Anna Hughes
@scienceanna.bsky.social
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Professional science lurker.
Looking for a post-PhD job? Check out this behavioural scientist role that blends research/practice, working in London but with university input as well:
vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Do get in touch if you have any questions!
#AcademicPsy
#PsychSciSky
#AcademicSky
#PsychJobs
#AcademicJobs
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4 days ago
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Our turn! :(
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13 days ago
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Now out!
rdcu.be/ePqaR
With thanks to
@britishacademy.bsky.social
and
@leverhulme.ac.uk
for funding this work :)
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If you're a
#visionscience
or
#psychscisky
person starting to think about student dissertation projects, you might be interested in our visual search/foraging experiment code at
github.com/scienceanna/...
. You can configure everything via CSV files (lots of options!) and it all runs on Psychopy.
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GitHub - scienceanna/visual_foraging_exp: Visual foraging experiment in PsychoPy
Visual foraging experiment in PsychoPy. Contribute to scienceanna/visual_foraging_exp development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/scienceanna/visual_foraging_exp
3 months ago
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@riadsala.bsky.social
and I have been spending a long time thinking about modelling visual foraging. v2 model glow up: 1) it can account for individual diffs in lots of summary stats 2) it can deal with 'outliers' really nicely and 3) it should be easier to use!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ns8uy_v1
4 months ago
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A little pre-print for your Monday morning
#visionscience
:
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
. This was a fun, if slightly wacky project... would love to hear any thoughts/critiques!!
@riadsala.bsky.social
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Designing a test battery for real-world visual search
Although much research has investigated the mechanisms of visual search behaviour in laboratory-based computer tasks,there has been relatively little work on whether these results generalise to more n...
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6810586/v1
6 months ago
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Post SVG ice cream with
@riadsala.bsky.social
and
@tsawallis.bsky.social
! Lots of excellent science in the sun this weekend :)
#visionscience
8 months ago
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Good news: we've extended the deadline for SVG 2025 to 28th Feb so even more people can join us!
#VisionScience
#PsychSciSky
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10 months ago
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Scottish Vision Group 2025 website is now live:
sites.google.com/view/svg2025/
. It's one of my fave conferences - small, friendly, excellent scenery. Join us 4th-6th April 2025!
#VisionScience
#PsychSciSky
@riadsala.bsky.social
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SVG2025
The Scottish Vision Group (SVG) is a collective of vision researchers aimed at encouraging collaboration among laboratories engaged in studying visual perception in Scotland and beyond. Every spring s...
https://sites.google.com/view/svg2025/
about 1 year ago
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A little paper about foraging with
@riadsala.bsky.social
. I enjoyed this RR process a lot - getting feedback at stage 1 is so helpful. Also, big shout out to all the FAB students involved in this project.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
#VisionScience
#AcademicSky
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The effect of target scarcity on visual foraging | Royal Society Open Science
Previous studies have investigated the effect of target prevalence in combination with the effect of explicit target value on human visual foraging strategies, though the conclusions have been mixed. ...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.240060
about 1 year ago
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Happy news for a Friday - the first RR I've been involved in is out:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
. We did some pretty nerdy modelling trying to replicate (and extend?) Target Contrast Theory. Thanks to our infinitely patient reviewers and Editor over the last 2 years...
#VisionScience
about 2 years ago
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