• 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…

  • 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 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.

  • 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…

  • Presentations coming up…

    Congratulations to the Carthage College Intro Psych instruction team who will be presenting at MISTOP on February 22nd. The talk will focus on using team teaching for large introductory classes. Barhart, A., Cameron, E.L., Sylaska, K., Munk, D., & Robbins, A. (2019) The Benefits of Team-Teaching Introduction to Psychological Science. Talk to be presented at the 26th…

  • VSS updates

    I recently was accepted to present at the Vision Sciences Society conference this year in St. Pete’s Beach, FL.  I will be presenting some data from my dissertation research. I’m excited to be back at VSS this year! Robbins, A., Hout, M. C. (May, 2018).  Scene context influences expectations about imprecisely specified search targets.  Poster…

  • Catching up!

    Catching up!

    I recently had the opportunity to present at Graduate Education Day in Santa Fe, NM at the capitol building! I was selected by the Dean of the Graduate school to present my research on expertise in visual search. I was happy to represent NMSU at this event and educate our legislators about all the amazing…

  • VSS 2016!

    The lab recently returned from the Vision Sciences Society meeting in St. Pete’s Beach, FL. We presented several posters and a mini talk. It was a great time catching up with friends and spending some time on the beach 🙂  

  • Cranking out that research!

    Congrats to my fellow lab members and Dr. Hout for all of the VSS presentation acceptances! I will present research I completed last semester examining pupillary reflexes during categorical search. Here is a list of our upcoming presentations: Robbins, A., & Hout, M. C.  (2016, to be presented).  Typicality effects in categorical visual search investigated…

  • Back from Chicago!

    Thanks to you all that came and listened to my talk at OPAM or stopped by our Word Search poster at Psychonomics. I have attached the poster here: Robbins_etal_Pnomics_2015 Check out our paper from OPAM HERE. As usual, Psychonomics was cold but a great time 🙂