision Science Met Information Display (May 2013, Society for Information Display. Vancouver, BC.)
    Rensink RA, Keynote address.
  2. Visualization and Vision Science (Dec 2012, University of Paris / SIGCHI-Paris. Paris, France.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk.
  3. The Perception of Correlation in Datasets (Aug 2012, Alghero, Italy.)
    Rensink RA, Symposium in honour of Tom Troscianko, European Conference on Visual Perception.
  4. A Function-Centered Taxonomy of Attentional Processes (Mar 2012, Department of Psychology, University of Cardiff, Cardiff Wales, UK.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk.
  5. A Function-Centered Taxonomy of Visual Attention (Mar 2012, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire England, UK.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk. Phenomenal Qualitites Project.
  6. Visual Analytics – An Introduction (Jun 2011, CFRI, BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk. Children’s Hospital Infection/Immunology and Microbiology Program.
  7. Changing Views of Attention and Scene Perception (Dec 2009, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception Program, Vancouver, BC.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk.
  8. Changing Views of Attention (Nov 2009, Cognitive Science Program, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk.  Defining Cognitive Science series.
  9. Towards a Taxonomy of Visual Attention (Jun 2009,Berlin, Germany.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk. Symposium on Attention and Consciousness, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC).
  10. Changing Views of Attention (Apr 2009, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, USA.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk.
  11. Perceptual Limits on the Visual Monitoring Task (Aug 2008, Vancouver BC, Canada.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 08).
  12. New Perspectives on Visual Perception (Mar 2008, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara CA, USA.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk.
  13. Changing Views of Vision (Mar 2008, Center for Cognitive Science, Cal State University at Long Beach, Long Beach CA.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk. Conference “The Horizons of Vision Research”.
  14. Visual Analytics and Visual Intelligence (Feb 2008, Vancouver BC, Canada.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk. Workshop “Visual Analytics: Science and Application”.   UBC/SFU Cognitive Science Workshop / Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
  15. Salience, Attention, and Visual Awareness (Dec 2007, Grasmere, England.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk. Symposium “Representations of the visual world in the brain”, Rank Prize Funds.
  16. A New Look at Seeing: Implications for Visual Interaction (Aug 2007, Nashville TN, USA.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk. Symposium “Cognitive Science in the Design of Graphical Images and Interfaces”, 2007 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
  17. The Challenge of Scene Perception (Jul 2007, Vancouver BC, Canada.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk. 23rd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence.
  18. Metacognition and Scene Perception (Jul 2007, Ecole Normale Supérieure. Paris, France.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk. Workshop “Consciousness in a natural and a cultural context.” European Science Foundation.
  19. Attention, Memory, and Scene Perception (May 2007, Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology. Kyoto, Japan.)
    Rensink RA, Keynote address.
  20. New Views of Human Vision (May 2007, University of Calgary, Calgary AB.)
    Rensink RA, Invited presentation.  Symposium “Pushing the Boundaries”, Annual Symposium of the Medical Sciences Graduate Students’ Association
  21. Attention, Memory, and Scene Perception (Apr 2007, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (NICI). Nijmegen, Netherlands.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk.
  22. Attention, Memory, and Scene Perception (Apr 2007, Department of Psychology. Leuven, Belgium.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk.
  23. Attention and the Units of Information (Sep 2006, Bolzano, Italy.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk. Conference – Becoming Information, Mitteleuropa Foundation
  24. Attention, Consciousness, and Data Display (August 2006, Seattle WA, USA.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk. 2006 Joint Statistical Meeting (Section: Statistical Graphics).
  25. Visual Attention: What it Does and Doesn’t Do (June 2006, TJ.F.Schouten School for User-System Interaction Research, Technical University Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk.
  26. Towards a Taxonomy of Attentional Processes (Oct 2005, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and Helmholtz Institute. Doorwerth, The Netherlands.)
    Rensink RA, Invited keynote lecture. Second NWO Cognition Summer school  (The Heart and the Mind: Approaches to Emotion and Attention).
  27. Human Vision: What We Know That Ain’t So (June 2005, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, USA.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk. Information Esthetics Lectures.
  28. Robust Inattentional Blindness (May 2005, Westin Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, USA.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk.  APS Symposium “Implicit Processing in Visual Perception, Decision Making and Learning”.
  29. Control and Visual Processing (March 2005, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA.)
    Invited workshop presentation. Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems (workshop sponsored by U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research)
  30. A New Look at Seeing: Implications for Visual Interaction (February 2005, Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science. Vancouver, BC.)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk.
  31. Rapid Vision (August 2004, SIGGRAPH 2004. Los Angeles, CA, USA)
    Rensink RA, Parts of a full-day course.
  32. Relating Salience, Attention, and Visual Awareness: The Problem of Ontological Poverty. (June 2004, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium)
    Rensink RA, Plenary talk. Eighth Annual Conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.
  33. Toward a Science of Consciousness (April 2004, Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA)
    Rensink RA, Attention and Awareness, Invited talk.
  34. Toward a Science of Consciousness (April 2004, Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA)
    Rensink RA, Attention, Consciousness, and Visual Perception, Invited workshop presentation.
  35. Making Sense of the Sixth Sense (January 2004, Vancouver Canada)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk. Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
  36. Psychonomics (2003, Vancouver, BC.)
    Enns JT, Rensink RA, Vandenbeld LA, and Lleras A, Rapid Resumption: A New Form of Memory in Visual Search, Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 8:80.
  37. Change Blindness and Visual Attention (October 2003, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan)
    Rensink RA, Change Blindness Symposium, Invited talk.
  38. Attentional and nonattentional processes in vision (July 2003, San Diego, CA, USA)
    Rensink RA, Invited course presentation. SIGGRAPH.
  39. Memory and Attention (June 2003, University of Munich, Munich, Germany)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk. Symposium on Visual Search.
  40. Detecting Changes of Velocity of Smoothly Moving Objects (May 2003, Sarasota, FL, USA)
    Harrison J, Rensink RA, and van de Panne M. , Journal of Vision, 3: 401a, http://journalofvision.org/3/9/401. Vision Sciences Society.
  41. Constraints on the Rapid Interpretation of Cast Shadows. (May 2003, Sarasota, FL, USA)
    Rensink RA, Vision Sciences Society.
  42. The Decay Characteristics of Size, Color, and Shape Information in Visual Short-term Memory. (May 2003, Sarasota, FL, USA)
    Vandenbeld LA, and Rensink RA.  Journal of Vision, 3: 682a, http://journalofvision.org/3/9/682. Vision Sciences Society.
  43. Attentional and Nonattentional Processes in Vision: Implications for Display Design (April 2003 , Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA)
    Rensink RA, Invited tutorial. CHI.
  44. Attentional and nonattentional processes in human vision (July 2002, San Antonio, TX, USA)
    Rensink RA, Invited course presentation. SIGGRAPH.
  45. Internal vs. External Information in Visual Perception (June 2002, Hawthorne, NY, USA)
    Rensink RA, Second International Symposium on Smart Graphics.
  46. Failure to See More Than One Change at a Time (May 2002, Sarasota, FL, USA)
    Rensink RA, Vision Sciences Society.
  47. Attention and Visual Short Term Memory (Sept 2001, Dept of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Scotland)
    Rensink RA, Invited presentation. ESRC Workshop on Object Categorization and Attention.
  48. Change Blindness: Implications for the Study of Attentional and Nonattentional Processes in Vision (Sept 2001, Edinburgh, Scotland)
    Rensink RA, European Society of Cognitive Psychology.
  49. Shadows and Early Vision (Aug 2001, Freiburg, Switzerland)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk. European Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
  50. The Influence of Structure on Visual Short-term Memory (July 2001, Valencia, Spain)
    Rensink RA, Third International Conference on Memory.
  51. Change Blindness: Implications for the study of Visual Consciousness (May 2001, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA)
    Rensink RA, , Plenary talk. Fifth Annual Conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.
  52. Grouping in visual short-term memory (May 2001, Sarasota, FL, USA)
    Rensink RA, Vision Sciences Society Conference.
  53. Attention and the Perception of Scenes (Feb 2001, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA)
    Rensink RA, NIH Neuroscience Lecture.
  54. Internal and External Information in Visual Perception (Sept 2000, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)
    Rensink RA, Invited Talk. International Symposium on Cognition.
  55. Change Detection, Attention, and the Contents of Awareness(June 2000, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium)
    Rensink RA, Invited workshop (with Dan Simons). Fourth Annual Conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.
  56. When Good Observers Go Bad (June 2000, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk. 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
  57. The Dynamics of Attention (May 2000, Boston, MA, USA)
    Rensink RA, Invited talk. Fourth Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems.