Manjiri attended the Visual Neuroscience Summer School in Schloss Rauischholzhausen, Germany, funded by the Centre for Mind, Brain and Behaviour and The Adapative Mind, and hosted by Justus-Liebig University Gießen, and Philipps-University Marburg.
Read more about her experience at https://lnkd.in/p/ejNAiNfA.
Amelia and Alasdair have a new paper out in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Variable and sub-optimal responses to a choice problem persist despite experience with a simple and effective decision rule.
In it, they show that across a variety of tasks, people are capable of executing optimal choices, but when allowed to freely choose, they often persist with a sub-optimal strategy.
Read more about it at https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218261484892.
Alasdair, Anna H and Manjiri attended ECVP 2026 in Bournemouth, UK.
We presented several posters, helped to organise a visual foraging symposium, and Manjiri gave 2 talks and won the Testable Award for best talk - congratulations Manjiri!
Anna N gave a great presentation at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting at the University of Essex.
Her talk was all about how weekly sampling across the academic term reveals the heterogeneous causes of time management failures.
Watch this space for further results from this work, carried out in collaboration with Amelia.
Lamia Fazia was awarded the best poster prize at the University of Leicester Postgraduate conference - congratulations!
Lamia is doing her MRes with Anna N and Amelia on how expertise shapes visual search efficiency.
We have a new paper on modelling foraging behaviour in PLoS Computational Biology!
The new version of the model incorporates absolute direction parameters and also helps to identify individual differences in strategy more easily.
Read more about it at https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014266.
The LAAAAb had a great trip to the Scottish Vision Group meeting 2026.
Congratulations to Manjiri, who was awarded the Best Student Presentation prize!