Michael Hout
@michaelhout.bsky.social
Associate Dean for Research at NMSU HEST. Associate Editor at AP&P. Former NSF Program Director. Prof of Psychology (and Kinesiology). Director of NMSU Discovery Scholars Program. Director of two research labs. Treasurer of OPAM conference. +Other roles
We also have a pair of presentations at the upcoming @opam.bsky.social conference. Dr Eben Daggett will be giving a talk on dynamics in the attentional blink. And Mayte Alonso Carrillo (with Dr Giovanna Del Sordo and Dr Megan Papesh) will be giving a poster on pupillometry and sustained attention.
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We also have a pair of presentations at the upcoming @opam.bsky.social conference. Dr Eben Daggett will be giving a talk on dynamics in the attentional blink. And Mayte Alonso Carrillo (with Dr Giovanna Del Sordo and Dr Megan Papesh) will be giving a poster on pupillometry and sustained attention.
We've got some presentations coming up at Psychonomics. Dr Giovanna Del Sordo will be giving a talk (on using pupillometry to explore active/passive sustained attention) and Dr Eben Daggett will be presenting a poster (on how AI can be trained on human similarity data). Come on by!
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
We've got some presentations coming up at Psychonomics. Dr Giovanna Del Sordo will be giving a talk (on using pupillometry to explore active/passive sustained attention) and Dr Eben Daggett will be presenting a poster (on how AI can be trained on human similarity data). Come on by!
I’m very happy and proud to announce that Eben Daggett has successfully completed his PhD. His dissertation (involving a ton of behavioral data collection and modeling) was on similarity perception and representationally-aligned artificial intelligence. Congratulations, Dr. Daggett!
November 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m very happy and proud to announce that Eben Daggett has successfully completed his PhD. His dissertation (involving a ton of behavioral data collection and modeling) was on similarity perception and representationally-aligned artificial intelligence. Congratulations, Dr. Daggett!
Congratulations to Dr Giovanna Del Sordo for her 2nd place research presentation award at the NMSU postdoc association meeting held recently! Gio presented on a new meta-science project she is leading, looking at the interpretability and usability of shared data in vision science.
September 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Congratulations to Dr Giovanna Del Sordo for her 2nd place research presentation award at the NMSU postdoc association meeting held recently! Gio presented on a new meta-science project she is leading, looking at the interpretability and usability of shared data in vision science.
Yesterday we had our fall gathering of the Discovery Scholars Program (discoveryscholars.nmsu.edu), an undergraduate research and creative arts program supported by the NMSU Colleges of Arts & Sciences, and HEST. Below are the scholars and mentors who were able to join us.
September 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Yesterday we had our fall gathering of the Discovery Scholars Program (discoveryscholars.nmsu.edu), an undergraduate research and creative arts program supported by the NMSU Colleges of Arts & Sciences, and HEST. Below are the scholars and mentors who were able to join us.
Our VR lab is now opened for expanded use (beyond research). Through a partnership with NMSU Global, we're opening the space for student development and class projects. Our hopes for the future are to create capacity for students and faculty to work on developing VR environments for use in research.
September 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Our VR lab is now opened for expanded use (beyond research). Through a partnership with NMSU Global, we're opening the space for student development and class projects. Our hopes for the future are to create capacity for students and faculty to work on developing VR environments for use in research.
The next installment (October 8th) of our OPAM Training Workshop series will feature Dr Caro Hautekiet (of Vrije Universiteit), who will be discussing pre-registration and registered reports. Visit this page for info on all our (free!) workshops: www.opamconference.com/workshops-su...
September 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The next installment (October 8th) of our OPAM Training Workshop series will feature Dr Caro Hautekiet (of Vrije Universiteit), who will be discussing pre-registration and registered reports. Visit this page for info on all our (free!) workshops: www.opamconference.com/workshops-su...
The keynote speaker at this year's @opam.bsky.social Object Perception, Attention, and Memory meeting will be Dr Joy J. Geng of UC Davis. We're thrilled to have Joy join us, discuss her research, and impart some wisdom that she's gained throughout her incredibly impressive career.
September 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The keynote speaker at this year's @opam.bsky.social Object Perception, Attention, and Memory meeting will be Dr Joy J. Geng of UC Davis. We're thrilled to have Joy join us, discuss her research, and impart some wisdom that she's gained throughout her incredibly impressive career.
I'm very excited to be taking part in the HASS-RLN convening in DC next week, and I'm extremely grateful for the leadership of Shelome Gooden and Christine Mallinson who are organizing this event and who brought me into this important group.
September 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I'm very excited to be taking part in the HASS-RLN convening in DC next week, and I'm extremely grateful for the leadership of Shelome Gooden and Christine Mallinson who are organizing this event and who brought me into this important group.
Our newest lab member is Jon Art. Jon is joining as a Discovery Scholars (undergrad), and will be working on a pair of projects, exploring the dynamics of the attentional blink, and working on our recently funded grant from the NMSU Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Applied Machine Learning.
August 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Our newest lab member is Jon Art. Jon is joining as a Discovery Scholars (undergrad), and will be working on a pair of projects, exploring the dynamics of the attentional blink, and working on our recently funded grant from the NMSU Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Applied Machine Learning.
We have a paper out at Behavior Research Methods. Led by Hayward Godwin, it examines sharing practices (using visual search as a case study) and makes recs for sharing data outputs in a manner that will enable others to better find, access, and understand them. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
August 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
We have a paper out at Behavior Research Methods. Led by Hayward Godwin, it examines sharing practices (using visual search as a case study) and makes recs for sharing data outputs in a manner that will enable others to better find, access, and understand them. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
I'm very happy and proud to announce that last week, Bryan White completed his PhD. His dissertation was on how different forms of experience impact the perception of complex visual stimuli. Congratulations, Dr. White!
July 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I'm very happy and proud to announce that last week, Bryan White completed his PhD. His dissertation was on how different forms of experience impact the perception of complex visual stimuli. Congratulations, Dr. White!
In August, the OPAM conference will be offering another professional development workshop. Dr Jason Geller will discuss creating reproducible manuscripts in Quarto. The workshop will be recorded and posted to our website. Thanks to the NSF for funding support! www.opamconference.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
In August, the OPAM conference will be offering another professional development workshop. Dr Jason Geller will discuss creating reproducible manuscripts in Quarto. The workshop will be recorded and posted to our website. Thanks to the NSF for funding support! www.opamconference.com
We have a new paper out at Behavior Research Methods (hosted on OSF: osf.io/yvb8h/). Arryn Robbins led this database of 1200 objects rated for similarity. Download the paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
July 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We have a new paper out at Behavior Research Methods (hosted on OSF: osf.io/yvb8h/). Arryn Robbins led this database of 1200 objects rated for similarity. Download the paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Congratulations to Ashley Mathis for the successful completion of her master's thesis this week. Her ambitious project used eye-tracking and a Where's Waldo task to examine how individual differences in mental imagery abilities impact visual search performance. Congrats, Ashley!
June 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Congratulations to Ashley Mathis for the successful completion of her master's thesis this week. Her ambitious project used eye-tracking and a Where's Waldo task to examine how individual differences in mental imagery abilities impact visual search performance. Congrats, Ashley!
Part of our NM-INBRE funded project on simulated medical image perception has just been published at the ACM symposium on Eye-tracking Research and Applications. Dr Megan Papesh (of UMass Lowell) presented the work, co-authored by myself, Dr Giovanna Del Sordo, Bryan White, and Ashley Mathis.
May 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Part of our NM-INBRE funded project on simulated medical image perception has just been published at the ACM symposium on Eye-tracking Research and Applications. Dr Megan Papesh (of UMass Lowell) presented the work, co-authored by myself, Dr Giovanna Del Sordo, Bryan White, and Ashley Mathis.
The 2025 OPAM conference is shaping up. Please visit our new website to register and submit abstracts (www.opamconference.com). We will have professional development awards this year, thanks to our NSF funding. And our keynote speaker is the wonderful Dr. Joy Geng, of UC Davis. Join us in Denver!
May 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The 2025 OPAM conference is shaping up. Please visit our new website to register and submit abstracts (www.opamconference.com). We will have professional development awards this year, thanks to our NSF funding. And our keynote speaker is the wonderful Dr. Joy Geng, of UC Davis. Join us in Denver!
The first OPAM (@opam.bsky.social) workshop features Dr Rebecca Hirst (@hirstrj.bsky.social of Open Science Tools) who will present "Running Online and In-Person Experiments Using PsychoPy." The workshop is free to attend. Please register and share!: www.opamconference.com/online-works...
May 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The first OPAM (@opam.bsky.social) workshop features Dr Rebecca Hirst (@hirstrj.bsky.social of Open Science Tools) who will present "Running Online and In-Person Experiments Using PsychoPy." The workshop is free to attend. Please register and share!: www.opamconference.com/online-works...
Mayte Alonso (an undergraduate Discovery Scholar) presented her work yesterday at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts Symposium. Her work includes Dr Giovanna Del Sordo and Dr Megan Papesh, and uses pupillometry to study the delineation between active and passive vigilant attention.
April 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Mayte Alonso (an undergraduate Discovery Scholar) presented her work yesterday at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts Symposium. Her work includes Dr Giovanna Del Sordo and Dr Megan Papesh, and uses pupillometry to study the delineation between active and passive vigilant attention.
Putting this back out into people's feeds... we're doing a special issue in Scientific Reports on eye-tracking in virtual reality. Please send us your best work and share this with your networks. Submission deadline: Nov 27, 2025. Full details: www.nature.com/collections/...
April 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Putting this back out into people's feeds... we're doing a special issue in Scientific Reports on eye-tracking in virtual reality. Please send us your best work and share this with your networks. Submission deadline: Nov 27, 2025. Full details: www.nature.com/collections/...
Dr. Giovanna Del Sordo has been selected to be a member of the Psychonomic Society Graduate Student and Postdoc Committee. Great work, Gio, and thanks for doing this valuable service.
April 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Dr. Giovanna Del Sordo has been selected to be a member of the Psychonomic Society Graduate Student and Postdoc Committee. Great work, Gio, and thanks for doing this valuable service.
Very happy to announce that Bryan White has accepted the position of College Assistant Professor in Psychology at NMSU, to start in Fall of this year (pending completion of his dissertation, this summer). Congrats, Bryan!
April 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Very happy to announce that Bryan White has accepted the position of College Assistant Professor in Psychology at NMSU, to start in Fall of this year (pending completion of his dissertation, this summer). Congrats, Bryan!
Last week, Rebecca Penn presented our poster at the Joint Symposium for Working K9s titled "Reading the handler: A location-based map of handler attention during detection work."
April 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Last week, Rebecca Penn presented our poster at the Joint Symposium for Working K9s titled "Reading the handler: A location-based map of handler attention during detection work."
Very excited to announce the College of HEST Emerging Scholars symposium, which will feature talks from our research proposal award winners in Kinesiology, School of TPAL, and School of Nursing. Local folks, please consider registering and attending. +Light snacks forms.office.com/pages/respon...
April 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Very excited to announce the College of HEST Emerging Scholars symposium, which will feature talks from our research proposal award winners in Kinesiology, School of TPAL, and School of Nursing. Local folks, please consider registering and attending. +Light snacks forms.office.com/pages/respon...
NMSU folks... please consider attending the "Ascent to R1" panel happening during the upcoming Research and Creativity Week. It costs to attend, but lunch is served and proceeds benefit graduate student prizes. Join us! (Registration via QR code)
April 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
NMSU folks... please consider attending the "Ascent to R1" panel happening during the upcoming Research and Creativity Week. It costs to attend, but lunch is served and proceeds benefit graduate student prizes. Join us! (Registration via QR code)