Publications

 PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

McKinney, M. R., Stilwell, B. T., Anderson, B. A. (In prep). Experience-modulated perceived salience.
McKinney, M. R., Lee, D. S., Anderson, B. A. (In prep). Experience-driven attentional capture.
Anderson, B.A., Lee, D.S., McKinney, M.R. Clement, A. Getting a grip on visual search: Relating effort exertion to the control of attention. Atten Percept Psychophys.

McKinney, M. R., Hansen, H. A., Irons, J. L., & Leber, A. B. (2023). Attentional strategy choice is not predicted by cognitive ability or academic performance. Visual Cognition.

Li, W. Y., McKinney, M. R., Irons, J. L., & Leber, A. B. (2022). Assessing the generality of strategy optimization across distinct attentional tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

*denotes Undergraduate student mentee

*Bonner, E., *Paulder, J., McKinney, M.R., Stilwell, B.T., Anderson, B.A. (2025). Experience-modulated perceived salience. Annual Student Research Week, Texas A&M University.

*Shehata, D., *Winston, K., McKinney, M.R., Anderson, B.A. (2025). Intrinsically motivating strategic control with an inefficient visual search environment. Annual Student Research Week, Texas A&M University.

McKinney, M.R., Anderson, B.A. (2024). The strategic control of attention across single- and dual-target search. Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. New York, New York.

McKinney, M.R., Lee, D.S., Anderson, B.A. (2024). Does anticipated effort modulate attentional biases for aversively conditioned stimuli? Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg, Florida.

* Topping, T.A., McKinney, M.R., Lee, D.S., Anderson, B.A. (2024). Are attentional biases for aversive stimuli modulated by anticipated physical effort? Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Texas A&M University satellite conference.

*Joseph, N.A., McKinney, M.R., Lee, D.S., Anderson, B.A., (2023). Learned inefficiency and its effects on strategic attentional control. Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Texas A&M University satellite conference.

McKinney, M.R., Lee, D.S., Anderson, B.A. (2023). Effort-Driven Attentional Capture. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg, Florida; Annual meeting of the Object Perception, Attention & Memory (OPAM); Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. San Francisco, California.

McKinney, M. R., Zhang, T., Irons, J. L., Leber, A. B. (2021). Further evidence of a divergence between cognitive ability and attentional control strategy. Annual meeting of the Object Perception, Attention & Memory (OPAM), Virtual meeting.

Zhang, T., McKinney, M. R., Irons, J. L., Leber, A. B. (2021). Attentional strategy and effort avoidance: the role of display enumeration. Annual meeting of Object Perception, Attention & Memory (OPAM), Virtual meeting.

* Khandelwal, V., Leber, A. B. McKinney, M. R., Li, W. Y., Irons, J. L., (2020). Strategy instruction boosts visual search optimality but such improvements transfer poorly to similar tasks. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Virtual meeting.

Li, W. Y., McKinney, M. R., Irons, J. L., Leber, A. B. (2020). How universal is suboptimal visual search strategy? Annual meeting of Object Perception, Attention & Memory (OPAM), Virtual meeting.

Li, W. Y., McKinney, M. R., Irons, J. L., Leber, A. B. (2020). Exploring the generalizability of visual search strategy. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Virtual meeting.

McKinney, M. R., Hansen, H. A., Irons, J. L., Leber, A. B. (2020). Motivating strategic attentional control with monetary reward. Annual meeting of Object Perception, Attention & Memory (OPAM), Virtual meeting. 

McKinney, M. R., Irons, J. L., Leber, A. B. (2020). Monetary reward motivates the adoption of optimal attentional control strategies. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Virtual meeting.

Shaw, D. C., McKinney, M. R., Irons, J. L., Leber, A. B. (2020). Does task switching ability predict the selection of attentional control strategies? Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Virtual meeting.

McKinney, M. R., Hansen, H. A., Irons, J. L., Leber, A. B. (2019). An exploration of ability and personality trait variables predicting goal-directed attention in visual search. Annual meeting of Object Perception, Attention, & Memory (OPAM), Montréal, Québec, Canada.

McKinney, M. R., Hansen, H. A., Irons, J. L., Leber, A. B. (2019). An exploration of trait variables predicting the goal-directed control of visual attention. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg, Florida.

McKinney, M. R., Hansen, H. A., Irons, J. L., Leber, A. B. (2019). An exploration of trait variables predicting the goal-directed control of visual attention. Denman Undergraduate Research Forum; Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences - CogFest; Psychology Undergraduate Research Colloquium, Columbus, Ohio.