Selected conference presentations

Please note: The names of students and research assistant collaborators are indicated by an asterisk (*) .

Presentations at Transportation Research Board, International Symposium on Human Factors in Driving Assessment, Training and Vehicle Design, Vision in Vehicles, Society of Automotive Engineers, and the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals that also involved full-paper submissions printed in refereed conference proceedings. For these conferences, look in the refereed conference proceedings section of the website.

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• *Terry, M.E., & Trick, L.M. (Accepted). Fading enhancement? Exploring the impact of touch timing on target enhancement in multiple-object tracking (MOT). Poster presentation for the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete’s Beach, FL, May 2025.
• *Eng, R., & Trick, L.M. (Accepted). Effect of feature change on multiple object tracking. Poster presentation for the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete’s Beach, FL, May 2025.
• *Terry, M.E., & Trick, L.M. (2024). Attentional prioritization of targets in multiple-object tracking (MOT) is driven by target selection rather than action plans. Submitted as a poster presentation for the annual meeting of OSPAN (Object Perception, Attention, and Memory), a Psychonomics pre-conference. Held in New York, NY, November 2024.
• *Eng, R., Al-Aidroos, N. & Trick, L.M. (2024). The influence of goal-directed attentional capture on hazard perception. Submitted as a poster presentation for the annual meeting of OSPAN (Object Perception, Attention, and Memory), a Psychonomics pre-conference. Held in New York, NY, November 2024.
• *Terry, M.E., & Trick, L.M. (Aug, 2024). Why does touch interfere with multiple-object tracking performance? Poster presented at the European Conference on Visual Perception. Abderdeen, Scotland.
• *Eng, R.A., & Trick, L.M. (May, 2024). Does contingent capture occur in driving scenes? Poster presentation for the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. St. Pete’s Beach, FL.
• *Terry, M.E., *Amelio, V., & Trick (May, 2024). Sometimes more (overlap) is better! Action plan overlap impacts interference between visually-guided touch and multiple-object tracking (MOT). Poster presentation for the annual meeting of the Vision Science Society. St. Pete’s Beach, FL.
• *Kespe, J., & Trick, L.M. (November, 2023). Easy Listening or Driving Distraction: The Relationship between Audiobook Difficulty Level and Driving Performance on Simple Routes. Submitted as a poster presentation at the annual meeting of OPAM (Object Perception, Attention, and Memory), a Psychonomics pre-conference. San Francisco, CA.
• *Eng, R.A., & Trick, L.M. (July, 2023). The effect of target similarity on multiple-object tracking. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Guelph, ON.
• *Terry, M.E., *Woodward-Smith, O., & Trick, L.M.(July, 2023). Does touching items in multiple-object tracking (MOT) increase their likelihood of later being reported as targets? Oral presentation at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Guelph, ON.
• *Geraets-Rose, M., *Terry, M.E., & Trick, L.M. (July, 2023) How touching targets and distractors in multiple-object tracking affect performance? Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Guelph, ON.
• *Pardy.,B. & Trick, L.M. (July, 2023). Mind-wandering while driving: The impact of individual differences in boredom and working memory. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 19-24, St. Pete’s Beach, FL.
• *Terry, M.E., & Trick, L.M. (May, 2023). Multiple-object tracking (MOT) and visually guided actions comparing change detection and localized touch to targets vs. distractors in MOT. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 19-24, St. Pete’s Beach, Florida.
• *Eng, R., & Trick, L.M. (May, 2023). The effect of item uniqueness on multiple-object tracking. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 19-24, St. Pete’s Beach, Florida.
• *Terry, M.E., *Geraets-Rose, M. & Trick, L.M. (Nov 2022). Can participants accurately touch endogenously cued targets or distractors while multiple- object tracking? Poster at the annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Boston, MA.
• *Eng, R., & Trick, L.M. (2022). The effect of target and distractor feature similarity in multiple-object tracking. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science. Halifax, NS.
• *Terry, M.E., *Amelio, V., & Trick, L.M. (2022). Multiple-object tracking (MOT) interferes differentially with visually guided touch, even when reporting techniques involve different response modalities. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science. Halifax, NS.
• *Eng, R. & Trick, L.M. (2022). The effect of target similarity on multiple-object tracking and multiple-identity tracking. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete’s Beach Florida.
• *Terry, M.E., *Marmer, R., & Trick, L.M. (2022). Multiple-object tracking and visually guided touch: Distractor inhibition or target excitation? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete’s Beach Florida.
• *Eng, R.A., *Walker, & Trick, L.M. (2021). Driving exposure and distraction: A comparison of three in-vehicle tasks. Presented at the joint meeting of the 30th Annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP) and the 14 PRI World conference (La Prévention Routière Internationale). Virtual conference.
• *Walker, H.E.K., & Trick, L.M. (2021). Mind-wandering during the N-Back task: A comparison of self-report measures. Annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Virtual conference hosted by McGill and Concordia, Montreal, Que.
• *Terry, M.E., & Trick, L.M. (2021). Sequence effects in a series of touches: Evidence from attentional tracking. Annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Virtual conference hosted by McGill and Concordia, Montreal, Que.
• *Walker, H.E.K, *Walker, A., *Turpin, M., Muda, R, Trick, L.M., Fugelsang, J., Bialek, J. (2021). Investigating perceptions of human drivers versus autonomous vehicles using moral dilemmas. Annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Virtual conference hosted by McGill and Concordia, Montreal, Que.
• Eng, R.A., *Walker, H.E.K., & Trick, L.M. (2021). Driving exposure and dual-task interference.Annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Virtual conference hosted by McGill and Concordia, Montreal, Que.
• *Walker, H.E.K, *Walker, A., *Turpin, M., Muda, R, Trick, L.M., Fugelsang, J., & Bialek, J. (2021). Investigating moral perception and acceptances of human drivers versus autonomous vehicles. Meeting of the International Conference on Thinking. Paris, France.
• *Sampson, M.I., Calvert, D.A., & Trick, L.M. (2021). Analysis of distracted driving behaviour using self-organizing maps. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)  Computing, and Communications Workshop and Conference. 
• *Terry, M.E., & Trick, L.M. (2020). Does visually guided touch interference with multiple-object tracking (MOT)? Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Scheduled for Austin TX (carried out online).
• *Terry, M.E., Thornton, I.M, & Trick, L.M. (2019). Exogenously-directed touch can interfere with performance in the multiple-object tracking task. Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Montreal, Que.
• *Walker, H.E.K., & Trick, L.M.(2019). Mind-wandering in a driving context: A comparison of self-report measures. Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Waterloo, Ontario.
• *Dodwell, A., & Trick, L.M. (2019). Do drivers with high scores on an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnostic exhibit performance deficits when engaging in social multitasks? Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Waterloo, Ontario.
• *Terry, M.E., Thornton, I.M, & Trick, L.M. (2019). The effect of exogenously-directed touch on multiple-object tracking (MOT). Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Waterloo, Ontario.
• *Waring, R., & Trick, L.M. (2018). The Influence of Irrelevance: Examining the Impact of Irrelevant Magnitudes on Task Relevant Magnitude Estimations. Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
• *Walker, H.E.K., & Trick, L.M.(2018). Predictors of Mind-Wandering While Driving: Task Length, Fatigue, and Individual Attentional Differences. Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
• Trick, L.M. (2018). Comparisons between the youngest and oldest drivers: At risk, but for different reasons. Development 2018: A Canadian Conference on Developmental Psychology, Peterborough Ontario.
• Trick, L.M., & *Terry, M.E. (2017). The effect of endogenously-directed touch on multiple-object tracking. Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Vancouver, BC.
• *Flores, H., Brodeur, D.A., Trick, L.M., Stubbert, E., Cohene, K, & Burack, J.A. (2017). Catch the Spies: Multiple-object tracking in children with low-functioning and high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder. Annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Boston, MA.
• *Waring, R., & Trick, L.M. (2017). Judging magnitudes: Is there a common cognitive system for different types of magnitude. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK.
• *Hardy, N., & Trick, L.M. (2017). Why are real contour control figures attentionally demanding in selective enumeration? Annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, ON.
• *Nowosielski, R., & Trick, L.M. (2017). How listening to an audiobook affects driving performance in urban and rural roads. Annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, ON.
• *Lochner, M.J., & Trick, L.M. (2016). Tracking road vehicles in heterogeneous vs homogeneous colour sets. Australian Road Safety Conference. Canberra, Australia.
• *Lau, C., & Trick, L.M. (2016). Effect of valence on driving. Annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals, Halifax, NS.
• *Waring, R.J., & Trick, L.M. (2016). Narrowing down the estimate: Exploring the cognitive factors involved in estimation ability. Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Ottawa, ON.
• Trick, L.M., *Wolter, M., *Infante, E., *Waring, R., *Lau, C., *Hardy, N., & Wilger-Penner, M. (2016). Predictors of mathematical performance in older adults. Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Ottawa, ON.
• *Wolter, M., *Infante, E., *Waring, R., *Nowosielski, R., *Lau, C., & Trick, L.M. (2016). Assessing spatial working memory and multiple-object tracking in senior adults. Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Ottawa, ON.
• Trick, L.M., *Nowosielski, R., *Rodd, H., *Waring, R., *Toxopeus, R., & Khan, A. (2016). Predicting dual-task interference while driving. Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Ottawa, ON.
• *Lau, C., & Trick, L.M. (2016). Effects of arousal and valence on driving. Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Ottawa, ON.
• *Hardy, N.A., & Trick, L.M. (2016). Multiple target search with Kanizsa figures. Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Ottawa, ON.
• *Infante, E., & Trick, L.M. (2016). Emotion and Enumeration. Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Ottawa, ON.
• *Rodd, H., & Trick, L.M. (2016). Roadside advertisements: Effects of valence and arousal on driving performance. Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Ottawa, ON.
• *Nowosielski, R. & Trick, L.M. (2016). Good distraction: Situational predictors of successful multi-tasking while driving. Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Ottawa, ON.
• Trick, L.M. (2016). Follow those cars! Multiple-object tracking out of the laboratory and onto the highway. ZenFest: Celebration of the career of Zenon Pylyshyn, Rutgers, NY.
• *Hardy, N.A.L., & Trick, L.M. (2015). Vertical and diagonal illusory contour figures in an enumeration task. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete’s Beach, FL.
• *Toxopeus, R., & Trick, L.M. (2014) A look at driver and passenger gender effects in young drivers Poster at 24th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science. Toronto, Ontario.
• *Dienes, N., & Trick, L.M. (2014) Is search for Kanizsa illusory contours always inefficient? Poster at 24th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science. Toronto, Ontario.
• Trick, L.M., & *Reed-Jones J.G., (2014) Item-individuation as measured by quantification and tracking performance in the blind field of an individual with cortical blindness. Poster at 24th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science. Toronto, Ontario.
• *Ptok, M., & Trick, L.M. (2014). Do young drivers with a history of both alcohol and cannabis use differ from those who only use alcohol in terms of their response to distraction? Auto2 Scientific Conference, Niagara Falls, On.
• *Dienes, N., & Trick, L.M. (2014) Enumeration of illusory contour figures II: Kanizsa figures. Poster at Banff Annual Cognitive Science Seminar, Banff, Alberta.
• *Dienes, N., & Trick, L.M. (2014) Tracking illusory contour figures. Poster at Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete’s Beach, Florida.
• *Flores, H., Brodeur, D., Trick, L.M., & Burack J.A. (2014) Catch the spies: Multiple-object tracking in low-functioning children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR). Atlanta, Georgia.
• *Ramkhalawansingh, R., Nonnecke, B., & Trick, L.M. (2013) Rewarding safe driving: An intervention against driver tailgating. Poster at 23rd annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science. Calgary, Alberta.
• *Cortens, B.P., Nonnecke, B., & Trick, L.M. (2013) Does size matter? The effect of touch-screen key size on driving. Poster at 23rd annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science. Calgary, Alberta.
• *Reed-Jones, J.G., & Trick, L.M. (2013) Multiple-object tracking in various fields of view. Poster at Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida.
• *Dienes, N., & Trick, L.M. (2013) Enumeration of illusory contour figures. Poster at Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida.
• Trick, L.M., *Toxopeus, R., Jain, U., & *Saliba, K. (2013) Effects of Multi-Layer Release Methylphenidate on driving in individuals with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder as a function of driver age. Poster at Vision Sciences Society , Naples, Florida.
• *Mueller, A., & Trick, L.M. (2012) Effects of vantage point on information selection strategies in driving scenes. Poster at 22rd annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Kingston, Ontario.
• *Ramkhalawansingh, R., Trick, L.M., & Nonnecke, B. (2012) Rewarding Safe Driving: Encouraging Safer Headways with an In-Vehicle Display. Poster at 22rd annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science. Kingston, Ontario.
• *Subasi, E., & Trick, L.M. (2012) Sensory, attentional, and working memory challenge as they affect driving performance and speed compensation in novice drivers. Poster at 22rd annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Kingston, Ontario.
• *Reed-Jones, J.G., & Trick, L.M. (2011) Judging relative numerosity without seeing: A blindsight study. Poster at Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.
• Jain, U., Trick, L.M., Turgay, A., *Saliba, K., & Donnelly, G. (2011). Driving risk in adult ADHD patients. Poster presented at 3rd International Conference on ADHD, Berlin, Germany.
• Trick, L.M. (2011). Managing collision risk in vulnerable populations: Drivers with ADHD: Invited Presentation for “Success Stories”, Auto21 Scientific Conference, Ottawa, On.
• Brodeur, D.A., Trick, L.M., *Flores, H., Marr, C., & Burack, J. (2011) Multiple-object tracking in individuals with Down syndrome. Poster presented at Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Montreal, Quebec.
• *Mueller, A., & Trick, L.M. (2010) Detection of changes in driving environments: Effects of task relevance and size. Poster at 20th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science. Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• *Reed-Jones J.G., Dedrick, D., & Trick, L.M. (2010) Blindsight and enumeration: A case study Poster at Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida.
• Trick, L.M., *Toxopeus, R., & *Wilson, D. (2010) Age and guile vs. youthful exuberance: Sensory and attentional challenges as they affect performance in older and younger drivers. Poster at Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida.
• Jackiewicz, G.B., & Trick, L.M. (2009) The effects of Mixed Amphetamine Salts on driving in adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Poster at Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario.
• Jackiewicz, G.B., & Trick, L.M. (2009) The effects of Mixed Amphetamine Salts on driving in adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Poster at ESCAP International Conference, Budapest, Hungary.
• Jackiewicz , G.B., Trick, L.M., *Wilson, D., *Reed-Jones, J.G., & *Le Moine, D. (2009) The effects of Mixed Amphetamine Salts on driving in adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Poster at 2nd International Conference on ADHD, Vienna, Austria.
• *Wang, X., Matsakis, P., Trick, L., Nonnecke, B., & Veltmann, M. (2008). A study on how humans describe relative positions of image objects. Spatial Data Handling L SDG- SAGEO 2008 conference, Montpelier, France.
• *Reed-Jones R.J., Vallis, L. A., *Reed-Jones, J.G., & Trick, L.M. (2007). Visual contributions to postural control following virtual environment exposure. Proceedings of the Society for Neuroscience , San Diego, California, USA.
• *Reed-Jones R.J., Vallis, L. A., *Reed-Jones, J.G., & Trick, L.M. (2007). Postural instability following immersion in a virtual environment driving simulator. Published in Proceedings for Ontario Biomechanics Conference.
• *Mutreja R., & Trick, L.M. (2007). Verbal, Visuospatial and Executive Working Memory in Multiple Object Tracking Poster presented at American Psychological Association, San Francisco, California.
• Trick, L.M., & *Orr, E. 2006 The role of object properties in item individuation: The effects of item heterogeneity and change. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Florida.
• *Ojala, J., & Trick, L.M. (2005). The effects of verbal and spatial secondary tasks on spatial enumeration. Poster presented at Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Montreal, Quebec.
• *Famewo, J., & Trick, L.M. (2005). Why does manual tapping interfere with visual-spatial enumeration: The impact of response modality. Poster presented at Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Montreal, Quebec.
• *Hollinsworth, H., & Trick, L.M. (2005). Age-related differences in multiple-object tracking: Can differences in working memory account for the improvement in performance? Poster presented at Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Montreal, Quebec.
• *Desroches, P., Trick, L.M., Nonnecke, B., & Vallis L.A. (2005). The influence of travel navigation systems on perception time. Poster presented at Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Montreal, Quebec.
• Trick, L.M. (2004). Age differences in multiple-object tracking. Paper presented Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science, St. Johns, Newfoundland.
• Roney, C., & Trick, L.M. (2004). Grouping and heuristic processes in the Gambler’s Fallacy and Hot Hand. Paper presented Canadian Psychological Association, St. Johns, Newfoundland.
• Trick, L.M., & Enns, J. (2003). Driving and selective attention: A conceptual framework for understanding the role of selective attention in vehicle crashes Paper presented at Vision in Vehicles, Granada, Spain. Refereed conference proceedings created but publication delayed.
• Trick, L.M., & *Perl, T. (2003). Age-related changes in the effect of response uncertainty. Poster presented Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Hamilton, Ontario.
• Trick, L.M. (2003). Patterns of selective interference for a visual and manual task Paper presented International Multi-sensory Research Forum, Hamilton, Ontario.
• Trick, L.M., *Dales, L., & *Audet, D. (2002). Enumerating items as they move: Item individuation and tracking. Poster presented Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Victoria, British Columbia.
• Trick, L.M. (1999).  Clusters precede shapes in perceptual grouping. Annual meeting of Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, BC.
• Trick, L.M. (1991). Preattentive and attentive processes in enumeration: Colour versus Brightness Contrast Poster presented Psychonomics Society, San Francisco, California.
• Trick, L.M. (1990). Preattentive and attentive processes in enumeration: Occasions when conjunctions are subitized. Poster presented Canadian Psychological Association. Ottawa, Ontario.
• Trick, L.M., & Pylyshyn, Z. (1989). Subitizing and the FINST spatial index model Paper presented Psychonomics Society, Atlanta, Georgia.
• Trick, L.M., & Pylyshyn, Z. (1989). Preattentive indexing and visual counting: FINSTs and the enumeration of concentric items. Paper presented Cognitive Science Society, Ann Arbour, Michigan.
• Trick, L.M., & Pylyshyn, Z. (1989). Preattentive item indexing and subitizing. Poster presented Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• Trick, L.M., & Pylyshyn, Z. (1988). Spatial attention and subitizing: An investigation of the FINST hypothesis Poster presented Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Quebec.
• Trick, L.M. (1988). Spatial attention and counting. Paper presented Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
• Trick, L.M. (1987). Subitizing and counting: The effect of item configuration Poster presented Canadian Psychological Association, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Conference pictures:Driving Assessment, Auto21, Sunset at the Vision Sciences Society meeting (St. Pete’s Beach, Florida).