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The School of Psychology

Professor Amelia Hunt

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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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