Dr Giles Anderson BSc, MRes, PhD

 

School Instructor / Teaching Fellow

School of Psychology

Contact details

Telephone + 44 (0)121 414 6245

Email g.m.anderson@bham.ac.uk

School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

About

As well as lecturing and tutoring undergraduates, Dr Giles Anderson uses behavioural and eye-tracking measures to investigate patterns in visual search.

Qualifications

  • BSc (Hons) University of Exeter
  • MRes University of Birmingham
  • PhD University of Birmingham

Biography

A native of the Greater London area, Dr Giles Anderson grew up in west London, before heading to Exeter University to do a degree in Chemistry. Following this, he trained as a journalist at the London College of Printing before becoming a magazine writer and editor, focusing on the topics of science, the internet and psychology.

Dr Anderson then converted his degree to Psychology at the London Metropolitan University, where he became interested in visual attention and how the brain interprets and selects vision information. After completing a Masters of Research at the University of Birmingham, he remained at the institution, obtaining a PhD in visual cognition working with Glyn Humphreys and Dietmar Heinke.

Post-PhD, Dr Anderson has been continuing his research at the university as a School Instructor/Teaching Fellow whilst teaching and tutoring psychology undergraduates.

For additional information please see Dr Anderson's personal website.

Teaching

Module leader for 'Research Methods A', introducing students to the idea that psychology methods in conjunction with statistics are used to investigate human behaviour.

Research

The majority of Dr Giles Anderson's research (alongside Dr Glyn Humphreys and Dr Dietmar Heinke) focuses on how prior knowledge about a search target affects search speed and patterns of eye movements during conjunction search, and how these top-down cueing processes interact with bottom-up, stimulus-driven factors. Further areas of interest include how these effects vary when manipulating the probabilistic and reward characteristics of the cues. Dr Anderson is also interested in the eye movements of during face perception children with developmental disorders, and is collaborating with University of British Columbia's Dr Alan Kingstone, extending his search paradigm into more ecologically valid environments.

Publications

Anderson, G. M., Heinke, D., & Humphreys, G. W. (2010). Featural Guidance in Conjunction Search: The Contrast Between Orientation and Colour. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36(5), 1108-1127.

Anderson G. M., Heinke, D., & Humphreys G. W., (2010). Conjunction search without target-specific bias: An eye movement study. Perception, 39, ECVP Abstract Supplement, 191.

Anderson, G. M., Heinke, D., & Humphreys, G. W. (2006a). Top-down Modulation in Inefficient Search: Evidence of Differences Between Orientation and Colour Cueing. Perception, 35, S163b. (ECVP-2006).

Anderson, G. M., Heinke, D., & Humphreys, G. W. (2011). Differential Time Course of Implicit and Explicit Cueing by Color and Orientation in Visual Search. Visual Cognition. 19(2), 258-288.

Anderson, G. M., Heinke, D. & Humphreys, G. W. (in preparation). Bottom-up Guidance to Grouped Items in Conjunction Search: Evidence for Color Grouping. Vision Research.

Anderson, G. M., Foulsham, T., & Kinstone, A. (in preparation). Hide and Seek: Finding and Concealing Strategies in Visual Search.

Anderson, G. M., Heinke, D., & Humphreys, G. W. (in preparation). Explicit Top-down Bias During Visual Search: an Eye-tracking Study

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