From the lab to the zoo: Fieldwork at the UNMC with Dr Neil Mennie
September 25, 2015
The deadline fast approached and then passed, by first days and then weeks. In the death throes I fired off one final email chasing up my funding application to carry out fieldwork at the Malaysia campus for three months. I had no expectation for a prompt response, so I was caught completely off guard half …
Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) – How do people describe faces?
November 6, 2013
Continuing from last week’s blog post on the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, here is Lee Ai-Suan’s talk titled “Black hair, brown eyes: How do people describe faces?” Look at the person next to you. How would you describe his or her face? Research has shown that people from different cultures process information in different …
Life of an Intern – Investigating Orangutan’s Eye Movements
May 29, 2013
The exam period of May 2012 proved to be a period of a lot of stress for me. Part of it came from all the reading and studying I had to do for the upcoming exams – something I think nobody in their right mind genuinely enjoys. Another part of the stress came from thinking …
Oh-So-Fun Prism Goggles Experiment
April 17, 2013
Ever wondered what it would be like to have your vision shifted horizontally – say by 30° to 40°? Well if you have, you could have experienced this by participating in our experiment! Under the watchful eye of Dr. Kirsten McKenzie, a bunch of us – Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience students – conducted experiments …