Sandra is currently planning our lab’s first ever EEG study of auditory attention. If you have any tips or advice, we would love to hear from you.
Category: News
New third year projects
We have two exciting new research projects starting up at the moment. Cassandra, Sharayne, Holly and Kate will be looking at the effects of task choice on attention performance. And Catriona, Jenny, Camilla and Nicola will be looking at the links between auditory attention and awareness. The projects are currently undergoing scrutiny by the ethics committee, so we should be ready to start testing in a couple of weeks. Good luck everyone!
Summer studies
We are nearing the end of term and most of our undergraduate students will soon be heading home. But we will have studies running throughout the summer, so if you are staying in Egham and would like to take part, do get in touch.
PS We should probably clarify that our research doesn’t actually involve any ice cream. Sorry!
Vancouver visit
While in Vancouver recently for a wedding, Polly also enjoyed a brief visit to Jim Enns’s Vision Lab at the University of British Columbia. They are doing some really interesting work, looking at the influence of cognitive factors on behaviour that is visible to a third person.
A new project begins
We have recently welcomed Sandra Murphy to the Attention Lab. She is starting a PhD project on auditory attention. Sandra will soon be needing lots of participants, so do get in touch if you’re interested in taking part.
Science Open Day
Last Saturday’s Science Open Day was a great success – as well as being a generally fun day, an incredible number of visitors came along, which meant we were able to run our binaural listening experiment continuously all day. We very much enjoyed talking to people about their reactions to the experiment and the binaural recordings, and would like to thank everyone who took part. We’re now looking forward to analysing all the data we collected on Saturday.
Attention Lab in the news
Our plans to investigate the cognitive demands imposed by satnav systems have recently been reported in a number of news sources, including The Press Association, The Telegraph, and The Independent.
The research is currently underway and we will post the results as soon as they are in.
New website
This is the new Attention Lab website.
From here you can find out more about us, get in touch with us and get copies of our publications. We’re planning to keep the site updated with information about our ongoing research for anyone who might be interested in taking part in one of our experiments.
Please have a look around the new site, and if you have any comments we’d love to know what you think.