Congratulations Nonie!

Congratulations to Nonie Finlayson for receiving an award for Excellence in Tutoring from the School of Psychology, UQ. Nonie and the other winners will be presented with their awards on Friday 7th June, and will share their thoughts on how teaching has informed and improved their research activities. Well done Nonie!

Becker, Harris, Venini and Retell — JEP-HPP paper.

Congratulations to Stef, Ant, Dustin and James for getting their paper published in JEP-HPP: “Visual Search for Colour and Shape: When is the Gaze Guided by Feature Relationships, when by Feature Values?”  — Very cool…

Big-time congrats to Anthony Harris !!!

Congratulations to Anthony Harris for being awarded a University Medal: “The award of a University Medal recognises the achievement of outstanding academic results throughout the student’s program of study.” — Too right, and way to go, Ant!!!

Congratulations James and Jessica!

Big-time congrats to James (Retell, Becker, & Remington: The contributions of expectancy and prior exposure to the surprise response in visual search) and Jessica (Choi, Harris, & Becker: No need for maps: Searches for conjunction targets can be guided relationally) for collecting the prizes for the best poster and best talk at the EPC (Experimental Psychology Conference) — great job. And a REALly nice finish to a great conference for the REAL lab: The talks of Nonie, Oscar, Belinda, Ruth, Ant, Dustin and Stefanie were also all very well received and attracted much interest. Well done, REAL people!

 

REAL JoV Paper by Harris et al.

Congratulations to Anthony Harris for getting his first paper accepted in the Journal of Vision (>> Harris, Remington & Becker: Feature specificity in attentional capture by size and colour)!!! Great work. Way to go, Ant!

REAL Current Biology paper

We are pleased to announce that REAL members Will Harrison, James Retell, and Roger Remington, along with friend and colleague Jason Mattingely, had a paper accepted this week in the journal Current Biology. Will has written a short summary of the main findings of the paper at his own website: http://willjharrison.com/2013/03/21/paper-in-press/

Click here to see the article at the journal’s website. If you are unable to download the article, email Will to request a copy: willjharri AT gmail.com.
Visual crowding at a distance during predictive remapping. Current Biology, 23, 1–6. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982213003527.

Congratulations, Ruth Savage!

Congratulations to the REAL Ruth Savage on her PhD confirmation, and for delivering a very nice confirmation talk on face perception and attention.

UQ Advantage Grants.

Congrats to Dustin and Jessica for securing UQ Advantage Grants to present their work at the Experimental Psychology Conference. (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/epc2013/). Adelaide, here we come! 🙂

Congratulations Belinda Craig!

Congratulations to the new REAL Belinda Craig on the confirmation of her PhD! Way to go, Belinda!

Three New REAL Papers

It’s been a good 2 weeks for the REAL lab, with 3 new papers accepted in 2 weeks. Congratulations to Ulrich Ansorge and Christian Valuch from the University of Vienna, and Stefanie Becker !

Becker, S.I. (in press). Simply shapely: Relative, not absolute shapes are primed in pop-out search. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

Becker, S.I., & Ansorge, U. (in press). Higher set sizes in pop-out search displays do not eliminate priming or enhance target selection. Vision Research.

Valuch, C., Becker, S.I., & Ansorge, U. (in press). Priming of fixations during recognition of natural scenes. Journal of Vision.

(Pre-prints are available from http://www.sibecker.de)