{"id":85,"date":"2019-08-19T12:41:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T18:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2023-12-18T10:02:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T17:02:41","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 40%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>RE : COMPETITIVE DECISIONS IN GAMING<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The strategies and structures of certain games can tell us much about the role of emotion, superstition and agency in both rational (and irrational) decision making. We use simple game spaces like <em>Rock, Paper, Scissors<\/em>  (<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0270475\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dahal, MacLellan, Vavrek, &amp; Dyson, 2022<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/srep20479\">Dyson, Wilbiks, Sandhu, Papanicolaou &amp; Lintag, 2016<\/a>) and <em>Matching Pennies<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0167876019305288?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dyson, Musgrave, Rowe &amp; Sandhur, 2020<\/a>) to explore these issues. We develop entirely novel games that further help our understanding of decision-making such as our <em>Dice Dual<\/em> game (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41539-023-00206-6.epdf?sharing_token=0am5HHrestYnBwtidsUcSdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0Mc75gYSKt69lG3ZRLR7_FXWivEnvh206KiFRvGQIl0U9XzjqnhRSAJZ-vInpP3A0GG6hggS1Q4-FEUbwT2N8hsqYBuRpvoj7YYHuZwKBfmMGTjE74v7yQojE9QW1tMWto%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zhang, Huynh &amp; Dyson, 2023<\/a>). We are also interesting in a &#8216;scientification of games&#8217; approach where we examine the hidden scientific principles that exist in commerically available games such as <em>Ghost Blitz<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/preprints\/psyarxiv\/r6eh7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dyson &amp; Baik, in press<\/a>) and <em>Rockband<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1068\/p6607\">Dyson, 2010<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"519\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/yajeun.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-574 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/yajeun.png 519w, https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/yajeun-300x217.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Science of Rock, Paper, Scissors\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S2vzaYqj-lA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 44%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>RE : DESIGN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While designing experimental paradigms, sometimes we imagine what these games would look like outside of the laboratory. To this end, our lab received seed grant funding to develop analog game spaces into card and board games. We are currently prototyping the computational card game <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/total-chaos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Total Chaos<\/a>, which explores the mysteries of negative numbers and zero.  <\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/peebea-1024x559.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-573 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/peebea-1024x559.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/peebea-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/peebea-768x419.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/peebea.png 1436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 44%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>RE : EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I record event-related potential (ERP) data to take a look \u2018under the hood\u2019 of cognition to help examine stage of human information processing that happen prior to responding (e.g., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0006899316305443\">Gallant &amp; Dyson, 2016<\/a>).\u00a0Early ERPs can provide a strong index of future performance and I\u2019m interested in pursuing these ideas, particularly in relation to maturation (<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/36603041\/\">Sullivan, Kudus, Dyson &amp; Spaniol, 2023<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.3758%2Fs13415-018-0571-y\">Williams, Biel, Wegier, Lapp, Dyson &amp; Spaniol, 2016<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0278262613001486\">Wilkinson, Yang &amp; Dyson, 2013<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"487\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/eg-erp.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-146 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/eg-erp.png 487w, https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/eg-erp-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 51%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>RE : SIGHT AND SOUND<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another core research interest centers around the representation of sight and sound and multi-modal perception: how we end up with complex phenomenology from humble beginnings at the eye and the ear, what some of the constraints and limits of such processes (<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0168304\">Wilbiks &amp; Dyson, 2016<\/a>), and how the sensory systems compete and collaborate with one another via cross-modal correspondence (e.g., <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00221-015-4517-0\">Sandhu &amp; Dyson, 2016<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.3758\/s13414-013-0527-9\">Wilbiks &amp; Dyson, 2013 a<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1016\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/av.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-148 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/av.png 1016w, https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/av-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/av-768x402.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 44%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>RE : ART AND PSYCHOLOGY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My research also examines the links between Art and Psychology, particularly in the context of the resolution of perceptual ambiguity: do what extent do we enjoy being presented with an ambiguous stimulus and what are the processes in resolving the ambiguity (e.g., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fnhum.2011.00073\/full\">Dyson, 2011<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1068\/p6484\">Dyson &amp; Cohen, 2010<\/a>)?&nbsp;I have also recently completed a relatively large-scale project on art technique and embodied cognition (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0010027715000116\">McLean, Want &amp; Dyson, 2015<\/a>) &nbsp;and was extremely happy to be involved in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1bd7TZiM8qg\">Creativity Project<\/a> by Emmett Fraser.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"654\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/artQ.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-147 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/artQ.png 650w, https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/artQ-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/artQ-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/artQ-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>RE : TEACHING<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s very exciting to be able to teach and research, and so it makes perfect sense to do research into teaching. My first foray into this examined the effectiveness of small-scale interventions (<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/1469787408095856\">Dyson, 2008<\/a>) and a much larger project conducted in Canada looked at whether Facebook could be successfully integrated into the teaching of Introductory Psychology (<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs10734-014-9776-3\">Dyson, Vickers, Turtle, Cowan &amp; Tassone, 2015<\/a>). My most recent empirical paper on pedagogic practice shows how students can be engaged during remote asynchronous teaching via mobile phone apps (<a href=\"https:\/\/online.ucpress.edu\/collabra\/article\/9\/1\/88320\/197465\/Assessing-the-Replicability-of-Cognitive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dyson, 2023<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have received a Deans\u2019 Teaching Award from Toronto Metropolitean University in 2013 (see very young picture to the right), a COVID-19 Remote Teaching Award from the University of Alberta in 2021, the Connie Varnhagen Excellence in Teaching Psychology Award from theUniversity of Alberta in 2022, and, an e3 Berlin Teaching Scholarship in 2023. <\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"153\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/young-dyson.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-145 size-full\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 32%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>RE : COGNITION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a pleasure to work with Philip Quinlan in helping him finish up his undergraduate textbook on Cognitive Psychology (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Cognitive-Psychology-Philip-Quinlan\/dp\/0131298100\">Quinlan &amp; Dyson, 2008<\/a>). So if you\u2019ve ever wanted to know what&#8217;s really the best way to play Rock, Paper, Scissors, wondered \u2018bout sound and vision (Bowie, 1977), or, how a static collection lines and squares could ever get the kinetic title of \u2018Broadway Boogie Woogie\u2019 (Mondrian, 1943) then you should stop by for a chat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"175\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cog-psy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144 size-full\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RE : COMPETITIVE DECISIONS IN GAMING The strategies and structures of certain games can tell us much about the role of emotion, superstition and agency in both rational (and irrational) decision making. We use simple game spaces like Rock, Paper, Scissors (Dahal, MacLellan, Vavrek, &amp; Dyson, 2022; Dyson, Wilbiks, Sandhu, Papanicolaou &amp; Lintag, 2016) and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/recognitionlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}