PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES

Ma, H. L., Bertrand, J. K., Chapman, C. S., & Hayward, D. A. (2023). You read my mind: Generating and minimizing intention uncertainty under different social contexts in a two-player online game. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Advance online publication. https://doi-org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/10.1037/xhp0001150

Ha, J., & Hayward, D.A. (2023). Are you paying attention to me? The effect of social presence on spatial attention to gaze and arrows. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85(1), 41-51. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02618-9

Ma, H.L., Dawson, M.R.W., Prinsen, R.S., & Hayward, D.A. (2023). Embodying cognitive ethology. Theory & Psychology, 33(1), 42-58. doi: 10.1177/09593543221126165

Nash, K., Leota, J., Kleinert, T., & Hayward, D.A. (2022). Anxiety disrupts performance monitoring: Integrating behavioral, event-related potential, EEG microstates, and sLORETA evidence. Cerebral Cortex, 1-16. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhac307

Heath, D.S., Jhinjar, N., & Hayward, D.A. (2021). Altered social cognition in a community sample of women with disordered eating behaviours: A multi-method approach. Scientific Reports, 11:14683. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-94117-4

Hayward, D.A., Pomares, F., Casey, K.F., Ismaylova, E., Levesque, M., Greenlaw, K., Vitaro, F., Brendgen, M., Dionne, G., Boivin, M., Tremblay, R.E., & Booij, L. (2020). Birth weight is associated with adolescent brain development: A multi-modal imaging study in monozygotic twins. Human Brain Mapping, 41(18), 5228-5239. doi: 10.1002/hbm.25188

Heath, D.S., & Hayward, D.A. (2019). Does everyone pay attention to people in the same way? Frontiers for Young Minds, 7:130. doi: 10.3389/ffym.2019.00130

Hayward, D.A., Fenerci, C., & Ristic, J. (2018). An investigation of global-local processing bias in a large sample of typical individuals varying in autism traits. Consciousness and Cognition, 65, 271-279. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2018.09.002

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2018). Changes in tonic alertness but not voluntary temporal preparation modulate attention elicited by task-relevant gaze and arrow cues. Special Issue on “Reflexive Shifts of Visual Attention”, Vision, 2(2). doi: 10.3390/vision2020018

Hayward, D.A.*, Pereira, E.J.*, Otto, A.R., & Ristic, J. (2018). Smile! Social reward drives attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(2). 206-214. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000459 

(* equal contribution to the manuscript; Dana awarded an Early Career Researcher award for this article)

Hayward, D.A., Voorhies, W., Morris, J.A., Capozzi, F., & Ristic, J. (2017). Staring reality in the face: A comparison of social attention across laboratory and real word measures suggests little common ground. Special Issue on “Everyday Attention”, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 71(3), 212-225. doi: 10.1037/cep0000117 (Best Article Award 2017) 

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2017). Feature and motion-based gaze cuing is linked with reduced social competence. Scientific Reports, 7, 44221. doi: 10.1038/srep44221.

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2016). Automated symbolic orienting is not modulated by explicit temporal attention. Acta Psychologica, 171, 93-98. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2016. 10.004.

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2015). Exposing the cuing task: the case of gaze and arrow cues. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 77, 1088-1104. doi: 10.3758/s13414-015-0877-6.

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2013b). The uniqueness of social attention revisited: working memory load interferes with endogenous but not social orienting. Experimental Brain Research, 231(4), 405-414. doi: 10.1007/s00221-013-3705-z.

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2013a). Measuring attention using the Posner cuing paradigm: the role of across and within trial target probabilities. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7(205), doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00205.

Hayward, D.A., Shore, D.I., Ristic, J., Kovshoff, H, Iarocci, G., Mottron, L., & Burack, J.A. (2012). Flexible visual processing in young adults with autism: The effects of implicit learning on a global-local task. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42(11), 2383-2392. doi: 10.1007/s10803-012-1485-0.

TALKS

Hayward, D.A. (2021, April). Where and who: Investigating the role of the greater environment and the individual on social attention. Royce Harder Conference, Univesity of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (Internal Keynote Speaker).

Hayward, D.A. (2021, February). What, where and who: Investigating attention across content, context, and individuals. Research Talks Series, Acadia University Dept. Psychology, NS (Invited Talk).

Hayward, D.A. (2019, December). Does autistic symptomology predict perception and attention in neurotypicals? Autism Research Rounds, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, Edmonton, AB (Invited Talk).

Hayward, D.A. (2019, December). Load, dilution, or something else? “Cluttering up” the face to explore social attention. Psychology department CogSem, Edmonton, AB.

Hayward, D.A. (2019, August). Social reward and attention. Annual conference of the American Psychological Association (APA), Chicago, IL (Invited Talk based on receiving an Early Career award).

Hayward, D.A. (2018, January). The impact of early environment on the brain. Fifth annual conference of the Centre for Clinical Research in Health, Concordia University (Invited Talk). 

Hayward, D.A. (2017, March). From behaviour to brains: How attention functions in social contexts. Department of Psychology, University of Alberta (Invited talk).

Hayward, D.A., Voorhies, W., Wong, S., & Ristic, J. (2015, June). Searching for social attention in real life social interactions. Symposium on Interactive Social Cognition, presented at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS), Ottawa, ON. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 69(4), 327-376.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS/POSTERS

Almeida, R., Fankhanel, M., & Hayward, D.A. (2023, July). From virtual to reality: Investigating how context and personality traits may influence social attention. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS) Annual meeting, Guelph, ON.

Pacificar, M., Prinsen, R., Pham, J., & Hayward, D.A. (2023, July). There’s no place like...? Investigating whether looking behaviour and preferences for spaces vary across activities and online vs in-person exposure. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS) Annual meeting, Guelph, ON.

Prinsen, R.S., Pacificar, M., & Hayward, D.A. (2022, July). Getting back to nature: Preference for spaces featuring natural elements. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS) Annual meeting, Halifax, NS.

Hayward, D.A., Ma, H., & Janssen, S. (2022, July). Lie to me (if you can): Deception with motion and gaze in a preference task. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS) Annual meeting, Halifax, NS.

Ma, H., Bertrand, J.K., Chapman, C.S., & Hayward, D.A. (2022, April). You read my mind: Projecting and detecting intention under differing social communication goals during a 2-player game. Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) annual meeting, online.

Prinsen, R., Singhal, A., & Hayward, D.A. (2021, August). Comparing visual and auditory modalities in an online intentional binding task. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), online.

Song, R., Ouelette, M., & Hayward, D.A. (2021, August). Do eye have your attention? Gaze cueing using emotional faces. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), online.

Teodorescu, D., Fyshe, A., & Hayward, D.A. (2021, May). Quantifying distraction in a visual search task. Virtual poster presentation at the Vision Science Society (VSS), online. Journal of Vision, 21, 2747. doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.9.2747

Hayward, D.A., Dhaliwal, R., & Ha, J. (2020, June). Are you attending to me? The effect of social presence on social attention. Virtual poster presentation at the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), online. Upcoming issue of the Journal of Vision.

Ha, J., Dhaliwal, R., & Hayward, D.A. (2020, April). Am I distracting you? How person presence affects attention to social and nonsocial cues. Royce-Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Hayward, D.A., Tremblay, S., & Booij, L. (2019, June). The interplay between attention, mood, and vulnerability for depression. Poster presentation at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS), Ottawa, ON. Upcoming issue of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale.

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2019, May). What and where: The influence of attention on visual short-term memory for item and spatial location information, and the relationship to autism traits. Poster presentation at the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), St Pete’s Beach, FL. Journal of Vision, 19(10), 73d, doi: 10.1167/19.10.73d.

Braulio, K., & Hayward, D.A. (2019, April). Can eye trust you? Perceived trustworthiness modulates attention capture and shifting. Royce-Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Jhinjar, N., & Hayward, D.A. (2019, April). Chew on this! The relationship between disordered eating, social attention, and social networks. Royce-Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Sylvestre, S., & Hayward, D.A. (2019, April). At face value: Do attentional mechanisms prioritize rewards or social content? Royce-Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Tremblay, S., Chelloug, A., Ghasemi, M., Booij, L., & Hayward, D.A. (2018, January). When is a positive outlook undesirable? Investigating the link between mood and attention. Fifth Annual Conference of the Centre for Clinical Research in Health, Concordia University, Montréal, QC.

Weight, C.E.S., Hayward, D.A., Pallikaras, V., & Booij, L. (2017, January). The interaction between mood and visual attention: Preliminary findings. Fourth Annual Conference of the Centre for Clinical Research in Health, Concordia University, Montréal, QC.

Pallikaras, V., Hayward, D.A., & Booij, L. (2016, October). How do emotion, cognition and individual differences interrelate? Concordia Undergraduate Student Research Award (CUSRA) conference, Montréal, QC.

Hayward, D.A., Meilleur, A., Seusan, L.A., & Ristic, J. (2015, June). Females search, males find: The effect of a distractor face on search depends on gender. Poster presentation at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS), Ottawa, ON. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 69(4), 327-376.

Hayward, D.A., Pereira, E.J., Vogel, T.A., Stewart, K.E., & Ristic, J. (2015, May). What’s that smile worth? Social reward influences spatial orienting. Poster presentation at the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), St Pete’s Beach, FL. Journal of Vision, 15, 454, doi: 10.1167/15.12.454.

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2014, June). Dissociating attentional effects of gaze and arrow cues using the cuing task. Oral presentation at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), Toronto, ON. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/ Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 68(4), 250-307.

 Seusan, L.A., Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2014, June). Eye tricked you: The effects of a distractor face on visual search. Poster presentation at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), Toronto, ON. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 68(4), 250-307.

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2014, May). Using the Autism-Spectrum Quotient and Social Network Size to investigate individual variability in social attention in the typical population. International Meeting for Autism Researchers (IMFAR), Atlanta, GA.

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2014, April). Linking social attention with everyday social functioning. Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) annual meeting, Boston, MA.

 Hayward, D.A., Guttman, L., & Ristic, J. (2013, August). Seeing the face in the crowd: Robust social attention across perceptual load. European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Budapest, Hungary.

 Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2013, June). A gaze in the crowd: Social attention is resilient to perceptual load. Oral presentation at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), Calgary, AB. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 67(4), 271-312.

 Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2013, May). Social and temporal orienting: Linked or independent? Poster presentation at the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples, FL. (Best Student Poster Award). Journal of Vision, 13(9), 1129, doi: 10.1167/13.9.1129.

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2013, April). Effects of alertness and temporal preparation on Inhibition of Return. Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), San Francisco, CA.

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2012, June). Eye can’t help it: The irrevocable automaticity of social attention. Poster presentation at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), Kingston, ON. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/ Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 66(4), 268-327.

 Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2012, May). Alerting trumps space and time in social attention. Poster presentation at the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples, FL. Journal of Vision, 12(9), 569; doi:10.1167/12.9.569.

 Hayward, D.A., Pestonji, N., & Ristic, J. (2011, June). The effects of working memory on social attention. Poster presentation at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), Winnipeg, MB. (Awarded runner-up for the Hebb Best Presentation Award). Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 65(4), 294-320.

Côté-Lecaldare, M., Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2011, June). Timing is everything, or not? The effect of temporal expectancies on social attention. Poster presentation at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), Winnipeg, MB. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 65(4), 294-320.

Hayward, D.A., Burack, J.A., Shore, D.I., & Mottron, L. (2010, October). Is the performance of persons with autism “data driven”? The case of contingency use and higher order processing. Autism Europe, Catania, Sicily.

Hayward, D.A., Burack, J. A., Shore, D. I., Kovshoff, H., Iarocci, G., & Mottron, L. (2010, June). Is the performance of persons with autism “data driven”? The case of contingency use and higher order processing. Poster presentation at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), Halifax, NS. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 64(4), 286-329.