• 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.

  • 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…

  • New Article Published in JEP:HPP

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

  • 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.…

  • See you at VSS!

    I will be presenting a poster at VSS 2019 on my work with NMSU and UCF. We examined the ability of MDS to quantify category variability and predict visual search performance. This will be the first presentation to include information about the forthcoming PICS database. Robbins, A., Scherer, K., Sabic, E., MacDonald, J., Ercolino, A.,…

  • Join us for PIE at NITOP!

    Dr. Kateryna Sylaska and I will host a Participant Idea Exchange at the 2019 meeting of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology. We will discuss best practices for teaching future researchers of psychological science in a time when the field struggles with a replication crisis. Robbins, A., & Sylaska, K. (2019) Riding the…