This June, I’ll be presenting “A comparison between a rate-them-all simultaneous lineup procedure vs. standard simultaneous and show-up procedures” as a virtual poster at V-VSS.
The conference date is June 1-2nd. The poster will be presented in Poster Session 5 on Thursday, June 2nd at 7-9am (PDT).
I will present the poster “The Psychology and Neuroscience of Confidence in Memory and Perception” at Psychonomic Society’s annual convention. This poster (2427) is based on an expansion of my qualifying paper, and will be co-authored between myself and Dr. John T. Wixted.
This year’s meeting will take place on November 4-7. I will be available for live discussion within the meeting platform on November 6th, 12-1pm Central Time. Or, as always, contact me with any questions.
Abstract:
The solution to real-world problems often requires a deep, basic-science understanding of the problem at hand. Confidence and decision time are issues that matter in the real-world and have been intensively investigated in the past 20 years in both psychological science and neuroscience. In cognitive psychology, confidence is usually conceptualized in terms of signal detection theory while speeded decision-making is conceptualized in terms of evidence accumulation modeling. However, no singular model of confidence for a perceptual decision dominates. In mathematical psychology, accounts of speeded decision-making in terms of a balance-of-evidence decision variable has gained currency in recent years. In neuroscience, the field tends to approach evidence accumulation and confidence in relation to lateral intraparietal cortex (the role of which is debated) and reaction time, with some research indicating a balance-of-evidence decision variable. A review of these largely independent lines of research suggests a potentially fruitful way to naturally integrate signal detection theory and evidence accumulation models in a way that comports with the relevant neuroscience evidence.
Update: The abstract number was previously 5117. Renumbering occurred when this year’s annual convention moved from a hybrid format to strictly online. You can view a PDF of the poster here.
Tomorrow is the first day of APS Virtual! I’ll be presenting the poster, “Enhancing Evidence of Innocence from Police Lineups,” which you can find here. You will need to login to APS in order to access it.
Additionally, I’ll be leading a Hot Topic Discussion on Memory in Forensics. I’m excited to see what ideas other APS members bring to the 30-minute discussion on the state of the field, where it’s going, and what questions we hope to be answered in the future. On a personal note, it’s super cool seeing my name listed as a speaker and being able to engage with other attendees in a live-session. This is my first time engaging with the APS research community in a manner other than a poster.
An opinion-editorial by Dr. John Wixted (UCSD) and Patricia A. Riley (Attorney) appeared in the Dallas Morning News. The story outlines the Charles Don Flores death row case and how the criminal justice system mishandled eyewitness testimony.
Click here to read the story.
I will be presenting two posters at the Psychonomic Society 61st Annual Conference. The two presentations will be:
The presentations will occur from 4-6pm CT on November 20, 2020. This post will be updated with a link to my meeting room for a live Q&A session.
For those of you who aren’t aware, I’m a first-generation college student and I recently completed the requirements for my master’s degree! The degree is a Master of Art in Experimental Psychology.
In our Ph.D program, getting a master’s degree isn’t typically celebrated. It’s seen as something you “pick up along the way” on the journey of earning a doctorate and entering a research career. (Also, a good proportion of our graduate students enter with a master’s degree already, so this isn’t a new milestone for them.)
I, however, have not experienced this milestone before, meaning I’m mentally celebrating! I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again: I’m in my dream program, at my dream institution, with an amazing adviser, and residing in my favorite city in the world. I am incredibly grateful and do not take any of this for granted.
For now, I have three years left (minimum) in this program—and I’m looking forward to every single one of them. There is a lot of hard work ahead, but that’s the fun.
Thank you,
-A.Y.
I am incredibly humbled and elated to share that I have been selected as a recipient for a CARTA Program Fellowship for the 2020-21 academic year!
Thank you so much to the Center of Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny and to the committee that is responsible for the selection process. I am ecstatic for the new year to begin so that I can fully take advantage of the freedom this will give me in pursuing my own research.
Due to pandemic-related circumstances, I’m unable to show my gratitude to CARTA faculty in person, but I have every intention of giving my thanks properly once COVID-19 allows for it.
I’m incredibly proud to report that I’ve successfully defended my qualifying paper.
The paper investigated the basic science of confidence. As I’m hoping to turn this qualifying paper into a publication, I will hold off on a detailed explanation of the paper’s topic matter.
I can’t wait to extend this project into something greater!
Our department is hosting a joint symposium with those from Pacific Science and Engineering (PSE). I presented my first-year research on a new type of lineup and how it informs us about the mechanisms of human memory in regard to facial recognition.
This year, I was the opener for our department’s year-end “Little APS” event. It went well!
I presented a new type of lineup procedure that some argued could be the new “future” lineup. Our analyses showed that it is *not* a superior lineup. However, we received great feedback from audience members about an alternate model we could fit to the data as well as alternative conditions worth running that may aid in confirming our initial findings.