A R R Y N . R O B B I N S

  • Pictures from Psychonomics

    Thanks to all that joined us at our posters at OPAM and Psychonomics. It was one of the best Psychonomics conferences that I can remember!

  • Profs and Pints

    I’ll be giving a talk on (in)attention for Profs and Pints on July 15th in the DC area. Details and tickets here.

  • New publication

    It’s been 8 or 9 years since we start this project, but I’m happy to announce that the PiCS database has finally been published and ready for use! This large database of images allows researchers to select images by similarity across multiple dimensions. Importantly, they can do this within and across object categories. Check out…

  • Radio show interview with David Cooper

    I was interviewed for The Last Show with David Cooper about how attention can fail us when looking at AI-generated images. This was a fun interview and I enjoyed the format of the show. Check it out!

  • New article out in The Conversation

    This was a fun one to write! Check out my article on visual processing of AI images here.

  • See you in NYC for EPA!

    Congrats to student researchers Ted, Yixuan, Riley, and Yining for their accepted abstracts at the Eastern Psychological Association Meeting. They will all be presenting posters from work conducted in the lab this past summer. Zhou, Z.*, Zhai, Y.*, & Robbins, A., (2025) Cognitive Factors Influencing Drivers’ Mental Models of ADAS Systems. Poster to be presented…

  • NPR Life Kit Interview

    Dr. Robbins was interviewed for NPR’s Life Kit podcast where she shared tips for find lost objects. Check out the interview here.

  • P-Nomics and OPAM… here we come!

    Congrats to Carmen, Paean, Tolya, Riley, and Evelyn for their accepted abstracts! We will presenting the following posters in New York this fall: Robbins, A. (2024) Statistical regularities can reverse typicality effects in categorical search. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting for the Psychonomic Society in New York City, New York, USA in…

  • New Publication in AP&P

    Congratulations to Tolya for a new publication! In our latest article, we explore similarity effects in categorical search. Check out the article here. Robbins, A. & Evdokimov, A. (2024) Distractor similarity and category variability effects in search. Attention, Perception, & Psychophyics. Published online July 9 2024. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-024-02924-4

  • New paper available on WeyeDS dataset

    Our ETRA 2024 proceedings are published here. The paper highlights WeyeDS: our webcam image dataset. We continue to expand the dataset, and expect the next version to be completed by the end of this summer. Researchers interested in using the dataset can learn more and apply for access HERE.