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Barry Giesbrecht

ICB Co-Director
ICB Cognitive Neuroscience Co-Leader
Professor and Vice-Chair
Psychological & Brain Sciences
UC Santa Barbara
Phone:
+1 805-893-3430
Email:
giesbrecht@psych.ucsb.edu
Website:
UCSB Attention Lab

Research Focus Areas

Research Interests

1) To understand the fundamental cognitive and neural mechanisms of human attention and working memory; 2) To understand how cognitive control and human performance is impacted by global physiological states; and 3) To use noninvasive brain imaging techniques to decode current cognitive states and to augment human performance.

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ICB Supported Publications

Task‑irrelevant abrupt onsets differentially impact value‑related orienting and maintenance

Carly Chak, Emily Machniak and Barry Giesbrecht
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics,
10.3758/s13414-025-03078-7

Perceptual decoupling in the sustained attention to response task is likely: comment on Bedi, Russell, & Helton (2024)

Shivang Shelat and Barry Giesbrecht
Experimental Brain Research,
10.1007/s00221-025-07032-9

Physically activated modes of attentional control 

Barry Giesbrecht, Tom Bullock and Jordan Garrett
Trends in Cognitive Sciences,
10.1016/j.tics.2024.11.006

Beyond detection rate: understanding the vigilance decrement using signal detection theory

Henri Etel Skinner and Barry Giesbrecht
Frontiers in Cognition,
10.3389/fcogn.2024.1505046

The Impact of Physical Effort and Cybersickness on Environmental Learning and Navigation: A Comparison of Desktop and Treadmill Interfaces 

Zhou, Mantong; Ou, William; Höllerer, Tobias; Giesbrecht, Barry and Hegarty, Mary
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, UC Merced,

Cardiac-Sympathetic Contractility and Neural Alpha-Band Power: Cross-Modal Collaboration during Approach-Avoidance Conflict

Neil M. Dundon, Alexander Stuber, Tom Bullock, Javier O. Garcia, Viktoriya Babenko, Elizabeth Rizor, Dengxian Yang, Barry Giesbrecht and Scott T. Grafton
Journal of Neuroscience,
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2008-23.2024

Predicting attentional lapses using response time speed in continuous performance tasks

Shivang Shelat, Jonathan W. Schooler and Barry Giesbrecht
Frontiers in Cognition,
10.3389/fcogn.2024.1460349

A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis provide evidence for an effect of acute physical activity on cognition in young adults

Jordan Garrett, Carly Chak, Tom Bullock, & Barry Giesbrecht
Communications Psychology,
10.1038/s44271-024-00124-2

A practical evaluation of measures derived from compressed sensing diffusion spectrum imaging

Radhakrishnan H, Chenying Zhao C, Sydnor VJ, Baller EB, Cook PA, Fair D, Giesbrecht B, Larsen B, Murtha K, Roalf DR, Rush-Goebel S, Shinohara R, Shou H, Tisdall MD, Vettel J, Grafton S, Cieslak M, Satterthwaite T. A
Human Brain Mapping,
10.1002/hbm.26580

Stress affects navigation strategies in immersive virtual reality

Apurv Varshney, Mitchell E. Munns, Justin Kasowski, Mantong Zhou, Chuanxiuyue He, Scott T. Grafton, Barry Giesbrecht, Mary Hegarty and Michael Beyeler
Scientific Reports,
10.1038/s41598-024-56048-8

Resilience of navigation strategy and efficiency to the impact of acute stress

Alexander P. Boone, Tom Bullock, Mary H. MacLean, Tyler Santander, Jamie Raymer, Alexander Stuber, Liann Jimmons, Gold N. Okafor, Scott T. Grafton, Michael B. Miller, Barry Giesbrecht and Mary Hegarty
Spatial Cognition & Computation,
10.1080/13875868.2024.2321920

Non-invasive monitoring of cardiac contractility: Trans-radial electrical bioimpedance velocimetry (TREV)

Alexandra Stump, Caitlin Gregory, Viktoriya Babenko, Elizabeth Rizor, Tom Bullock, Alan Macy, Barry Giesbrecht, Scott T. Grafton, Neil M. Dundon
Psychophysiology,
10.1111/psyp.14411

Visual Navigation Under High-Stress Conditions

Apurv Varshney; Mitch Munns; Justin Kasowski; Mantong Zhou; Chuanxiuyue He; Scott Grafton; Barry Giesbrecht; Mary Hegarty; Michael Beyeler
Journal of Vision,
10.1167/jov.23.9.5184

The Impact of Navigation Aids on Search Performance and Object Recall in Wide-Area Augmented Reality

Radha Kumaran, You-Jin Kim, Anne E Milner, Tom Bullock ,Barry Giesbrecht, Tobias Höllerer
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,
10.1145/3544548.3581413

Eye movements disrupt EEG alpha-band coding of behaviorally relevant and irrelevant spatial locations held in working memory

Tom Bullock, Kamryn Pickett, Anabel Salimian, Caitlin Gregory, Mary H. MacLean, and Barry Giesbrecht
Journal of Neurophysiology,
10.1152/jn.00302.2021

Habituation of the stress response multiplex to repeated cold pressor exposure

Bullock T, MacLean MH, Santander T, Boone AP, Babenko V, Dundon NM, Stuber A, Jimmons L, Raymer J, Okafor GN, Miller MB, Giesbrecht B and Grafton ST
Frontiers in Physiology,
10.3389/fphys.2022.752900

The persistence of value-driven attention capture is task dependent

Milner, A., MacLean, M., and Giesbrecht, B
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics,
10.3758/s13414-022-02621-0

Investigating Search Among Physical and Virtual Objects Under Different Lighting Conditions

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,
10.1109/TVCG.2022.3203093

Effects of changes in end-tidal PO-2 and PCO-2 on neural responses during rest and sustained attention

Tom Bullock, Barry Giesbrecht, Andrew E. Beaudin, Bradley G. Goodyear, Marc J. Poulin
Physiological Reports,
10.14814/phy2.15106

Crystallinity characterization of white matter in the human brain

Erin G Teich1, Matthew Cieslak, Barry Giesbrecht, Jean M Vettel, Scott T Grafton, Theodore D Satterthwaite and Danielle S Bassett
New Journal of Physics,
10.1088/1367-2630/ac1286
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