Zoë Little

Just submitted my PhD thesis on perceptual and post-perceptual influences in serial dependence! Next week I'll be on a remote island having precisely 0 thoughts, and in September I'll be back at UNSW to start an exciting postdoc looking at metacognition in face identity judgements 👀🔍

Heartwarming: well-to-do Aucklanders finally get a political win Balmoral residents insisted they were from Epsom, not grotty Mt Albert, and they spammed the Electoral Commission with complaints until it agreed.

Rich voters demanded to remain in their right-wing electorate instead of the Labour-held electorate next door, where their votes would be more effectual. They had a chance to gerrymander and chose to save their inflated property values, which I think is beautiful thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...

Interested in a cognitive neuroscience #postdoc down under?

Come work with me at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social on an ARC Linkage Project aimed at understanding how people perceive objects in the Powerhouse Museum's digitised collection. Applications closing 13 August! 📅 seek.com.au/job/86079413

Postdoc position in cognitive psychology or cognitive development, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Applications are invited for a postdoc position in cognitive psychology or cognitive development.
Application deadline: 11 August 2025

New paper @ JOV!

With Matt Oxner, Frank Schumann and David Carmel.

🧠 Perception of ambiguous motion is shaped by recent visual experience - but does this differ across the visual field?

Yes!

Full open access paper here (Gastrell et al., 2025, Journal of Vision): 🔗 doi.org/10.1167/jov....

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I've learned a lot of things at #VSS2025, but mostly that you can place an ad in the actual ocean

The fact that I get sick at every conference is divine punishment for the handfuls of free pens I take every day and is unrelated to spending ~20 hours on packed planes followed by several days in packed seminars

I'll be presenting my poster about decisions and perception in serial dependence at #VSS2025 this afternoon (26.325). See you there if you'd like to chat about contextual modulation, decision confidence, or how incredibly humid it is outside 😓🏖️🧠

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

Under Pressure, Psychology Accreditation Board Suspends Diversity Standards As the Trump administration threatens to strip accrediting bodies of their power, many are scrambling to purge diversity requirements.

Extremely disappointing & cowardly. The American Psychological Association is rescinding diversity requirements. Not due to any actual mandate from the federal government, but only because it may *someday* face pressure from the government www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

Interesting move after February's email in which we were assured that "VSS remains strong, independent, and committed to... the diversity of our community"

William James's take on psychophysics is *incredible*. Worth reading the whole quote. #psychSciSky #philsky #VisionScience

"But psychology is passing into a less simple phase. Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen in Germany, carried on by experimental methods,

Out now in AP&P!