Steven J. Luck

Steven J. Luck
Steven J. Luck
Education	University of California, San Diego
	Scientific career
Fields	Neuroscience Psychology Human electrophysiology
Thesis	(1993)

Steven J. Luck is an American cognitive neuroscientist and distinguished professor of psychology at The University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

Education and Career

Steven Luck received a Bachelor's of Art in psychology from Reed College in 1986 and went on to earn a Master's of Science in neurosciences from UCSD in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Neurosciences in 1993 from UCSD. Luck continued as a research assistant until 1994 before accepting a professorship at the University of Iowa until 2006. Luck currently holds the position of distinguished professor at the University of California, Davis.

Research

Luck's primary research focus is in cognitive neuroscience. Luck co-developed and maintains ERPLAB and hosts an annual 10-day ERP Boot Camp with Emily Kappenman, designed to train researchers at any level on the fundamentals of event-related potentials. Luck has published extensive academic literature with over 180 articles accumulating over 29,000 citations

Awards

"Steven J. Luck: Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology". American Psychologist. 54 (11): 904–907. November 1999. doi:10.1037/h0088194. ISSN 1935-990X.
2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS):For his work in attention and visual memory.
2001 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences: For his pathbreaking behavioral, psychophysical, and physiological studies of attention and visual memory.

Selected Publications

Books

Luck, S. J. (2022). Applied event-related potential data analysis. LibreTexts, 10(1), 5.
Luck, S. J. (2014). An introduction to the event-related potential technique. MIT press.
Luck, S. J., & Kappenman, E. S. (Eds.). (2011). The Oxford handbook of event-related potential components. Oxford university press.

Software

Lopez-Calderon, Javier; Luck, Steven J. (April 14, 2014). "ERPLAB: an open-source toolbox for the analysis of event-related potentials". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8: 213. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00213. ISSN 1662-5161. PMC 3995046. PMID 24782741.

Academic Papers

Zhang, Weiwei; Luck, Steven J. (May 2008). "Discrete fixed-resolution representations in visual working memory". Nature. 453 (7192): 233–235. Bibcode:2008Natur.453..233Z. doi:10.1038/nature06860. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 2588137. PMID 18385672.
Vogel, Ek; Ek, S.J. (2000). "The visual N1 component as an index of a discrimination process". Psychophysiology. 37 (2): 190–203. doi:10.1111/1469-8986.3720190. PMID 10731769.
Luck, Steven J.; Vogel, Edward K. (November 1997). "The capacity of visual working memory for features and conjunctions". Nature. 390 (6657): 279–281. Bibcode:1997Natur.390..279L. doi:10.1038/36846. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 9384378.

References

1 2 Luck, Steven John (April 18, 2024). "Steve Luck | Psychology". psychology.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved May 22, 2026.
↑ "Steven J. Luck - curriculum vitae" (PDF). University of California, Davis: Psychology. September 11, 2025. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 11, 2025. Retrieved May 22, 2026.
↑ "The ERP Boot Camp". ERP Info. Retrieved May 22, 2026.
↑ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved May 22, 2026.
1 2 "2026 Steven J. Luck: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards". Research.com. Retrieved May 22, 2026.

[:0-1] 1 2 Luck, Steven John (April 18, 2024). "Steve Luck | Psychology". psychology.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved May 22, 2026.

[b081-2] "Steven J. Luck - curriculum vitae" (PDF). University of California, Davis: Psychology. September 11, 2025. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 11, 2025. Retrieved May 22, 2026.

[3] "The ERP Boot Camp". ERP Info. Retrieved May 22, 2026.

[4] "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved May 22, 2026.

[:1-5] 1 2 "2026 Steven J. Luck: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards". Research.com. Retrieved May 22, 2026.

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Steven J. Luck
Education	University of California, San Diego
Scientific career
Fields	Neuroscience Psychology Human electrophysiology
Thesis	(1993)