Dr Amelia Hunt

Dr Amelia Hunt The University of Aberdeen School of Psychology Lecturer work +44 (0)1224 273139 work +44 (0)1224 274390 pref a.hunt@abdn.ac.uk Lab website: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy519/dept/ pref School of Psychology William Guild Building Room F10 Kings College Old Aberdeen AB24 3FX

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Biography

• 2009-present: Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
• 2005-2008: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Vision Lab, Cambridge USA
• 2005: PhD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
• 1999: B.Sc., Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

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Research Interests

• Perceived stability and eye movements
• Perception of eye position
• The relationship between attention and eye movements
• The timecourse of visual processing and attention
• Biological motion perception

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Research Grants

• 2012-2018: James S McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award
• 2010-2012: BBSRC New Investigator Grant
• 2010: Nuffield Foundation Small Grant
• 2000-2007: NSERC postgraduate and postdoctoral fellowships
• 2004-2005: Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research fellowship

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Teaching Responsibilities

• Level 1: Perception
• Level 4: Brain and Body

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Admin Responsibilities

• Level 1 convenor (theory course)
• MA adviser of studies
• Teaching Advisory Group
• Postgraduate Committee

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Krueger, HM. & Hunt, A. (in press). 'Inhibition of return across eye and object movements: the role of prediction'. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
• Ritchie, KL., Hunt, A. & Sahraie, A. (2012). 'Trans-saccadic priming in hemianopia: Sighted-field sensitivity is boosted by a blind-field prime'. Neuropsychologia, vol 50, no. 5, pp. 997-1005.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.02.006
• Hungr, C. & Hunt, A. (2012). 'Physical self-similarity enhances the gaze-cueing effect'. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol 65, no. 7, pp. 1250-1259.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.690769
• van Zoest, W. & Hunt, A. (2011). 'Saccadic eye movements and perceptual judgments reveal a shared visual representation that is increasingly accurate over time'. Vision research, vol 51, no. 1, pp. 111-119.
• Hunt, A. & Cavanagh, P. (2011). 'Remapped visual masking'. Journal of Vision, vol 11, no. 1, 13.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1167/11.1.13
• Cavanagh, P., Hunt, A., Afraz, A. & Rolfs, M. (2010). 'Visual stability based on remapping of attention pointers'. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol 14, no. 4, pp. 147-153.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.01.007
• van Zoest, W., Hunt, A. & Kingstone, A. (2010). 'Emerging representations in visual cognition: It’s about time'. Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol 19, pp. 116-120.
• Hunt, AR. & Cavanagh, P. (2009). 'Looking ahead: The perceived direction of gaze shifts before the eyes move'. Journal of Vision, vol 9, no. 9, 1, pp. 1-7.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1167/9.9.1
• Hunt, A. & Halper, F. (2008). 'Disorganizing biological motion'. Journal of Vision, vol 8, no. 9, pp. 1-5.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1167/8.9.12
• Hunt, AR., Chapman, CS. & Kingstone, A. (2008). 'Taking a long look at action and time perception'. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol 34, no. 1, -, pp. 125-136.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.34.1.125
• Hunt, A., von Mühlenen, Adrian, A. & Kingstone, A. (2007). 'The timecourse of attentional and oculomotor capture reveals a common cause'. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol 33, no. 2, pp. 271–284.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.2.271
• Hunt, A., Cooper, R., Hungr, C. & Kingstone, A. (2007). 'The effect of emotional faces on eye movements and attention'. Visual Cognition, vol 15, no. 5, pp. 513-531.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/13506280600843346
• Chapman, C., Hunt, A. & Kingstone, A. (2007). 'Squeezing the uncertainty from saccadic compression'. Journal of Eye Movement Research, vol 1, no. 1, pp. 1-5.
• Hunt, A., Ishigami, Y., Y. & Klein, R. (2006). 'Eye movements, not hypercompatible mappings, are critical for eliminating the cost of task set reconfiguration'. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review., vol 13, no. 5, pp. 932-937.
• Hunt, A. & Kinsgtone, A. (2004). 'Multisensory executive functioning'. Brain and Cognition, vol 55, no. 2, pp. 325-327.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2004.02.072
• Hunt, A., Olk, B., von Mühlenen, A. & Kingstone, A. (2004). 'Integration of competing saccade programs'. Cognitive Brain Research, vol 19, no. 2, pp. 206-208.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2003.12.004
• Hunt, A. & Kingstone, A. (2003). 'Inhibition of return: Dissociating attentional and oculomotor components'. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol 29, pp. 1068-1074.
• Hunt, A. & Kingstone, A. (2003). 'Covert and overt voluntary attention: Linked or independent?'. Cognitive Brain Research, vol 18, no. 1, pp. 102-105.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2003.08.006
• Hunt, A. & Klein, R. (2002). 'Eliminating the cost of task set reconfiguration'. Memory & Cognition, pp. 529-539.
• Kingstone, A., Morein-Zamir, S., Hunt, A., Klein, Ray, R. & Fisk, J. (2002). 'Orienting attention in aging and Parkinson's disease: distinguishing modes of control'. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, vol 24, pp. 951-967.

Comments and Debates

• Cavanagh, P., Hunt, A., Afraz, A. & Rolfs, M. (2010). 'Attentional pointers: Response to Melcher'. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol 14, no. 11, pp. 474-475.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.08.006
• Cavanagh, P., Hunt, A., Afraz, A. & Rolfs, M. (2010). 'Attention Pointers: Response to Mayo and Sommer'. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol 14, no. 9, pp. 390-391.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.06.004

Abstracts

• Ritchie, KL., Hunt, A. & Sahraie, A. (2012). 'Trans-saccadic priming of location and orientation'. Perception, vol 41, no. ECVP Abstract Supplement, pp. 56.
• Ritchie, KL., Hunt, A. & Sahraie, A. (2012). 'Keeping track of locations in space'. i-Perception, vol 3, no. 6, pp. 384.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1068/ie384
• Ritchie, KL., Hunt, A. & Sahraie, A. (2011). 'Saccadic remapping in hemianopia'. i-Perception, vol 2, no. 3, pp. 190.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1068/i190
• Ritchie, KL., Hunt, A. & Sahraie, A. (2011). 'Detection of target displacement across saccades in cortical blindness'. Journal of Eye Movement Research, vol 4, no. 3, pp. 224.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Hunt, A., van Zoest, W. & Kingstone, A. (2010). 'Attending to emerging representations: The importance of task context and time of response'. in AC Nobre & JT Coull (eds), Attention and Time. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 3-15.

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