Tom Foulsham
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Reader in Psychology at the University of Essex. Probably somewhere doing experiments with eyes.
I'm back in St Pete for
#VSS2026
- presenting work with Arnold Wilkins on LED flicker, eye movements and reading in the first poster session. Come and say hi!
21 days ago
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New work from a collaboration with clever EEG/machine learning people...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Anxiety detection using neural and physiological signals and artificial intelligence: A comprehensive review
Anxiety disorders are a significant challenge to global health, yet current diagnostic methods rely mainly on subjective and episodic assessment. The …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763426001260?dgcid=coauthor
about 2 months ago
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Tom Foulsham
The Experimental Psychology Society
2 months ago
The next EPS Meeting will be at the University of Essex from 1st – 3rd July 2026. This meeting will include the 33rd EPS Prize lecture and the 15th Frith Prize Talk. Portals for this meeting will open on Monday 13th April 2026 at 10am (UK time) and for at least 24 hours.
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
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Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: University of Essex. 1st – 3rd July 2026. This meeting will include the 33rd EPS Prize lecture by Melissa Colloff (and accompanying symposium organised by Markus Bindemann). This meeti…
https://eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
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If you have recently got your PhD in the UK (or you are about to) and you want a short postdoc fellowship where you think/publish/engage, check this out:
www.senss.ac.uk/post-doctora...
@thesenssdtp.bsky.social
(and if our interests align, I could be your mentor...)
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Post-Doctoral Fellowships — South and East Network for Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership
What is a Post-doctoral fellowship? A Post-doctoral fellowship (PDF) is intended to provide an opportunity for early career researchers to consolidate their PhDs through developing publications, thei...
https://www.senss.ac.uk/post-doctoral-fellowships
2 months ago
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Come and join us this September in London to learn all about eye movement research! Please pass on to interested students and researchers!
@exppsychsoc.bsky.social
@escop.bsky.social
add a skeleton here at some point
2 months ago
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I guess that it's OK for a reviewer to write "the author does not seem to know the literature" but you kind of have to give some citations, yeah? At least tell us what it is that you think we don't know!
3 months ago
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Tom Foulsham
Ulrich Ettinger
3 months ago
I am thrilled to announce the European Summer School on Eye Movements!
#ESSEM2026
takes place 7-12 September, 2026, at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London. Further details including info on how to register can be found here:
essem2026.org
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ESSEM 2026 – Summer School
https://essem2026.org/
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Tom Foulsham
AP Martinez Cedillo
3 months ago
📣 Paper alert: We reviewed callous unemotional (CU) traits across neurodevelopmental disorders (NDs). Individuals with CU traits consistently show atypical gaze patterns (reduced looks to the eyes), when viewing fearful faces.
@tomfoulsh.bsky.social
www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/13...
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https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/13/2/303
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Tom Foulsham
AP Martinez Cedillo
3 months ago
🚨New paper! We examined face & emotion id across ASC, ADHD, ASC+ADHD and typically developing children using The Gorilla exp builder, reaching diverse regions of Mexico. With the great support of
@tomfoulsh.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Cognitive profiles of Autism, ADHD, and co-occurring presentations in childhood: insights from an online working memory task
Access to standardized cognitive assessment remains limited in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs), with direct implications for the identification and support of children with neurodevelopme...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09297049.2026.2635616#abstract
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New from David McAleavey who used eyetracking to test theories of "community perception"
authors.elsevier.com/c/1mbVyzzKDT...
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Building better than we know: Maintenance, eye movements, and social trust
To determine if remediating images of poorly maintained residential properties increases social trust and identify which aspects of the built environm…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494426000411?dgcid=coauthor
4 months ago
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Just over 2 weeks until the deadline for this studentship - know any great students interested in memory, eye movements and sleep?
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4 months ago
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Tom Foulsham
The advert for collaborative, SENSS funded PhD-studentships is now live, including one project about sleep and eye movements with me as a co-supervisor. PLEASE SHARE this for people interested in doing a funded PhD in the UK:
www.senss.ac.uk/collaborativ...
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Collaborative Studentships — South and East Network for Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership
What is a SENSS collaborative studentship? Collaborative students join an expert team of leading social scientists and an external partner (from industry, government, or a non-government organisation,...
https://www.senss.ac.uk/collaborative-studentships
6 months ago
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The advert for collaborative, SENSS funded PhD-studentships is now live, including one project about sleep and eye movements with me as a co-supervisor. PLEASE SHARE this for people interested in doing a funded PhD in the UK:
www.senss.ac.uk/collaborativ...
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Collaborative Studentships — South and East Network for Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership
What is a SENSS collaborative studentship? Collaborative students join an expert team of leading social scientists and an external partner (from industry, government, or a non-government organisation,...
https://www.senss.ac.uk/collaborative-studentships
6 months ago
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New paper which took a long time to come out, based on PhD students' Jessica Dawson and
@apmartinezcedillo.bsky.social
. We investigate the influence of signals from the eyes, and clinically-relevant traits, on how people follow a conversation.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17470218251390498
6 months ago
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The next steps in our funded research on eye movements in fatigue involve some fancy AI and supercomputing!
@universityofessex.bsky.social
www.essex.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
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Essex set to advance eye behaviour research with AI supercomputer | University of Essex
Researchers at Essex have been granted access to one the UK’s most powerful AI supercomputers as part of a project to better understand eye behaviour and mental fatigue.
https://www.essex.ac.uk/news/2025/11/24/essex-set-to-advance-eye-behaviour-research-with-ai-supercomputer
6 months ago
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I don't think it is OK to desk reject a paper with no comments or feedback at all. If you have time to read/skim the paper and make a judgement, then you have time to write a sentence explaining why you don't want it (and that stuff is invaluable for ECRs)
8 months ago
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We withdrew a manuscript from review at a journal today. I think that is the first time I've done that, but the review process was hugely delayed and unhelpful.
9 months ago
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Looking forward to speaking in tomorrow's pre-conference workshop on eye-tracking
@escop.bsky.social
in Sheffield
#ESCOP2025
9 months ago
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Tom Foulsham
AP Martinez Cedillo
10 months ago
Some exciting news to share: I’m joining Edge Hill University as a Lecturer in Psychology this September! Excited (and a little nervous) for this next chapter in academia. I can’t wait to get started!
#AcademicTwitter
#Psychology
#LecturerLife
#EdgeHillUniversity
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Here's a short thread about our paper in
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
dlvr.it/TKxcFg
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Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention
Covert visual attention is often seen as a lab phenomenon. Yet, in real-life, people routinely shift their attention to others without moving their eyes, a fact overlooked in most research. To truly u...
http://dlvr.it/TKxcFg
about 1 year ago
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Tom Foulsham
Alex Shackman
about 1 year ago
#socialAnx
this articulates something i've wondered about
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention
Covert visual attention is often seen as a lab phenomenon. Yet, in real-life, people routinely shift their attention to others without moving their ey…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661325001135?dgcid=raven_sd_aip_email
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reposted by
Tom Foulsham
Michelle Dawson
about 1 year ago
On gaze vs attention, autism-relevant, free
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
"in live situations, where the eyes signal information, people may naturally avert their gaze while covertly tracking others... with the eyes effectively sending a false signal as to where attention is directed"
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Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention
Covert visual attention is often seen as a lab phenomenon. Yet, in real-life, people routinely shift their attention to others without moving their eyes, a fact overlooked in most research. To truly u...
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(25)00113-5
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Tom Foulsham
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
about 1 year ago
Online Now: Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention
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Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention
Covert visual attention is often seen as a lab phenomenon. Yet, in real-life, people routinely shift their attention to others without moving their eyes, a fact overlooked in most research. To truly understand natural behaviour, we must look beyond the eyes and illuminate this dark matter of social attention.
http://dlvr.it/TKxcFg
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More paper news! After years of thinking/talking about it, here is our short perspective piece on covert attention in natural situations. Now in press at TICS
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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about 1 year ago
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I played a small part in this new paper led by Stasha Medeiros in Vermont and with
@neilcohn.bsky.social
: autistic traits have some nuanced effects on how people process comic strips...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41..
about 1 year ago
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Now out from my colleagues on our POTION project:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Identifying the human olfactory and chemosignaling neural networks using event related fMRI and graph theory
Scientific Reports - Identifying the human olfactory and chemosignaling neural networks using event related fMRI and graph theory
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-96355-2.epdf?sharing_token=MAqC1VBOwqrXFCiGJd-U4tRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NWo2TZQCp1Vd2Rk_eIEc-fyDVI5143GQllk9lNOHFw_8_SKMWA5ExsxoPX_jL8l_E6xNrxwahGHxtf6LMOMdOvRLk-K5OHOab3rj2_pHwwUXZE6-0hq13b6friQ2zbqpQ%3D
about 1 year ago
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Tom Foulsham
Masud Husain
about 1 year ago
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial
@brain1878.bsky.social
If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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As a reviewer, do you expect to see the other reviewers' comments and the editor's decision letter when you look at a revision? That's normal practice, right?! Or am I mad?
over 1 year ago
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New paper from A. Priscilla Martinez-Cedillo, showing how cognitive load affects gaze in real tasks...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Cognitive load affects gaze dynamics during real-world tasks - Experimental Brain Research
In everyday tasks, active gaze is used to gather information for the actions we perform. The cognitive resources required for such gaze control have rarely been investigated. We examined how a seconda...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00221-025-07037-4?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20250303&utm_content=10.1007%2Fs00221-025-07037-4
over 1 year ago
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Tom Foulsham
Daniel Devine
over 1 year ago
If you're an early career researcher - perhaps based in a fledgling authoritarian state - and want an out,
@britishacademy.bsky.social
offer 2-year fellowships to come to a UK university (including relocation costs and research funds).
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...
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International Fellowships 2025
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/international-fellowships/
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Also, do you like humans, robots and pizza? If so, you should check out the special sessions at IAS-19 in Genoa...
ias-19.org/special-sess...
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over 1 year ago
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We are looking for TWO postdocs as part of our funded project on AI, fatigue and eye movement metrics! Please spread the word (one post is more machine learning, the other is more psychology testing)...
vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
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Job profile
https://vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=071943Ykub&WVID=9918109NEm
over 1 year ago
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Having a good time this week hanging out with super smart people at Milan Bicocca! Lots of pizza and AI chat. (and yes, this is my first post on here, more interesting stuff to come...)
over 1 year ago
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