Boot, Walter Richard

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Technology support preferences for prospective memory among older adults with subjective cognitive complaints. Innovation in aging. 2025 Academic Article GET IT
Usability of the Smartwatch as a Prospective Memory Aid for Cognitively Diverse Older Adults. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 2025 Academic Article GET IT
Optimizing cognitive interventions to improve real-world function for healthy older adults. European journal of ageing. 2025 Review GET IT
Assessing the Feasibility and Efficacy of Virtual Reality Navigational Training for Older Adults. Innovation in aging. 2024 Academic Article GET IT
Development of the Japanese version of the Mobile Device Proficiency Questionnaire: A cross-sectional validation study. Geriatrics & gerontology international. 2024 Academic Article GET IT
Prioritizing Technology Initiatives to Reduce Social Isolation and Loneliness Among Older Adults. HealthcarePapers. 2024 Academic Article GET IT
Comparing the effectiveness of two theory-based strategies to promote cognitive training adherence. Journal of experimental psychology. Applied. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
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Using Immersive Virtual Reality to Enhance Social Interaction Among Older Adults: A Cross-Site Investigation. Innovation in aging. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 34
Predicting Older Adults' Continued Computer Use After Initial Adoption. Innovation in aging. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 7
Understanding older adults' attitudes toward mobile and wearable technologies to support health and cognition. Frontiers in psychology. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 24
Investigating the behavioral mechanisms of action video game effects in a complex transfer task. Acta psychologica. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
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Applying aspects of deliberate practice to help low performers improve manual control in a complex task. Acta psychologica. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
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Boldness moderates cognitive performance under acute threat: Evidence from a task-switching paradigm involving cueing for shock. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
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Using a Nature-Based Virtual Reality Environment for Improving Mood States and Cognitive Engagement in Older Adults: A Mixed-Method Feasibility Study. Innovation in aging. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
Exploring Individuals' Willingness to Engage in Interventions to Improve Cognitive Health and Prolong Late-Life Independence: An Extension of Harrell, Kmetz, and Boot (2019). Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 3
A New Tool for Assessing Older Adults' Wireless Network Proficiency: The Wireless Network Proficiency Questionnaire. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 16
Trait self-control does not predict attentional control: Evidence from a novel attention capture paradigm. PloS one. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 4
Cognitive Training: Transfer Beyond the Laboratory?. Human factors. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 16
Neural Evidence of Superior Memory: How to Capture Brain Activities of Encoding Processes Underlying Superior Memory. Frontiers in human neuroscience. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
The spatial dynamics of mouse-tracking reveal that attention capture is stimulus-driven rather than contingent upon top-down goals. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 13
What to Where: The Right Attention Set for the Wrong Location. Perception. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 5
Boldness moderates the effects of external threat on performance within a task-switching paradigm. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 25
Is Cognitive Training Worth It? Exploring Individuals' Willingness to Engage in Cognitive Training. Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 25
Attention capture, processing speed, and inattentional blindness. Acta psychologica. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
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Looking behind the score: Skill structure explains sex differences in skilled video game performance. PloS one. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 12
Hand proximity effects are fragile: a useful null result. Cognitive research: principles and implications. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 18
Registered Replication Report: Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg (1998). Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. 2018 Review GET IT
Times cited: 59
What Do People Expect of Cognitive Enhancement?. Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 19
The costs (or benefits) associated with attended objects do little to influence inattentional blindness. Acta psychologica. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 11
Applying Aspects of the Expert Performance Approach to Better Understand the Structure of Skill and Mechanisms of Skill Acquisition in Video Games. Topics in cognitive science. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 19
Do different attention capture paradigms measure different types of capture?. Attention, perception & psychophysics. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 15
Understanding the structure of skill through a detailed analysis of Individuals' performance on the Space Fortress game. Acta psychologica. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 17
A New Tool for Assessing Mobile Device Proficiency in Older Adults: The Mobile Device Proficiency Questionnaire. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 246
Exploring the relationship between object realism and object-based attention effects. Acta psychologica. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
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The relationship between intelligence and training gains is moderated by training strategy. PloS one. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 11
Video games as tools to achieve insight into cognitive processes. Frontiers in psychology. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 52
Functional fixedness: The functional significance of delayed disengagement based on attention set. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 10
Exploring the breadth of the top-down representations that control attentional disengagement. Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006). 2014 Academic Article GET IT
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The brain-games conundrum: does cognitive training really sharpen the mind?. Cerebrum : the Dana forum on brain science. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Is the effect of aerobic exercise on cognition a placebo effect?. PloS one. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 36
Gaming Preferences of Aging Generations. Gerontechnology : international journal on the fundamental aspects of technology to serve the ageing society. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 147
The Pervasive Problem With Placebos in Psychology: Why Active Control Groups Are Not Sufficient to Rule Out Placebo Effects. Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 498
Pupillary response predicts multiple object tracking load, error rate, and conscientiousness, but not inattentional blindness. Acta psychologica. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 20
Perceptual-cognitive expertise in elite volleyball players. Frontiers in psychology. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 129
Bridging across cognitive training and brain plasticity: a neurally inspired computational model of interactive skill learning. Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
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Different slopes for different folks: alpha and delta EEG power predict subsequent video game learning rate and improvements in cognitive control tasks. Psychophysiology. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 72
Advances in video game methods and reporting practices (but still room for improvement): a commentary on Strobach, Frensch, and Schubert (2012). Acta psychologica. 2012 Comment GET IT
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Examining neural correlates of skill acquisition in a complex videogame training program. Frontiers in human neuroscience. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 23
Videogame training strategy-induced change in brain function during a complex visuomotor task. Behavioural brain research. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
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Characterizing the time course and nature of attentional disengagement effects. Vision research. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 14
Minimal age-related deficits in task switching, inhibition, and oculomotor control. Experimental aging research. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
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A load on my mind: evidence that anhedonic depression is like multi-tasking. Acta psychologica. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 25
Performance gains from directed training do not transfer to untrained tasks. Acta psychologica. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 66
Do action video games improve perception and cognition?. Frontiers in psychology. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
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Regional differences in brain volume predict the acquisition of skill in a complex real-time strategy videogame. Brain and cognition. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 80
Effects of training strategies implemented in a complex videogame on functional connectivity of attentional networks. NeuroImage. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 81
Learning to multitask: effects of video game practice on electrophysiological indices of attention and resource allocation. Psychophysiology. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 69
Oculomotor capture during real-world scene viewing depends on cognitive load. Vision research. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
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Predicting individuals' learning success from patterns of pre-learning MRI activity. PloS one. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 40
Transfer of skill engendered by complex task training under conditions of variable priority. Acta psychologica. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 79
Striatal volume predicts level of video game skill acquisition. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). 2010 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 130
Visual search for real world targets under conditions of high target-background similarity: Exploring training and transfer in younger and older adults. Acta psychologica. 2009 Academic Article GET IT
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Should I stay or should I go? Attentional disengagement from visually unique and unexpected items at fixation. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance. 2009 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 40
Training and transfer of training in the search for camouflaged targets. Attention, perception & psychophysics. 2009 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 30
Stable individual differences in search strategy? The effect of task demands and motivational factors on scanning strategy in visual search. Journal of vision. 2009 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 61
Can training in a real-time strategy video game attenuate cognitive decline in older adults?. Psychology and aging. 2008 Academic Article GET IT
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The effects of video game playing on attention, memory, and executive control. Acta psychologica. 2008 Academic Article GET IT
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Training older adults to search more effectively: scanning strategy and visual search in dynamic displays. Psychology and aging. 2008 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 17
Temporal limitations in multiple target detection in a dynamic monitoring task. Human factors. 2007 Academic Article GET IT
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Age-related differences in the use of background layout in visual search. Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition. 2007 Academic Article GET IT
Age-related differences in visual search in dynamic displays. Psychology and aging. 2007 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 21
Aging, memory and visual search. Acta psychologica. 2006 Academic Article GET IT
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Detecting transient changes in dynamic displays: the more you look, the less you see. Human factors. 2006 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 42
Attention capture is modulated in dual-task situations. Psychonomic bulletin & review. 2005 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 64
Oculomotor consequences of abrupt object onsets and offsets: onsets dominate oculomotor capture. Perception & psychophysics. 2005 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 47
Visual sensing IS seeing: why "mindsight," in hindsight, is blind. Psychological science. 2005 Academic Article GET IT
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Automatic and intentional memory processes in visual search. Psychonomic bulletin & review. 2004 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 45
Visual skills in airport-security screening. Psychological science. 2004 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 179
Landmarks help guide attention during visual search. Spatial vision. 2004 Academic Article GET IT
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Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement - CREATE awarded by National Institute on Aging Co-Investigator 2022 - 2027
A Social Engaging Restorative Virtual Environment (SERVE) Volunteer Intervention to Support Social Engagement and Well-Being in Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment awarded by NovaSterilis INC Co-Investigator 2023 - 2026
missing activity Co-Investigator 2019 - 2026

Enhance II awarded by Administration for Community Living Key Personnel 2024 - 2029

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Background

education and training

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2007
M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2003
B.S., State University of New York at Stony Brook 2001

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Walter Richard Boot

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wab4001@med.cornell.edu

VIVO Weill Cornell Medical College

Walter Richard Boot Professor of Psychology in Medicine

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