Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology

Another day, another AB presentation! Yleia presented prelim data from their 1st PhD study last week at the 2025 joint Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) and the Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC)! 🔎 @expsyanz.bsky.social

#ActiveBrainUC #UniCanberra #attention #AcademicSky

Old friends, new faces, great science. Thanks #epc2025 #apcv2025 and Face & Person Perception Meeting organizers for a fantastic time. Bye, Sydney!

📷: Colin Palmer

From Mozart to Fleetwood Mac: music listening is not detrimental to reading comprehension in university students Most university students choose to study with music, yet whether this is detrimental or beneficial for studying remains unclear. We investigated the impact of music listening with 279 participants ...

The final paper from my PhD is finally out! Huge thank you to my supervisors @genevieve132.bsky.social and @nicolenelson.bsky.social for their support with this! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Samantha Curtis for winning the best student presentation prize at the just finished EPC and APCV joint conference. Her talk title was “Priming the distractor reduces the Stroop interference effect by uncoupling the color and word.”

Huge thanks to the organisers of the joint APCV/EPC conference last week - was wonderful getting the opportunity to catch up on all the awesome work going on closer to home @expsyanz.bsky.social #EPC2025

Had a cracking week at the @expsyanz.bsky.social & APCV conference hosted at UNSW 🙌🏼
Was good fun presenting some prelim findings from my 1st PhD study + chat with some cool researchers 🤓
Thanks for the opportunity to present + see the great work being done in experimental psych! 🧠

#ActiveBrainUC

Proud to have been part of the small but mighty team behind this year’s EPC/APCV with @sbmost.bsky.social, Branka Spehar & @popwatson.bsky.social.

Pulling off a 400+ person event with just a few academics wasn’t easy, but we managed to do it while keeping that classic EPC warmth and supportiveness.

Congratulations to our HDR candidate Florian Burger on receiving the Best Poster Presentation Award at the recent APCV/EPC Conference! His poster titled "From Visual features to Semantic Structure: Tracing Object Dimensions Through Hierarchical Model Layers."
Read the preprint here: lnkd.in/dKqbvpYw

Wrapping up my year as President of the Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology — with eternal gratefulness for this amazing team of fellow 2025 EPC/APCV organisers and advisors: Branka Spehar, @jamesdunn.bsky.social, @popwatson.bsky.social, David Alais, & @visnerd.bsky.social...

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A nice surprise to end probably my last conference as a student! Thanks to the organisers for a wonderful week full of great science and lovely people.

EPC Sydney #epc2025

Students are the pride and joy of EPC and APCV. Congratulations to this year’s student presentation award winners!

🧠 The State of the Brain Special Issue features insights from last year’s keynotes, award winners & committee leaders.

🔗 Explore major findings & themes from 2024: apertureneuro.org/issue/12560

@arokem.org @alexfornito.bsky.social @macshine.bsky.social @vcalhoun.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social

I had a blast but organising a conference is full on and it's hard to focus on anything else when the thing is running. Thankfully my co-hosts were excellent and the team made it happen. Branka Spehar, @sbmost.bsky.social @jamesdunn.bsky.social. You wear many hats in academia and now I need a rest

@jakeembrey.bsky.social nice shoutout in the final keynote of Prof Ben Newell. Conference due to end, what a blast! @expsyanz.bsky.social

And that's a wrap!! #epc2025 is in the books, with a lovely closing speech from @visnerd.bsky.social.

SO many thanks to the organising committee for building such a successful conference 🙌

We'll see you next year in Auckland 🇳🇿

Fantastic talk by David White showing that super-recognizers don't pay extra attention to all social cues (e.g. bodies), just to faces #ecp2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social

Kateryna Marchenko showing perceptions of face pareidolia follows the classic three dot pattern in noise images #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social

Great talk by @dongwonoh.bsky.social demonstrating improved detection of AI faces using different visual attention strategies #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social

I'm poster 37 this afternoon at #epc2025 if anyone wants to hear about a material perception experiment in VR that is not working out how I'd expected 😅

Retinotopic mapping Fans
Just finished my poster for OHBM. The results blow the discussion about V2 & V3 layout wide open. We find hemispheric asymmetry!
Fantastic work by my student Ruby Barahona, collaboration with the also fantastic @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social and Noah Benson.

Amy Dawel kicking off the #epc2025 Face Perception session off with great work looking at how difficult it is to identify AI-generated faces, especially across different races @expsyanz.bsky.social

Great talk by @bethanygrowns.bsky.social looking at overlap between face super-recognizers and object super-matchers #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social

Excited to be presenting behavioral and modeling work looking at perceptual decision making under uncertainty with recently learned priors at the EPC/APCV joint meeting today at UNSW, Sydney!

Catch me at 2:45pm in Gallery 1!

@expsyanz.bsky.social

#epc2025

Great talk by student Samantha Curtis from Macquarie Uni on how the Stroop interference effect can be eliminated by splitting the onset of the word and its colour. @expsyanz.bsky.social

Samantha Curtis is talking about Priming the distractor reduces the Stroop interference effect by uncoupling the color and word! @expsyanz.bsky.social

Fascinating talk by @brileekennedy.bsky.social showing that attentional capture by positive (but not negative) distractors is impacted by your expectations about the distractor #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social

Ozge Karakale talking about visual attention to facial expressions by individuals with high and low autistic traits #ecp2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social

Finally, the associative learning session! 🙌 @expsyanz.bsky.social

QUT - Applying for a research scholarship Each year we accept applications for our research scholarship rounds. If you're an aspiring research student, make sure you apply.

Just a reminder that our annual PhD scholarship round is open now, and we're recruiting! If you have undergraduate and Masters degrees in psychology/cognitive science/linguistics we'd love to hear from you!
www.qut.edu.au/research/stu...