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Journal Articles

  1. 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.
  2. Simons DJ, and Rensink RA (2005a). Change blindness: Past, present, and future. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9: 16-20.
  3. Simons DJ, and Rensink RA (2005b). Change blindness, representations, and consciousness: Reply to Noë. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9: 219.
  4. Harrison J, Rensink RA, and van de Panne M (2004). Obscuring length changes during animated motion. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 23: 569-573.
  5. Rensink RA (2004). Visual sensing without seeing. Psychological Science, 15:27-32.
  6. Rensink RA, and Cavanagh P (2004). Influence of cast shadows on visual search. Perception, 33: 1339-1358. (Special issue on shadow perception).
  7. Simons DJ, and Rensink RA (2003). Induced failures of visual awareness . Journal of Vision, 3, i. http://www.journalofvision.org/3/1/i.
  8. DiLollo V, Enns JT, and Rensink RA (2002). Object substitution without reentry? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131:594-596.
  9. Rensink RA (2002). Change detection. Annual Review of Psychology, 53:245-277.
  10. Thornton IM, Rensink RA, and Shiffrar M (2002). Active vs. passive processing of biological motion. Perception, 31: 837-853.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Rensink RA (2000a). The dynamic representation of scenes. Visual Cognition, 7:17-42.
  14. Rensink RA (2000b). Visual search for change: A probe into the nature of attentional processing. Visual Cognition, 7:345-376.
  15. Rensink RA (2000c). Seeing, sensing, and scrutinizing. Vision Research, 40: 1469-1487.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. O’Regan JK, Rensink RA, and Clark JJ (1999). Change blindness as a result of ‘mudsplashes’. Nature, 398:34.
  20. Rensink RA, and Enns JT (1998). Early completion of occluded objects. Vision Research, 38:2489-2505.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. Rensink RA, and Enns JT (1995). Preemption effects in visual search: Evidence for low-level grouping. Psychological Review, 102:101-130.
  24. Enns JT, and Rensink RA (1991a). Preattentive recovery of three-dimensional orientation from line drawings. Psychological Review, 98:335-351.
  25. 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.
  26. Enns JT, and Rensink RA (1990a). Influence of scene-based properties on visual search. Science, 247:721-723.
  27. Enns JT, and Rensink RA (1990b). Sensitivity to three-dimensional orientation in visual search. Psychological Science, 1:323-326.
  28. 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.
  29. Rensink RA (1990). Toolbox-based routines for Macintosh timing and display. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 22:105-117.

Works In Progress

  1. Rensink RA, and Cavanagh P. The Influence of Cast Shadows on Visual Search. Submitted to Perception.

Book Chapters and Commentaries

  1. 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.
  2. Rensink RA (2005b). Change blindness. In McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology (2005). (pp. 44-46). New York: McGraw-Hill.
  3. Rensink RA (2003). Visual attention. In L Nadel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: Nature Publishing Group.
  4. Rensink RA (2002). Changes. In J Hyönä, DP Munoz, W Heide, R Radach (eds.), The Brain’s Eye. (pp. 197-207). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
  5. Rensink RA (2001a). Four-sight in hindsight: On the existence of magical numbers in vision. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24:141-142.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Rensink RA (2000a). Scene perception. In AE Kazdin (ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
  9. Rensink RA (2000b). The dynamic representation of scenes. In DJ Simons (ed.) Change Blindness and Visual Memory (pp. 17-42). London: Psychology Press.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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. 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.]
  2. 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.]
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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. 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.]
  2. Rensink RA (2005). Robust inattentional blindness. Journal of Vision, 5: . http://journalofvision.org/5. [Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA.]
  3. 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.]
  4. 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.]
  5. 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.]
  6. 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.]
  7. 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.]
  8. Rensink RA (2004b). Attentional and nonattentional processes in vision. SIGGRAPH Notes: Course 75. [SIGGRAPH 2004; Los Angeles, CA, USA. August 2004.]
  9. 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.]
  10. 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.]
  11. Rensink RA (2003a). Attentional and nonattentional processes in human vision. SIGGRAPH Notes: Course 42. [SIGGRAPH 2003; San Diego, CA, USA.]
  12. Rensink RA (2003b). Attentional and nonattentional processes in vision: Implications for display design. CHI Tutorial Notes: Tutorial 3. [CHI 2003; Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA.]
  13. 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.]
  14. 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.]
  15. 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.]
  16. Rensink RA (2002b). Attentional and nonattentional processes in human vision. SIGGRAPH Notes: Course 15. [SIGGRAPH 2002; San Antonio, TX, USA.]
  17. 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.]
  18. 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.]
  19. Rensink RA (2001b). The influence of structure on visual short-term memory. Proc. Third International Conference on Memory: 47. [ICOM 3; Valencia, Spain.]
  20. 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.]
  21. Rensink RA (2000). Differential Grouping of Features. Perception, 29(suppl.):99-100. [ECVP 2000; Groningen, The Netherlands.]
  22. 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.]
  23. 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.]
  24. Rensink RA (1999a). The magical number one, plus or minus zero. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 40:52. [ARVO 1999; Ft. Lauderdale, FL.]
  25. Rensink RA (1999b). Attentional processing of geometric figures. Perception, 28(suppl.):55-56. [ECVP 1999; Trieste, Italy.]
  26. Rensink RA (1999c). Seeing, sensing, and scrutinizing. Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Vision Research Conference :83. [Ft. Lauderdale FL, USA.]
  27. Thornton IM, Rensink RA, and Shiffrar, MM (1999). Biological motion processing without attention. Perception, 28(suppl.):51. [ECVP 1999; Trieste, Italy.]
  28. 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.]
  29. Rensink RA (1998b). Mindsight: Visual sensing without seeing. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 39:631. [ARVO 1998; Ft. Lauderdale, FL.]
  30. Rensink RA (1998c). Limits to attentional selection for orientation. Perception, 27(suppl.):36. [ECVP 1998; Oxford, England.]
  31. Rensink RA (1998d). Change blindness and the dynamic nature of vision. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 3:53. [Psychonomics 1998; Dallas, TX.]
  32. 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.]
  33. Rosenholtz RE, and Rensink RA (1998). Change detection in textured patterns. Perception, 27(suppl.):205-206. [ECVP 1998; Oxford, England.]
  34. Thornton IM, Rensink RA, and Shiffrar, MM (1998). Active versus passive processing of biological motion. Perception, 27(suppl.):68. [ECVP 1998; Oxford, England.]
  35. 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.]
  36. 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.
  37. 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.]
  38. 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.]
  39. 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.]
  40. 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.]
  41. Rensink RA (1996). The attentional capacity of visual search under flicker conditions. Perception, 25(suppl.):2. [ECVP 1996; Strassburg, France.]
  42. 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.]
  43. 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.]
  44. 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.]
  45. Rensink RA, and Cavanagh P (1994). Identification of highlights in early vision. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 35:1623. [ARVO 1994; Sarasota, FL.]
  46. Enns JT, and Rensink RA (1993). Conditional vs. unconditional pop-out. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 34:1236. [ARVO 1993; Sarasota, FL.]
  47. Rensink RA, and Cavanagh P (1993). Processing of shadows at preattentive levels. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 34:1288. [ARVO 1993; Sarasota, FL.]
  48. Enns JT, and Rensink RA (1992). An object completion process in early vision. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 33:1263. [ARVO 1992; Sarasota, FL.]
  49. 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.]
  50. 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).]


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