Chair in Psychology, Dean for Research Culture
- About
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- Email Address
- b.w.tatler@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 273930
- Office Address
School of Psychology
William Guild Building
King's College
Aberdeen AB24 3FXOffice S11
- School/Department
- School of Psychology
- School/Department
- Senior Vice Principals
Biography
I obtained my undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences (Biological) at the University of Cambridge in 1998 and my DPhil in Neuroscience at the University of Sussex in 2002. After obtaining my PhD I worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sussex before moving to the University of Dundee in 2004, where I held the positions of Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader. I have been a Professor of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen since 2015.
Qualifications
- MA Natural Sciences (Biological)1998 - University of Cambridge
- DPhil Neuroscience and Psychology2002 - University of Sussex
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Director of Research for Psychology
School Research Committee (Chair)
School impact group
Research Steering Group (Psychology)
School Executive
- External Memberships
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Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Chartered member of the British Psychology Society
Member of the Experimental Psychology Society
Member of the Applied Vision Association
Member of the Psychonomic Society
Emeritus member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland
Latest Publications
What's left of the leftward bias in scene viewing?: Lateral asymmetries in information processing during early search guidance
Cognition, vol. 254, 106009Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe time course of Temporal Binding in social and nonsocial interactions
Psychonomic Bulletin and ReviewContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02540-1
Tracking e-reading behavior: uncovering the effects of task context, electronic experience, and motivation
Frontiers In Education, vol. 8, 1302701Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAge Differences in Gaze Following: Older Adults Follow Gaze More than Younger Adults When free-viewing Scenes
Experimental Aging Research, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 84-101Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNavigating the narrative: An eye-tracking study of readers' strategies when Reading comic page layouts
Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 52-70Contributions to Journals: Articles
- Research
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Research Overview
Many of our everyday behaviours require visual input to guide them. My research focuses on two key questions that we must address to understand how vision supports natural behaviour: (1) where we look and (2) what we encode and retain from the objects we look at. A particular emphasis within this work is the importance of studying vision in the context of natural behaviour in real environments, rather than exclusively in laboratory settings. My research has contributed to our theoretical understanding of the factors that underlie decisions about where to look in complex scenes and to our theoretical understanding of the representations that underlie natural vision.
I apply these research interests to a range of real-world problems including hazard perception in driving, CCTV surveillance, and how comics can be used for conveying public health information.
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Psychology.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- Cognitive Psychology
- Research Methods in Psychology
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Funding and Grants
Recent funding:
Tatler, B. W. & Murray, C. (2021-2024). Comics vs. Covid: informing and evaluating the design of public health information comics SGSSS [PhD studentship]
Chu, M. & Tatler, B. W. (2020-2021). Giving cognition a helping hand: how gesture facilitates spatial thinking. The Leverhulme Trust. Awarded: £118,822
Phillips, L., Tatler, B. W., & Henry, J. (2017-2020). Adult aging and social attention: the role of cognitive decline and social motivation. ESRC. Awarded: £625,615
- Teaching
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