Research Supervision

Below are details of some completed projects involving students, to give you an idea of the kind of research students conduct within our lab.

Student co-authors are noted with symbols:  ** PhD or Master's student, * Honours student,  # undergrad research student.

For information on postgraduate study at the University of Otago (including admissions requirements) please visit the Department of Psychology website.

Hazard and Risk Perception

Beanland, V., & **Wynne, R. A. (2019). Does familiarity breed competence or contempt? Effects of driver experience, road type and familiarity on hazard perception. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 63(1), 2006-2010.

**Wynne, R. A., Beanland, V., Read, G. J. M., & Salmon, P. M. (2019). You look familiar: Learner driver hazard identification on familiar and unfamiliar roads. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 63(1), 2001-2005.

Beanland, V., & **Wynne, R. A. (2019). Effects of roadside memorials on drivers' risk perception and eye movements. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4(32).

Beanland, V., & *Hansen, L. (2017). Do cyclists make safer drivers? Associations between cycling experience and change detection in road scenes. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 106C, 420-427.

#Cox, J. A., Beanland, V., & Filtness, A. J. (2017). Risk and safety perception on urban and rural roads: Effects of environmental features, driver age and risk sensitivity. Traffic Injury Prevention, 18(7), 703-710.

Simulation

**Wynne, R. A., Beanland, V., & Salmon, P. M. (2019). Systematic review of driving simulator validation studies. Safety Science, 117, 138-151. 

Motorcyclists

*Gunson, H. P., Beanland, V., & Salmon, P. M. (2019). Road-related anger in motorcyclists and drivers. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 62, 327-338.

Beanland, V., Pammer, K., #Śledziowska, M. & #Stone, A. (2015). Drivers’ attitudes and knowledge regarding motorcycle lane filtering practices. Proceedings of the 2015 Australasian Road Safety Conference (10 pp.). Canberra, Australia: Australasian College of Road Safety. [PDF]

Cyclists

Beanland, V., & *Hansen, L. (2017). Do cyclists make safer drivers? Associations between cycling experience and change detection in road scenes. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 106C, 420-427.

Sleep

Beanland, V., *Ritchie, C., **Ousset, C., Galland, B. C., & Schaughency, E. A. (2024). Distracted and unfocused driving in supervised and unsupervised teen drivers: Associations with sleep, inattention, and cognitive disengagement syndrome symptoms. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 100, 169-180.

**Shenfield, L., Beanland, V., Filtness, A., & Apthorp, D. (2020). The impact of sleep loss on sustained and transient attention: An EEG study. PeerJ, 8, e8960.


Inattentional Blindness

Beanland, V., *Tan, C. H., & Christensen, B. K. (2018). The unexpected killer: Effects of stimulus threat and negative affectivity on inattentional blindness. Cognition and Emotion, 32(6), 1374-1381.

Beanland, V., & *Chan, E. H. C. (2016). The relationship between sustained inattentional blindness and working memory capacity. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 76(3), 808-817.

*Horwood, S., & Beanland, V. (2016). Inattentional blindness in older adults: Effects of attentional set and to-be-ignored distractors. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 76(3), 818-828.

Visual Attention

Beanland, V., *Le, R. K., & #Byrne, J. E. M. (2016). Object-scene relationships vary the magnitude of target prevalence effects in visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(6), 766-775.

*Shenfield, L., Beanland, V., & Apthorp, D. (2020). Temporal predictability does not impact attentional blink performance: Effects of fixed vs. random inter-trial intervals. PeerJ, 8, e8677. 

Sports Performance

**Berber, E., McLean, S., Beanland, V., Read, G. J. M., & Salmon, P. M. (2020). Defining the attributes for specific playing positions in football match-play: A complex systems approach. Journal of Sports Sciences, 38(11-12), 1248-1258. 

*Berber, E., Beanland, V., Clacy, A., Read, G. J. M., & Salmon, P. M. (2020). Performance pathways in the sport of dressage: A systems approach. In P. Salmon, S. McLean, C. Dallat, N. Mansfield, C. Solomon, & A. Hulme (Eds.), Human Factors and Ergonomics in Sport: Applications and Future Directions (pp. 269-286). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Past Student Projects

PhD

MSc

Honours