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ActiveBrain Research Group @activebrainuc.bsky.social · Jun 27

Another day, another AB presentation! Yleia presented prelim data from their 1st PhD study last week at the 2025 joint Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) and the Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC)! 🔎 @expsyanz.bsky.social

#ActiveBrainUC #UniCanberra #attention #AcademicSky

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DongWon OH | 오동원 | 吳東源 @dongwonoh.bsky.social · Jun 27

Old friends, new faces, great science. Thanks #epc2025 #apcv2025 and Face & Person Perception Meeting organizers for a fantastic time. Bye, Sydney!

📷: Colin Palmer

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Dianna Vidas @diannavidas.bsky.social · Jun 25

The final paper from my PhD is finally out! Huge thank you to my supervisors @genevieve132.bsky.social and @nicolenelson.bsky.social for their support with this! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From Mozart to Fleetwood Mac: music listening is not detrimental to reading comprehension in university students

Most university students choose to study with music, yet whether this is detrimental or beneficial for studying remains unclear. We investigated the impact of music listening with 279 participants ...

www.tandfonline.com

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School of Psychological Sciences @ MQ @mqpsy.bsky.social · Jun 24

Congratulations to Samantha Curtis for winning the best student presentation prize at the just finished EPC and APCV joint conference. Her talk title was “Priming the distractor reduces the Stroop interference effect by uncoupling the color and word.”

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology @expsyanz.bsky.social · Jun 21

Students are the pride and joy of EPC and APCV. Congratulations to this year’s student presentation award winners!

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Emily A-Izzeddin @emilya-izzeddin.bsky.social · Jun 23

Huge thanks to the organisers of the joint APCV/EPC conference last week - was wonderful getting the opportunity to catch up on all the awesome work going on closer to home @expsyanz.bsky.social #EPC2025

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Yleia (they/them) @ylmariano.bsky.social · Jun 23

Had a cracking week at the @expsyanz.bsky.social & APCV conference hosted at UNSW 🙌🏼
Was good fun presenting some prelim findings from my 1st PhD study + chat with some cool researchers 🤓
Thanks for the opportunity to present + see the great work being done in experimental psych! 🧠

#ActiveBrainUC

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Dr James Dunn @jamesdunn.bsky.social · Jun 23

Proud to have been part of the small but mighty team behind this year’s EPC/APCV with @sbmost.bsky.social, Branka Spehar & @popwatson.bsky.social.

Pulling off a 400+ person event with just a few academics wasn’t easy, but we managed to do it while keeping that classic EPC warmth and supportiveness.

Dr Poppy Watson @popwatson.bsky.social · Jun 20

I had a blast but organising a conference is full on and it's hard to focus on anything else when the thing is running. Thankfully my co-hosts were excellent and the team made it happen. Branka Spehar, @sbmost.bsky.social @jamesdunn.bsky.social. You wear many hats in academia and now I need a rest

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology @expsyanz.bsky.social · Jun 20

And that's a wrap!! #epc2025 is in the books, with a lovely closing speech from @visnerd.bsky.social.

SO many thanks to the organising committee for building such a successful conference 🙌

We'll see you next year in Auckland 🇳🇿

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The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 23

Congratulations to our HDR candidate Florian Burger on receiving the Best Poster Presentation Award at the recent APCV/EPC Conference! His poster titled "From Visual features to Semantic Structure: Tracing Object Dimensions Through Hierarchical Model Layers."
Read the preprint here: lnkd.in/dKqbvpYw

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Steve Most @sbmost.bsky.social · Jun 21

Wrapping up my year as President of the Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology — with eternal gratefulness for this amazing team of fellow 2025 EPC/APCV organisers and advisors: Branka Spehar, @jamesdunn.bsky.social, @popwatson.bsky.social, David Alais, & @visnerd.bsky.social...

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Manikya Alister @manikyaalister.bsky.social · Jun 21

A nice surprise to end probably my last conference as a student! Thanks to the organisers for a wonderful week full of great science and lovely people.

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology @expsyanz.bsky.social · Jun 21

Students are the pride and joy of EPC and APCV. Congratulations to this year’s student presentation award winners!

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Bethany Growns @bethanygrowns.bsky.social · Jun 21

EPC Sydney #epc2025

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Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology @expsyanz.bsky.social · Jun 21

Students are the pride and joy of EPC and APCV. Congratulations to this year’s student presentation award winners!

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Aperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · Jun 20

🧠 The State of the Brain Special Issue features insights from last year’s keynotes, award winners & committee leaders.

🔗 Explore major findings & themes from 2024: apertureneuro.org/issue/12560

@arokem.org @alexfornito.bsky.social @macshine.bsky.social @vcalhoun.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social

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Dr Poppy Watson @popwatson.bsky.social · Jun 20

I had a blast but organising a conference is full on and it's hard to focus on anything else when the thing is running. Thankfully my co-hosts were excellent and the team made it happen. Branka Spehar, @sbmost.bsky.social @jamesdunn.bsky.social. You wear many hats in academia and now I need a rest

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology @expsyanz.bsky.social · Jun 20

And that's a wrap!! #epc2025 is in the books, with a lovely closing speech from @visnerd.bsky.social.

SO many thanks to the organising committee for building such a successful conference 🙌

We'll see you next year in Auckland 🇳🇿

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Dr Poppy Watson @popwatson.bsky.social · Jun 20

@jakeembrey.bsky.social nice shoutout in the final keynote of Prof Ben Newell. Conference due to end, what a blast! @expsyanz.bsky.social

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Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology @expsyanz.bsky.social · Jun 20

And that's a wrap!! #epc2025 is in the books, with a lovely closing speech from @visnerd.bsky.social.

SO many thanks to the organising committee for building such a successful conference 🙌

We'll see you next year in Auckland 🇳🇿

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Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social · Jun 20

Fantastic talk by David White showing that super-recognizers don't pay extra attention to all social cues (e.g. bodies), just to faces #ecp2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social

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Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social · Jun 20

Kateryna Marchenko showing perceptions of face pareidolia follows the classic three dot pattern in noise images #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social

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Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social · Jun 20

Great talk by @dongwonoh.bsky.social demonstrating improved detection of AI faces using different visual attention strategies #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social

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Kate Storrs @katestorrs.bsky.social · Jun 20

I'm poster 37 this afternoon at #epc2025 if anyone wants to hear about a material perception experiment in VR that is not working out how I'd expected 😅

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Mark Schira @mschira.bsky.social · Jun 20

Retinotopic mapping Fans
Just finished my poster for OHBM. The results blow the discussion about V2 & V3 layout wide open. We find hemispheric asymmetry!
Fantastic work by my student Ruby Barahona, collaboration with the also fantastic @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social and Noah Benson.

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Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social · Jun 20

Amy Dawel kicking off the #epc2025 Face Perception session off with great work looking at how difficult it is to identify AI-generated faces, especially across different races @expsyanz.bsky.social

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Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social · Jun 20

Great talk by @bethanygrowns.bsky.social looking at overlap between face super-recognizers and object super-matchers #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social

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Tim Gastrell @tgastrell.bsky.social · Jun 20

Excited to be presenting behavioral and modeling work looking at perceptual decision making under uncertainty with recently learned priors at the EPC/APCV joint meeting today at UNSW, Sydney!

Catch me at 2:45pm in Gallery 1!

@expsyanz.bsky.social

#epc2025

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Dr Poppy Watson @popwatson.bsky.social · Jun 20

Great talk by student Samantha Curtis from Macquarie Uni on how the Stroop interference effect can be eliminated by splitting the onset of the word and its colour. @expsyanz.bsky.social

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