Professor Amelia Hunt
Personal Chair
- About
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- Email Address
- a.hunt@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 273139
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 274390
- Office Address
School of Psychology William Guild Building Room T09 Kings College Old Aberdeen AB24 3FX
- School/Department
- School of Psychology
Biography
- 2009-present: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Professor, University of Aberdeen
- 2005-2008: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Vision Lab, Cambridge USA
- 2005: PhD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- 1999: B.Sc., Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Internal Memberships
- Director of Research
- Research committee chair
- Research steering group
- School executive
- Level 3 perception coordinator
- Research
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Research Overview
- Perceptual stability and eye movements
- Visual search strategies
- The relationship between attention and eye movements
- The timecourse of visual processing and attention
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
- Level 1: Lectures on Perception
- Level 3: Lectures on Attention
- Level 3 perception course coordinator
- Level 3 perception tutorials
- Level 3 practical project supervision
- Level 4 critical review tutorials
- Level 4 thesis supervision
- MRes & MSc thesis supervision
- MRes lecture (dissemination I)
- Publications
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You are not enough: Inefficient search strategies persist for self-relevant targets
Visual CognitionContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2393890
Does pre-crastination explain why some observers are sub-optimal in a visual search task?
Royal Society Open Science, vol. 11, no. 4, 191816Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe role of framing, agency and uncertainty in a focus-divide dilemma
Memory and Cognition, vol. 52, pp. 574–594Contributions to Journals: ArticlesVariable search for orientation, uniformly optimal search for identity.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 153, no. 2, pp. 495-510Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSix of one, half dozen of the other: Suboptimal prioritizing for equal and unequal alternatives
Memory and Cognition, vol. 51, pp. 486-503Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01356-5
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21219/1/James_etal_MaC_Six_of_One_VOR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
A Bayesian statistical model is able to predict target-by-target selection behaviour in a human foraging task
Vision, vol. 6, no. 4, 66Contributions to Journals: ArticlesVisual search habits and the spatial structure of scenes
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 84, no. 6, pp. 1874-1885Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSelf-related objects increase alertness and orient attention through top-down saliency
Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 408-417Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStable individual differences in strategies within, but not between, visual search tasks
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 289-297Contributions to Journals: ArticlesForaging as sampling without replacement: a Bayesian statistical model for estimating biases in target selection
PLoS Computational Biology , vol. 18, no. 1, e1009813Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSearch strategies improve with practice, but not with time pressure or financial incentives
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 47, no. 7, pp. 1009-1021Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDecision making in slow and rapid reaching: Sacrificing success to minimize effort
Cognition, vol. 205, 104426Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe eye that binds: Feature integration is not disrupted by saccadic eye movements
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 82, pp. 533-549Contributions to Journals: ArticlesShared attention for action selection and action monitoring in goal-directed reaching
Psychological Research, vol. 84, pp. 313-326Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSeeing Beyond Salience and Guidance: The Role of Bias and Decision in Visual Search
Vision, vol. 3, no. 3, 46Contributions to Journals: ArticlesInefficient Eye Movements: Gamification Improves Task Execution, But Not Fixation Strategy
Vision, vol. 3, no. 3, 48Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPractice-related changes in eye movement strategy in healthy adults with simulated hemianopia
Neuropsychologia, vol. 128, pp. 232-240Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Relationship Between Spatial Attention and Eye Movements
Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences: Processes of Visuo-spatial Attention and Working Memory. Hodgson, T. (ed.). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 255-278, 24 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/7854_2019_95
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
A Generative Model of Cognitive State from Task and Eye Movements
Cognitive Computation, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 703-717Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe role of attention in eye-movement awareness
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 80, no. 7, pp. 1691-1704Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe visual influence of ostracism
European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 182-188Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2305
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11406/1/Cyberball_REV.pdf
The saccadic flow baseline: Accounting for image-independent biases in fixation behaviour
Journal of Vision, vol. 17, no. 11, pp. 1-19Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/17.11.12
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/9407/1/i1534_7362_17_11_12.pdf
Human visual search behaviour is far from ideal
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, vol. 284, 20162767Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWhy you are constantly searching for your keys
The ConversationContributions to Specialist Publications: ArticlesFailure to use probability of success in deciding whether to pursue one goal or two
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Failure to use probability of success when deciding whether to pursue one goal or two.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsPeople are unable to recognize or report on their own eye movements
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 70, no. 11, pp. 2251–2270Contributions to Journals: ArticlesInefficient search strategies in simulated hemianopia
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 42, no. 11, pp. 1858-1872Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe effect of visualization on visual search performance: Does visualization trump vision?
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 78, no. 8, pp. 2357-2362Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-016-1174-8
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/9033/1/visualiseSearch.pdf
Local form interference in biological motion perception
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 78, no. 5, pp. 1434-1443Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHuman Search for a Target on a Textured Background is Consistent with a Stochastic Model
Journal of Vision, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 1-16Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/16.7.4
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/6008/1/i1534_7362_16_7_4.pdf
Search strategies in simulated hemianopia
i-Perception, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 4-4Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669515593223
Failure of Intuition When Choosing Whether to Invest in a Single Goal or Split Resources Between Two Goals
The Scottish Vision Group (SVG) Meeting 2015, pp. 7Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669515593223
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/8297/1/2041669515593223.pdf
Failure of Intuition When Choosing Whether to Invest in a Single Goal or Split Resources Between Two Goals
Psychological Science, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 64-74Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSimulated hemianopia: the effect of partial information loss on serial and parallel search
38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2015 Liverpool, pp. 283-284Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006615598674
Context dependence of attentional capture
38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2015 Liverpool, pp. 79-79Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006615598674
How aware are we of our own eye movements?
38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2015 Liverpool, pp. 272Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006615598674
Just passing through? Inhibition of return in saccadic sequences
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 402-416Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAttentional load interferes with target localization across saccades
Experimental Brain Research, vol. 233, no. 12, pp. 3737-3748Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-014-4062-2
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/5256/1/MacInnesHuntEBR2014.pdf
Perceptual merging contributes to cueing effects
Journal of Vision, vol. 14, no. 7, 13Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://www.journalofvision.org/content/14/7/13
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/14.7.13
Driving forces in free visual search: An ethology
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 280-295Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAre faces preferentially attended when participants are unaware of being monitored?
i-Perception, vol. 5, no. 5Contributions to Journals: AbstractsThe interaction of spatial frequency with emotional content in search among faces
i-Perception, vol. 5, no. 5Contributions to Journals: AbstractsLow-level and high-level modulations of fixational saccades and high frequency oscillatory brain activity in a visual object classification task
Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 4, 948Contributions to Journals: ArticlesInhibition of return across eye and object movements: the role of prediction
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 735-744Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23046140
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030092
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/2858/1/HMKru_ger.docx
The continuum of detection and awareness of visual stimuli within the blind field: from blindsight to the sighted-sight
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 3579-3585Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.12-11231
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Trans-saccadic priming in hemianopia: sighted-field sensitivity is boosted by a blind-field prime
Neuropsychologia, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 997-1005Contributions to Journals: ArticlesKeeping track of locations in space
i-Perception, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 384Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1068/ie384
Physical self-similarity enhances the gaze-cueing effect
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 65, no. 7, pp. 1250-1259Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2012.690769
Trans-saccadic priming of location and orientation
Perception, vol. 41, no. ECVP Abstract Supplement, pp. 56Contributions to Journals: AbstractsRemapped visual masking
Journal of Vision, vol. 11, no. 1, 13Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://www.journalofvision.org/content/11/1/13.full
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/11.1.13
Saccadic eye movements and perceptual judgments reveal a shared visual representation that is increasingly accurate over time
Vision Research, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 111-119Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2010.10.013
Detection of target displacement across saccades in cortical blindness.
Journal of Eye Movement Research, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 224Contributions to Journals: AbstractsSaccadic remapping in hemianopia
Scottish Vision Group, pp. 190Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1068/i190
Attentional pointers: response to Melcher
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 14, no. 11, pp. 474-475Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2010.08.006
Attention pointers: response to Mayo and Sommer
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 14, no. 9, pp. 390-391Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2010.06.004
Attending to emerging representations: the importance of task context and time of response
Attention and time. Nobre, A. C., Coull, J. T. (eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 3-15, 13 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199563456.003.0001
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Emerging representations in visual cognition: It’s about time
Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 116-120Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/19/2/116
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721410363895
Visual stability based on remapping of attention pointers
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 147-153Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2010.01.007
Looking ahead: The perceived direction of gaze shifts before the eyes move
Journal of Vision, vol. 9, no. 9, 1Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/9.9.1
Disorganizing biological motion
Journal of Vision, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 1-5Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://www.journalofvision.org/content/8/9/12.full
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/8.9.12
Taking a long look at action and time perception
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 125-136Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.34.1.125
Squeezing the uncertainty from saccadic compression
Journal of Eye Movement Research, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-5Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe effect of emotional faces on eye movements and attention.
Visual Cognition, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 513-531Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280600843346
The time course of attentional and oculomotor capture reveals a common cause
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 271–284Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.33.2.271
Eye movements, not hypercompatible mappings, are critical for eliminating the cost of task set reconfiguration
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 932-937Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03194020
Multisensory executive functioning
Brain and Cognition, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 325-327Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2004.02.072
Integration of competing saccade programs
Cognitive Brain Research, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 206-208Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2003.12.004
Covert and overt voluntary attention: Linked or independent?
Cognitive Brain Research, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 102-105Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2003.08.006
Inhibition of return: Dissociating attentional and oculomotor components.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 29, pp. 1068-1074Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.29.5.1068
Eliminating the cost of task set reconfiguration.
Memory & Cognition, pp. 529-539Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03194954
Orienting attention in aging and Parkinson's disease: distinguishing modes of control.
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, vol. 24, pp. 951-967Contributions to Journals: Articles