- December 21st, 2020: Our new poster for the Experimental Psychology Society meeting (in London, UK) is now ready for virtual presentation. Andras Zsidó presents our poster — “The effects of task-irrelevant threatening stimuli on orienting- and executive attentional processes under cognitive load” — in collaboration with Diana Stecina, Rebecca Cseh, and myself. Check it out, below!
- November 15th, 2020: I was recently interviewed by the Association for Psychological Science about my move to the National Science Foundation and my work as a Program Director. The full story (posted October 2020) can be found here: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/hout?fbclid=IwAR3OTltxnSyYGsXXV-mq3K1HTqfoBTjmnPy_lbRa-ai2EX_Dai0j1gjc9FA

- October 29th, 2020: Jessica Madrid has just completed her poster for the virtual Psychonomics conference this year on our work in multi-modal search for Lego (in collaboration with Bryan White, Collin Scarince, and Hayward Godwin). Because this year is an entirely virtual conference, Jessica has created a short video walk through of our work, which you can view below.
- October 14th, 2020: Our newest Frontiers for Young Minds article is out on anticipatory pain perception. This one was headed by Giovanna Del Sordo, Emma Moyer, and from our lab, Dre Goode. You can read the full article here: https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2020.539649

- August 7th, 2020: NMSU news just ran a story on my appointment as Program Director at the National Science Foundation. The full story can be found here: https://newscenter.nmsu.edu/Articles/view/14350/two-nmsu-professors-selected-for-nsf-program-director-appointments

- July 16th, 2020: Our newest work on categorical search is now out in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. This represents Arryn Robbins‘ (the first PhD student in our lab and now a research psychologist at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) long-standing work on typicality effects in search. Check it out here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1747021820936472

- June 2nd, 2020: Now that it’s 100% official, I’m happy to announce that I’m headed to work at the National Science Foundation starting next Monday. I’ll be a Program Director in the Perception, Action, and Cognition Program of the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences. I’m certainly sad to be leaving the NM/Texas area for a while, but will still be maintaining my labs and mentorship (albeit remotely) for the 2 years I’m at the NSF in the DC area (after which I will return to NMSU full time). I’m incredibly excited and a little nervous to get started, but it should be an awesome opportunity. I had planned at this point to post a “here we come DC” post, but due to covid, I’ll be working remotely from El Paso for at least a couple months (until the NSF building opens back up). So for now, you’re stuck with me, El Paso.

- June 23rd, 2020: Juan Guevara Pinto, Megan Papesh, and I have just published an article in Memory and Cognition. This one uses our prior multidimensional scaling database to probe the fidelity of incidental memories acquired during visual search. Check it out here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-020-01051-3

- May 11th, 2020: We (myself and Dr. Phil Post) have just been awarded a Developmental Research Project Program grant from the New Mexico IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence. Our project is entitled “Strategy training in search: Evidence from eye movements and virtual reality.” We are thrilled to put this money to use to fund research in the Addison Care Virtual and Augmented Reality Laboratory (which we both co-direct). In the project, we’ll explore cognitive strategy use in a longitudinal study focused on simulated radiological screening and simulated search and rescue. We’re thrilled to get to work, and are extremely grateful to NM-INBRE for this opportunity!

- April 20th, 2020: Edin Sabic successfully defended his PhD today, and became the third doctoral graduate from our lab. His work was titled “Eye movements and machine learning: Predicting user search templates.” While it was not ideal to have a defense done over Zoom, he nonetheless did a great job, and passed with flying colors!

- February 22nd, 2020: Steve Walenchok has just published his dissertation work in JEP:HPP. This paper also includes Steve Goldinger and myself, and explores confirmation and prevalence biases in visual search. Check it out here: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-12343-003

- February 22nd, 2020: Our newest paper on the spatial arrangement method is out in Behavior Research Methods. This one was fronted by Russell Richie (at the University of Pennsylvania), and also includes Bryan White (from our lab), Sudeep Bhatia (also at UPenn), and myself. Check it out here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-020-01362-y?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst&utm_source=ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AA_en_06082018&ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst_20200220

- February 22nd, 2020: A new paper by our group is out in Frontiers in Psychology. This paper is by Edin Sabic, Dan Henning, Hunter Myuz, Audrey Morrow, myself, and Justin MacDonald. It explores the eye movement patterns of people during noisy conversational listening tasks. Check it out here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00200/full

- January 25th, 2020: Today, our VR lab (the Addison Care Virtual and Augmented Reality Laboratory) did some community outreach with Ciudad Nueva, from El Paso. A wonderful group of young persons joined us to learn about virtual and augmented reality, to chat with us, and to try out the equipment. We had a great time and hope they come back and visit us again soon!

- January 15th, 2020: Congratulations to Rebecca Penn! Today she defended the massive undertaking that was her master’s thesis on visual search in the real world (specifically, in settings designed to mimic “clue finding” tasks undertaken by search and rescue responders). Well done, Master Rebecca.

- December 19th, 2019: We have a pair of new Discovery Scholars Program recruits that have recently joined the lab. Mariana Cazares Rodriguez will be working on creating an open access database of real world visual search scenarios. And Jonathan Ayavar is working on some virtual reality search and rescue programming. Welcome, both!
- December 18th, 2019: We just had a new paper come out in the Journal of Sports Sciences. This one (headed by Chris Aiken, and including Phil Post, myself, and Jeff Fairbrother) investigates self-controlled practice in a motor learning task. Find it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02640414.2019.1704498

- December 18th, 2019: Recently, our newest paper came out in Behavior Research Methods. This paper (headed by Justin MacDonald, and including myself and Joseph Schmidt) is an algorithm used to deal with incomplete block designs in psychology and elsewhere. It is particularly useful for those of you who want to use the spatial arrangement method of collecting similarity data on large stimulus sets. Check it out, here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-019-01326-x

- November 11th, 2019: Part of Arryn Robbins‘ dissertation work was just published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Our new paper, “Scene priming provides clues about target appearance that improve attentional guidance during categorical search” can be found here: https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fxhp0000707. Congrats, Arryn!

- On October 2nd, 2019, the Addison Care Virtual and Augmented Reality Laboratory – sponsored by Las Cruces based tech company Electronic Caregiver and co-directed by myself and Dr. Phillip Post – opened on NMSU campus. This event was widely covered in the media, including:
- Youtube coverage of the lab from NMSU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0BEX1iw-7U&fbclid=IwAR1v60_w60FgxsRLNjQ2WxoNV4E7DoYKSNrNh2yNxRzcdU7h29agOI7VgMM
- An NMSU news briefing: https://newscenter.nmsu.edu/Articles/view/13886/nmsu-electronic-caregiver-unveil-virtual-reality-lab-at-milton-hall?fbclid=IwAR2wh_bN-EV0OJcRrU39GrLm94G_HOTVQrBT6cq8vpjp7TQfCWXAW9T-sqI
- KVIA El Paso news coverage: https://www.kvia.com/news/new-mexico/virtual-reality-research-lab-unveiled-at-new-mexico-state-university/1128290800
- KTSM El Paso news coverage: https://www.ktsm.com/local/nmsu-unveils-virtual-reality-research-lab-improve-quality-of-life-for-others/
Dr. Phillip Post, left, and Dr. Michael Hout, right, speaking at the opening of the Addison Care Virtual Reality/ Augmented Reality Laboratory in Milton Hall. October 2, 2019. (NMSU photo by Josh Bachman) Dan Arvizu, New Mexico State University Chancellor, testing out one of the Virtual Reality work stations with the help of Saleem Masadeh, Phd student in the Computer Science department, during the opening of the Addison Care Virtual Reality/ Augmented Reality Laboratory in Milton Hall. October 2, 2019. (NMSU photo by Josh Bachman)
- September 9th, 2019: Our newest paper was just published at Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. Jessica Madrid is out front on our new paper, called “Examining the effects of passive and active strategies on behavior during hybrid visual memory search: Evidence from eye tracking.” Congratulations, Jessica! It is open access, so you can download it here: https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-019-0191-2?fbclid=IwAR19D0ngAS50Bx96hT_qP2KRb9TntRQzeWnvtUoYI7GQlHb4eeqFC6I54Mw

- September 3rd, 2019: We just had a pair of posters accepted for this year’s Object Perception, Attention, and Memory conference in Montreal, Canada. First, we have Jessica Madrid out front on our poster called “Open the window: Passive search strategies lead to broader attentional distribution during single target and hybrid visual search.” Second, Bryan White will present a poster (in collaboration with Hayward Godwin, Jessica Madrid, Collin Scarince, and myself) called “Every search is awesome!: A pilot study using Lego to examine three-dimensional visual search.” Congrats, Jessica and Bryan!
- July 25th, 2019: Just got one more poster accepted to the 60th Annual Psychonomics Society meeting in Montreal. Juan Guevara-Pinto will present our poster (in collaboration with Megan Papesh and myself) called “The details are in the difficulty: Incidental recognition of objects’ perceptual details following visual search.” Congrats, Megan and Juan!
- July 24th, 2019: We’ve just had a pair of posters accepted to the 60th Annual Psychonomics Society meeting this November in Montreal, Canada. Both projects are in collaboration with Russell Richie and Sudeep Bhatia of the University of Pennyslvania and Bryan White (in my lab). Russell will present our poster titled “Modeling fine-grained word similarity with embeddings from language corpora, free association, and feature norms” and I’ll present a poster called “The spatial arrangement method of collecting similarity ratings can capture higher dimensional, conceptual similarity structures.” Congratulations, guys!
- July 17th, 2019: Last week, I gave a pair of talks in Australia, at Macquarie University and the University of Wollongong. I gave talked titled, “The detail is in the difficulty: Challenging search facilitates incidental encoding of objects’ perceptual details” in collaboration with my co-authors, Juan Guevara-Pinto and Megan Papesh. I had a great time visiting these amazing universities, and can’t wait for the opportunity to visit again!

- July 8th, 2019: Next week, Hayward Godwin will be presenting some new research we’ve done on the “abacus task” and people’s insight into their own eye movement behavior. He’ll be presenting a talk (co-authored by Andreea Butnaru and myself) at the Experimental Psychology Society meeting in Bournemouth (UK), titled “Using the abacus task to study overestimation of accuracy in eye movements.”
- July 2nd, 2019: Our newest article is out in Frontiers for Young Minds. This one is written by Arryn Robbins and I on the topic of the involvement of the brain during visual search. You can read it online, here: https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2019.00089

- May 15th, 2019: We have a new article out now in Frontiers for Young Minds on the use of transcranial direct current stimulation. This one is headed by Mary Berg and Audrey Morrow, and is titled “Wake up, Brain!: Using electricity to think and feel differently.” You can read it online, here:
https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2019.00062

- April 26th, 2019: Today, a pair of Discovery Scholars students presented their work at the NMSU Honors College Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts Symposium (URCAS). Kitt Phi presented our poster (in collaboration with Rebecca Penn, Phil Post, Saleem Masadeh, and myself) entitled “Simulating an open terrain visual search environment in three-dimensional virtual reality.” And Rene Mcpherson presented our poster (in collaboration with Hailey Sandin, Edin Sabic, and myself) called “Creation of a large, open-access database of complex visual scenes for use in experimental psychology.” Congrats, all, and well done DSP scholars!

- April 24th, 2019: Last week, I gave an invited lecture (at the invitation of the Centre for Vision and Cognition) at the University of Southampton (in England). I was quite excited to go back to Southampton, and to give a talk on our recent work in hybrid visual memory search and eye movements called “Examining passive and active search strategies during hybrid visual memory search: Evidence from eye movements.“ Thanks to my collaborator, Jessica Madrid, whose thesis work formed the basis of this talk!

- March 29th, 2019: We’ve just had another paper published at Frontiers for Young Minds. This article is first-authored by Hunter Myuz, and is titled, “Trick or treat: How artificial sweeteners fool the brain and body.” Congrats, Hunter! Check out the article here:
https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2019.00051?fbclid=IwAR3zuam_wmR1R2etALY1mLh1Nn_AshVy9MQYAV78dq1oEI2BOrtE9rrBzcc

- March 21st, 2019: Our new paper has just come out in the Journal of Environmental Psychology. The title is “Psychological responses to natural patterns in architecture.” We are very excited about this paper. Congrats to my co-authors, Alex Coburn, Omid Kardan, Hiroki Kotabe, Jason Steinberg, Arryn Robbins, Justin MacDonald, Gregor Hayn-Leichsenring, and Marc Berman! Download it here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494418305280?via%3Dihub&fbclid=IwAR1vps1BFX5f2SnH_oxaj4VMfDuug2JjvGp7a66RFbfd86mKOegjYB4Kxtc

- March 14th, 2019: Our newest paper has just been published. Jessica Madrid leads our paper in Visual Cognition titled, “You’re looking for what?: Comparing search for familiar, nameable objects to search for unfamiliar, novel objects.” Congrats to Jessica and our co-authors, Corbin Cunningham and Arryn Robbins! Download it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/jAQuiicCMsA6Q47N7iZX/full?target=10.1080%2F13506285.2019.1577318&fbclid=IwAR2Xjj0t6iVVUy6YidNsVGxYx8keUI5CVH9O4R2TYo-W7kIOTxqtDHkn3tI

- February 19th, 2019: I’ve just been selected as the NMSU College of Arts and Sciences “Department Star“ for the Psychology Department. I’m very honored to receive this recognition, and look forward to the reception event on April 5th!
- February 18th, 2019: A pair of Discovery Scholars students just joined our team. Hop on over to the homepage to learn more about Victoria Arvizu and Rene Mcpherson!
- February 18th, 2019: We’ve just had a talk accepted to this year’s Midwestern Psychological Association conference in Chicago. Arryn Robbins will present our paper, titled “Scene context facilitates search for heterogeneous categories.” Congrats, Arryn!
- February 13th, 2019: We’ve just had a poster accepted to this year’s Association for Psychological Science meeting in Washington DC (in May). Arryn Robbins will present a poster on our upcoming database, “The Pictures by Category and Similarity (PICS) Database: A database of 1200 pictures from 20 object categories rated for similarity using multidimensional scaling.” Congrats to co-authors, Justin MacDonald, Ashley Ercolino, Joe Schmidt, and Edin Sabic!
- February 11th, 2019: Our newest Discovery Scholar to join the lab is Sydney Luna, who will also be contributing to our search and rescue “clue finding” projects. Check out the homepage for more info on Sydney!
- February 6th, 2019: We have yet another Discovery Scholar joining the lab. Christine Dellefield-Lopez will be joining us to work on some research pertaining to search and rescue “clue finding.” Check out the homepage for info on Christine!
- February 6th, 2019: We have another person joining our team. Kitt Phi will be joining the lab, both as a Discovery Scholars researcher and as a paid work-study programmer for our work in the upcoming Addison Care Virtual and Augmented Reality Laboratory (for which Phil Post and I are co-directors). Hop over to the homepage to learn more about Kitt!
- February 6th, 2019: Congrats to Alexis Torres for publishing her first ever article in Frontiers for Young Minds, entitled “Pupils: A window into the mind.” You can access the article here: https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2019.00003?fbclid=IwAR2Lj4etoDl5_a6WKrSNzHfbArv9HrTGT_YFEv67wDF31orpUEQYqAS-RQo

- February 5th, 2019: We have a new person joining the lab! Asia La Torra will joining the lab as a Student Assistant to the Discovery Scholars Program. She’ll help us keep the programming running smoothly. Check out the homepage of my site for more information on Asia!
- February 5th, 2019: We’ve just had a poster accepted to this year’s Vision Sciences Society meeting in St. Pete, Florida. Arryn Robbins will present our poster, “Using multidimensional scaling to quantify category heterogeneity effects in visual search.” Congrats to co-authors, Kory Scherer, Edin Sabic, Justin MacDonald, Ashley Ercolino, and Joe Schmidt!
- January 7th, 2019: The Las Cruces Sun News just ran a story about our upcoming virtual reality laboratory. In partnership with (and through the generous donations of) Las Cruces based Electronic Caregiver, we are building a VR lab here on NMSU campus. The focus of the work will be broad, but will include best practices in search and rescue, rehabilitative falls research, medical simulations, and much more. Dr. Phillip Post (Associate Professor in Kinesiology) and I will be co-directors of the lab. We are thrilled that this exciting new lab is coming to fruition! You can find the story here: https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/education/nmsu/2019/01/07/nmsu-create-virtual-reality-lab-gift-electronic-caregiver/2507215002/?fbclid=IwAR2HQOjoDWf7WPTTnV2hkdVXiQBQQF88ctNgJkoBfB8kXDjObK8r-mk_y30

- December 18th, 2018: Congrats to Jessica Madrid for publishing an article in Frontiers for Young Minds called “Eye spy: Why we need to move our eyes to gather information about the world.” You can access the article here: https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2018.00071

- December 4th, 2018: Congrats to Dan Henning and Edin Sabic for the publication of our new article in Frontiers for Young Minds, entitled, “Hear and there: Sounds from everywhere!” You can access the article here: https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2018.00063

- November 28th, 2018: Congrats to Rebecca Penn for publishing her first article. In the journal Frontiers for Young Minds, we published an article called “Making reality virtual: How VR “tricks” your brain.” You can download access article here: https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2018.00062?fbclid=IwAR1L1YV84t8Or9jHQfESHC5JBuEpIm7esEOffirqrbAt6mw8B-LqXeWltoc

- November 5th, 2018: Congratulations to Jessica Madrid for successfully passing her comprehensive exams! Now on to the PhD.
- October 30th, 2018: Audrey Morrow traveled to Albuquerque, NM to present our research at the New Mexico Academy of Science Research Symposium. She presented our poster, entitled, “The effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on audition”. Our collaborators for this project were Amie Amiotte and Justin MacDonald.
- October 16th, 2018: Congratulations to Edin Sabic for passing his comprehensive exams! Next up, dissertation.
- September 20th, 2018: We’ve just gotten word that our posters were accepted to the 2018 Object Perception, Attention, and Memory conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. This is particularly exciting because our posters span both graduate (Jessica Madrid, Rebecca Penn, and Bryan White) and undergraduate (Alexis Torres) members of our lab. Jessica will present a poster entitled “It’s all a blur: Partial visual information triggers logarithmic decision making during object recognition.” Rebecca will present a poster called “Getting a clue: Visual search in open terrain environments.” Congrats, all!
- July 20th, 2018: We’ve just had a pair of posters accepted to the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in New Orleans. Jessica Madrid will present our work on strategy use during search in a poster titled “Looking for the one: Passive strategies improve guidance and object recognition in single-target search.” And Collin Scarince will present our modelling work in a poster titled “An update to the Guided Search model using multi-dimensional scaling to capture the features of complex, real-world objects.” Congrats, all!
- July 9th, 2018: I’m thrilled to announce that we have a second PhD student to graduate from our lab this year: Dr. Collin Scarince. Collin successfully defended his dissertation today, titled, “Generalized Guided Search: A computational model of visual search powered by multidimensional scaling.” We’re proud of Collin, and excited for what’s next in his career.

- June 14th, 2018: I’m very pleased to announce that the first PhD student to graduate from our lab, Dr. Arryn Robbins, will soon be a post-doctoral researcher. She has accepted a position at Carthage College, working with Dr. Anthony Barnhart and Dr. Leslie Cameron. I’m thrilled that she’s on her way to such a great position, and am confident she’ll do great things at Carthage.
- May 24th: 2018: I’ve been invited to be a funded presenter at the 4th Symposium on Visual Search and Selective Attention in Munich, Germany (http://mvss.org/). This is a very prestigious honor for me, as I’ll be speaking alongside an incredibly well-respected and impressive group of academics who all share my research interests. In July, I’ll present the work Jessica Madrid and I have been working on, titled “Passive search strategies improve attentional guidance and object recognition during demanding visual search.” I can’t wait.

- May 24th, 2018: I’ve recently been invited (by the Environmental Neuroscience Laboratory: http://enl.uchicago.edu/) to speak at the University of Chicago. I’m very excited to travel to Chicago to speak with this excellent group of academics about our recent work on strategy use in visual search.

- April 26th, 2018: I just received my official letter stating that I’ve been granted promotion and tenure. As of August 2018, I will be a tenured Associate Professor. I’m very excited to have this milestone behind me, and appreciate all the support I’ve had at NMSU to get me here.
- April 23rd, 2018: This Friday (4/27/2018), Emily Green (an honors thesis student working in our lab) will present our research incidental memory work at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts Symposium (URCAS) here on campus. If you’re around on Friday, swing by and see her present! The title of the poster is “Challenging visual search creates better incidental memories for objects and their perceptual features.” Good luck, Emily!

- April 5th, 2018: I’m very pleased to announce that the first PhD to come out of our lab is the wonderful Dr. Arryn Robbins. Arryn successfully defended her dissertation, “The role of context and exemplar variability in shaping the categorical search template.” We’re all quite proud of her, but will be sad to see her go!

- March 20th, 2018: I’ve just gotten word that I will be a panelist at the 2018 NMSU Assessment Conference (Writing to Think). I will be part of a presentation titled, “Writing to learn? It’s not just for writing courses!” Come check out the conference, and learn about ways to improve the writing components of your courses.
- March 13th, 2018: We’ve just had a new paper accepted to the open access journal Sage Open. Our paper is titled “Simulating the fidelity of data for large stimulus set sizes and variable dimension estimation in multidimensional scaling.” Congrats to my co-authors, Corbin Cunningham, Arryn Robbins, and Justin MacDonald!

- March 8th, 2018: We’ve just had a pair of posters accepted to this year’s North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity meeting in Denver, Colorado (in June). Our collaborators include Dr. Phil Post, Dr. Chris Aiken, and Ms. Jessica Madrid. Phil will present our poster titled “Learner-controlled pace of practice in isolation does not yield the self-control effect.” And Chris will present our poster called “Learner-controlled amount of practice with fixed inter-trial interval benefits learning.” Congrats, all!
- March 8th, 2018: Both of my interviews for the Neurotransmission Podcast have been aired. The first is titled, “Cognitive Psychology: Flying Below the Radar.” The second is called, “An Eye for Cognitive Innovation.” You can find the episodes here (Season 2, Episodes 13 and 14). https://www.cengage.com/learn/neurotransmission?channel=eloqua&elq_mid=23794&elq_nm=FD_NeuroTransmission_Podcast_S2E13_HED_408509&elq_cid=111216&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eloqua-batch&utm_campaign=studentengagement&utm_content=408550
- February 18th, 2018: The Las Cruces Sun News ran a story about the Rising Star award I received from the Association for Psychological Science. The full article can be found at: http://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/education/nmsu/2018/02/17/nmsu-professor-receives-award-advancing-psychology/348314002/

- February 13th, 2018: At this year’s Rocky Mountain Psychological Association meeting in Denver, CO, we’ll have a trio of talks to present. In collaboration with Emily Green, Juan Guevara Pinto, and Dr. Megan Papesh, I’ll be giving a talk called “Challenging visual search creates better incidental memories for objects and their features.” Arryn Robbins will be giving our talk called “Scene context can facilitate search for imprecisely specified targets.” And John Kulpa will present our talk “Evaluating SpAM and multi-trial spatial arrangement methods of estimating subjective similarity” in collaboration with myself and Dr. Dom Simon. Congrats, collaborators!
- February 12th, 2018: This year, we’ll be presenting a poster for the first time at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. John Kulpa will be presenting our poster, titled, “Evaluating SpAM and multi-trial spatial arrangement methods of estimating subjective similarity.” Congrats to John and our co-author, Dr. Dom Simon!
- February 10th, 2018: We’ve just had a poster accepted to this year’s Vision Sciences Society meeting in Florida. Arryn Robbins will be presenting our poster, titled “Scene context influences expectations about imprecisely specified search targets.” Congrats, Arryn!
- January 8th, 2018: I’m happy to say that I’ve started consulting for Major League Baseball, as part of their Umpire Training Program. Over the next year, I will consult with the MLB regarding a variety of training programs aimed at increasing the perceptual skills of MLB umpires.
- December 29th, 2017: I’m very pleased and proud to announce that I’ve been selected by the Association for Psychological Science as a 2017 Rising Star. This award is for early career scientists, and I’m quite honored to have received it! http://www.psychologicalscience.org/redesign/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017-Rising-Stars.pdf
