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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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