Newcastle Cognition Lab

Our lab was out in full force this week at #CogSci2023, with posters from Laura, Garston, Laiton, Jonothan, Hayley, and Rachael. As you can see, our team were busy answering lots of questions about their work! @wallLaura2 @Laiton_Hedley @hayleycullen_ @rachaelawynne

Recent research from the @NewcastleCogLab. We compared the performance efficiency of Human & Hybrid Human-Machine teams. Interestingly, under collaborative conditions, dyadic human performance was more efficient than Hybrid Human-Machine teams. doi.org/10.1111/tops.1…

A wonderful morning of exceptional 3 minute thesis talks in our school. A huge congratulations to @CaitlinReeves_ for taking out first place! Followed closely by Renee van der Schaaf and Johanna Voeste. #3MT

Looking forward to welcoming Prof. @LukeWolfenden to the @NewcastleCogLab today to discuss his move from Psychology into Health. Join us from 11-12pm in the Keats Reading room/Psychology Building @Uni_Newcastle or via zoom uonewcastle.zoom.us/s/81643408601

Congratulations, Zach! @ZHowardPsych 🎉

Researchers in our school are looking for volunteers to participate in a 15-20 minute survey on how COVID-19 impacts memory and attention. If you are interested in participating, please read the information below, and click the link to participate: protect-au.mimecast.com/s/cnaVC91WjKTO…

Our latest paper from the @AppliedPsychLab at @Uni_Newcastle. The paper highlights the loss of situation awareness at critical takeovers, and fits into a broader trend pointing to under arousal as a looming problem in L3+ #automateddriving. @UON_research doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.…

RESEARCH SEMINAR: Next week (April 26th, 12-1pm AEST), Prof Susan Nolan will be presenting on "Fact or fiction? Harnessing misinformation to teach scientific and information literacy". Join via the following link: uonewcastle.zoom.us/j/88248426974?… Passcode: 025237

Ami Eidels gave a fantastic talk yesterday at EPC on “group performance in human-human and human-bot teams”. Ami also said it perfectly: if you are planning on attending CogSci in July, then stop past @Psychology_UON for a visit! #EPC2023

#EPC2023 @expsyaunz

This was a seriously fantastic talk at EPC yesterday by PhD candidate Yeow Khoon Pua, who used mathematical models to look at the “mindful appraisal of facial expressions”. Amazing work, Yeow Khoon!

Last but certainly not least from our lab at EPC yesterday: Alexandra Adams gave an entertaining and truly fascinating talk on “blue poo and the brain: what can a novel measure of gut function tell us about the microbiota-gut-brain axis?” #EPC2023 @expsyaunz

Our fantastic PhD candidate Laiton Hedley gave an incredible presentation at EPC yesterday on “the relationship between teaming behaviours and joint capacity of hybrid human-machine teams.” Great job, @Laiton_Hedley #EPC2023

As usual, Faye Nitschke gave an incredibly impressive talk at #EPC2023 yesterday, detailing three studies looking at “perceptions of emotions from female and male complainants of sexual violence” @ts_faye

Very proud of Tin Nguyen for giving a fantastic talk to a large audience (and on a cinema-sized TV!) yesterday at #EPC2023. Tin’s talk was titled “Does allowing for changes of mind influence initial responses?”

On day 1 of #EPC2023, Stephen Prichard presented a fantastic poster on “detecting a loss of situational awareness”. Great job, Stephen!

Day 1 of EPC was EPiC! Especially @MelissaRFreire’s fantastic talk about culturally fair assessment of phonological awareness in an Indigenous context #EPC2023 @expsyaunz @Psychology_UON

En route to the Experimental Psychology Conference in Canberra. We will see ewe there! 😂 #EPC2023