Professor Amelia Hunt
Personal Chair
- About
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- Email Address
- a.hunt@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 273139
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 274390
- Office Address
School of Psychology William Guild Building Room T09 Kings College Old Aberdeen AB24 3FX
- School/Department
- School of Psychology
Biography
- 2009-present: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Professor, 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
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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- Level 3 perception coordinator
- Internship coordinator
- Disabilities officer
- Research committee
- Member of Senate
- External Memberships
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Associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance
- Research
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Research Overview
- Perceptual stability and eye movements
- Visual search strategies
- The relationship between attention and eye movements
- The timecourse of visual processing and attention
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
- Level 1: Lectures on Perception
- Level 3: Lectures on Attention
- Level 3 perception course coordinator
- Level 3 perception tutorials
- Level 3 practical project supervision
- Level 4 critical review tutorials
- Level 4 thesis supervision
- MRes & MSc thesis supervision
- MRes lecture (dissemination I)
- Publications
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You are not enough: Inefficient search strategies persist for self-relevant targets
Visual CognitionContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2393890
Does pre-crastination explain why some observers are sub-optimal in a visual search task?
Royal Society Open Science, vol. 11, no. 4, 191816Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe role of framing, agency and uncertainty in a focus-divide dilemma
Memory and Cognition, vol. 52, pp. 574–594Contributions to Journals: ArticlesVariable search for orientation, uniformly optimal search for identity.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 153, no. 2, pp. 495-510Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSix of one, half dozen of the other: Suboptimal prioritizing for equal and unequal alternatives
Memory and Cognition, vol. 51, pp. 486-503Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01356-5
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21219/1/James_etal_MaC_Six_of_One_VOR.pdf
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A Bayesian statistical model is able to predict target-by-target selection behaviour in a human foraging task
Vision, vol. 6, no. 4, 66Contributions to Journals: ArticlesVisual search habits and the spatial structure of scenes
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 84, no. 6, pp. 1874-1885Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSelf-related objects increase alertness and orient attention through top-down saliency
Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 408-417Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStable individual differences in strategies within, but not between, visual search tasks
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 289-297Contributions to Journals: ArticlesForaging as sampling without replacement: a Bayesian statistical model for estimating biases in target selection
PLoS Computational Biology , vol. 18, no. 1, e1009813Contributions to Journals: Articles