From
April 19-22, the University of Newcastle hosted the 44th annual conference of
the Australasian Experimental Psychology Society at Ramada Resort, in beautiful
Shoal Bay.
The
conference had 187 attendees, 130 spoken presentations and 32 posters. Nearly
half of the presentations were by students, and the student awards for best
presentation and highly commended in each of the three streams of talks and the
poster session were closely contested. Award recipients were from ANU, USyd,
UQ, CurtinU, UNSW and UoN.
The
Ross Day Plenary Lecture was very well attended and delivered by Prof. Andrew
Heathcote (introduced by Prof. Sally Andrews).
The
success of the conference depended on the hard work of the organising committee
(Darren Burke (Chair), kerry Chalmers (Treasurer), Simon Dennis, Ami Eidels,
Emily Freeman and Frances Martin), and especially of the student volunteers
(Kylie Campling, Jacob Dye, Paul Garrett, Zach Howard, Reilly Innes, Johanne
Knowles, Joshua Makin, Allyson Ray, Laura Wall and Hyungwook Yim) and School
admin staff (Sophie Percival and Danielle Storey).
