Effie J. Pereira
@effiejp.bsky.social
Queen's U CogNeuro prof | Statistics nerd | Baseball fan | Astronomy lover | Dessert devourer – Not necessarily in that order
Excited for the year ahead with this super talented crew!! 🚀
Queen's Attentional Dynamics Lab@quadlab.bsky.social · 6d agoWe are happy to introduce our 2026-2027 QuAD Lab team members! @queensuresearch.bsky.social A special shout out to our Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Allison Drody, our programmer Evren, and our volunteer research assistants Emma and Jalyn, who weren't able to come to photo day.
Cannot even begin to shout out how excited we are to have Allison on board at @quadlab.bsky.social, our research is abt to get supercharged!!!
Queen's Attentional Dynamics Lab@quadlab.bsky.social · 3w agoWe are excited to share that Dr. Allison Drody has won the Queen's Postdoctoral Research Award and will be joining our team at the QuAD lab to share her expertise in media multitasking!🎉 @queensuresearch.bsky.social
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Come hang out with me and my team for the year for some fun programming and science! Details posted in the link below, with the application closing on August 16th! Pass it on! 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Queen's Attentional Dynamics Lab@quadlab.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe QuAD Lab is recruiting! We’re hiring a student Programmer from the Work Study Program to join our team from September 2026 to April 2027. If you like programming and are interested in learning more about how we communicate with others, check out our job posting at www.quadlab.ca/jobs.
So much fun chatting with @dtcooper.bsky.social abt our latest publication in AP&P, showing how attractiveness illustrates the different ways we use attention in the real world link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Beauty in the eye of the beholder: Attention to attractive faces dissociates across covert and overt measures - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Attractive faces attract attention. Here, we examined how facial attractiveness influenced covert and overt social attention. Participants discriminated targets occurring after one of 32 different fac...
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Queen's Attentional Dynamics Lab@quadlab.bsky.social · 3mo agoOur PI Dr. Pereira, @effiejp.bsky.social, was recently on The Last Show with David Cooper, @dtcooper.bsky.social , so check out her work on the importance of attractiveness for attention and eye gaze! 👇👇👇👇👇👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcs...
So thrilled that my grad student Aahana received NSERC this year!! Such a superstar! 🎉🎉🎉
Queen's Attentional Dynamics Lab@quadlab.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe are ecstatic to share that Aahana Uppal, MSc1 student at the QuAD Lab, has won an NSERC Canada Graduate Research Scholarship! Congratulations Aahana!
Super proud of my @quadlab.bsky.social team! They've been killing it all year and I'm so thrilled to celebrate their amazing work!
Queen's Attentional Dynamics Lab@quadlab.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe are excited to celebrate our team members, Aleah, Leila, and Mia, for presenting their thesis/directed lab projects at the 2026 @queensuresearch.bsky.social Psychology Research Day!
It was an absolute privilege and pleasure welcoming @churchillfship.bsky.social cultural thinker Suzanne Alleyne as a Visiting Artist to the @quadlab.bsky.social last week! www.churchillfellowship.org/ideas-expert...
Always such a fantastic time being at @connectedminds.bsky.social and thrilled my students got to share our work from the past year!
Queen's Attentional Dynamics Lab@quadlab.bsky.social · 8mo agoExcited to share that our lab attended the 2026 @connectedminds.bsky.social retreat @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. We had an amazing time meeting so many wonderful people, learning about exciting new projects, sharing our own research, and making new connections!
I built a bluesky labeler for neuroscience methods. 1️⃣ follow/subscribe to: @neuromethods.bsky.social 2️⃣ like the post with your favorite method ➡️ get a shiny methods label in your profile/posts. 🌟
this is what I hear whenever I hear AI proponents hyped about their products
Seth D. Michaels@sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 8mo ago“We’ve invented a service that will do every substantial piece of human activity so you can focus on being slowly lowered feet-first into an industrial shredder”
Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.
Privileged to have been a part of @sciencepolicy.ca CSPC Science Meets Parliament 2025 to bridge the gap between researchers across Canada and the Canadian federal government! #CSPC2025 #SMP2025
Had a fantastic time at the inaugural @sciencepolicy.bsky.social Science Meets Parliament Ontario last week, where we brought together amazing researchers across the province to meet w/ MPPs at Queen's Park #SciParlON2025
This was such a fantastic team to work with over the year! Couldn't be prouder!
Queen's Attentional Dynamics Lab@quadlab.bsky.social · 2y agoOur QuAD lab members did such a fabulous job of presenting their work today at the PSYC Undergraduate Poster Day! A big congratulations to thesis students Mridula & Jocelyne, directed lab students Maddison, Aleah, Ryan, & Yvonne, and lab coordinator Madhumita!
Last day to apply to our SWEP positions!! Join our team! Eat some cake! Do some science! In that order!
Queen's Attentional Dynamics Lab@quadlab.bsky.social · 2y agoThe QuAD lab is recruiting! We’re hiring two Summer Work Experience Program (SWEP) students from May to Aug 2025 who are interested in learning more about how our brain and mind supports everyday performance and general functioning. See our website for full job descriptions: www.quadlab.ca/jobs
The @quadlab.bsky.social had a fantastic time at the LOVE conference in Niagara Falls! A big shoutout to our thesis students and lab coordinator for showcasing some of the cool work they've done this past year!
Super stoked that we finally have our socials up and running & a big thank you to our lab coordinator Madhu for her fantastic work in putting our website together! Check us out at quadlab.ca!
Queen's Attentional Dynamics Lab@quadlab.bsky.social · 2y agoIntroducing the QuAD lab! The Queen’s Attentional Dynamics Lab investigates how, when, and why attention shifts over time. We’re so excited to introduce you to the team and talk about some of the cool work that we’ll be launching soon!
