Gary Fisk, Ph.D.

Creative Works: Books

Fisk, G.D. (2019). Slides for Students: The Effective Use of PowerPoint in Education. University of North Georgia Press, Dahlonega, Georgia

Creative Works: Peer-Reviewed Publications

Fisk, G.D., & Haase, S.J. (in press). Comparison of frequentist and Bayesian statistics for studying unconscious perception: Differences between null awareness dissociation and relative sensitivity dissociation, Psychological Reports


Haase, S.J., Fisk, G., Worley, M., & Rosenberger, B. (2022). Comparing the influences of masking, crowding, response conflict, and cortical scaling on simple shape identification with foveal targets. Cognition, Brain, Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 26(3), 137-158. https://doi.org/10.24193/cbb.2022.26.08


Fisk, G.D., & Haase, S.J. (2022). The necessity of equivalent comparisons for interpreting masked priming effects: Implications for studies of unconscious perceptual processing. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Practice, and Research. Advance online publication, https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000330


Fisk, G.D., & Haase, S.J. (2022). No emotional Stroop effect from masked and unmasked stimuli in non-clinical young adults tested online. Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, 18(2), 1-11. URL: https://www.jasnh.com/pdf/Vol19-No1-article1.pdf


Fisk, G.D., & Haase, S.J. (2021). Implications of implicit vs. explicit attitude bias for college-level instruction. Providing Engaging, Inclusive, and Equitable Instruction: Teaching Matters Conference 2021, 40-44. https://www.gordonstate.edu/documents/departments/cetl/teaching-matters-2021.pdf


Fisk, G.D., & Haase, S.J. (2020). Binary vs. continuous experimental designs for the study of unconscious perceptual processing. Consciousness and Cognition, 81, 102933. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2020.102933


Haase, S.J., & Fisk, G.D. (2020). Extending a focused attention paradigm to critically test for unconscious congruency effects. Visual Cognition, 28, 148-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2020.1743401


Fisk, G.D., & Haase, S.J. (2020). No implicit-explicit racial attitude correlation in a white sample from the rural South of the United States. Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, 16, 93-102. https://www.jasnh.com/pdf/Vol16-No2-article2.pdf


Fisk, G.D., & Haase, S.J. (2020). Classic Stroop color words produce no Stroop effect when the display characteristics are based upon emotional Stroop studies with subliminal presentations. Psychological Reports, 123, 1207–1225. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033294119843220


Fisk, G.D., and Haase, S.J. (2016). Highly correlated responses in exclusion tasks do not produce stronger evidence of unconscious perception. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Practice, and Research. 3, 211-221. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000076


Haase, S.J., and Fisk, G.D. (2015). Awareness of “invisible” arrows in a metacontrast masking paradigm, The American Journal of Psychology, 128,15 – 30. https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjpsyc.128.1.0015


Fisk, G.D., and Haase, S.J. (2015). Commentary on “Evidence of weak conscious experiences in the exclusion task”. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(370), 1 – 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00370


Fisk, G.D. and Haase, S.J. (2013). Highly correlated stimuli do not necessarily facilitate the measurement of unconscious perception: Exclusion failure is hard to find in forced-choice tasks. Consciousness and Cognition, 22, 1393-1402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2013.09.006


Fisk, G.D., and Haase, S.J. (2011). The relationship between the objective identification threshold and priming effects does not provide a definitive boundary between conscious and unconscious perceptual processes. Consciousness & Cognition, 20, 1221-1231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2011.03.016


Haase, S.J., and Fisk, G.D. (2011). A comparison of Signal Detection Theory to the Objective Threshold-Strategic model of unconscious perception, Perceptual and Motor Skills, 113(1), 242-256. https://doi.org/10.2466/22.24.27.PMS.113.4.242-256


Fisk, G.D. (2008). Using animation in forensic pathology and science education. Labmedicine, 39(10), 587-592


Haase, S.J., & Fisk, G.D. (2008). Research collaboration as an effective avenue to promotion and tenure. Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, 29(1), 6-8.


Fisk, G.D., & Haase, S.J. (2007). Exclusion failure does not demonstrate unconscious perception. American Journal of Psychology, 120(2), 173-204. https://doi.org/10.2307/20445394


Coker-Kolo, D., Fisk, G.D., Easom, L.R., & Bryant, T., (2006). Faculty perceptions of teaching circles: A quantitative and qualitative analysis. Reaching Through Teaching, 18, 26-31.


Fisk, G.D., & Haase, S.J. (2006). Exclusion failure does not demonstrate unconscious perception II: Evidence from a forced-choice exclusion task. Vision Research, 46, 4244-4251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2006.08.023


Fisk, G.D., & Mennemeier, M. (2006). Common neuropsychological deficits associated with stroke survivors' impaired performance on a useful field of view test. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 102, 387-394. https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.102.2.387-394


Fisk, G.D. & Haase, S.J. (2005). Unconscious perception or not? An evaluation of detection and discrimination as indicators of awareness. American Journal of Psychology, 118(2), 183-212. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30039055


Haase, S.J., & Fisk, G.D. (2004). Valid distinctions between conscious and unconscious perception? Perception and Psychophysics, 66(5), 868-871. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03194979


Fisk, G.D., Novack, T., Mennemeier, M., & Roenker, D. (2002). Useful field of view following traumatic brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 17, 16-25.


Fisk, G.D., Owsley, C., & Mennemeier, M. (2002). Vision, attention, and self-reported driving behaviors in community-dwelling stroke survivors. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 83, 469-477. https://doi.org/10.1053/apmr.2002.31179


Haase, S.J., & Fisk, G.D. (2001). Confidence in word detection predicts word identification: Implications for an unconscious perception paradigm. American Journal of Psychology, 114, 439-468. https://doi.org/10.2307/1423690


Fisk, G.D., & Wyss, J.M. (2000). Descending projections of infralimbic cortex that mediate stimulation-evoked changes in arterial pressure. Brain Research, 859, 83-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0006-8993(00)01935-1


Fisk, G.D., & Wyss, J.M. (1999). Associational projections of the anterior midline cortex in the rat: Intracingulate and retrosplenial connections. Brain Research, 825, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01182-8


Fisk, G.D., Schneider, J.J., & Novack, T.A. (1998). Driving following traumatic brain injury: Prevalence, exposure, advice, and evaluations. Brain Injury, 12, 683-695. https://doi.org/10.1080/026990598122241


Fisk, G.D., Owsley, C., & Pulley, L. (1997). Driving after stroke: Driving exposure, advice, and evaluations. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 78, 1338-1345. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0003-9993(97)90307-5


Fisk, G.D., & Wyss, J.M. (1997). Pressor and depressor sites are intermingled in the cingulate cortex of the rat. Brain Research, 754, 204-212. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00076-0


Wyss, J.M., Fisk, G., & van Groen, T. (1992). Impaired learning and memory in mature spontaneously hypertensive rats. Brain Research, 592, 135-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-8993(92)91668-5

Creative Works: Conference Abstracts and Presentations

Fisk, G.D. & Haase, S.J. (in press). Masked prime stimulus awareness assessed with identification accuracy and the psychological refractory period. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society


Haase, S.J., & Fisk, G.D. (in press). The relationship between transliminality and perceptual performance measures. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society


Fisk, G.D. (2022). Professors hacking PowerPoint: The under-appreciated notes feature for stand-alone presentation documents. Teaching Matters 20th annual conference, Barnesville, Georgia, March 10.


Russell, M., Haase, S., & Fisk, G.D. (2022). The effect of visual field and transliminality on common onset masking. Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, New York, NY. March 3-5.


Fisk, G.D., & Haase, S.J. (2021). No evidence for unconscious perceptual processing when the experimental conditions are equivalent. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 27, 340.


Fisk, G.D. (2021). Getting more power out of PowerPoint presentations: An evidence-based approach. Keynote presentation for the Middle Tennessee Psychological Association meeting, April 24, 2021.


Haase, S.J., Fisk, G.D., & Rosenberger, B. (2020). Cortical scaling influence of distracting stimuli on congruency effects. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 25, 171.


Rosenberger, R., Haase, S., & Fisk, G. (2020). Identifying briefly displayed shapes: The effect of cortically scaled masks on response times. Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, Boston, MA; March 12-14. (Conference canceled)


Fisk, G.D. (2019). The effective use of PowerPoint presentations in education. Teaching Matters - 18th annual Conference, Barnesville, Georgia.


Fisk, G.D. (2019). The effective use of PowerPoint presentations in education. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 24, 231.


Haase, S.J., & Fisk, G.D. (2019). Congruency effects in shape identification across different masking and crowding conditions. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 24, 259.


Fisk, G.D. (2019). Getting more power out of PowerPoint presentations: An evidence-based approach. Research of Teaching and Learning Summit, Kennesaw, GA on October 18, 2019. https://www.rotlsummit.com/2019/sessions/getting-more-power-out-powerpoint-presentations-evidence-based-approach


Fisk, G.D. (2019). Getting more power out of PowerPoint presentations: An evidence-based approach. An invited presentation at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Psychology Department on September 11, 2019.


Fisk, G.D. (2019). The big idea: Ending PowerPoint presentations with critical thinking exercises. Teaching Matters - 17th annual Conference, Barnesville, Georgia.


Worley, M., Haase, S.J., & Fisk, G.D. (2018). Identification of briefly displayed shapes. The 2018 annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA. 116.


Fisk, G.D. & Haase, S.J. (2017). The Stroop task measures conscious perception: Prime duration as a dose-response effect. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 22, 269.


Haase, S.J. & Fisk, G.D. (2017). The influence of attention and stimulus duration on the scope of processing – Implications for both conscious and unconscious perception research. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 22, 172.


Fisk, G.D. (2017). Increasing student engagement in PowerPoint presentations: An evidence-based approach. Chinese-American Academic and Professional Association in the Southeastern United States meeting, Atlanta, Georgia


Fisk, G.D. (2017). Increasing student engagement in PowerPoint presentations: An evidence-based approach. Teaching Matters - 15th Annual Conference, Barnesville, Georgia


Fisk. G.D., and Haase, S.J. (2015). A new, unified approach for the study of unconscious perception. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 20, 221.


Haase, S., Fisk, G., Kline, E., and Oster, N. (2013). Concurrent relationships between prime awareness and priming effects in metacontrast. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 18, 155.


Fisk, G., and Haase, S. (2013). Failure to replicate exclusion failure in a novel, forced-choice exclusion task. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 18, 259.


Oster, N., Haase, S.J., and Fisk, G.D. (2013). Identification of briefly-presented arrow primes and targets. Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, New York, New York.


Cotter, E., & Fisk, G. (2012). Creating an online Human Growth and Development course. Southeastern Teaching of Psychology Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.


Fisk, G.D., & Haase, S.J. (2011). "Unconscious perception" effects in exclusion tasks are methodological artifacts. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 16, 138


Haase, S.J., & Fisk, G.D. (2010). Perceptual instructions increase awareness of primes in an "unconscious perception" paradigm. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 15, 66.


Haase, S.J., Fisk, G.D., Bradford, K., Michaliszyn, M., Bloodworth, D., Cannon, M., Faircloth, B., Myers, A., Rachals, D., & Riaz, M. (2009). Correlations Between the Implicit Association Test and Modern Racism Survey Across Two Universities. Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.


Fisk, G.D., & Haase, S.J. (2008). The IAT and race: Results from the "black belt" of the rural South. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 13, 85.


Fisk, G.D. (2008). Organization: The Foundation of Good Teaching. Teaching Matters - 6th Annual Conference, Barnesville, Georgia


Fisk, G.D. (2007). The Varieties of Attention: Application to Classroom Settings, Teaching Matters - 5th Annual Conference, Barnesville, Georgia


Fisk, G.D., & Haase, S.J. (2006). A repetition priming test of the objective-threshold/strategic model of unconscious perception. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 11, 52.


Haase, S.J., & Fisk, G.D. (2005). The effect of mask category on letter detection and identification. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 10, 67


Fisk, G.D., & Haase, S.J. (2004). Exclusion failure is an invalid indicator of unconscious perception. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 9, 66.


Haase, S.J., & Fisk, G.D. (2004). Challenges to the objective threshold (zero d') criterion of null awareness. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 9, 66.


Anderson, M.J., Lopohovsky, N., Gross, C., Haase, S.J., and Fisk, G.D. (2004) Can unconscious perception be validly measured? A replication and analysis using signal detection theory. Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.


Taylor-Cooke, P.A., Fisk, G.D., & Mennemeier, M.S. (2004). Blinking may compensate for changes in sustained visual attention due to age and brain injury. International Neuropsychological Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.


Woods, A.J., Jewell, G.R., Fisk, G., Tipton, S., Dowler, R., Mennemeier,
M. (2004). Caloric stimulation in neglect: Not just for the vestibular system
anymore.
International Neuropsychological Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.


Fisk, G. (2003). Using graphing calculators to facilitate classroom demonstrations in statistics. Paper presentation at the Southeastern Teaching of Psychology Conference, Kennesaw, Georgia.


Fisk, G., & Haase, S. (2002). Blank fields on noise trials improve word detection but not identification. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 7, 1.


Haase, S. J., & Fisk, G. D. (2002). Signal Detection Theory as a modeling tool for resolving controversies surrounding unconscious perception. Journal of Vision, 2(7), 22a. https://doi.org/10.1167/2.7.22


Cotter, E.M., & Fisk, G.D. (2002). A comparison of midterm and final college grades: Do midterm grades matter? Poster session presented at the Southeastern Teaching of Psychology Conference, Kennesaw, Georgia.


Fisk, G.D., & Haase, S.J. (2001). Word detection predicts identification and exclusion performance under forward and backward masking conditions. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 6, 1.


Haase, S.J., & Fisk, G.D. (2000). Confidence in word detection predicts exclusion task performance in an unconscious perception paradigm. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 5, 38.


Haase, S.J., & Fisk, G.D. (1998). Investigating “unconscious perception” using a signal detection rating scale methodology. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 3, 25.


Tipton, S., Mennemeier, M., & Fisk, G. (1996). Temporary alleviation of spatial neglect following caloric vestibular and cold pressor stimulation. Poster session presented at Medical Student Research Day, Birmingham, Alabama.


Fisk, G.D., van Groen, T., & Wyss, J.M. (1992). The projections from the anterior cingulate and precentral agranular cortices to the amygdala in the rat. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 18, 519.


Wyss, J.M., Fisk, G.D., van Groen, T. (1991). Impaired learning and memory in mature, spontaneously hypertensive rats. Hypertension, 18(3), 420.

Fisk, G.D., van Groen, T., & Wyss, J.M. (1991). The corticothalamic projections of the anterior cingulate and precentral agranular cortices in the rat. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 17, 128.


Fisk, G.D., van Groen, T., & Wyss, J.M. (1990). Anterior cingulate cortex projections to retrosplenial and postsubicular cortices. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 16, 124.

Creative Works: Unpublished manuscripts

Fisk, G.D., and Haase, S.J. (2022, August 15).Using a single task approach for simultaneously investigating masked priming effects and prime awareness. Unpublished manuscript, Retrieved from https://osf.io/ywcu8/


Fisk, G.D., & Haase, S.J. (2020, December 14). A single-task approach to studying perceptual awareness with nonassociative word/nonword response congruency effects. Unpublished manuscript, Retrieved from https://osf.io/62yf3. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/62YF3


Creative Works: Multimedia

Fisk, G.D. (2002). Gestalt principles of perceptual organization. MyPsychLab Multimedia CDROM, Tom Harrigan, ed., Pearson Education, Canada


Creative Works: Letters to the Editor

Fisk, G. (2004). Comment on Johnston, Stocks, Datta Chaudhuri & Dey (2004). International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 11(10), 490.


Fisk, G., & Haase, S. (1999). Demystifying subliminal messages. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 45, B11.


Creative Works: Sponsored Student Publications and Presentations

Varnum, C. (2018). Examining the subconscious influence of awareness and perception through the Stroop effect. Georgia Southwestern Undergraduate Research Conference.


Turner, C. (2018). Stroop Effect: Unconscious Perception. Georgia Southwestern Undergraduate Research Conference.


Gladney, M., and Howell, F. (2014). Semantic priming and unconscious perception. Poster presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psychology conference, Kennesaw, Georgia.


Graves, C., and Austin, C. (2014). Unconscious perception: The word discrimination experiment. Poster presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psychology conference, Kennesaw, Georgia.


Landreth, M. (2013). Unconscious semantic priming. Poster presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psychology conference, Kennesaw, Georgia.


Hughston, A. (2013). Forced choice exclusion tasks do not show evidence for unconscious perception. Poster presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psychology conference, Kennesaw, Georgia.


Johnson, A. (2013). Persaud and McLeod: A deeper study of unconscious perception. Poster presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psychology conference, Kennesaw, Georgia.


Li, C. (2013). A study of unconscious perception using an exclusion task. Poster presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psychology conference, Kennesaw, Georgia.


Trinh, M.T. (2012). Masculine and feminine personality traits are correlated with relationship expectations. Poster presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psychology conference, Kennesaw, Georgia


Jackson, D., & Cochrane, N. (2012). Subliminal priming effects can be eliminated by controlling for variability in target word stimuli. Poster presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psychology conference, Kennesaw, Georgia


McKay, D. (2012). Effects of priming on conscious and unconscious visual perception. Poster presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psychology conference, Kennesaw, Georgia


Chafin, R.J. (2011). Exclusion methodology for the measurement of unconscious perception. Poster presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psychology conference, Kennesaw, Georgia


Rachals, D. (2009). Implicit Racial Bias on the Implicit Association Test is Not Caused By Familiarity. Poster presented at the Pierro-Rutland-Bellamy Social Science Colloquium, Fort Valley, Georgia


Bloodworth, D. (2008). Using the Implicit Association Test to Reveal Unconscious Racial Bias. Poster presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psychology conference, Kennesaw, Georgia


Mahmood, R. (2008). Comparing IAT Differences Between Caucasians and African-Americans. Poster presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psychology conference, Kennesaw, Georgia


Merritt, J. (2007). A Test of the Objective Threshold/Strategic Model of Unconscious Perception. Poster presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psychology conference, Kennesaw, Georgia


Martin, C. (2003) Forgetting and Unconscious Perception. Poster presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psychology Conference, Kennesaw, Georgia.


Armstrong, K., & Harden, H. (2003). Detection Predicts Identification. Poster presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psychology Conference, Kennesaw, Georgia.


Martin, C.L. (2002). Delusional misidentification and reduplicative phenomena: An introduction. National Undergraduate Research Clearinghouse. Available at: http://clearinghouse.missouriwestern.edu/manuscripts/353.asp


Payne, C., & Shomberg, B. (2002). Stimulus Detection Predicts Identification: Evidence Against Unconscious Perception. Poster presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psychology Conference, Kennesaw, Georgia.


Updated: August 4, 2022