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John Duncan

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John Duncan

Contact details

E-mail address: john.duncan@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 355294 (extension 500)
Direct line: +44 (0)1223 273660
Fax: +44 (0)1223 359062
Address: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
15 Chaucer Road,
Cambridge,
CB2 7EF

Research areas

  • Selective attention from behavioural to cellular levels.
  • Action planning, frontal lobe function and intelligence.
  • Integration of cognitive and brain function.

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CBU publications

  • Manes, F., Roca, M., Torralva, T., Gleichgerrcht, E., WOOLGAR, A., THOMPSON, R., DUNCAN, J.D. (In Press) The role of Area 10 (BA10) in human multitasking and in social cognition: A lesion study, Neuropsychologia #
  • Rodríguez, V., THOMPSON, R., Stokes, M., Brett, M., ,Alvarez, I., Valdes-Sosa, M., DUNCAN, J. (2012) Absence of Face-specific Cortical Activity in the Complete Absence of Awareness: Converging Evidence from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Event-related Potentials, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(2), 396-415 #
  • Stoewer, S., Goense, J., Keliris, G.A., Bartels, A., Logothetis, N.K., DUNCAN, J. (2012) An analysis approach for high-field FMRI data from awake non-human primates, Plos One, 7(1), e29697 #
  • Dumotheil, I., THOMPSON, R., DUNCAN, J. (2011) Assembly and use of new task rules in the frontoparietal cortex, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(1),168-182 #
  • Stoewer, S., Goense, J., Keliris, G.A., Bartels, A.,Logothetis, N.K., DUNCAN, J., SIGALA, N . (2011) Realignment strategies for awake-monkey fMRI data, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 29(10), 1390-1400 #
  • WOOLGAR, A., Hampshire, A., THOMPSON, R. & DUNCAN, J. (2011) Adaptive Coding of Task-Relevant Information in Human Frontoparietal Cortex, Journal of Neuroscience, 31(41), 14592-14599 #
  • WOOLGAR, A., THOMPSON, R., Bor, D., DUNCAN, J. (2011) Multi-voxel coding of stimuli, rules, and responses in human frontoparietal cortex, NeuroImage, 56(2), 744-752 #
  • CUSACK, R., MITCHELL, D.J., DUNCAN, J. (2010) Discrete Object Representation, Attention Switching, and Task Difficulty in the Parietal Lobe., Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(1), 32-47 #
  • DUNCAN, J. (2010) The multiple-demand (MD) system of the primate brain: Mental programs for intelligent behaviour, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(4), 172-179 #
  • DUNCAN, J. (2010) How intelligence happens, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press #
  • HAMPSHIRE, A., Chamberlain, S., MONTI, M.M., DUNCAN, J. & OWEN, A.M (2010) The role of the right inferior frontal gyrus: inhibition and attentional control, NeuroImage, 50(3-3), 1313–1319 #
  • KUSUNOKI, M., SIGALA, N. NILI, H., Gaffan, D. & DUNCAN, J.D. (2010) Target detection by opponent coding in monkey prefrontal cortex, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(4) 751-760 #
  • Roca, M., Parr, A., THOMPSON, R., WOOLGAR, A., Torralva, T., Antoun, N., Manes, F. and DUNCAN, J. (2010) Executive function and fluid intelligence after frontal lobe lesions, Brain, 133(1), 234–247 #
  • Stoewer, S., Ku, S.-P., Goense, J., Stuedel T., Logothesis, N.K. DUNCAN, J. & SIGALA, N. (2010) Frontoparietal activity with minimal decision and control in the awake macaque at 7T, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 28(8), 1120-1128 #
  • WOOLGAR, A., Parr, A., CUSACK, R., THOMPSON, R., NIMMO-SMITH, I., Torralva, T., Roca, M., Antoun, N., Manes, F. & DUNCAN, J. (2010) Fluid intelligence loss linked to restricted regions of damage within frontal and parietal cortex, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(33), 14899-14902 #
  • HAMPSHIRE, A., THOMPSON, R., DUNCAN, J. & OWEN, A.M. (2009) Selective tuning of the right inferior frontal gyrus during target detection., Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 9(1), 103-112. #
  • Hon, N., THOMPSON, R., SIGALA, N., and DUNCAN, J. (2009) Evidence for Long-Range Feedback in Target Detection: Detection of Semantic Targets Modulates Activity in Early Visual Areas, Neuropsychologia, 47(7), 1721-1727 #
  • KUSUNOKI, M., SIGALA, N., Gaffan, D. & DUNCAN, J.D. (2009) Detection of fixed and variable targets in the monkey prefrontal cortex, Cerebral Cortex, 19(11), 2535-2547 #
  • Stokes, M.G., THOMPSON, R., CUSACK, R. & DUNCAN, J. (2009) Top-Down Activation of Shape-Specific Population Codes in Visual Cortex during Mental Imagery, Journal of Neuroscience, 29(5), 1565-1572 #
  • Stokes, M.G., THOMPSON, R., Nobre N., and DUNCAN, J. (2009) Attention activates shape-specific neural codes in human visual cortex., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(46), 19569-19574 #
  • THOMPSON, R. and DUNCAN, J. (2009) Attentional modulation of stimulus representation in human fronto-parietal cortex, NeuroImage 48(2), 436-448 #
  • WOOLGAR, A., Parr, A., CUSACK, R., THOMPSON, R., NIMMO-SMITH, I., Torralva, T., Roca, M., Antoun, N., Manes, F. & DUNCAN, J.D. (2009) Specific brain lesions linked to fluid intelligence loss, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Wenesday PM, 128 #
  • BISHOP, S.J., Fosella, J., Croucher, C.J., & DUNCAN, J. (2008) COMT val158met genotype affects neural mechanisms supporting fluid intelligence, Cerebral Cortex, 18(9), 2132-2140 #
  • Dodds, C.m., Van Belle, J., PEERS, P.V., Dove, A., CUSACK, R., DUNCAN, J. & MANLY, T. (2008) The effects of time-on-task and concurrent cognitive load on normal visuospatial bias, Neuropsychology, 22(4), 545-552 #
  • DUNCAN, J., Parr, A., WOOLGAR, A., THOMPSON, R., Bright, P., Cox, S., BISHOP, S. & NIMMO-SMITH, I. (2008) Goal neglect and Spearman's g: Competing parts of a complex task, JEP: General, 137(1), 131-148 #
  • HAMPSHIRE, A., THOMPSON, R., DUNCAN, J. & OWEN, A.M. (2008) The target selective neural response - similarity, ambiguity, and learning effects, PLos ONE, 3(6), e2520 #
  • SIGALA, N., Kusunoki, M., NIMMO-SMITH, I., Gaffan, D. DUNCAN, J. (2008) Hierarchical coding for sequential task events in the monkey prefrontal cortex, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 105(33), 11969-11974 #
  • WOOLGAR, A. & DUNCAN, J. (2008) Multi-voxel coding of stimulus-response mapping rules in human frontal and parietal cortex, 14th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, S132 #
  • CUSACK, R., MITCHELL, D.J. & DUNCAN, J. (2007) Discrete object representation for perception and memory in posterior parietal cortex, 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience #
  • DUNCAN, J. (2007) A selective representation of task-relevant knowledge in the human and monkey brain, 13th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, S25 #
  • HAMPSHIRE, A., DUNCAN, J. & OWEN, A.M. (2007) Selective tuning of the BOLD response during simple target detection dissociates human frontoparietal sub-regions, Journal of Neuroscience, 27(23), 6219-6223. #
  • WOOLGAR, A., BOR, D., DUNCAN, J., Parr, A., CUSACK, R., NIMMO-SMITH, I., Antoun, N, Manes, F. & Torralava, T (2007) Fluid intelligence after brain damage: relating brain lesion to behavioural deficit, 13th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, S115 #
  • BOR, D., DUNCAN, J., LEE, A.C.H., PARR, A. & OWEN, A.M (2006) Frontal lobe involvement in spatial span: Converging studies of normal and impaired function, Neuropsychologia ,44(2), 229-237 #
  • CUSACK, R., MITCHELL, D.J. & DUNCAN, J. (2006) Fronto-parietal MD network versus object processing: differential roles for anterior and posterior intraparietal sulcus, Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, G1 #
  • DUNCAN, J. (2006) EPS Mid-Career Award 2004 - Brain mechanisms of attention, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59(1), 2-27 #
  • Everling, S., Tinsley, C. J., Gaffan, D., & DUNCAN, J. (2006) Selective representation of task-relevant objects and locations in the monkey prefrontal cortex, European Journal of Neuroscience, 23(8), 2197-2214. #
  • HAMPSHIRE, A., DUNCAN, J. & OWEN, A. M. (2006) Components of the human frontoparietal network become responsive to the presentation of task relevant information at dissociable levels of abstraction, 12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping , S100 #
  • HEIN, G., PARR, A. & DUNCAN, J. (2006) Within modality and cross modality attentional blinks in a simple discrimination task, Perception and Psychophysics, 68(1), 54-61(8) #
  • Hon, N., Epstein, R.A., OWEN, A.M. & DUNCAN, J. (2006) Frontoparietal activity with minimal decision and control, Journal of Neuroscience, 26(38), 9805-9809. #
  • MITCHELL, D., DUNCAN, J. & CUSACK, R. (2006) Object processing can be differentiated from the fronto-parietal multiple-demands network within the intraparietal sulcus, 13th Annual Meeting for the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, S139 #
  • PEERS, P., CUSACK, R. & DUNCAN, J. (2006) Modulation of spatial bias in the dual task paradigm: Evidence from patients with unilateral parietal lesions and controls, Neuropsychologia, 44(8), 1325-1335 #
  • Bourke, P.A. & DUNCAN, J. (2005) Effect of template complexity on visual search and dual task performance., Psychological Science, 16(3), 208-213 #
  • DUNCAN, J. (2005) Frontal lobe function and general intelligence: Why it matters, Cortex, 41(2), 215-217 #
  • DUNCAN, J. (2005) Task models in prefrontal cortex., In U. Mayr, E. Awh & S. Keele (Eds.), Developing individuality in the human brain: A tribute to Michael Posner, p 87-108 #
  • DUNCAN, J. (2005) Prefrontal cortex and Spearman's g, in Measuring the mind: Speed, control and age - John Duncan, Louise Phillips, Peter McLeod, Chapter 10, p249-272 #
  • DUNCAN, J., Phillips, L., and Mcleod, P. (2005) Measuring the mind: Speed, control and age #
  • PEERS, P., Ludwig, C., Rorden, C., CUSACK, R., Bonfiglioli, C., Bundesen, C., Driver, J., Antoun, N., and DUNCAN, J. (2005) Attentional functions of parietal and frontal cortex, Cerebral Cortex, 15(10), 1469-1484 #
  • BISHOP, S., DUNCAN, J., BRETT, M. & LAWRENCE, A. (2004) Prefrontal cortical function and anxiety: controlling attention to threat-related stimuli, Nature Neuroscience, 7(2), 184-188 #
  • BISHOP, S.J., DUNCAN, J. & LAWRENCE, A.D. (2004) State Anxiety Modulation of the Amygdala Response to Unattended Threat-Related Stimuli, Journal of Neuroscience, 24(46), 10364-10368 #
  • DUNCAN, J. (2004) Selective attention in distributed brain systems, In M. I. Posner (Ed.), Neuropsychology of attention - Guilford, 105-113 #
  • Kanwisher, N., and DUNCAN, J. (2004) Attention and Performance XX: Functional brain imaging of visual cognition, Oxford: Oxford University Press #
  • PEERS, P., CUSACK, R., Antoun, N., & DUNCAN, J. (2004) Neural correlates of spatial and non-spatial attention. Evidence from patients with unilateral brain lesions, Neuroimage (Abstract from British Neuropsychological Society Spring Meeting ) #
  • BOR, D., DUNCAN, J., Wiseman, R.J. & OWEN, A.M. (2003) Encoding strategies dissociate prefrontal activity from working memory demand, Neuron, 37(2), 361-367 #
  • DUNCAN, J., Bundesen, C., Olson, A., Humphreys, G., Ward, R., Kyllingsbaek, S., Van Raamsdonk, M., RORDEN, C. & Chavda, S. (2003) Attentional functions in dorsal and ventral simultanagnosia, Cognitive Neuropsychology, 20(8), 675-701 #
  • Duncan, John (2003) Intelligence tests predict brain response to demanding task events, Nature Neuroscience, 6(3), 207-208 #
  • ARNELL, K. & DUNCAN, J. (2002) Separate and shared sources of dual-task cost in stimulus identification and response selection, Cognitive Psychology, 44(2), 105-47 #
  • BONFIGLIOLI, C., DUNCAN, J., RORDEN, C. & Kennett, S. (2002) Action and perception: Evidence against converging selection processes, Visual Cognition, 9, 458-476 #
  • DUNCAN, J. & Miller, E.K. (2002) Cognitive focus through adaptive neural coding in the primate prefrontal cortex, In D.T. Stuss & R.T. Knight (Eds.), Principles of frontal lobe function (pp278-191). Oxford, Oxford University Press #
  • Everling, S., Tinsley, C.J., Gaffan, D. & Duncan, J. (2002) Filtering of neural signals by focused attention in the monkey prefrontal cortex, Nature Neuroscience July 5(7), 671-676 #
  • Hornak, J., DUNCAN, J. & Gaffan, D. (2002) The role of the vertical meridian in visual memory for objects, Neuropsychologia, 40(12), 1873-1880 #
  • OSSWALD, K., DUNCAN, J., Logan, G.D., & BRETT, M (2002) Automatic response selection - functional imaging of practice effects, Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2002. Online., Program No. 163.2. #
  • Sheppard, D.M., DUNCAN, J., Shapiro, K.L. & Hillstrom, A.P. (2002) Objects and events in the attentional blink, Psychological Science, 13(5), 410-415 #
  • BOR, D., DUNCAN, J ., & OWEN, A.M (2001) Organised working memory lists decrease task difficulty but increase activation in the lateral frontal cortex., Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 27, 80.3 #
  • BOR, D., DUNCAN, J. & OWEN, A.M. (2001) The Role of Spatial Configuration in Tests of Working Memory Explored with Functional Neuroimaging, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 42 (3), 217-224 #
  • Chelazzi, L., Miller, E.K., DUNCAN, J. & Desimone, R. (2001) Responses of neurons in macaque area V4 during memory-guided visual search, Cerebral Cortex, 11 (8), 761-772 #
  • DUNCAN, J. (2001) Frontal lobe function and the control of visual attention, in Visual attention and neural circuits, by J. Braun and C. Koch, MIT Press #
  • DUNCAN, J. (2001) An adaptive coding model of neural function in prefrontal cortex, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2(11), 820-829 #
  • OWEN , A.M., DUNCAN, J. & , (2001) Prefrontal Cortex Activation Increases In Association With An Easier Variant of the Spatial Span Task, NeuroImage, 13, S301 #
  • Rypma, B., DUNCAN, J., Berger, J.S., McClintock, C.M., & D'Esposito, M.D (2001) Neural correlates of individual differences in executive control: an event related fMRI study of processing speed and learning, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 27, 782,12 #
  • BOR, D., DUNCAN, J., OWEN, A.M. (2000) Lateral prefrontal cortex activity may be modulated by the configuration of stimuli in a spatial working memory task, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 26, 1501 #
  • DUNCAN, J. (2000) Visual attention in mind and brain, Brain, Perception, Memory: Advances in Cognitive Neuroscience by : J. J. Bolhuis, OUP Press. p49-68 #
  • DUNCAN, J. & Owen, A.M. (2000) Common regions of the human frontal lobe recruited by diverse cognitive demands, Trends in Neurosciences, 23(10), 475-483 #
  • DUNCAN, J. and OWEN, A. (2000) Dissociative methods in the study of frontal lobe function., In Attention and performance XVIII, 567-576. By S. Monsell and J. Driver, MIT Press. #
  • DUNCAN, J., Seitz, R.J., KOLODNY, J., BOR, D., Herzog, H., AHMED, A., NEWELL, F., & EMSLIE, H (2000) A neural basis for general intelligence., Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 26, 201.12 #
  • DUNCAN, J., Seitz, R.J., Kolodny, J., BOR, D., Herzog, H., Ahmed, A., Newell, F.N. & EMSLIE, H. (2000) A neural basis for General Intelligence, Science (21 July 2000), 289 (5478), 457-460 #
  • ELVEVAAG, B., DUNCAN, J. & Mckenna, P.J. (2000) The use of cognitive context in schizophrenia: An investigation, Psychological Medicine (2000) 30, 885-897 #
  • Levine, B., ROBERTSON, I.H., CLARE, L., CARTER, G., Hong, J., WILSON, B.A., DUNCAN, J. & Stuss, D.T. (2000) Rehabilitation of executive functioning: An experimental-clinical validation of Goal Management Training, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 6(3), 299-312. #
  • Schneider, W.X., OWEN, A.M. & DUNCAN, J. (2000) Executive Control and the Frontal Lobe: Current Issues, Experimental Brain Research, 133(1), 1-2 #
  • Vandenberghe, R., DUNCAN, J., ARNELL, K.M., BISHOP, S.J., Herrod, N.J., OWEN, A.M., Minhas, P.S., Dupont, P., Pickard, J.D. & Orban, G.A. (2000) Maintaining and shifting attention within left or right hemifield, Cerebral Cortex 10 (9), 706-713 #
  • BOR, D., DUNCAN, J., Navaddat, N., Williams, E.J., Pickard, J.D., & OWEN, A.M (1999) Dissociation of function within the human lateral frontal cortex., NeuroImage, 9, S330 #
  • Duncan, J. (1999) Attention., In F.C. Keil & R.A. Wilson (eds), The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press #
  • DUNCAN, J., & OWEN,A.M (1999) Common regions of the human frontal lobe recruited by diverse cognitive demands, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 25, 620.12 #
  • Duncan, J., Bundesen, C., Olson, A., Humphreys, G., Chavda, S., & Shibuya, H. (1999) Systematic analysis of deficits in visual attention, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 128(4), 450-478 #
  • Humphreys, G. W., Duncan, J., & Treisman, A. M. (Eds.) (1999) Attention, space, and action: Studies in cognitive neuroscience, OUP #
  • BADDELEY, A., EMSLIE, H., KOLODNY, J. & DUNCAN, J. (1998) Random generation and the executive control of working memory., Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1998, 51A (4), 819-852. #
  • Chelazzi, L., DUNCAN, J., Miller, E.K., & Desimone, R. (1998) Responses of neurons in inferior temporal cortex during memory-guided visual search, Journal of Neurophysiology, 1998, vol. 80, no. 6, pp. 2918-2940. #
  • DUNCAN, J. (1998) Converging levels of analysis in the cognitive neuroscience of visual attention., Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B., 353, 1307-1317. #
  • Duncan, J., Humphreys, G. & Ward, R. (1997) Competitive brain activity in visual attention., Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 7, 255-261 #
  • DUNCAN, J., Johnson, R., Swales, M. & Freer, C. (1997) Frontal lobe deficits after head injury: Unity and diversity of function., Cognitive Neuropsychology, 14, 713-741 #
  • DUNCAN, J., Martens, S. & Ward, R. (1997) Restricted attentional capacity within but not between sensory modalities., Nature, 387, 808-810 #
  • Vandenberghe, R., DUNCAN, J., Dupont, P., Ward, R., Poline, J.-B., Bormans, G., Michiels, J., Mortelmans, L. & Orban, G. (1997) Attention to one or two features in left or right visual field: A positron emission topography study., Journal of Neuroscience, 17, 3739-3750 #
  • Ward, R., Duncan, J. & Shapiro, K. (1997) Effects of similarity, difficulty, and nontarget presentation on the time course of visual attention., Perception and Psychophysics, 59, 4, 593-600 #
  • Bourke, P.A., Duncan, J. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1996) A general factor involved in dual task performance decrement, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 49A, 525-545 #
  • Duncan, J. (1996) Cooperating brain systems in selective perception and action., In T. Inui & J.L. McClelland (Eds), Attention and Performance XVI. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp.549-578 #
  • Duncan, J. (1996) Information and uncertainty in a cumulative science of behavior: 25 years after Broadbent’s Decision and Stress, American Journal of Psychology, 109, 617-655 #
  • Duncan, J. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1996) Objects and attributes in divided attention: Surface and boundary systems, Perception and Psychophysics, 58, 1076-1084 #
  • Duncan, J., Emslie. H., Williams, P., Johnson, R. & Freer, C. (1996) Intelligence and the frontal lobe: The organization of goal-directed behavior., Cognitive Psychology, 30, 257-303 #
  • Ward, R., Duncan, J. & Shapiro, K. (1996) The slow time-course of visual attention, Cognitive Psychology, 30, 79-109 #
  • Desimone, R. & Duncan, J. (1995) Neural mechanisms of selective visual attention., Annual Review of Neuroscience, 18, 193-222 #
  • Desimone, R., Chelazzi, L., Miller, E.K. & Duncan, J. (1995) Neuronal mechanisms of visual attention., In T. Papathomas, C.C. Chubb, A. Gorea & E. Kowler (Eds),Early Vision and Beyond, pp.219-226 Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press. #
  • Duncan, J. (1995) Target and nontarget grouping in visual search., Perception and Psychophysics, 57, 117-120 #
  • Duncan, J., Burgess, P. & Emslie, H. (1995) Fluid intelligence after frontal lobe lesions, Neuropsychologia, 33, 261-268 #
  • Duncan, J.D. (1995) Attention, intelligence and the frontal lobes., In M.S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences. The MIT Press, 721-733 #
  • Desimone, R., Chelazzi, L., Miller, E.K. & Duncan, J.D. (1994) Neural mechanisms for memory-guided visual search., In B. Albowitz, K. Albus, U. Kuhnt, H.- Ch. Nothdurft & P. Wahle (Eds), Structural and Functional Organization of the Neocortex., pp.279-285, Berlin: Springer-Verlag #
  • Duncan, J. (1994) Selective attention in the primate visual system., Canadian Psychology, 35, 104-105. #
  • Duncan, J., Ward, R. & Shapiro, K. (1994) Direct measurement of attentional dwell time in human vision., Nature, 369, 313-315. #
  • Humphreys, G., Romani, C., Olson, A., Riddoch, M.J. & Duncan, J. (1994) Non-spatial extinction following lesions of the parietal lobe in humans, Nature, 372, 357-359 #
  • Chelazzi, L., Miller, E.K., Duncan, J. & Desimone, R. (1993) A neural basis for visual search in inferior temporal cortex., Nature, 363, 345-347. #
  • Duncan, J. (1993) Selection of visual information in the control of behaviour., In A.D. Baddeley & L. Weiskrantz (Eds.), Attention: Selection, Awareness and Control: A Tribute to Donald Broadbent (pp. 53-71). Oxford: Clarendon Press. #
  • Duncan, J. (1993) Similarity between concurrent visual discriminations: Dimensions and objects., Perception and Psychophysics, 54, 425-430. #
  • Duncan, J., Williams, P., Nimmo-Smith, I. & Brown, I. (1993) The control of skilled behavior: Learning, intelligence, and distraction., In D.E. Meyer & S. Kornblum (Eds.), Attention & Performance XIV: Synergies in Experimental Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Neuroscience (pp. 323-341). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. #
  • Duncan, J.D. (1993) Coordination of what and where in visual attention., Perception, 22, 1261-1270. #
  • Duncan, J. & Humphreys, G. (1992) Beyond the search surface: Visual search and attentional engagement., Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 18, 578-588. #
  • Duncan, J., Williams, P. & Brown, I. (1991) Components of driving skill: Experience does not mean expertise., Ergonomics, 34, 919-937. #
  • Duncan, J. (1990) Goal weighting and the choice of behaviour in a complex world., Ergonomics, 33, 1265-1279. #
  • Duncan, J. (1989) Parallel processing: Giving up without a fight., Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12 402-403. #
  • Duncan, J. (1989) Boundary conditions on parallel processing in human vision., Perception, 18, 457-469. #
  • Duncan, J. & Humphreys, G.W. (1989) Visual search and stimulus similarity., Psychological Review, 96, 433-458. #
  • Duncan, J. (1987) Attention and reading: Wholes and parts in shape recognition. A tutorial review., In M. Coltheart (Ed.), Attention and Performance XII: The Psychology of Reading (pp.39-61). London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. #
  • Duncan, J. (1986) Disorganisation of behaviour after frontal lobe damage., Cognitive Neuropsychology, 3, 271-290. #
  • Duncan, J. (1986) Consistent and varied training in the theory of automatic and controlled information processing., Cognition, 23, 279-284. #
  • Logie, R.H., Duncan, J. & Baddeley, A.D. (1986) Difficulties with comprehension, memory and concentration in listening to complex information., In Improving the Presentation of Information to Juries in Fraud Trials (pp. 41-51), (Report to Lord Roskill Committee on Fraud Trials - Part 3), London: H.M.S.O. #
  • McKenna, F.P., Duncan, J. & Brown, I.D. (1986) Cognitive abilities and safety on the road: A re-examination of individual differences in dichotic listening and search for embedded figures., Ergonomics, 29, 649-663. #
  • Duncan, J. (1985) Attention., (Editors): Kuper, A. & Kuper, J. In: The Social Science Encyclopaedia. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, p. 50 #
  • Duncan, J. (1985) Visual search and visual attention., In M.I. Posner & O. Marin (Eds.), Attention and Performance XI (pp.85-106). Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. #
  • Duncan, J. (1985) Two techniques for investigating perception without awareness., Perception and Psychophysics, 38, 296-298. #
  • Duncan, J. (1984) Selective attention and the organization of visual information., Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 113(4), 501-517 #
  • Duncan, J. (1983) Perceptual selection based on alpha - numeric class: Evidence from partial reports., Perception and Psychophysics, 33(6), 533 - 547 #
  • Duncan, J. (1983) Category effects in visual search: A failiure to replicate the ‘oh-zero’ phenomenon., Perception and Psychophysics. 34(3), 221-232 #
  • Duncan, J. (1981) Does cognitive psychology need ‘new direction’? (review - Cognitive Psychology: New directions, -Editor: Clayton, G. London: Routledge & Keegen Paul, 1980)., Contemporary Psychology, 26, 472-473 #
  • Duncan, J. (1981) Directing attention in the visual field., Perception and Psychophysics, 30, (1) p. 90 - 93 #
  • Duncan, J. (1980) The demonstration of capacity limitation., Cognitive Psychology, 12 p. 75 - 96 #
  • Duncan, J. (1980) The locus of interference in the perception of simultaneous stimuli., Psychological Review, 87(3), 272-300 #
  • Duncan, J. (1979) Divided Attention: The whole is more than the sum of its parts., Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance., 5(2), 216-228 #