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Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow
School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Australia.
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Perception and Attention Research

 

How do our minds process sensory information, and how are the subsidiary mechanisms coordinated in time? Behavioral experiments allow us to compare speed limits for different aspects of perception, and investigate the dynamics of how these are bound into a coherent percept. Recent experiments have revealed how temporal limits also constrain our perception of the position of moving objects. Here is a gentle introduction.

 

Published research

 

Animations of perceptual phenomena
  1. Failure to bind color with motion
  2. Temporal limits on position tracking
  3. Breaking crowding
  4. Color-motion asynchrony eliminated
  5. Binding at a global stage
  6. Global form binding
  7. Two speeds for binding color&shape
  8. Binding words
  9. Temporal transparency
  10. Twinkle aftereffect
  11. Wakes&spokes brightness illusions
  12. Midstream order deficit

 

Lab wiki

 

The above cartoon summary of temporal limits on visual percepts appears in Trends in Cognitive Science, 13(5):216-21.

Science is broken- Let's fix it.


Registered Replication Reports are now open for replication study proposals! (I am an editor for this new initiative we developed at the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science).

Todd, M. & Holcombe, A.O. (2013). Open publishing is happening - the only question is how.


Todd, M. & Holcombe, A.O. (2012). Scientific data should be shared: An open letter to the ARC

Protect yourself during the replicability crisis of science

Discussion on Google+, Twitter and Wordpress blog
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Holcombe, A.O. (2012). Scientists are tearing down publishers' walls

Holcombe, A.O. & Pashler, H. (2012). Making it quick and easy to report replications. (via PsychFileDrawer) The Psychologist
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