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Research Interests

Hemispheric Asymmetry
Multiple Resources

Recent Publications

Boles, D.B. (2019). Cognitive Evolution.  Abington, Oxon, England: Routledge.  Chapter summaries are here.  Some of the “introduction to evolution” chapters may be read here, and the Vision chapter may be read here.  The book’s Facebook page is here.

Hoffman, R.R., Boles, D.B., Szalma, J.L., & Hancock, P.A. (2018). Joel S. Warm (1933-2017).  American Journal of Psychology, 131, 227-229.

Martin, M., & Boles, D.B. (2016). The face is the thing: Faces, not emotions, are responsible for chimeric perceptual asymmetry.  Laterality, 21, 672-688.

Boles, D.B., & Dillard, M. (2015). The measurement of perceptual resources and workload. In R.R. Hoffman, P.A. Hancock, M.W. Scerbo, R. Parasuraman, & J.L. Szalma (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Applied Perception Research.  NY: Cambridge University Press, v. 1, pp. 39-59.

Greenlee, E.T., & Boles, D.B. (2014).  Multimodal spatial discrimination in the face of uncertainty: The effects of action video game expertise.  Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 58, 1419-1423.

Finomore, V.S., Shaw, T.H., Warm, J.S., Matthews, G., & Boles, D.B. (2013). Viewing the workload of vigilance through the lenses of the NASA-TLX and the MRQ.  Human Factors, 55, 1044-1063.

Barth, J.M., Boles, D.B., Giattina, A.A., & Penn, C.E. (2012). Preschool child and adult lateralisation and performance in emotion and language tasks.  Laterality, 17, 412-427.

Dillard, M., Boles, D.B., & Black, S.R. (2012). Bidirectional resource training of simple and complex tasks.  Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 56, 2462-2466.

Boles, D.B., & Givens, S.M. (2011). Laterality and sex differences in tactile detection and two point thresholds modified by body surface area and body fat ratio.  Somatosensory & Motor Research, 28, 102-109.

Boles, D.B. (2011). Socioeconomic status, a forgotten variable in lateralization development. Brain & Cognition, 76, 52-57.

Boles, D.B., & Barth, J.M. (2011). “Does degree of asymmetry relate to performance?” A critical review. Brain & Cognition, 76, 1-4.