Meera M. Sunny
Department : Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Research Interests
● Visual attention
● Attention capture
● Visual marking
Professional Summary
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Feb 2020 to Present)
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Feb 2012 to Feb 2020)
Publications
1. Thomas, T. & Sunny, M. M. (2017). Altered visuo-spatial processing in the peri-personal space: A new look at the hand-proximity effects. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science. 97, 443–450.
2. Singh, D., & Sunny, M. M. (2017). Emotion Induced Blindness Is More Sensitive to Changes in Arousal As Compared to Valence of the Emotional Distractor. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1381.
3. Thomas, T., & Sunny, M. M. (2017). Slower attentional disengagement but faster perceptual processing near the hand. Acta Psychologica, 174, 40–47.
4. Kumar, N., Manjaly, J. A., & Sunny, M. M. (2015). The Relationship Between Action-Effect Monitoring and Attention Capture. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 144(1):18-23. doi: 10.1037/xge0000032.
5. Sunny, M. M., & von Mühlenen, A. (2014). The role of flicker and abrupt displacement in attention capture by motion onsets. Attention, perception & psychophysics.76(2):508-18. doi:10.3758/s13414-013-0587-x.
6. Sunny, M. M., & von Muhlenen, A. (2013). Attention capture by abrupt onsets: re-visiting the priority tag model. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(958). doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00958.
7. Sunny, M. M., & von Mühlenen, A. (2011). Motion onset does not capture attention when subsequent motion is “smooth.” Psychonomic Bulletin & review, 18(6), 1050-1056. doi:10.3758/s13423-011-0152-3.
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