Dr. Anthony M. Harris

Email: anthmharris@gmail.com

Current research

My research uses behavioural methods and electroencephalography (EEG) to explore the involvement of rhythmic brain activity (a.k.a. neural oscillations) in various forms of cognition. Currently I am working on several experiments looking at the involvement of activity in the alpha and theta bands (8-14 Hz and 4-8 Hz, respectively) in attention, in awareness or unawareness of a stimulus, and in the interaction between attention and awareness.

Research interests

• Attention

• Consciousness

• Neural oscillations

Published papers

Kuppuswamy, A., Harris, A. M., De Doncker, W., Alexander, A.,  and Lavie, N. (2025). Increased neural responsiveness to distractors irrespective of perceptual load explains attention deficit in post‐stroke fatigue. Journal of Neuropsychology . jnp.70002   . https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.70002

Nestor, P. J, Pelekanos, M., Leinenga, G., Song, J., Lee, W., Richter-Stretton, G., McElligott, C., Fazlollahi, A., Mattingley, J. B., Harris, A. M., Beale, H. A., Roberts, J., de las Heras, R..,  and Götz, J.(2025). A pilot safety and tolerability study of scanning ultrasound as a neuromodulation therapy in Alzheimer’s disease. Brain Communications , 7 (6)  fcaf445 fcaf445. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaf445

Williams, J.G., Harrison, W. J., Beale, H. A., Mattingley, J. B.,  and Harris, A. M. (2024). Effects of neural oscillation power and phase on discrimination performance in a visual tilt illusion. Current Biology, 34 (8) 1801-1809.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.03.014

Harris, A. M. (2023). Phase resets undermine measures of phase-dependent perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences , 27 (3) 224-226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.12.008

Harris, A. M., Bradley, Claire, Yoo, Sera Yijing,  and Mattingley, Jason B. (2022). Neurophysiological evidence against attentional suppression as the source of the same-location cost in spatial cueing. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics,  85 (2) 284-292. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02633-w

Harris, A. M., & Remington, R. W. (2020). Late guidance resolves the search slope paradox in contextual cueing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27(6), 1300-1308.

Harris, A. M., Jacoby, O., Remington, R. W., Becker, S. I., & Mattingley, J. B. (2020). Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for a dissociation between working memory capacity and feature-based attention. Cortex, 129, 158-174.

Harris, A.M.*, Jacoby, O.*, Remington, R.W., Travis, S.L., Mattingley, J.B. (2019). Taking a closer look at visual search: Just how feature-agnostic is singleton detection mode? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 

*These authors made equal contributions to this work

van Heusden, E., Harris, A.M., Garrido, M., Hogendoorn, H. (2019). Predictive coding of visual motion in both monocular and binocular human visual processing. Journal of Vision.

Harris, A.M., Dux, P.E., Mattingley, J.B. (2018). Awareness is related to reduced post-stimulus alpha power: A no-report inattentional blindness study. European Journal of Neuroscience.

Harris, A.M., Dux, P.E., Mattingley, J.B. (2018). Detecting unattended stimuli depends on the phase of prestimulus neural oscillations. Journal of Neuroscience.

Becker, S.I., Harris, A.M., York, A., Choi, J. (2017). Conjunction search is relational: Behavioural and electrophysiological evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human perception and Performance, 43(10), 1828-1842.

Harris, A.M., Dux, P.E., Jones, C.N., Mattingley, J.B. (2017). Distinct roles of theta and alpha oscillations in the involuntary capture of goal-directed attention. NeuroImage. 152, 171–183.

Harris, A.M., Remington, R.W. (2017). Contextual cueing improves attentional guidance, even when guidance is supposedly optimal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(5), 926-940.

Harris, A. M., Becker, S. I., & Remington, R. W. (2015). Capture by colour: Evidence for dimension-specific singleton capture. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. doi:10.3758/s13414-015-0927-0

Becker, S. I., Harris, A. M., Venini, D., & Retell, J. D. (2014). Visual search for color and shape: When is the gaze guided by feature relationships, when by feature values? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40(1), 264–291. doi:10.1037/a0033489

Harris, A. M., Remington, R. W., & Becker, S. I. (2013). Feature specificity in attentional capture by size and color. Journal of vision, 13(3), 12. doi:10.1167/13.3.12.