School of Psychology

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Forthcoming

Sumner, P. Edden, RAE. Bompas, A. and Singh, K.D. More GABA, less distraction: A neurochemical predictor of motor decision speed.

Boy, F. Husain, M. and Sumner, P. Unconscious inhibition separates two forms of cognitive control

Boy, F. Husain, M. Singh, K.D. and Sumner, P. Supplementary Motor Area Activations in Unconscious Inhibition of Voluntary Action

Sumner P. Determinants of saccadic latency. Oxford Handbook on Eye Movements (Liversedge, SP. Gilchrist,ID and Everling, S. Eds). Oxford University Press.

2010

Boy, F. and Sumner, P. (2010). Tight coupling between positive and reversed priming in the masked prime paradigm. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percep. Perform. (in press). [pdf]

Hermens, F., Sumner, P., and Walker, R. (2010). Inhibition of masked primes as revealed by saccade curvature. Vision Research. 50: 46-56. [pdf]

Anderson, EJ. Mannan, SK. Rees, G. Sumner, P. and Kennard, C. (2010). Overlapping functional anatomy for working memory and visual search. Experimental Brain Research. 200: 91:107.

2009

Bompas, A. and Sumner, P. (2009). Temporal dynamics of saccadic distraction. Journal of Vision. 9(9):17, 1–14.  [pdf]

Bompas, A. and Sumner, P. (2009). Oculomotor distraction by signals invisible to the retinotectal and magnocellular pathways.  Journal of Neurophysiology. 102: 2387-2395.  [pdf]

2008

Bompas, A., Sterling, T., Rafal, R. and Sumner, P. (2008). Naso-temporal asymmetry for signals invisible to the retinotectal pathway. Journal of Neurophysiology 100, 412-421. [pdf]

Bompas, A. and Sumner, P.  (2008). Sensory sluggishness dissociates saccadic, manual and perceptual responses: an S cone study. Journal of Vision. 8(8): 10, 1-13. [pdf]

Boy, F. Clarke, K. and Sumner, P. (2008) Mask stimulus triggers inhibition in subliminal visuo-motor priming. Experimental Brain Research 190, 111-116. [pdf]

Anderson, EJ. Husain, M. and Sumner, P (2008) Human intraparietal sulcus (IPS) and competition between exogenous and endogenous saccade plans. Neuroimage 40, 838-851. [pdf]

Sumner, P. and Husain, M (2008). At the edge of consciousness: automatic motor activation and voluntary control. The Neuroscientist,14, 474-486. [pdf]

Sumner, P., Anderson, EJ. Sylvester, R. Haynes, JD, Rees, G. (2008) Combined orientation and color information in human V1 for both L-M and S-cone chromatic axes. Neuroimage 39, 814-824. [pdf]

Sumner, P. (2008) Mask-induced priming and the negative compatibility effect. Experimental Psychology 55, 133-141. [pdf]

Sumner, P., Brandwood, T. (2008) Oscillations in motor priming: Positive rebound follows inhibitory phase in the masked prime paradigm. Journal of Motor Behavior, 40: 484-9. [pdf]

Anderson, EJ. Mannan, S. Rees, G. Sumner, P. and Kennard, C. (2008). A role for spatial and non-spatial working memory in visual search. Experimental Psychology 55, 301-312.

2007

Sumner, P., Nachev, P., Morris, P., Peters, A.M., Jackson, S.R., Kennard, C., Husain, M. (2007). Human medial frontal cortex mediates unconscious inhibition of voluntary action. Neuron. 54, 697–711. [pdf]  [supp]

Anderson, EJ. Mannan, S. Husain, M. Rees, G. Sumner, P. Mort, DJ. McRobbie,D. and Kennard, C. (2007). Involvement of prefrontal cortex in visual search. Experimental Brain Research 180, 289-302.

Sumner, P. (2007). Negative and positive masked-priming – implications for motor inhibition. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 3, 317-326. [pdf]

2006

Sumner, P., Tsai, P-C., Yu, K., Nachev, P. (2006) Attentional modulation of sensorimotor processes in the absence of perceptual awareness. PNAS 103, 10520-10525. [pdf] [supp]

Sumner, P., Nachev, P., Castor-Perry, S., Isenman, H., Kennard, C. (2006). Which visual pathways cause fixation-related inhibition? Journal of Neurophysiology 95, 1527-1536. [pdf] [fig1] [fig2]

Sumner, P. (2006). Inhibition vs attentional momentum in cortical and collicular mechanisms of IOR. Cognitive Neuropsychology 23, 1035-1048. [pdf]

Sumner, P., Ahmed, L. (2006). Task switching: The effect of task recency with dual and single affordance stimuli.  The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 59, 1255-1276. [pdf]

Sumner, P. (2006). Seeing colour. Advances in Clinical Neuroscience & Rehabilitation 6, 12-13. [pdf]

2000-2005

Sumner, P., Arrese, C. A. and Partridge, J. C.  (2005) The ecology of visual pigment tuning in an Australian marsupial: the honey possum (Tarsipes rostratus).  Journal of Experimental Biology, 208, 1803-1815. [pdf]

Orfanidou, E., & Sumner, P. (2005). Language switching and the effects of orthographic specificity and response repetition. Memory and Cognition, 33, 355-369. [pdf]

Sumner, P., Nachev, P., Vora, N., Husain, M. and Kennard, C. (2004). Distinct cortical and collicular mechanisms of inhibition of return revealed using S cone stimuli. Current Biology. 14, 2259-2263. [pdf] [supp]

Sumner, P. and Mollon, J. D. (2003) The colors of primate pelage and skin: Objective assessment of conspicuousness, American Journal of Primatology, 59. 67-91. [pdf]

Sumner, P. and Mollon, J. D. (2003). Did trichromacy evolve for frugivory or folivory. Normal and Defective Colour Vision., Mollon JD, Pokorny J, Knoblauch K, eds . Oxford: OUP. pp21-30. [pdf]

Smithson, H, Sumner, P. and Mollon, J.D. (2003). How to find a tritan line. Normal and Defective Colour Vision., Mollon JD, Pokorny J, Knoblauch K, eds. Oxford: OUP. [pdf]

Monsell, S., Sumner, P., Waters, H. (2003) Task-set reconfiguration with predictable and unpredictable task switches. Memory and Cognition. 31, 327-342. [pdf]

Sumner, P,  Adamjee, T. and Mollon, J.D. (2002) Signals invisible to the collicular and magnocellular pathways can capture visual attention. Current Biology, 12, 1312-1316. [pdf]

Sumner, P. (2002). Colour vision: why are we primates unique? Eye News, 8, 48-60. [pdf]

Sumner, P. and Mollon, J. D. (2000a). Catarrhine photopigments are optimized for detecting targets against a foliage background. Journal of Experimental Biology, 203, 1963-1986. [pdf]

Sumner, P. and Mollon, J. D. (2000b). Chromaticity as a signal of ripeness in fruits taken by primates. Journal of Experimental Biology, 203, 1987-2000. [pdf]