JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...

New paper with Tom Whitford, using EEG to investigate inner speech in people with auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia.

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I often see papers using GPower for power analysis in repeated measures factorial ANOVA designs. I don’t know what it’s doing, but it’s definitely giving wrong answers: substantially underestimates required sample size. MorePower seems like a much better alternative github.com/LewisPeacock...

Habits Need Time: Evidence of Habit-like Behavior After Short Training Likely Reflects Failures in Habit Testing: https://osf.io/zh39t

New paper in Cognition and Emotion with Daniel Pearson and @mikelepelley.bsky.social! We focus on best practice for measuring attentional disengagement - we hope it will be a useful reference for all attention researchers, and those interested in the role of attentional processes in psychopathology.

📢 Department of Psychological Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology is hiring! 📢

There is an ongoing, full-time, level B position available in the domain of Clinical Psychology. Applications close 23/02/2025.

Learn more here: swinjobs.nga.net.au?jati=14B144C...

New paper in QJEP with Dave George, Dom Dwyer and @markhaselgrove.bsky.social. We discuss a recent claim to have shown complex statistical reasoning in crows, and show the simplest S-R learning would give the same behaviour. A fun paper to write with old friends.
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