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

  • EPA presentation acceptances

    Congratulations to students in my lab, who have received news that they will present their work at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association this year in Philadelphia! Here is the information about the presentations: Evdokimov, A. & Robbins, A. (2024) Expanding the reach of eye tracking in psychology using webcam data collection. Poster…

  • VSS 2023 Updates

    Tolya and Paean both presented their work in categorical search at VSS 2023. Paean received a travel grant from the National Eye Institute to present her work. Both of the posters can be found on the Materials page. Congrats to both for excellent work!

  • It’s been a while!

    My last post was just before the pandemic, so this blog has been frozen in time. A lot has happened in the 3 years since that post. Most importantly, I am doing well and am now an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Richmond! Please read more about what I’ve been up to…

  • New position at NHTSA

    I am thrilled to announce that I have accepted a position as a research psychologist for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Washington, DC. I look forward to contributing to the research conducted by the behavioral research division at NHTSA.

  • New Article Published in JEP:HPP

    We have a new article out in JEP:HPP that focuses on contextual influences on  categorical search templates.

  • Catching up! ECEM and a new semester.

    My colleague, Leslie Cameron, and I went to Alicante, Spain for the European Conference on Eye Movements.  I presented our work on the similarities and differences in eye movements and performance between professors and students when interpreting graphs. We also took some extra time to play on the beach and explore the Castillo de Santa…

  • See you at OPAM!

    Congratulations to Kory, who will be presenting her thesis work at the Object Perception Attention & Memory (OPAM) workshop at Psychonomics this year in Montreal. Scherer, K. & Robbins, A. (2019) Let’s Rock Categorical Search: How Exemplar Repetition During Category Learning and Category Variability Influence Search. Poster to be presented at OPAM 2019 in Montreal. 

  • New Frontiers for Young Minds article out

    Michael Hout and I wrote this fun article for Frontiers for Young Minds about visual search. See it HERE.

  • ECEM poster

    Leslie Cameron and I will be presenting our work at the European Conference on Eye Movements in August! This project is an extension of Dr. Cameron’s work in Decoding the Disciplines and looks at how eye movements differ between expert and novice graph readers. Robbins, A., Pelnar, H., & Cameron, E.L. (2019) Similarities and differences…

  • PICS Database at APS

    I am very excited to have the opportunity to share information about the PICS database at the APS Convention this year in Washington D.C.  I have worked with my colleagues at New Mexico State University and the University of Central Florida to develop a database of images that is organized by similarity using multidimensional scaling.…