Brisbane Experimental Psych. Student Initiative

Thanks all for attending last week's meeting with Derek Arnold and Loren Bouyer! Speaking respectively on intrusive thoughts and autistic trait expression, with the vividness of visualisations. I'd make a joke about aphantasia, but I can't quite picture it...

For April's BEPSI meeting, we had wonderful speakers of @CottierTimothy (PhD, UniMelb) and @Beccie_Jaymes (PhD, UQ) present their work. Having a variety of topics widened our perspective on the research currently being explored. Thank you to all who attended!

Thank you to all that attended this drizzly March BEPSI meeting! Major thank you to @ChrisJTurn (Glasgow University), and @AnthMHarris (QBI) for showcasing their intriguing works (and Ant for his oscillation drawing skills). Talk titles are pictured below ⬇️

We had a huge turn out for our first BEPSI meeting for the month🙌 Thank you to our special speakers for February, @DanFeuerriegel from University of Melbourne, & Chris Buckland (PhD) from University of Queensland. See you all for next month!

We have been slack on Twitter! We were fortunate to have internationally renowned researchers @jesstaubert & Tom @tsawallis run a BEPSI panel to discuss all things about postdoc hunting for our August meeting. Huge thank you to @willjharrison for reaching out & facilitating

We were even lucky enough to be given some fun hands-on demonstrations of stereoacuity by Phil! Looking forward to the next meeting :) (3/3)

Tara presented some early data on the neural correlates of mind wandering via tDCS in a large-scale registered report, while Phil discussed some clinical/practical applications of his binocular vision research, such as the evaluation of 3D displays in laparoscopy! (2/3)

Apologies for the late post, but we’d like to thank all who attended our meeting last month! We had the pleasure of hearing from Tara Rasmussen (@TaraRassy1) and Prof. Phil Grove. (1/3)

Her work investigates the underlying mechanisms of this effect using both behavioural and MEG decoding measures. Thanks to our speakers and everyone who attended. It was our first QUT-based BEPSI meeting in a little while, and we had a great time! (4/4)

Tabea-Maria taught us about the motion silencing effect which is a perceptual illusion where the global motion of an annulus masks local changes in the orientation, hue, size, luminance, and shape of the dots within that annulus. (3/4)

Last week we had the pleasure of hearing from @HaaseTabeaMaria and Dr Kirsten Baker at our April meeting. 🧵(1/4)

We also wanted to thank everyone who attended. There was an absolutely awesome turnout this month and Matt, Bec, and I (Ben) are all super chuffed with the community that we’re all building together! 😊 2/2

We had the huge privilege of hearing from @AnthMHarris, who debuted developments on a new method for measuring M/EEG phase resets, and Jessica Elliot, who presented some work that won her the 2022 honours thesis award at UQ. Amazing work guys, thank you both presenting! 1/2

Thanks to all who came to trivia last week! We had a blast! Special thanks to @rebeccakwest for putting together some stella questions and @willjharrison for his charismatic hosting skills! You guys somehow managed to make what was effectively a capstone psychology exam fun.

Huge thanks to Dr Zachary Hamblin-Frohman and @Luke_aFrench for presenting at this month’s meeting! Zac spoke to us about the relationship between visual working memory and attention, and Luke presented a body of work on how the quality information affects stimulus categorisation

@_katemckay Thanks for speaking!

Nice turn out for yesterday’s meeting! First up we had @_katemckay present work that challenged many previously held ideas about gaze cueing in older adults. We then had @Sophie__Cameron speak about how one’s moral character influences evaluations of transgressions in children

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Two great presentations last week! @renrutmailliw (UoM) can decode the predicted position of an apparent motion stimulus from the alpha band of recorded EEG signals, and Grant Taylor (UQ) outlined his plans to extend evidence accumulation models to novel decision-making contexts.