• Visual Cognition paper out

    Check out our latest article in Visual Cognition. I will be presenting this paper at OPAM this year in Chicago.

  • New article out in AP&P!

    We have a new article out in AP&P: a tutorial in using MDS to quantify similarity for stimuli! Check it out at Hout’s website HERE. Congrats to my coauthors on a great paper!

  • OPAM acceptance and a new semester!

    So much good news to share from the past few weeks! I am thrilled to be presenting at both the Psychonomic Society Conference and at OPAM this year in Chicago. At the conference for the Psychonomic Society, I will be presenting a poster titled “Going beyond the ‘visual’ in visual search: Semantic search for related…

  • Awards and Celebrations!

    Recently I was honored to receive an award from the NMSU College of Arts and Sciences for Outstanding Service to the university and community. I was lucky to have support from my advisor and colleagues at the ceremony!

  • VSS Poster

    Our lab got back from the VSS conference just a couple days ago. We had an amazing time and met some fantastic people! Here’s a PDF reprint of my poster that I presented –>  ARobbins_VSS2015 Thanks to those who stopped by! We will see you next year!

  • VSS acceptance!

    Happy to have a poster accepted to the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society in May. I’ll be there discussing a novel anticipatory stress paradigm I developed and it’s  LACK of influence on eye stability. Robbins, A., Hout, M. C., Godwin, H. J., & Fitzsimmons, G.  (upcoming).  Quiet eyes: Stress, worry, and anxiety fail…

  • New updates for the New Year!

    I’m happy to say that I will be presenting my master’s thesis as a poster for the upcoming Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference in San Francisco this year. Robbins, A. & Thompson, L.A. (upcoming). Decreases in Cortisol are Positively Associated with Improvements in Executive Control. To be presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society’s annual meeting in…

  • Scientific American MIND article… Coming soon!

    Mike Hout and I finished up an article discussing eye-tracking technology for Scientific American MIND magazine. Check out the digital copy on December 18th or the paper version on stands January 6th!

  • OPAM Poster

    Had a great time at OPAM! On to Psychonomics! Here is my poster from OPAM, available for download as a pdf. OPAM 2014_Robbins

  • Welcome Fall!

    As a new semester begins, I will be busy teaching and completing my comprehensive exams. But there is a lot of exciting things happening in the VSM Lab! Lab members We have a bunch of new lab members, including graduate students and research assistants, joining us this fall. Check out their information here. Welcome all!!…