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Professor Amelia Hunt

Professor Amelia Hunt
Professor Amelia Hunt
Professor Amelia Hunt

Personal Chair

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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, 51cg
  • 2005-2008: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Vision Lab, Cambridge USA
  • 2005: PhD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  • 1999: B.Sc., Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Internal Memberships

  • Director of Research
  • Research committee chair
  • Research steering group
  • School executive
  • Level 3 perception coordinator
Research

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

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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  • Variable and sub-optimal responses to a choice problem persist despite experience with a simple and effective decision rule

    Hunt, A., James, W., Reuther, J., Spilioti, M., Clarke, A. D.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
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  • Learn more from your data with asymptotic regression

    Clarke, A. D., Hunt, A.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 154, no. 5, pp. 1250-1267
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  • Does pre-crastination explain why some observers are sub-optimal in a visual search task?

    Clarke, A., Nowakowska, A., Sauerberger, K., Rosenbaum, D. A., Zentall, T. R., Hunt, A. R.
    Royal Society Open Science, vol. 11, no. 4, 191816
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  • The role of framing, agency and uncertainty in a focus-divide dilemma

    Claydon, J., James, W., Clarke, A. D., Hunt, A.
    Memory and Cognition, vol. 52, pp. 574–594
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  • Variable search for orientation, uniformly optimal search for identity.

    Nowakowska, A., Clarke, A. D. F., Reuther, J., Hunt, A.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 153, no. 2, pp. 495-510
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  • You are not enough: Inefficient search strategies persist for self-relevant targets

    Bhat, M., Nowakowska, A., Clarke, A. D., Hunt, A.
    Visual Cognition, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 135-150
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  • Six of one, half dozen of the other: Suboptimal prioritizing for equal and unequal alternatives

    James, W., Hunt, A. R., Clarke, A. D. F.
    Memory and Cognition, vol. 51, pp. 486-503
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  • A Bayesian statistical model is able to predict target-by-target selection behaviour in a human foraging task

    Clarke, A. D., Hunt, A., Hughes, A. E.
    Vision, vol. 6, no. 4, 66
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  • Visual search habits and the spatial structure of scenes

    Clarke, A. D. F., Nowakowska, A., Hunt, A. R.
    Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 84, no. 6, pp. 1874-1885
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  • Self-related objects increase alertness and orient attention through top-down saliency

    Li, B., Hu, W., Hunt, A., Sui, J.
    Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 408-417
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  • Stable individual differences in strategies within, but not between, visual search tasks

    Clarke, A. D. F., Irons, J. L., James, W., Leber, A. B., Hunt, A. R.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 289-297
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  • Foraging as sampling without replacement: a Bayesian statistical model for estimating biases in target selection

    Clarke, A. D., Hunt, A., Hughes, A. E.
    PLoS Computational Biology , vol. 18, no. 1, e1009813
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  • Search strategies improve with practice, but not with time pressure or financial incentives

    Nowakowska, A., Clarke, A. D., von Seth, J., Hunt, A. R.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 47, no. 7, pp. 1009-1021
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  • Decision making in slow and rapid reaching: Sacrificing success to minimize effort

    Hesse, C., Kangur, K., Hunt, A. R.
    Cognition, vol. 205, 104426
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  • The eye that binds: Feature integration is not disrupted by saccadic eye movements

    Reuther, J., Chakravarthi, R., Hunt, A. R.
    Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 82, pp. 533-549
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  • Shared attention for action selection and action monitoring in goal-directed reaching

    Mahon, A., Bendžiūtė, S., Hesse, C., Hunt, A. R.
    Psychological Research, vol. 84, pp. 313-326
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  • Seeing Beyond Salience and Guidance: The Role of Bias and Decision in Visual Search

    Clarke, A. D. F., Nowakowska, A., Hunt, A. R.
    Vision, vol. 3, no. 3, 46
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  • Inefficient Eye Movements: Gamification Improves Task Execution, But Not Fixation Strategy

    James, W. R. G., Reuther, J., Angus, E., Clarke, A. D. F., Hunt, A. R.
    Vision, vol. 3, no. 3, 48
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  • Practice-related changes in eye movement strategy in healthy adults with simulated hemianopia

    Nowakowska, A., Clarke, A. D. F., Sahraie, A., Hunt, A. R.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 128, pp. 232-240
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  • The Relationship Between Spatial Attention and Eye Movements

    Hunt, A. R., Reuther, J., Hilchey, M. D., Klein, R. M.
    Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences: Processes of Visuo-spatial Attention and Working Memory. Hodgson, T. (ed.). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 255-278, 24 pages
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  • A Generative Model of Cognitive State from Task and Eye Movements

    MacInnes, W. J., Hunt, A. R., Clarke, A. D. F., Dodd, M. D.
    Cognitive Computation, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 703-717
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  • The role of attention in eye-movement awareness

    Mahon, A., Clarke, A. D. F., Hunt, A. R.
    Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 80, no. 7, pp. 1691-1704
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  • The visual influence of ostracism

    Golubickis, M., Sahraie, A., Hunt, A. R., Visokomogilski, A., Topalidis, P., MacRae, C. N.
    European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 182-188
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  • The saccadic flow baseline: Accounting for image-independent biases in fixation behaviour

    Clarke, A. D. F., Stainer, M. J., Tatler, B. W., Hunt, A. R.
    Journal of Vision, vol. 17, no. 11, pp. 1-19
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  • Human visual search behaviour is far from ideal

    Nowakowska, A., Clarke, A. D. F., Hunt, A. R.
    Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, vol. 284, 20162767
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  • Why you are constantly searching for your keys

    Nowakowska, A. M., Clarke, A. D., Hunt, A.
    The Conversation
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  • Failure to use probability of success in deciding whether to pursue one goal or two

    James, W. R., Clarke, A. D., Hunt, A. R.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Failure to use probability of success when deciding whether to pursue one goal or two.

    James, W., Clarke, A., Hunt, A. R.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • People are unable to recognize or report on their own eye movements

    Clarke, A. D. F., Mahon, A., Irvine, A., Hunt, A. R.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 70, no. 11, pp. 2251–2270
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  • Inefficient search strategies in simulated hemianopia

    Nowakowska, A., Clarke, A. D. F., Sahraie, A., Hunt, A. R.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 42, no. 11, pp. 1858-1872
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  • The effect of visualization on visual search performance: Does visualization trump vision?

    Clarke, A. D. F., Barr, C., Hunt, A. R.
    Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 78, no. 8, pp. 2357-2362
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  • Local form interference in biological motion perception

    Kerr-Gaffney, J. E., Hunt, A. R., Pilz, K. S.
    Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 78, no. 5, pp. 1434-1443
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  • Human Search for a Target on a Textured Background is Consistent with a Stochastic Model

    Clarke, A. D. F., Green, P., Chantler, M. J., Hunt, A. R.
    Journal of Vision, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 1-16
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  • Search strategies in simulated hemianopia

    Nowakowska, A., Clarke, A. D. F., Sahraie, A., Hunt, A. R.
    i-Perception, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 4-4
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  • Failure of Intuition When Choosing Whether to Invest in a Single Goal or Split Resources Between Two Goals

    Clarke, A. D. F., Hunt, A. R.
    The Scottish Vision Group (SVG) Meeting 2015, pp. 7
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  • Failure of Intuition When Choosing Whether to Invest in a Single Goal or Split Resources Between Two Goals

    Clarke, A. D. F., Hunt, A. R.
    Psychological Science, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 64-74
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  • Simulated hemianopia: the effect of partial information loss on serial and parallel search

    Nowakowska, A., Clarke, A. D. F., Sahraie, A., Hunt, A. R.
    38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2015 Liverpool, pp. 283-284
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  • Context dependence of attentional capture

    Hunt, A., Sahraie, A., Macrae, C. N.
    38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2015 Liverpool, pp. 79-79
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  • How aware are we of our own eye movements?

    Mahon, A., Clarke, A., Irvine, A., Hunt, A. R.
    38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2015 Liverpool, pp. 272
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  • Just passing through? Inhibition of return in saccadic sequences

    MacInnes, W. J., Krueger, H. M., Hunt, A. R.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 402-416
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  • Attentional load interferes with target localization across saccades

    MacInnes, W. J., Hunt, A. R.
    Experimental Brain Research, vol. 233, no. 12, pp. 3737-3748
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  • Perceptual merging contributes to cueing effects

    Krueger, H. M., MacInnes, W. J., Hunt, A. R.
    Journal of Vision, vol. 14, no. 7, 13
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  • Driving forces in free visual search: An ethology

    MacInnes, W. J., Hunt, A. R., Hilchey, M. D., Klein, R. M.
    Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 280-295
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  • Are faces preferentially attended when participants are unaware of being monitored?

    Rutherford, K. R., Macrae, C. N., Hunt, A. R., Saharaie, A.
    i-Perception, vol. 5, no. 5
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  • The interaction of spatial frequency with emotional content in search among faces

    Nowakowska, A., Saharaie, A., Hunt, A. R.
    i-Perception, vol. 5, no. 5
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  • Low-level and high-level modulations of fixational saccades and high frequency oscillatory brain activity in a visual object classification task

    Kosilo, M., Wuerger, S. M., Craddock, M., Jennings, B. J., Hunt, A. R., Martinovic, J.
    Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 4, 948
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  • Inhibition of return across eye and object movements: the role of prediction

    Krueger, H. M., Hunt, A. R.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 735-744
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  • The continuum of detection and awareness of visual stimuli within the blind field: from blindsight to the sighted-sight

    Sahraie, A., Trevethan, C. T., MacLeod, M. J., Weiskrantz, L., Hunt, A. R.
    Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 3579-3585
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  • Trans-saccadic priming in hemianopia: sighted-field sensitivity is boosted by a blind-field prime

    Ritchie, K. L., Hunt, A., Sahraie, A.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 997-1005
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  • Keeping track of locations in space

    Ritchie, K. L., Hunt, A., Sahraie, A.
    i-Perception, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 384
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  • Physical self-similarity enhances the gaze-cueing effect

    Hungr, C., Hunt, A.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 65, no. 7, pp. 1250-1259
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  • Trans-saccadic priming of location and orientation

    Ritchie, K. L., Hunt, A., Sahraie, A.
    Perception, vol. 41, no. ECVP Abstract Supplement, pp. 56
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  • Remapped visual masking

    Hunt, A., Cavanagh, P.
    Journal of Vision, vol. 11, no. 1, 13
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  • Saccadic eye movements and perceptual judgments reveal a shared visual representation that is increasingly accurate over time

    van Zoest, W., Hunt, A. R.
    Vision Research, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 111-119
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  • Detection of target displacement across saccades in cortical blindness.

    Ritchie, K. L., Hunt, A., Sahraie, A.
    Journal of Eye Movement Research, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 224
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  • Saccadic remapping in hemianopia

    Ritchie, K. L., Hunt, A., Sahraie, A.
    Scottish Vision Group, pp. 190
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  • Attentional pointers: response to Melcher

    Cavanagh, P., Hunt, A., Afraz, A., Rolfs, M.
    Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 14, no. 11, pp. 474-475
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  • Attention pointers: response to Mayo and Sommer

    Cavanagh, P., Hunt, A., Afraz, A., Rolfs, M.
    Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 14, no. 9, pp. 390-391
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  • Attending to emerging representations: the importance of task context and time of response

    Hunt, A., van Zoest, W., Kingstone, A.
    Attention and time. Nobre, A. C., Coull, J. T. (eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 3-15, 13 pages
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  • Emerging representations in visual cognition: It’s about time

    van Zoest, W., Hunt, A. R., Kingstone, A.
    Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 116-120
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  • Visual stability based on remapping of attention pointers

    Cavanagh, P., Hunt, A., Afraz, A., Rolfs, M.
    Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 147-153
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  • Looking ahead: The perceived direction of gaze shifts before the eyes move

    Hunt, A. R., Cavanagh, P.
    Journal of Vision, vol. 9, no. 9, 1
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  • Disorganizing biological motion

    Hunt, A. R., Halper, F.
    Journal of Vision, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 1-5
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  • Taking a long look at action and time perception

    Hunt, A. R., Chapman, C. S., Kingstone, A.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 125-136
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  • Squeezing the uncertainty from saccadic compression

    Chapman, C., Hunt, A., Kingstone, A.
    Journal of Eye Movement Research, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-5
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  • The effect of emotional faces on eye movements and attention.

    Hunt, A., Cooper, R., Hungr, C., Kingstone, A.
    Visual Cognition, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 513-531
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  • The time course of attentional and oculomotor capture reveals a common cause

    Hunt, A. R., von Mühlenen, A., Kingstone, A.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 271–284
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  • Eye movements, not hypercompatible mappings, are critical for eliminating the cost of task set reconfiguration

    Hunt, A. R., Ishigami, Y., Y., Klein, R. M.
    Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 932-937
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  • Multisensory executive functioning

    Hunt, A., Kinsgtone, A.
    Brain and Cognition, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 325-327
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  • Integration of competing saccade programs

    Hunt, A., Olk, B., von Mühlenen, A., Kingstone, A.
    Cognitive Brain Research, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 206-208
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  • Covert and overt voluntary attention: Linked or independent?

    Hunt, A., Kingstone, A.
    Cognitive Brain Research, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 102-105
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  • Inhibition of return: Dissociating attentional and oculomotor components.

    Hunt, A., Kingstone, A.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 29, pp. 1068-1074
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  • Eliminating the cost of task set reconfiguration.

    Hunt, A., Klein, R.
    Memory & Cognition, pp. 529-539
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  • Orienting attention in aging and Parkinson's disease: distinguishing modes of control.

    Kingstone, A., Morein-Zamir, S., Hunt, A., Klein, Ray, R., Fisk, J.
    Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, vol. 24, pp. 951-967
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