Abstract :
The 34th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference was hosted and sponsored by the School of
Psychology of the Australian National University on April 2007. There were 160 presentations. Of these
102 were talks, in three parallel streams, and 58 were poster presentations. Students presented 38 talks and
38 posters. Topics covered ranged across the spectrum of human experimental psychology, including
attention, visual and auditory perception, face perception, language and language processing, memory,
learning, decision making and categorisation. The conference was attended by 195 registered delegates,
including 84 honours and postgraduate students. Delegates came from Australia, New Zealand, Italy, and
the United Kingdom. Best presentation awards were given to Jason Bell, from the University of Western
Australia, for his talk entitled “Radial Frequency adaptation reveals interacting contour shape channels”;
Rebekah White, from the Australian National University, for her poster entitled “Bridging the Great
Divide: Expectation and Attention in the Inattentional Blindness Paradigm”; Libbey Woodard from
Flinders University, for her talk entitled “The confidence-accuracy relationship in face recognition:
Inclusion and elimination strategies” and Nan Xu, from the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, for her
talk entitled “Tone and Vowel Hyperarticulation: Are They the Same in IDS?”
