Dr Alasdair Clarke
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Email
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Location
2.719, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Alasdair Clarke has a background in mathematics (M.Math, University of Warwick) and a PhD in Computer Science (Heriot-Watt University). After his Phd, he worked as a post-doc at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, and then at the School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen. His current research interests cover visual perception, search, and decision making.
Qualifications
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PhD Heriot-Watt University,
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M.Sc Edinburgh Napier University,
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MMath University of Warwick,
Appointments
糖心Vlog
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Lecturer, Psychology, 糖心Vlog (1/12/2016 - present)
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Understanding Our Place in the World (PS101)
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Growing in the World (PS102)
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Experiencing Emotion (PS103)
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Thinking and the Mind (PS104)
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The Social World (PS105)
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The Social Brain (PS106)
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Statistical Models for Psychology (PS422)
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The science of uncertainty (PS509)
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Special Topics in Individual Differences and Developmental Psychology (PS938)
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Advanced Statistics for Research (PS947)
Current supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Psychology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 1/7/2021
Publications
Publications (5)
Clarke, ADF. and Elsner, M., (2024). Technical report on multiple signal detection: analysis of simulated datasets
Efthimiou, TN., Baker, J., Clarke, ADF., Elsenaar, A., Mehu, M. and Korb, S., (2023). Zygomaticus activation through facial neuromuscular electric stimulation (fNMES) induces happiness perception in ambiguous facial expressions and affects neural correlates of face processing
Clarke, ADF. and Hunt, AR., (2023). Learn more from your data with asymptotic regression
Bhat, M., Nowakowska, A., Clarke, ADF. and Hunt, AR., (2023). You are not enough: Inefficient search strategies persist for self-relevant targets
Clarke, ADF., Hunt, AR. and Hughes, A., (2022). A Bayesian statistical model is able to predict target-by-target selection behaviour in a human foraging task
Journal articles (53)
Clarke, A. and Amelia, H., (2025). . Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. 154 (5), 1250-1267
Hughes, A., Nowakowska, A. and Clarke, A., (2024). . Cortex. 171, 178-193
Efthimiou, TN., Baker, J., Clarke, A., Elsenaar, A., Mehu, M. and Korb, S., (2024). . Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 19 (1), nsae013-
Claydon, J., James, WRG., Clarke, ADF. and Hunt, AR., (2024). . Memory and Cognition. 52 (3), 574-594
Clarke, ADF., Nowakowska, A., Sauerberger, K., Rosenbaum, DA., Zentall, TR. and Hunt, AR., (2024). . Royal Society Open Science. 11 (4), 191816-
Scarfe, P., Watcham, K., Clarke, A. and Roesch, E., (2024). A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A 鈥淭uring Test鈥� case study. PLOS ONE. 19 (6), e0305354-e0305354
Bhat, M., Nowakowska, A., Clarke, ADF. and Hunt, AR., (2024). You are not enough: Inefficient search strategies persist for self-relevant targets 1. Visual Cognition. 32 (2), 135-150
Clarke, ADF., Elsner, M. and Rohde, H., (2024). Corrigendum: Where's Wally: the influence of visual salience on referring expression generation. Frontiers in Psychology. 15
Clarke, ADF., Elsner, M. and Rohde, H., (2024). Corrigendum: Giving good directions: order of mention reflects visual salience. Frontiers in Psychology. 15, 1444968-
Hughes, A., Statham, H. and Clarke, A., (2024). The effect of target scarcity on visual foraging. Royal Society Open Science. 11 (12), 240060-
Nowakowska, A., Clarke, A., Reuther, J. and Hunt, A., (2023). . Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 153 (2), 495-510
Korb, S., Clarke, A., Massaccesi, C., Willeit, M. and Silani, G., (2023). . Psychopharmacology. 240 (10), 2081-2091
Clarke, ADF., Hunt, AR. and Hughes, AE., (2023). Correction: Foraging as sampling without replacement: A Bayesian statistical model for estimating biases in target selection. PLOS Computational Biology. 19 (3), e1010997-e1010997
Clarke, ADF., Irons, J., James, W., Leber, AB. and Hunt, AR., (2022). . Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 75 (2), 289-296
Filippetti, ML., Clarke, ADF. and Rigato, S., (2022). . BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 22 (1), 68-
Clarke, A., Hunt, A. and Hughes, A., (2022). . PLoS Computational Biology. 18 (1), e1009813-e1009813
Korb, S., Deniz, TC., 脺nal, B., Clarke, A. and Silani, G., (2022). . Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 75 (5), 796-807
Clarke, A., Nowakowska, A. and Hunt, A., (2022). . Attention, Perception and Psychophysics. 84 (6), 1874-1885
Clarke, A., Hunt, A. and Hughes, A., (2022). . Vision. 6 (4), 66-66
James, W., Hunt, AR. and Clarke, ADF., (2022). . Memory and Cognition. 51 (2), 486-503
Nowakowska, A., Clarke, A., Hunt, A. and von Seth, J., (2021). . Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 47 (7), 1009-1021
Wolfe, K., Sirota, M. and Clarke, ADF., (2021). . Royal Society Open Science. 8 (9), 201445-
Holford, DL., Juanchich, M., Foulsham, T., Sirota, M. and Clarke, ADF., (2021). . Judgment and Decision Making. 16 (4), 969-1009
Kohler, PJ. and Clarke, ADF., (2021). . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 288 (1955), 20211142-20211142
Chakravarthi, R., Rubruck, J., Kipling, N. and Clarke, A., (2021). . Journal of Vision. 21 (11), 1-14
Lonnqvist, B., Clarke, ADF. and Chakravarthi, R., (2020). . Neural Networks. 126, 262-274
Holford, DL., Juanchich, M., Foulsham, T., Sirota, M. and Clarke, ADF., (2020). Eye Tracking of Quantifier Formats
Nowakowska, A., Clarke, ADF., Sahraie, A. and Hunt, AR., (2019). . Neuropsychologia. 128, 232-240
James, WRG., Reuther, J., Angus, E., Clarke, ADF. and Hunt, AR., (2019). . Vision. 3 (3), 48-48
Clarke, ADF., Nowakowska, A. and Hunt, AR., (2019). . Vision. 3 (3), 46-46
Elsner, M., Clarke, ADF. and Rohde, H., (2018). . Cognitive Science. 42 (S4), 940-973
Joseph MacInnes, W., Hunt, AR., Clarke, ADF. and Dodd, MD., (2018). . Cognitive Computation. 10 (5), 703-717
Mahon, A., Clarke, ADF. and Hunt, AR., (2018). . Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. 80 (7), 1691-1704
Nowakowska, A., Clarke, ADF. and Hunt, AR., (2017). . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284 (1849), 20162767-20162767
Clarke, ADF., Mahon, A., Irvine, A. and Hunt, AR., (2017). . Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 70 (11), 2251-2270
Clarke, ADF., Stainer, MJ., Tatler, BW. and Hunt, AR., (2017). . Journal of Vision. 17 (11), 12-12
Nowakowska, A., Clarke, ADF., Sahraie, A. and Hunt, AR., (2016). . Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 42 (11), 1858-1872
Clarke, ADF. and Hunt, AR., (2016). . Psychological Science. 27 (1), 64-74
Clarke, ADF., Barr, C. and Hunt, AR., (2016). . Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. 78 (8), 2357-2362
Orquin, JL., Ashby, NJS. and Clarke, ADF., (2016). . Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 29 (2-3), 103-115
Clarke, ADF., Green, P., Chantler, MJ. and Hunt, AR., (2016). . Journal of Vision. 16 (4), 4-4
Kohler, PJ., Clarke, ADF., Yakovleva, A., Liu, Y. and Norcia, AM., (2016). . Journal of Neuroscience. 36 (3), 714-729
O'Hare, L., Clarke, ADF. and Pollux, PMJ., (2015). . PLoS ONE. 10 (9), e0139400-e0139400
Clarke, ADF., Elsner, M. and Rohde, H., (2015). . Frontiers in Psychology. 6 (DEC), 1793-
Clarke, ADF. and Tatler, BW., (2014). . Vision Research. 102, 41-51
Clarke, ADF., Coco, MI. and Keller, F., (2013). The impact of attentional, linguistic, and visual features during object naming. Frontiers in Psychology. 4 (DEC)
O'Hare, L., Clarke, ADF. and Hibbard, PB., (2013). . Perception. 42 (1), 1-15
Clarke, ADF., Elsner, M. and Rohde, H., (2013). Where's Wally: the influence of visual salience on referring expression generation. Frontiers in Psychology. 4
Clarke, ADF., Green, PR. and Chantler, MJ., (2012). The effects of display time and eccentricity on the detection of amplitude and phase degradations in textured stimuli. Journal of Vision. 12 (3), 7-7
Clarke, ADF., Green, PR., Halley, F. and Chantler, MJ., (2011). Similar Symmetries: The Role of Wallpaper Groups in Perceptual Texture Similarity. Symmetry. 3 (2), 246-264
Emrith, K., Chantler, MJ., Green, PR., Maloney, LT. and Clarke, ADF., (2010). Measuring perceived differences in surface texture due to changes in higher order statistics. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 27 (5), 1232-1232
Clarke, ADF., Chantler, MJ. and Green, PR., (2009). Modeling visual search on a rough surface. Journal of Vision. 9 (4), 11-11
Clarke, ADF., Green, PR., Chantler, MJ. and Emrith, K., (2008). Visual search for a target against a 1/f尾 continuous textured background. Vision Research. 48 (21), 2193-2203
Conferences (8)
Nowakowska, A., Clarke, ADF., Reuther, J. and Hunt, AR., (2022). Visual search efficiency strongly modulated by irrelevant surface level properties.
Clarke, ADF. and Hughes, AE., (2021). A Generative Model of Target Switching Behaviour in Visual Foraging
Lonnqvist, B., Clarke, ADF. and Chakravarthi, R., (2019). Object recognition in deep convolutional neural networks is fundamentally different to that in humans
James, WRG., Clarke, ADF. and Hunt, AR., (2017). Failure to use probability of success in deciding whether to pursue one goal or two
Papadopoulos, DP., Clarke, ADF., Keller, F. and Ferrari, V., (2014). Training Object Class Detectors from Eye Tracking Data
Elsner, M., Rohde, H. and Clarke, A., (2014). Information Structure Prediction for Visual-world Referring Expressions
Dziemianko, M., Clarke, A. and Keller, F., (2013). Object-based Saliency as a Predictor of Attention in Visual Tasks
Clarke, A., Halley, F., Newell, A., Griffin, L. and Chantler, M., (2011). Perceptual Similarity: A Texture Challenge
Reports and Papers (11)
Kohler, PJ. and Clarke, ADF., (2021). The human visual system preserves the hierarchy of 2-dimensional pattern regularity
Clarke, ADF., Hunt, AR. and Hughes, A., (2021). Foraging as sampling without replacement: a Bayesian statistical model for estimating biases in target selection
Lonnqvist, B., Elsner, M., Hunt, AR. and Clarke, ADF., (2020). Modeling individual variation in visual search with reinforcement learning
Nowakowska, A., Clarke, ADF., Hunt, AR. and von Seth, J., (2020). Search strategies improve with practice, but not with time pressure or financial incentives
James, W., Hunt, AR. and Clarke, ADF., (2020). Six of one, half dozen of the other: Suboptimal prioritizing for equal and unequal alternatives
Nowakowska, A., Hunt, AR. and Clarke, ADF., (2020). Visual search strategies in lab and life
Nowakowska, A., Clarke, ADF., Christie, J., Reuther, J. and Hunt, AR., (2020). Less is more: Simple stimuli provoke more variable search strategies.
Hunt, AR., James, W., Reuther, J., Spilioti, M., Mackay, E. and Clarke, ADF., (2019). Variable and sub-optimal responses to a choice problem are a persistent default mode
James, W., Reuther, J., Angus, E., Clarke, ADF. and Hunt, AR., (2019). Inef铿乧ient eye movements: Gami铿乧ation improves task execution, but not 铿亁ation strategy
Clarke, ADF., Nowakowska, A. and Hunt, AR., (2019). Seeing beyond salience and guidance: the role of bias and decision in visual search
Clarke, ADF., Irons, J., James, W., Leber, AB. and Hunt, AR., (2018). Stable individual differences in strategies within, but not between, visual search tasks
Grants and funding
2020
Developing a collaborative framework for naturalistic visual search
British Academy
The role of familiarity and experience in the implementation of efficient visual search strategies
Economic and Social Research Council
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