News

May 17: The lab has a busy Saturday upcoming at the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida! In the Saturday morning session, graduate Student Saurabh Ranjan will present his poster, “Visual imagination networks in humans and large language models.” In the Saturday afternoon session, graduate student Alejandro Gamba will present his poster, “Understanding the representational geometry of psychological and neural spaces across multiple similarity dimensions.” Finally, in the Saturday evening talk session, Dr. Odegaard will present a talk titled, “The theory of subjective inflation in peripheral vision: accept, reject, or revise?”

May 2: Dr. Odegaard traveled to the Society for Philosophy and Neuroscience 1st Annual Meeting at Washington University to give his talk titled, “Is the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness Pseudoscience, or are All of the Critics Wrong?”

April 30: With the semester winding down, the lab is ready to celebrate several undergraduate research assistants that are moving on to their next opportunities! Dakota Gober has accepted his offer to begin the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Master’s Program UNF, Peter Zeledon is starting a master’s program at Glasgow University, and Jordan Harbour has been accepted into the UF Masters of Medical Science program (with a concentration in neuroscience) for this next fall. Well done, everyone! We look forward to hearing more good news in the months ahead.

April 17: The lab had three successful undergraduate posters at the Psychology Graduate Student Organization poster day! Maeyda Bilal led a poster with co-authors Rebecca Neisler, Jack McDonald, and Joseph Pruitt on the effects of trial-by-trial feedback on detection and confidence in the periphery. Angus Macgregor led a poster with Trevor Caruso on underconfidence in the visual periphery. And Allison Soule led a poster with Lauren Sahnchez, Lindsey Zhuang, and Alejandro Gamba on how working memory load shapes motion perception. The poster from Allison’s team won FIRST PLACE at event! Congrats to all on these successful presentations!

April 1: Lab graduate student Alejandro Gamba traveled to the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting in Boston this week to present his poster titled, “Understanding the representational geometry of psychological and neural spaces across multiple similarity dimensions. You can see and read more about his work at this link that he posted on BlueSky!

March 14: We are excited to share the lab’s latest project, which replicates and extends the work of John Grimes (1996) on the relationship between change blindness and saccades. This project is the culmination of several years of investment from the lab, including the stellar contributions of the lab’s first lab manager (Addison Sans) and second lab manager (Ryan Faulkner). With release of this preprint, congrats to Addison and Ryan for their first authorships on a lab paper!

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