Our second session has started with Dr Ryan Elson from School of Psychology, University of Nottingham talking us through how he's been using combined PCA as an exploratory method for investigating visual processing 👀🧠 #PCA #VisualProscessing #VisionScience

Our final talk of the second session was from Kamila Jozwik , who spoke to us about face dissimilarity judgements being predicted by representational distance in morphable and image-computable models 👩👩‍🦱🧑‍🦱🧑 #FaceProcessing #Dissimilarity

Lots of very interesting posters today - check out our website for the full details 🤩👇 ava2022spring.wordpress.com

This afternoon we enjoyed some open discussions about career pathways and open science 🤩 Huge thanks to @AnaRozman2 @tsawallis @LAScienceMuse and Katharina Zeiner, Callum Woods, Tim Meese and Jon Peirce for their insights and contributions 💛

Thank you The AVA ~ theava-UK.bsky.social and all the guests for the opportunity to be a part of such an insightful, rich discussion about careers today! Main takeaways: 1️⃣ follow your interests, 2️⃣ have trust in your skills and 3️⃣ choose good mentors!

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Its raining good news here....now the equally amazing Thomas Cherian (Thomas Cherian) wins the Troscianko Travel Award of ECVP2022!! 🥳 Thomas will talk about how monkeys see occluded objects, something that we are maha excited at having shown.

Tweet for university teachers of Perception. There’s a special issue of Visual Cognition on teaching. Am considering an article on diversifying perception teaching. I have ideas, but haven’t implemented them yet…anyone want to join me? #perception #vision The AVA ~ theava-UK.bsky.social

📃 Do you have a paper out that you'd like us to retweet for you? If so just tag us in the tweet or thread and we'll be happy to share 🤗 #Vision #Perception #Science

📅Save the date!📅 The AVA Christmas meeting will be at NTU Nottingham Trent University on Monday 19th December 2022 Our keynote speaker is Professor Holly Bridge (University of Oxford) Abstracts will be 250 words max, further details to follow Please retweet and tell your friends 🥳

📅 Save the date and tell your vision friends - our spring meeting is being planned as we tweet 📅 #AVA #VisionScience University of Plymouth

The registration for The AVA ~ theava-UK.bsky.social Spring meeting at the OptometryWithPlymUni University of Plymouth is now officially open. We are excited to welcome you to Plymouth on 17th April. Follow the link to register and submit the abstract. theava.net/meetings.php?s… Dr Sam Strong ⚡

New (academic) year resolution: Get involved with the 1in5 project. See the website (1in5project.info), or come to one of our drop-in Zoom sessions 9:30am (UK time) on Monday 25th and 4:30pm on Thursday 28th. DM or email ([email protected]) for a link.

⚠️ Don't forget to submit your abstracts for our Xmas Meeting 🎄 The deadline is midnight (GMT) on the 10th Nov and all details can be found at: theava.net/meetings.php?s… Tell your science-y friends ✨️

theava.net/meetings.php?s… AVA xmas meeting deadline extended until 17 Nov, register now! Please retweet The AVA ~ theava-UK.bsky.social Royal Holloway Psychology Dr Tim Holmes 🧠👁️🏳️‍🌈 Matt Wall (@mattwall.bsky.social) See you there!

Did you know College of Optometrists are kindly sponsoring some prizes for this year's Xmas Meeting? There will be £100 available for the best talk and poster, plus £50 for the honorable mention ✨️ There's also still time to submit your abstract before 17th: theava.net/meetings.php?s…

Happy Christmas from the AVA and thank you to all our attendees at the this year's Xmas meeting at Royal Holloway, University of London, thanks to the Dept of Psychology for the support and our other sponsors Royal Holloway Psychology College of Optometrists PsychoPy @psychopy.bsky.social Tobii