Peer-reviewed publications (with links to abstracts and to PDF files) and submitted papers
Lawson, R., Todd, J. G., Powell, S., Roberts, J., Quinn, H., & Quinlan, H. (2012). How do we sort everyday objects into categories? Submitted.
Martinovic, J., Lawson, R., & Craddock, M., (2012). Time course of information processing in visual and haptic object identification. Submitted.
Lawson, R. (2012). Mirrors, mirrors on the wall ... the ubiquitous multiple reflection error. Cognition, 122, 1-11. Click to download PDF of paper or for the text of the abstract only.
Bertamini, M., Berselli, N., Bode, C., Lawson, R., & Wong, L. (2011). The rubber hand illusion in a mirror. Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 1108-1119. Click to download PDF of paper or for the text of the abstract only.
Craddock, M., Martinovic, J., & Lawson, R., (2011). An advantage for active versus passive aperture-viewing in visual object recognition. Perception, 40, 1154-1163. Click to download PDF of paper or for the text of the abstract only.
Lawson, R. (2011). An investigation into the cause of orientation-sensitivity in haptic object recognition. Seeing and Perceiving, 24, 293-314. Click to download PDF of paper or for the text of the abstract only.
Lawson, R., & Bracken, S. (2011). Haptic object recognition: how important are depth cues and plane orientation? Perception, 40, 576-597. Click to download PDF of paper or for the text of the abstract only.
Bertamini, M., Lawson, R., Jones, L., & Winters, M. (2010). The Venus effect in real life and in photographs. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 72, 1948-1964.Click to download PDF of paper or for the text of the abstract only.
Craddock, M., & Lawson, R. (2010). The effects of temporal delay and orientation on haptic object recognition. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 72, 1975-1980.Click to download PDF of paper or for the text of the abstract only.
Lawson, R. (2010). People cannot locate the projection of an object on the surface of a mirror. Cognition, 115, 336-342. Click to download PDF of paper or for the text of the abstract only.
Craddock, M., & Lawson, R. (2009a). Size-sensitive perceptual representations underlie visual and haptic object recognition. PLoS ONE, 4, e8009. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008009. Click to download PDF of paper or for the text of the abstract only.
Craddock, M., & Lawson, R. (2009b). Do left and right matter for haptic object recognition of familiar objects? Perception, 38, 1355-1376. Click to download PDF of paper or for the text of the abstract only.
Craddock, M., & Lawson, R. (2009c). The effects of size changes on haptic object recognition. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71, 910-923. Click to download PDF of paper or
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Lawson, R. (2009). A comparison of the effects of depth rotation on visual and haptic three-dimensional object recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 911-930. Click to download PDF of paper or for the text of the abstract only.
Craddock, M., & Lawson, R. (2008). Repetition priming and the haptic recognition of familiar and unfamiliar objects. Perception and Psychophysics, 70, 1350-1365.
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Lawson, R., & Bulthoff, H. H. (2008). Using morphs of familiar objects to examine how shape discriminability influences view sensitivity. Perception and Psychophysics, 70, 853-877. Click to download PDF of paper or for the text of the abstract only.
Bertamini, M., & Lawson, R. (2008). Rapid figure-ground responses to stereograms reveal an advantage for a convex foreground. Perception, 37, 483-494. Click to download PDF of paper or for the text of the abstract only.
Bertamini, M., Lawson, R., & Liu, D. (2008). Understanding 2D projections on mirrors and on windows. Spatial Vision, 21, 273-289. Click to download PDF of paper or for the
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Lawson, R., Bertamini, M., & Liu, D. (2007). Overestimation of the projected size of objects on the surface of mirrors and windows. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33, 1027-1044. Click to download PDF of paper or for the
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Lawson, R. (2007). Local and global processing biases fail to influence face, object and word recognition. Visual Cognition, 15, 710-740. Click to download PDF of paper or for the
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Bertamini, M., & Lawson, R. (2006). Visual search for a circular region perceived as a figure versus as a hole: Evidence of the importance of part structure. Perception and Psychophysics, 68, 776-791.
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Lawson, R. (2006). The science of cycology: Failures to understand how everyday objects work. Memory and Cognition, 34, 1667-1675. Click to download PDF of paper or for the
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Lawson, R., & Bertamini, M. (2006). Errors in judging information about reflections in mirrors. Perception, 35, 1265-1288. Click to download PDF of paper or for the
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Lawson, R., & Bulthoff, H. H. (2006). Comparing view sensitivity in shape discrimination with shape sensitivity in view discrimination. Perception and Psychophysics, 68, 655-673.
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Lawson, R. (2004a). Recognising a plane-rotated view of a familiar object is not influenced by the ease of specifying the main axis of elongation of that object. Perception and Psychophysics, 66, 234-248. Click to download PDF of paper
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Lawson, R. (2004b). Depth rotation and
mirror-image reflection reduce affective preference as well as recognition memory for pictures of novel objects. Memory and Cognition, 32, 1170-1181. Click to download PDF of paper
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Lawson, R. (2004c). View-sensitivity increases for same shape matches if mismatches show pairs of more similar shapes.
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 11 896-902. Click to download PDF of paper
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Lawson, R. (2003). The effects of context on
learning to identify plane-misoriented views of familiar objects.
Visual Cognition, 10, 795-821. Click to download PDF of paper
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Lawson, R., Bulthoff, H. H., & Dumbell, S. (2003). Interactions between view changes and shape changes in picture-picture matching. Perception, 32, 1465-1498. Click to download PDF of paper
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Lawson, R., & Jolicoeur, P. (2003). Recognition thresholds for
plane-rotated pictures of familiar objects. Acta Psychologica, 112, 17-41. Click to download PDF of paper
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Lawson, R., Humphreys, G. W., & Jolicoeur, P.
(2000). The combined effects of plane disorientation and foreshortening on picture naming: one manipulation or two? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and
Performance, 26, 568-581. Click to download PDF of paper
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Lawson, R. (1999). Achieving visual object constancy over
plane rotation and depth rotation. Acta Psychologica, 102, 221-245. Click to download PDF of paper
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Lawson, R., & Humphreys, G. W. (1999). The effects of view
in depth on the identification of line drawings and silhouettes of familiar objects: normality and pathology. Visual Cognition, 6, 165-195. Click to download PDF of paper
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Lawson, R., & Jolicoeur, P. (1999). The effect of prior experience on recognition thresholds for plane-disoriented pictures of familiar objects. Memory and Cognition, 27, 751-758. Click to download PDF of paper
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Jolicoeur, P., Corballis, M. C., & Lawson, R. (1998). The
influence of perceived rotary motion on the recognition of rotated objects. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 5, 140-146. Click to download PDF of paper
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Lawson, R., & Humphreys, G. W. (1998a). View-specific
effects of depth rotation and foreshortening on the initial recognition and priming of
familiar objects. Perception and Psychophysics, 60, 1052-1066. Click to download PDF of paper
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Lawson, R., & Humphreys, G. W. (1998b). The neuropsychology
of visual object constancy. In V. Walsh & J. Kulikowski (Eds.), Perceptual
Constancies: Why things look as they do. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lawson, R. & Jolicoeur, P. (1998).
The effects of plane rotation on the recognition of brief masked pictures of familiar objects. Memory and Cognition, 26, 791-803. Click to download PDF of paper
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Lawson, R., & Humphreys, G. W. (1996). View-specificity in
object processing: Evidence from picture matching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 22, 395-416. Click to
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Lawson, R., Humphreys, G. W., & Watson, D. G. (1994).
Object recognition under sequential viewing conditions: evidence for viewpoint-specific
recognition procedures. Perception, 23, 595-614. Click to
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Valentine, T., Bredart, S., Lawson, R., & Ward, G. (1991). What's in a name?
Access to information from people's names.
European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 3, 147-176.