Publications | In Progress | Presentations
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.
Walter-Terrill, R., Ongchoco, J.D.K., & Scholl, B.J. (under review). (Dis)fluency based on superficial audio quality changes higher-level social judgments.
Hochster, G., Fikre, S., Sun, Y., Ongchoco, J.D.K., & McCrink, M. (under review). Making room in the developing mind: Active forgetting across perceptual and conceptual event boundaries.
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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.]