Publications | In Progress | Presentations
Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Melcher, D. (in press). Aesthetic speed preferences when viewing dance
synchronize to a ‘natural pace’ of human movement. Cognition.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., Wong, K. W., & Scholl, B. J. (in press). The spontaneous prioritization of
“unfinishedness” in perception: A visual Zeigarnik effect. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: General.
Ying, A. S., & Ongchoco, J. D. K. (in press). Are you a visual ‘shader’ or a ‘bolder’? Different
visual routines create everyday hallucinations in ‘scaffolded attention’. Perception.
Dunin, D., Ongchoco, J. D. K., & van Buren, B. (2025). Remembering facial age: Assimilation in memory
toward categories of ‘Young’ and ‘Old’. Cognition.
Walter-Terrill, R., Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2025). Superficial auditory (dis)fluency
biases higher-level social judgment. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Science.
Koller, W. N., Ongchoco, J. D. K., Bronstein, M. V., Scholl, B. J., & Cannon, T. D. (2024). A
“hyper-recency” bias in memory characterizes both psychoticism and déjà vu experiences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Castiello, S., Ongchoco, J. D. K., van Buren, B., Scholl, B. J., Corlett, P. R. (2024). The wolf or
the sheep? Paranoid and teleological thinking give rise to distinct social hallucinations in vision. Communications Psychology.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., Davis, I. M., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Paul, L. A. (2024). When new experience leads
to new knowledge: A computational framework for formalizing categorical changes in knowledge. Open Mind, 8, 1291-1311.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Xu, Y. (2024). Visual event boundaries trigger ‘memory flushing’ despite active
maintenance in visual working memory. Journal of Vision, 24:9,
1-11.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., Knobe, J., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (accepted). People’s thinking plans adapt to the
problem they are trying to solve. Cognition, 243, 105669.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., Walter-Terrill, R., & Scholl, B.J. (2023). Visual event boundaries eliminate
anchoring effects in decision-making. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, 120, e2303883120.
Gedvila, M., Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Bainbridge, W. A. (2023). Memorable beginnings, but forgettable
endings: Intrinsic memorability alters our subjective experience of time.Visual
Cognition.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., Wong, K. W., & Scholl, B. J. (2023). What’s next?: Time is subjectively dilated
not only for ‘oddball’ events, but also for events immediately after oddballs. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 86, 16-21.
Wang, V., Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2023). Here it comes: Working memory is effectively
‘flushed’ even just by anticipation of an impending visual event boundary. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30, 1917-1927.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., Yates, T. S., & Scholl, B. J. (2023). Event segmentation structures temporal
experience: Simultaneous dilation and contraction in rhythmic reproductions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152, 3266-3276.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., Castiello, S., & Corlett, P. R. (2023). Excessive teleological thinking is driven
by aberrant associations and not by failure of reasoning. iScience,
26, 107643.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2023). Figments of imagination: ‘Scaffolded attention’ creates
non-sensory object and event representations. In A. Mroczko-Wasowicz & R. Grush (Eds.), Sensory Individuals: Contemporary Perspectives on Modality-specific and Multimodal
Perceptual Objects. Oxford University Press.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., Chun, M. M., & Bainbridge, W. A. (2022). What moves us?: The intrinsic
memorability of dance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, &
Cognition, 49, 889-899.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2022). Hallucinating visual structure: Individual differences in
‘scaffolded attention’. Cognition, 225, 105129.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2022). Scaffolded attention in time: ‘Everyday hallucinations’ of
rhythmic patterns from regular auditory beats. Attention, Perception, &
Psychophysics, 84, 322-340.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Enumeration in time is irresistibly event-based. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 7, 307–314.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2019). How to create objects with your mind: From object-based
attention to attention-based objects. Psychological Science, 30,
1648–1655.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2019). Did that just happen?: Event segmentation influences
enumeration and working memory for simple overlapping visual events. Cognition, 187, 188–197.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., Uddenberg, S., & Chun, M. M. (2016). Statistical learning of movement. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23, 1913–1919.
Ongchoco, J.D.K., & Scholl, B.J. (under review). The hierarchy of experience: Memory is differentially
disrupted by local vs. global event boundaries.
Zhang, J. S., & Ongchoco, J. D. K. (under review). Visual perception reveals a paradoxical
relationship between emotions and our sense of the persisting “self”.
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Kaur, J., Zhao, J., & Ongchoco, J. D. K. (2025). Discrete vs. continuous timer bars: How visual
segmentation shapes the perception of time “running out”. Talk given at the Timing Research Forum 4,
10/15/25, Tokyo, Japan.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., Wong, K. W., & Scholl, B. J. (2025). The spontaneous prioritization of
unfinishedness in perception. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Society of Philosophy &
Psychology, 6/19/25, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Deepak, C. H., & Ongchoco, J. D. K. (2025). Active forgetting is triggered by the implied position of
the sun. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/16/25, St. Pete
Beach, FL, USA.
Kaur, J., Zhao, J., & Ongchoco, J. D. K. (2025). Discrete vs. continuous timer bars: How visual
segmentation shapes the perception of time “running out”. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision
Sciences Society, 5/16/25, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA.
Schoenfeld, D., Im, H. Y., & Ongchoco, J. D. K. (2025). The missing self in time: Duration
reproductions diverge when using the “self” as a reference point. Poster presented at the annual meeting of
the Vision Sciences Society, 5/16/25, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA.
Ying, A., & Ongchoco, J. D. K. (2025). Are you a visual ‘shader’ or a ‘bolder’?: Different visual
routines create everyday hallucinations in ‘scaffolded attention’. Poster presented at the annual meeting of
the Vision Sciences Society, 5/16/25, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA.
Zhang, J., & Ongchoco, J. D. K. (2025). How perceived emotions of others disrupt our sense of their
persisting “selves”: Evidence from the tunnel effect. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the
Vision Sciences Society, 5/16/25, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA.
Kaur, J., Zhao, J., & Ongchoco, J. D. K. (2025). Discrete vs. continuous timer bars: How visual
segmentation shapes the perception of time “running out”. Talk given at the Northwest Cognition and
Memory Conference, 5/10/25, Victoria, BC, Canada.
Houle, N., & Ongchoco, J. D. K. (2025). More than a stylistic preference: Object-based effects arise
from the connective power of the em-dash. Poster presented at the Northwest Cognition and Memory
Conference, 5/10/25, Victoria, BC, Canada.
Roeder, S., & Ongchoco, J. D. K. (2025). Perceived time as ‘jerky’: Exploring a novel temporal
distortion of discontinuous temporal experience in high-paranoia individuals. Poster presented at the
Northwest Cognition and Memory Conference, 5/10/25, Victoria, BC, Canada.
Wedin, E., & Ongchoco, J. D. K. (2025). Visual causal chains shape the segmentation of temporal
experience. Poster presented at the Northwest Cognition and Memory Conference, 5/10/25, Victoria, BC,
Canada.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Rolfs, M. (2024). From movement vigor to “perceptual vigor”: Eye movements alter
the postdictive window of visual awareness. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the European
Conference on Visual Perception, 8/27/24, Aberdeen, UK.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Melcher, D. (2024). Aesthetics of speed: Preferences for dance synchronize to a
‘natural pace’ of human motion. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Visual Studies of Art
Conference, 8/25/24, Aberdeen, UK.
Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Rolfs, M. (2024). The efficiency of visual processing adapts to the "vigor" of
eye movements: From what breaks through into awareness to the speed of meaning extraction. Poster presented
at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/21/24, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract
published in Journal of Vision, 24, 637, https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2801090.]
Dun, D., Ongchoco, J. D. K., & van Buren, B. (2024). Perceived age is distorted in visual memory: A
phenomenon of “forward” and “backward” aging for faces. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision
Sciences Society, 5/21/24, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 24,
606, https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2801117.]
Walter-Terrill, R., Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2024). Are effects of perceptual (dis)
fluency on social judgments specific to visual processing?. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the
Vision Sciences Society, 5/21/24, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision,
24, 1413, https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2801683.]
Zhang, Y., Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Yildirim, I. (2024). From the flow of liquids to the flow of time:
Granularity of spontaneous liquid flow predictions in visual perception impacts experienced time. Poster
presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/21/24, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA.
[Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 24, 772,
https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2800962.]
Ongchoco, J. D. K., & Scholl, B. J. (2023). Eye movements during ‘everyday hallucinations’: Scaffolded
attention as a function of covert (rather than overt) attention. Talk given at the annual meeting of the
European Conference on Visual Perception, 8/27/23, Paphos, Cyprus.
Ongchoco, J.D.K., Wong, K.W., & Scholl, B.J. (2023). The “unfinishedness” of dynamic events is
spontaneously extracted in visual processing: A new ‘Visual Zeigarnik Effect’. Talk give at the annual
meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/23/23, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA.
Ongchoco, J.D.K., Graves, K., & Scholl, B.J. (2022). Visual event boundaries automatically reset
implicit statistical learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting for Object Perception, Attention,
and Memory, 11/17/22, Boston, MA, USA.
Ongchoco, J.D.K., Walter-Terrill, R., & Scholl, B.J. (2022). Visual event boundaries promote cognitive
reflection over gut intuitions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences
Society, 5/14/22, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA.
Koller, W., Ongchoco, J.D.K., Bronstein, M.V., Scholl, B.J., & Cannon, T. (2021). Events are
remembered as having occurred more recently in paranoia. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, 11/18/21, Online.
Ongchoco, J.D.K., Koller, W., Bronstein, M.V., Yates, T.S., Cannon, T., & Scholl, B.J. (2021). Out of
sync in time and thought: The influence of perceived event segmentation on temporal memory is diminished for
individuals high in paranoia. Poster presented at the annual meeting for Object Perception, Attention,
and Memory, 11/4/21, Online.
Ongchoco, J.D.K., & Scholl, B.J. (2021). Is memory flushed at the start of a new event, or by the end
of an old event?. Talk given at the annual meeting of the European Conference on Visual Perception,
8/22/21, Online.
van Buren, B., Ongchoco, J.D.K., & Scholl, B.J. (2021). Sensation and imagery combine to form hybrid
object representations. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the European Conference on Visual
Perception, 8/22/21, Online.
Ongchoco, J.D.K., Inchingolo, M., & Paul, L.A. (2021). The lure of the self: How we misattribute our
lesser likes to the “other” in perspective-taking & decision-making. Poster presented at the annual meeting
of the Cognitive Science Society, 7/26/21, Online.
Ongchoco, J.D.K., & Scholl, B.J. (2021). Figments of imagination: ‘Scaffolded attention’ creates
non-sensory object and event representations. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Society of
Philosophy & Psychology, 6/29/21, Online. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2403,
https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2777298.]
Inchingolo, M., Ongchoco, J.D.K., & Paul, L.A. (2021). The lure of the self: How we misattribute our
lesser likes to the “other” in perspective-taking. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Society of
Philosophy & Psychology, 6/28/21, Online.
Ongchoco, J.D.K., Walter-Terrill, R., & Scholl, B.J. (2021). Visual event boundaries eliminate
anchoring effects: A case study in the power of visual perception to influence decision-making. Poster
presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/24/21, Online. [Abstract published
in Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2403, https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2777298.]
Wang, V., Ongchoco, J.D.K., & Scholl, B.J. (2021). Here it comes: Working memory is effectively
‘flushed’ even just by anticipation of an impending visual event boundary. Poster presented at the annual
meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/22/21, Online. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision,
21(9), 2379, https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2777319.]
Ongchoco, J.D.K., & Scholl, B.J. (2020). Hallucinating visual structure: Individual differences in
‘scaffolded attention’. Poster presented at the at the annual meeting for Object Perception, Attention,
and Memory, 11/18/20, Online.
Walter-Terrill, R., Ongchoco, J.D.K., & Scholl, B.J. (2020). Visual event boundaries eliminate
anchoring effects in decision-making. Poster presented at the annual meeting for Object Perception,
Attention, and Memory, 11/18/20, Online.
Wong, K.W., Ongchoco, J.D.K., & Scholl, B.J. (2020). The temporal resolution of subjective time
dilation: Is the ‘oddball effect’ specific to the oddball itself?. Poster presented at the annual meeting
for Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, 11/18/20, Online.
Yates, T., Ongchoco, J.D.K., & Scholl, B.J. (2020). Rhythmic reproduction reveals how event
segmentation structures temporal experience. Poster presented at the annual meeting for Object
Perception, Attention, and Memory, 11/18/20, Online.
Ongchoco, J.D.K., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2020). Beyond rationality: We infer people’s goals by learning
agent-variable expectations of efficient action. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive
Science Society, 7/29/20, Online.
Hu, Y., Ongchoco, J.D.K., & Scholl, B.J. (2020). From causal perception to event segmentation: Using
spatial memory to reveal how many visual events are involved in causal launching. Poster presented at the
annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 6/19/20, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract published
in Journal of Vision, 20(11), 469, https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2771582.]
Ongchoco, J.D.K., & Scholl, B.J. (2020). The hierarchy of experience: Visual memory is differentially
disrupted by local vs. global event boundaries. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision
Sciences Society, 6/19/20, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision,
20(11), 464, https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2771580.]
Ongchoco, J.D.K., & Scholl, B.J. (2019). Scaffolded attention: How imagination creates object
representations. Talk given at the annual meeting for Object Perception, Attention, and Memory,
11/14/19, Montreal, Canada.
Ongchoco, J.D.K., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Knobe, J. (2019). Imagining the good: An offline tendency to
simulate the good even no decision has to be made. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Cognitive
Science Society, 7/25/19, Montreal, Canada.
Ongchoco, J.D.K., & Scholl, B.J. (2019). How to create objects with your mind: From object-based
attention to attention-based objects. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences
Society, 5/18/19, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 19(10), 46c,
https://arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2750040.]
Ongchoco, J.D.K., & Scholl, B.J. (2018). The end of motion: How the structure of simple visual events
impacts working memory and enumeration. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences
Society, 5/19/18, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 18(10), 84,
http://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2699078.]
Asplund, C.L., Ongchoco, J.D.K., Reid, J., & Liaw, G. (2017). Distinct effects of spatial and temporal
attention on the perception of contrast. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences
Society, 5/23/17, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 17(10), 1193,
https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2652060.]
Ongchoco, J.D.K., Uddenberg, S., & Chun, M.M. (2016). Statistical learning of movement. Poster
presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 5/17/16, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA.
[Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 16(12), 1079,
https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2551053.]