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We’re excited to announce another invited speaker: Dr. Barton Anderson! Read more about him below.

Dr. Barton Anderson is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Sydney. His research is focused on mid-level vision, including perceptual organization, segmentation, grouping, and the recovery of surface attributes (e.g., color or shape). Much of his recent work involves understanding the perception of three-dimensional shapes and their properties.
Dr. Anderson received his PhD from the University of Vanderbilt, followed by two postdoctoral positions at Harvard University and Rutgers University. Prior to his appointment at the University of Sydney, he held Associate Professorships at the University of New South Wales and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Anderson has held an ARC Professorial fellowship and has received a Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award.

We’re excited to announce another invited speaker: Dr. Kim Curby! Read more about her below.

Kim Curby is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She completed her PhD in Psychology at Vanderbilt University and a post-doctoral research fellowship at Yale University. She currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Macquarie University Performance & Expertise Research Centre. Her research focuses on understanding the mechanistic basis of visually based expertise. More broadly, her research aims to investigate the extent to which effects of visual learning and/or perceptual expertise permeate even the most basic cognitive functions. Her research also aims to elucidate the cognitive and neural mechanisms of successful learning in the visual domain. Her research is supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC).

We’re excited to announce one of our invited speakers: Dr. Steve Most! Read more about him below.

Steve Most is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, where he directs the Motivated Attention and Perception Lab. He and his team use behavioural and physiological measures to understand how attention, motivation, and emotion shape perception and memory, as well as their implications for wellbeing in the real world (e.g., road safety). He is best known for his work on inattentional blindness and on emotion-induced blindness. Steve received his B.A at Brandeis University and his Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard, followed by postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt and Yale. Before joining UNSW, he was tenured as Associate Professor at the University of Delaware in the US, where he continues to maintain an affiliated appointment. In 2021, Steve co-authored (with Marvin Chun) a new textbook on Cognition, available from Oxford University Press, which received the Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association.