It's #ecvp poster day for our lab - one this morning, the rest this afternoon. Fun conference so far!
Hayward Godwin
@haywardgodwin.bsky.social
Professor in Psychology at the University of Southampton, UK. Research is mostly focused on search in all its forms: visual search, interactive search, eye-tracking. More recently I've begun working on some open science projects too.
Very sad news about the changes to the OSF’s provision indeed. Alongside the other suggestions and debates regarding next steps, I thought I’d just throw in a few more ideas to the mix. Bit of a thread…
New paper from our group looking at sharing practices in our field, and some of the potential challenges with reusing datasets. Here we focus on the variability in column naming for commonly-used variable names in our field. You can read it here: rdcu.be/fsmZu
“It makes sense to me”: Examining data file column names in the visual cognitive literature
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Giovanna Del Sordo@giovannadelsordo.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe have a new paper out in Behavior Research Method with @hadendewis.bsky.social, @haywardgodwin.bsky.social, @peterdarch.bsky.social, @michaelhout.bsky.social We looked at how researchers name commonly used variables and found striking inconsistencies in shared datasets. Link: rdcu.be/fsmZu
New paper from our lab alert! We have just published another paper on interactive search. This time we investigated the interaction between effort and time on selection choices using a computer game inspired task. Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/1747... Or read the thread below for the gist!
Looking forward to SIPS online next week ! We're doing a hackathon entitled 'One Column Name to Rule Them All: Can we agree on how to Label Participant Identifier Columns in our Datasets?'. More info here : pretalx.com/sips2026-onl...
oHA3: One Column Name to Rule Them All: Can we agree on how to Label Participant Identifier Columns in our Datasets? SIPS 2026 Online
A major challenge with reusing shared datasets is the naming conventions used for columns in those datasets. Reuse, as part of FAIR principles, is made more difficult by the paucity of metadata provid...
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)@improvingpsych.org · 6mo agoRegister for #SIPS2026 Online and join us to work together on improvements in psychological science during the conference's hackathons. 🤝 Check out the hackathons listed below, choose those that align with your interests, register, and join us online on May 6-7! www.improvingpsych.org/SIPS2026/
Summary of our recent paper where we looked at data sharing practices. We developed with a template for those in our field (and others) to make shared datasets and other outputs easier to find and reuse. Check it out!
Psychonomic Society@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe procedures for what, where, and how to share materials can be wildly inconsistent. A BRM paper by @haywardgodwin.bsky.social @michaelhout.bsky.social et al. introduces the Find It, Access It, Reuse It scorecard to help standardize research sharing practices. Post by Lai
Need to control visual similarity in your experiments? A new open database by Robbins and colleagues @michaelhout.bsky.social @haywardgodwin.bsky.social, published in #psynomBRM, maps similarity among 1,200 objects in 20 categories using MDS—validated & ready to use.
Resources for Research
This section provides brief summaries of selected resources for research that have been published in journals of the Psychonomic Society, typically Behavior Research Methods. These resources consis…
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Ever fumbled through your bag for your keys? That’s an interactive search: moving objects to uncover obscured visual information. In a new paper from our lab, we asked: What determines where people choose to look first in these tasks? Spoiler: effort matters. 🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s134... 🧵1/6
Easy does it: Selection during interactive search tasks is biased towards objects that can be examined easily - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
It is well understood that attentional selection is required to deploy visual attention to relevant objects within displays during visual search tasks. Interactive search, an extension of visual searc...
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Our paper on data cleaning and analysis pipelines in eye movement and reading experiments is online! We used a multiverse analysis to map out different ways of examining the frequency effect. With @denisdrieghe.bsky.social. Open access link here: link.springer.com/article/10.3... (1/3)
