Dan has teamed up with Edwin Dalmaijer from Bristol to guest edit a SI of MDPI Vision focused on web-based studies of vision.  This SI was inspired by the recent expansion in the use of online research in vision science, which has been accelerated by the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic. Using web-based studies offers may opportunities in terms of sizes and diversity of samples, but comes with challenges to scientists who are used to exerting a high degree of control in the lab. This special issue hopes to bring together web-based studies of vision and visual cognition to better understand how scholars have adapted to

“Internet Surveillance” by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

this new paradigm, and what successes (and failures!) there have been in translating from the lab to the virtual world. Empirical, methodological and theoretical  are welcome, and they are particularly keen to encourage multi-experiment papers and review papers. More information about the SI and APC can be found here:  https://www.mdpi.com/journal/vision/special_issues/cybervision.

MDPI have also knidly offered a number of APC discounts for multi-experiment emprical and review papers, if you are considering submitting a paper please get in touch with Dan (daniel.smith2@durham.ac.uk) to see if it will be eligible for the discount.

It was a busy week for the MotorBias project last week as we had a flurry of conference paper acceptances. First up was Siobhan, whose abstract on oculomotor rehearsal in spatial WM was accepted for a talk at the upcoming Experimental Psychology Society meeting in Stirling. Given how fast the programme filled up, we think Siobhan must have gone the full Glastonbury to get a slot! Dan and Soazig will be heading up there too for moral support. It’s going to be our first post-covid meeting so we’re all really looking forward to it! Later in the summer Soazig will be heading to Leicester for a talk at ECEM 2022 on her recent work on the Remote Distractor Effect and Dan & Siobhan will be doing poster presentations at ECVP 2022 in Nijmegen. Siobhan will also be heading off to Poland for a workshop on modelling, so it’s going to be a hectic summer!

EPS Stirling

• Wednesday 13th: Siobhan McAteer, Anthony McGregor and Daniel Smith. “Oculomotor rehearsal in visuospatial working memory.”

ECEM Leicester:

• Soazig Casteau, Robin Walker and Daniel Smith, “Nasal-temporal differences in the Remote Distractor Effect: how the presence of placeholders affects saccade latencies”

ECVP Nijmegen: 

• Tuesday 30th: Siobhan McAteer, Anthony McGregor and Daniel Smith. “Oculomotor rehearsal in visuospatial working memory.”
• Wednesday 31st : Daniel Smith, Soazig Casteau and Neil Archibald. “Spatial attention and spatial short term memory in PSP and Parkinson’s disease”