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

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SAVE THE DATE! Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology (EPC) & Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) Joint Meeting from 1-4 July at the University of Auckland, NZ.
#PsychSciSky #VisionScience #neuroskyence

More information to follow!
visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/

New Publication: Mental rotation is a weak measure of people’s propensity to visualise

This was a fun project : )

Turns out that the main task used to measure the capacity of people to visualize for many decades isn't really fit for that purpose!

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New Paper: The vividness of visualisations & autistic trait expression are not strongly associated

Our evidence suggests Autism / Aphantasia links have been overstated by a circular logic (as the most popular Autistic trait measure has questions about imagery).
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New Paper: Objective priming from pre-imagining inputs before binocular rivalry does not predict individual differences in the subjective intensity of imagined experiences

We think imagery binocular rivalry priming is an unreliable subjective measure of imagery

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New Paper: Don't think of a pink elephant: Individual differences in visualisation predict involuntary imagery and its neural correlates

People with vivid visual imaginations are less able to suppress involuntary visualisations.

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#Aphantasia #Imagery

A report on our New Study: Don’t think of a Pink Elephant!

Aphants, and people with low vividness imagery, may be resistant to intrusive visualisations!

#Aphantasia #Imagery

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I feel so honored by the publication of this special issue of Neuropsychologia. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues who put this together. And thanks to all the contributors. There are so many wonderful articles. I can't tell you how delighted I am. 🧪🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New preprint! Work led by Alexis Kidder (@lexkidder.bsky.social) during a visiting scholarship at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social with @drquekles.bsky.social & @tgro.bsky.social

"Mapping object space dimensions: new insights from temporal dynamics"

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We are excited to announce that Professor Ben Newell will be giving the Ross Day Plenary at EPC/APCV 2025. Ben Newell is Professor of Behavioural Science in the School of Psychology at UNSW Sydney, and Director of the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response (ICRR).

🚀 New Research! 🚀

🔍 Title: Flexible Use of Facial Features Supports Face Identity Processing
Our study reveals that the key to accurate face recognition lies in the flexibility of using different facial features.

#Research #FaceRecognition #Psychology #Forensics #Security #AcademicResearch

The Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC) and Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) are holding a joint meeting in 2025, to be held at UNSW in Sydney, from June 17-20. Abstract and symposium submissions are open!
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Tracking the neural correlates of decision confidence over time using EEG in perceptual and memory tasks.

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Preprint: It's been suggested that Aphants may be able to visualise, but lack insight, as they can do Mental Rotation (MR) tasks. Instead, we show MR tasks are a weak measure of the propensity to visualise.

#Aphantasia #Imagery

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