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Nancy Carlisle, Associate Professor of Psychology at Lehigh University

Nancy Carlisle

Associate Professor

Director of Graduate Studies

610.758.5122
nbc415@lehigh.edu
Chandler-Ullmann room 112
Education:

Ph.D. in Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 2011

B.S. in Zoology, Concentration in Animal Behavior and Neurobiology, Michigan State University, 2005

B.S. in Psychology, Michigan State University, 2005

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Research Areas

Additional Interests

  • Interdisciplinary research

Research Statement

My research focuses on the top-down control of our visual attention, used to avoid us being driven solely by bottom-up information coming into the visual system. When we know what we are looking for, we create a search template, as James (1890) states “an imaginary duplicate of the object in mind.” By knowing what we are looking for, we can bias our visual system to select information in the environment that matches this template. In my work, I use behavioral, eyetracking, computational modeling, and electrophysiological techniques in order to address questions about attentional control.

I am also interested in working memory.  My interest includes both how working memory is utilized in attentional control, and as a separate selective cognitive process that shares many characteristics of attention.

Publications


Published Peer-Review Journal Articles: Google Scholar Link

Google Scholar Citations: 1606 total (1109 since 2018; 613 between 2021-2023), h-index 17
(data pulled 12/12/2023)
Coding system: CRediT Contributor Roles Taxonomy indicates Carlisle role in each project 
* Indicates CAMlab Trainee Author

Chidharom, M.* & Carlisle, N.B. (Accepted pending minor revisions). Individual differences in proactive control predict negative template use. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 
2023 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 3.1
CRediT: Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing- review & editing, Funding acquisition.

Tong, X., Xie, H., Fonzo, G.A., Zhao, K., Satterthwaite, T.D., Carlisle, N., Zhang. Y.  (In Press). Symptom Dimensions of Resting-State Electroencephalographic Functional Connectivity in Autism. Nature Mental Health. CRediT: Conceptualization, Writing- review & editing.

Tong, X., Xie, H., Wu, W., Keller, C.J., Fonzo, G.A., Chidharom, M.*, Carlisle, N., Etkin, A., Zhang. Y. (In Press). Individual Deviations from Normative Electroencephalographic Connectivity Predict Antidepressant Response. Journal of Affective Disorders.
2022 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 6.53
CRediT: Conceptualization.

Chidharom, M.*, Tong, M.* & Carlisle, N.B. (In Press) Within-subject manipulations of proactive control do not change negative templates benefits: Exploring the effect of reward on negative and positive cues.  Visual Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2315790
2022 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 2.0
CRediT: Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing- review & editing, Funding acquisition.

Liesefeld, H.R., Lamy, D., Gaspelin, N., Geng, J., Kerzel, D., Leber, A., Schall, J., Allen, H., Anderson, B., Busch, N., Boettcher, S., Carlisle, N., Colonius, H., Draschkow, D., Egeth, H., Müller, H.J., Röer, J.P., Schubö, A., Slagter, H., Theeuwes, J., Wolfe, J. (In Press). Terminology in the scientific debate on visual distraction during visual search. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02820-3
2022 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 1.7
Current Google Scholar Citations: 3
CRediT: Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing- review & editing.

Zhang, Z.* & Carlisle, N.B. (2023). Explicit Attentional Goals Unlock Implicit Spatial Statistical Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152 (8) 2125-2137.  https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001368
2022 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 4.1
Current Google Scholar Citations: 1
CRediT: Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing-original draft, Writing- review & editing

Chidharom, M.* & Carlisle, N.B. (2023) Neurophysiological measures of proactive and reactive control in negative template use. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35 (7). 1063-1074.  https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01996
2022 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 3.2
Current Google Scholar Citations: 1
CRediT: Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing- review & editing, Funding acquisition.

Zhang, Z.* & Carlisle, N.B. (2023) Assessing recoding accounts of negative attentional templates using behavior and eye tracking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49 (4), 509-532. 
doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001183
2022 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 2.6
Current Google Scholar Citations: 4
CRediT: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing- review & editing

Carlisle, N.B. (2023). Negative and positive templates: Two forms of cued attentional control. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85, 585-595. 
doi: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02590-4
2021 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 2.20
Current Google Scholar Citations: 5
CRediT: Conceptualization, Writing- original draft, Writing- review & editing

Zhao, K., Xie, H., Fonzo, G.A. , Tong, X , Carlisle, N.B., Chidharom, M.,* Etkin, A., Zhang. Y. (2023) Individualized fMRI connectivity defines signatures of antidepressant and placebo responses in major depression. Molecular Psychiatry. https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.lehigh.edu/10.1038/s41380-023-01958-8 
2021 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 13.44
Current Google Scholar Citations: 4
CRediT: Conceptualization, Writing- review & editing.

Zhang, Y., Tong, X., Xie, H. Carlisle, N.B., Fonzo, G., Oathes, D., & Jiang, J.  (2022). Transdiagnostic connectome signatures from resting-state fMRI predict individual-level intellectual capacity. Translational Psychiatry, 12, 367. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-02134-2
Current Google Scholar Citations: 8
2021 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 7.99
CRediT: Conceptualization

Zhang, Z.,* Sahatdjian, R.* & Carlisle, N.B. (2022). Benefits from negative templates in easy and difficult search depend on rapid distractor rejection and enhanced guidance. Vision Research, 197, 108031. 
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2022.108031
2021 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 1.98
Current Google Scholar Citations: 6
CRediT: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing- review & editing

Rajsic, J., Carlisle, N.B., & Woodman, G.W. (2020). What not to look for: Electrophysiological evidence that searchers prefer positive templates. Neuropsychologia, 140, 107376. 
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107376
2020 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 3.14
Current Google Scholar Citations: 18
CRediT: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal Analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Resources, Writing- review & editing

Zhang, Z.,* Gaspelin, N., & Carlisle, N.B. (2020). Probing early attention following negative and positive templates. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 82(3):1166-1175. doi : 10.3758/s13414-019-01864-8
2020 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 1.89
Current Google Scholar Citations: 25
CRediT: Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing- review & editing

Geng, J.J., Won, B.-Y., & Carlisle, N.B. (2019). Distractor ignoring: Strategies, learning, and passive filtering. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 28 (6), 600-606. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721419867099
2019 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 5.11
Current Google Scholar Citations: 80
CRediT: Conceptualization, Writing- original draft, Writing- review & editing

Carlisle, N.B. & Woodman, G.F. (2019). Quantifying the attentional impact of working memory distractors using eye tracking. Visual Cognition. 27:5-8, 452-466. doi: 10.1080/13506285.2019.1634172
2019 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 1.10
Current Google Scholar Citations: 6
CRediT: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing-original draft, Writing- review & editing

Carlisle, N.B., & Nitka, A.W.* (2019).  Location-based explanations do not account for active attentional suppression. Visual Cognition, 27(3-4), 305-316. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2018.1553222
2019 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 1.10
Current Google Scholar Citations: 41
CRediT: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation,Methodology, Software, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing-original draft, Writing- review & editing

Carlisle, N.B. (2019). Flexibility in attentional control: Multiple sources and suppression. The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 92(1), 103-113.
PMID: 30923477
2019 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 3.55
Current Google Scholar Citations: 28
CRediT: Conceptualization, Writing-original draft, Writing- review & editing

Carlisle, N.B. & Kristjánsson, Á. (2018). How visual working memory contents influence priming of visual attention. Psychological Research, 82 (5), 833-839. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-017-0866-6
2018 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 2.65
Current Google Scholar Citations: 24
CRediT: Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing- review & editing

Grubert, A., Carlisle, N.B., & Eimer, M. (2016). The control of single-colour and multiple-colour visual search by attentional templates in working memory and in long-term memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28(12), 1947-1963. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01020
2016 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 3.108
Current Google Scholar Citations: 42
CRediT: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing- review & editing

Judah, M.R., Grant, D.M., Carlisle, N.B. (2016). The effects of self-focus on attentional biases in social anxiety: An ERP study. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 16 (3), 393-405.  doi: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-015-0398-8
2016 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 3.263
Current Google Scholar Citations: 46
CRediT: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing- review & editing

Reinhart, R., Carlisle, N.B., & Woodman, G.F. (2014). Visual working memory gives up attentional control early in learning: Ruling out inter-hemispheric cancellation. Psychophysiology, 51 (8), 800-804. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12217
2014 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 2.986
Current Google Scholar Citations: 28
CRediT: Conceptualization, Investigation, Software, Writing- review & editing

Carlisle, N.B. & Woodman, G.F. (2013).  Reconciling conflicting electrophysiological findings on the guidance of attention by working memory. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 75 (7), 1330-1335. doi: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-013-0529-7
2013 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 2.152
Current Google Scholar Citations: 29
CRediT: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing-original draft, Writing- review & editing

Williams, M., Hong, S.W., Kang, M.-S., Carlisle, N.B., & Woodman, G.F. (2013). The benefit of forgetting. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 20, 348-355. doi: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-012-0354-3
2013 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 2.986
Current Google Scholar Citations: 143
CRediT: Conceptualization, Writing- review & editing

Woodman, G.F., Carlisle, N.B., & Reinhart, R. M. G. (2013).  Where do we store the representations that guide attention? Journal of Vision, 13(3), 1-17. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/13.3.1
2013 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 2.727
Current Google Scholar Citations: 176
CRediT: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Project administration, Software, Writing- review & editing

Arita, J.T., Carlisle, N.B., & Woodman, G.F. (2012).  Templates for rejection: Configuring attention to ignore task-irrelevant features.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38(3), 580-584. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027885
2012 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 2.404
Current Google Scholar Citations: 212
CRediT: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing- review & editing

Reinhart, R.M.G., Carlisle, N.B., Kang, M.S., & Woodman, G.F. (2012). Event-related potentials elicited by errors during the stop-signal task. II: Human effector specific error responses.  Journal of Neurophysiology, 107(10), 2794-807. doi: https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00803.2011
2012 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 3.301
Current Google Scholar Citations: 25
CRediT: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Project administration, Writing- review & editing

Carlisle, N.B.,  Arita, J.T., Pardo, D., & Woodman, G.F. (2011).  Attentional templates in visual working memory.  Journal of Neuroscience, 31(25), 9315-9322. doi: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1097-11.2011
2011 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 7.115
Current Google Scholar Citations: 407
CRediT: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing-original draft, Writing- review & editing

Carlisle, N.B. & Woodman, G.F. (2011). When memory is not enough: Electrophysiological evidence for goal-dependent use of working memory representations in guiding visual attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(10), 2650-2664. doi: 10.1162/jocn.2011.21602
2011 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 5.175
Current Google Scholar Citations: 79
CRediT: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing-original draft, Writing- review & editing

Carlisle, N.B. & Woodman, G.F. (2011). Automatic and strategic effects in the guidance of attention by working memory representations.  Acta Psychologica, 137(2), 217-225. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.06.012
2011 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor: 2.255
Current Google Scholar Citations: 166
CRediT: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing-original draft, Writing- review & editing
 

Submitted and Working Papers

Chidharom, M*, Zafarmand, M.*, Carlisle, N.B. Negative and positive attentional templates rely on similar visual working memory representations. [Submitted].
CRediT: Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing- review & editing.

Chidharom, M.* & Carlisle, N.B. Distinct mechanisms of attentional suppression: Exploration of trait factors underlying cued- and learned-suppression.  [Submitted]. CRediT: Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing- review & editing, Funding acquisition.

Zhao, K., Xie, H., Fonzo, G.A. , Carlisle, N.,  Osorio, R.S., Zhang. Y.  Defining Dementia Subtypes Through Neuropsychiatric Symptom-Linked Brain Connectivity Patterns. [Submitted].
CRediT: Conceptualization.

Manini, G,* Lupiáñez, J. & Carlisle, N.B. The impact of relevance on processing salient items during singleton or feature search. [Manuscript in prep].
CRediT: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Resources, Supervision, Writing- review & editing, Funding acquisition..

Carlisle, N.B. Utilizing EZ-diffusion modeling to examine positive and negative attentional cue use. [Manuscript in prep].
CRediT: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing-original draft

Zhang, Z.* & Carlisle, N.B. Goal-specific probability cueing effects work on object categories. [Manuscript in prep a].
CRediT: Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing- review & editing.

Zhang, Z.* & Carlisle, N.B.  Proactive and reactive alpha suppression during goal-specific probability cueing. [Manuscript in prep b].
CRediT: Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing- review & editing.

Zhao, K., Fonzo, G.A. , Xie, H., Oathes, D.J. ,  Keller, C.J., Carlisle, N., Etkin, A., Garza-Villarreal, E.A., Zhang. Y. A generalizable functional connectivity signature characterizes brain dysfunction and links to rTMS treatment response in cocaine use disorder. [In Revision].
CRediT: Conceptualization, Writing- review & editing.

Teaching

PSYC 001: Introduction to Psychology
PSYC 012: Introduction to Human Neuroscience