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

  • New Conversation piece

    My colleagues at New Mexico State University (Dr. Eben Daggett and Dr. Michael Hout) and I have recently published an article discussing ‘representational alignment’ in AI vision models. Check out the article here.

  • New paper out!

    Yixuan Zhai (’26) and I have just published a paper in the proceedings for the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP). Yixuan has been working on machine learning models that estimate user-to-webcam distance for HCI and gaze estimation applications. Her image dataset was the focus on this paper and she gave a…

  • 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…