Alan Wong

Researching on expert object recognition at University of Surrey. Hongkonger.

[HK Four Trails Ultra @HK4TUC]

#Fourtrails screening in Hong Kong

[Icelandic Vision Lab @IceVisLab]

Preprint🚨 "Objects, faces, and spaces: Organizational principles of visual object perception as evidenced by individual differences in behavior" by @heidasigurdar and @IngaMaria86 This one only took *checks notes* two and a half years... A thread 🧵1/11
https://t.co/CZqndIz8wc

[Chris Chambers @chrisdc77]

A few months ago, many of you were kind enough to nominate me for the role of chief editor of Psychological Science

I progressed to the next stage & so in the interests of transparency I'm posting my 'vision statement' on what I would do if I got the job

https://t.co/9GcYVUXZE3

[Icelandic Vision Lab @IceVisLab]

Thank you @ecvp2023 #ecvp2023 for interacting with our work, the poster award (@PhilippeBlonde et al.), coming to our symposia and huge thanks to the presenters+ co-organizers, thanks for introducing us to your science, the fun conversations, dancing, and thanks for all the fish!

[Chris Chambers @chrisdc77]

Following Elsevier's decision to raise the APC for NeuroImage to $3,450, all editors (inc. EiCs @fmrib_steve @tobergmann @BirteUta) from NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports have resigned, effective immediately. I am joining this action and have also resigned https://t.co/0aamG7bemJ

[Imaging Neuroscience @ImagingNeurosci]

All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal

https://t.co/DmnwDKVCK7

This comes with great regret, and a huge amount of thought and discussion- please read announcement to get more details.

[Wayne Wu @attninaction]

Defining attention! A simple method.

[Alan Wong @AlanCNWong]

@lisascottbcd Salute

[Alan Wong @AlanCNWong]

Can't agree more - academics are under so much pressure to produce that there's not enough time and effort for input and thinking.

[Tanentzapf Lab @TanentzapfLab]

I often think of the Amos Tversky quote “The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.” & how much effort academics have to put into showing how “busy” they are. No CV has a section for “thinking time”.

[hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social @hakwanlau]

2022 is gonna be exciting (for me, selfishly)

[Alan Wong @AlanCNWong]

@SBMost Congratulations Steve! Look forward to checking it out.

[Doby Rahnev @DobyRahnev]

For anyone who wants to learn how to design effective posters (and also learn about this really cool effect where absences automatically attract our attention), *check out this poster*!

[Alan Wong @AlanCNWong]

hopeless and helpless... can't see it...

[Tim Kietzmann @TimKietzmann]

No photoshop involved. #OnceYouSeeIt

[Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone]

One of the most foundational assumptions in cognitive science is that perception is "underdetermined" by the input reaching our sensory systems.

In a new review, Bill Warren challenges this assumption, in his characteristically patient + compelling style https://t.co/55Lo6thiaX

[A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey]

Lately I've been having serious muscle and joint problems. I'm 40, but I literally could not walk for three days last month due to a hip joint issue :(

Last week we took a break and hiked every day. I survived, and realized once again: it's the sedentary lifestyle that kills us.

[Troy Schmanke, Ph.D. @BrainDamageNet]

Brain rewires itself after injury ‘on the edge of what’s compatible with life’
Stroke suffered as newborn went undetected for 13 years
https://t.co/kjyGET0rW7

[Alan Wong @AlanCNWong]

@raj_raizada @Cooganlab Thank you so much for the insightful sharing and suggestions. Academia needs to hear messages like this.

[Alan Wong @AlanCNWong]

"Universities spend a lot of money on recruiting the most talented faculty and students..
"It’s simply a waste of that investment to sit back and watch those recruits perform far below their abilities, with their cognition impaired by unnecessarily high levels of chronic stress."

[Rajeev Raizada @raj_raizada]

I'm a bit nervous posting this, but hopefully it could be useful: My experience as a faculty member with clinical depression, and suggestions on how universities could do better at preventing mental health problems. H/t to @Cooganlab, who made pic below:
https://t.co/IXizN85vbx

[Steve Most 🧠 @SBMost]

Great clip to show in class for anyone teaching social, cognitive, or introductory psychology

[hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social @hakwanlau]

maybe greed is mainly due to not understanding logarithm?