REAL Journal of Neuroscience Publication

[updated]
Congratulations to Will Harrison and his co-authors Jason Mattingley and Roger Remington on their newest publication in the Journal of Neuroscience. A link to the article will be posted when it is made available by the journal is now available : http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/7/2927.abstract?sid=889fa89d-e092-4421-94aa-bb6c4761f87c

Harrison, W. J., Mattingley, J. B., & Remington, R. W. (2013). Eye movement targets are released from visual crowding. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(7), 2927–2933. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4172-12.2013

Congrats to Anthony for winning the Honours Thesis Award!

Big-time congratulations to Anthony Harris and his supervisor, Roger Remington, for winning the Honours Thesis Award in 2012! Way to go, Ant!

Good Luck to Will!

Good Luck to Will Harrison, who has left us here at the REAL lab for a Postdoc position with Peter Bex at Harvard Medical School. We wish him the best of luck in his new hometown of Boston, and look forward to having a couch to crash on!!

Eye movements and crowding – Abstract for ACNC2012

Eye movements and crowding – Abstract for ACNC2012

The first Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference is being held in Brisbane, Australia, 29 Nov – 2 Dec, 2012. Will will be presenting some REAL research – follow the link above to read the abstract, “The magnitude and spatial extent of visual crowding are reduced during saccade preparation” by Harrison, Remington & Mattingley.

To find out more about the conference, go here: http://www.acns.org.au/acns2012

Welcome Ulrich Ansorge & Lana!

Welcome to Ulrich Ansorge, who is visiting the REAL; and a very warm welcome to his daughter Lana, who is in Australia for the first time. Uli is a Professor at the University of Vienna, Austria, and is going to stay with us for 5 weeks. We hope you’ll enjoy your stay!!!

REAL PLoS ONE publication now online

REAL PLoS ONE publication now online

Follow the link to read the following article: 

Harrison W. J., Mattingley J. B., Remington R. W. (2012). Pre-Saccadic Shifts of Visual Attention. PLoS ONE, 7(9), e45670. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0045670

New Publication

Congrats to Nonie Finlayson and her co-authors Phil Grove and Roger Remington. Journal of Vision is an open access journal so everyone will be able to download the paper appearing online soon.

Finlayson, N.J., Remington, R.W., & Grove, P.M. (2012). The role of presentation method and depth singletons in visual search for objects moving in depth. Journal of Vision, 12(8):13, 1-9. [abstract]

welcome chip folk!!!

A very warm welcome to Professor Charles Folk, Director of the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Villanova and long-standing friend of Roger, who is visiting UQ. We’re looking forward to his talk, Levels of Control:  Top-down Set for Features, Dimensions, Categories, and Schemas — Friday, the 10^th of August, 3-4PM, in Room 201-204, Level 2, McElwain Building (24A).

New publication on eye movements and attention

Congrats to Will Harrison for having the first paper of his PhD research accepted in PLoS ONE. Along with his co-authors, Jason Mattingley and Roger Remington, Will reports on his work showing the effects of exogenous cues presented just prior to a saccadic eye movement. PLoS ONE is an open access journal so everyone will be able to download the paper appearing online soon.

Harrison, W. J., Mattingley, J. B., Remington, R. W. (accepted). Pre-saccadic shifts of visual attention, PLoS ONE.

a real psych science paper

Congratulations to Stefanie, Chip and Roger for getting a paper on the Relational Theory accepted in Psych Science: Becker, S.I., Remington, R.W., & Folk, C.L. (in press). Attentional capture does not depend on feature similarity but on target-nontarget relations, Psychological Science.