Dr. Nathan Ryckman will be presenting research from our lab, past, present, and future, to the Department of Psychology at the University of Hong Kong on January 9th, 2018.
Departmental Seminar at Hong Kong University January 9th
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Associate Professor Tony Lambert and Dr. Nathan Ryckman represented the lab in paper and poster sessions (respectively). Tony presented research conducted by Sam Askelund and Nathan Ryckman, observing differences in cuing effects between bilateral and unilateral cues that serve to indicate or counter-indicate the location of an impending target stimulus and the effect of participants being aware or unaware of the cue utility. Nathan presented research from our ongoing project of developing direct measures of dorsal-stream attention using non-conscious stimuli, using eye-movements as responses.
Askelund, S., Ryckman, N. A., & Lambert, A. J. (2017, November). Non-conscious effects of landmark cues on over and covert attention movements. Paper presented at the 7th annual meeting of the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Adelaide, South Australia.
Ryckman, N. A., & Lambert, A. J. (2017, November). Objective Contrast Threshold Predicts Non-conscious Visual Cue Efficacy and Age. Poster presented at the 7th annual meeting of the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Adelaide, South Australia.
New Article re: Unifying the models of vision and attention
on Where models of vision and attention have conventionally been separate entities, Lambert et al. (2017) presents an empirically derived model that unifies the two processes.
Lambert, A. J., Wilkie, J., Greenwood, A., Ryckman, N. A., Sciberras-Lim, E., Booker, L., & Tahara-Eckl, L. (2017). Towards a unified model of vision and attention: Effects of visual landmarks and identity cues on covert and overt attention movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000474
Welcome to our new lab member!
on Welcome to Julia Plank, who is joining us as an Honours student in semester 2!
New Article re: EEG study of dorsal and ventral streams
on A significant difference in the C1 component of visua ERPs in parietal-occipital sites is larger for landmark cueing than discrimination tasks, indicating stronger early recruitment of the visual stream.
Lambert, A. J., & Wootton, A. (2017). The time-course of activation in the dorsal and ventral visual streams during landmark cueing and perceptual discrimination tasks. Neuropsychologia, 103, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.07.002
Welcome to our new lab members
on We welcome our new Post-Doctoral Associate Dr. Nathan Ryckman (welcome back!), PhD Student Evatte Sciberras-Lim (welcome back!), our new Masters student, Fernando Mendes de Barros, and our new Honours student Kelsey Schaumann.
Marsden Fund Awarded to Tony Lambert
on Associate Professor Tony Lambert has been awarded a 2016 Marsden Grant for the project Sight Unseen: penetrating the enigma of unconscious vision.
New Article re: Intentional Forgetting
on Our paper based on Dr. Nathan Ryckman’s PhD work has been accepted for publication! The article discusses the effects of thought suppression on imagined emotional events, and individual differences that play a roll in suppressive capabilities.
Ryckman, N. A., Addis, D., Latham, A. J., & Lambert, A. J. (2017). Forget about the future: Effects of thought suppression on memory for imaginary emotional episodes. Cognition and Emotion. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1276049
International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society 2016
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The Vision and Attention Lab was represented by Tony Lambert and Jaimie Wilkie at the 2016 International Meeting of the Psyhonomic Society with the presentation of two papers. Both papers were presented during the Exploring Relationships between Two-Process Theories of Attention Shifting and Dual-Stream Models of Vision symposium, alongside papers presented by Alan Kingstone (UBC), Juan Lupiáňez (University of Granada), Ana Chica (University of Granada), and Melissa Le-Hoa Võ (Goeth University).
Lambert, A. J., & Booker, L. (2016, May). Effects of low-luminance peripheral landmarks on eye movements. Paper presented at the International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Granada, Spain.
Wilkie, J., Sciberras-Lim, E., & Lambert, A. J. (2016, May). Effects of cue exposure time and luminance contrast on attention shifting in response to landmark cues and identity cues. Paper presented at the International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Granada, Spain.
International Convention of Psychological Science 2015
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The Vision and Attention lab had the honour of presenting at the inaugural International Convention of Psychological Science in Amsterdam. Our lab member Nathan Ryckman presented a poster from his PhD work, detailing the complex relationship between trait neuroticism and individual differences in intentional forgetting abilities.
Ryckman, N. A., Addis, D. R., & Lambert, A. J. (2015, March). A Nuanced Relationship Between Neuroticism and Successful Thought Suppression. Poster presented at the Inaugural International Convention of Psychological Science. Amsterdam, Netherlands.