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2025

July - Chen Wei, Chi Zhang, Jiachen Zou, Haotian Deng, Dietmar Heinke and Quanying Liu present a paper at the machine learning conference ICML.

Wei C., Zou J., Heinke D., Liu Q. (2025) Synthesizing Images on Perceptual Boundaries of ANNs for Uncovering and Manipulating Human Perceptual Variability, Proceedings of the 42 nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).

May - Poster presentation at the the VSS. 'Do time-dependent decision boundaries exist? Evidence from empirical data from random-dot kinematograms (RDK) and a drift-diffusion model'. D. Heinke, Casimir Ludwig, Jordan Deakin

February - Fan Zhang, Mukesh Makwana, Dietmar Heinke and Joo-Hyun Song present paper in APP.

Zhang, F., Makwana, M., Heinke, D., Song, J.-H. (2025). Characterizing individual differences in selection history bias manifested in goal-directed reaching movements, Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03068-9

January - Mandar Patil, Dietmar Heinke and Fan Zhang presnet paper in PeerJ.

Patil, M. M., Heinke, D., & Zhang, F. (2025). Computational modelling reveals the influence of object similarity and proximity on visually guided movements. In PeerJ (Vol. 13, p. e18953). PeerJ. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18953

2024

August - Jordan Deakin, Andrew Schofield, Dietmar Heinke on their paper in Entropy.

Deakin, J., Schofield, A., & Heinke, D. (2024). Support for the Time-Varying Drift Rate Model of Perceptual Discrimination in Dynamic and Static Noise Using Bayesian Model-Fitting Methodology. In Entropy (Vol. 26, Issue 8, p. 642). https://doi.org/10.3390/e26080642

May - D. Heinke, F. Zhang, M. Makwana, J.-H. Song present paper at the ECVP in Aberdeen.

Characterizing individual differences in selection history bias manifested in goal-directed reaching movements.

2023

July - The collaborative ESRC-NSF grant with Joo-Hyun Song is produce first joint paper.

Makwana, M., Zhang, F., Heinke, D., & Song, J.-H. (2023). Continuous action with a neurobiologically inspired computational approach reveals the dynamics of selection history. PLOS Computational Biology, 19, 7, p. e1011283. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011283 .

April - The Institute for Adavanced Studies (IAS) awarded long-term collaborator Joo-Hyun Song the IAS Vanguard fellowship. which funds a four week stay at Birmingham.

February - presentations at the VSS.

Perceptual noise disrupts flanker suppression: Evidence from a novel type of noise in the colour domain and Bayesian modelling. J. Deakin, D. Heinke

Neurobiologically inspired robotics model: Underlying mechanisms for target selection biases from a recent experience of goal-directed action J. Deakin, A. Daskalopoulos, M. Makwana, J.-H. Song, D. Heinke

2022

November - Dietmar and Jordan present their work at the annual meeting of the psychonomic society

The Role of Perceptual Noise in Response Conflict: A Bayesian Model Comparison

May - Completion of the editorial chapter of a special issue on deep neural networks. We would like to thank Charles Leek (University of Liverpool) and Ales Leonardis (University of Birmingham) for the excellent collaboration and David Forster as Vision Research's Editor-in-Chief for the help and advice.

Heinke, D., Leonardis, A., Leek, E. C. (2022) What do deep neural networks tell us about biological vision? Vision Research, 198, 108069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2022.108069

April - Publication of the final chapter of special issue on deep neural networks.

Leek, E. C., Leonardis, A., Heinke, D. (2022) Deep neural networks and image classification in biological vision. Vision Research, 197, 108058, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2022.108058.

March - Presentation at the VSS. 

Evaluating individual differences in selection history bias for goal-directed reaching movements M. Makwana, F. Zhang, D. Heinke, J.-H. Song

Examining noise and motion in the Eriksen flanker task: A Bayesian comparison of drift-diffusion models. J. Deakin, D. Heinke

Neurobiologically inspired robotics model: Underlying mechanisms for target selection biases from a recent experience of goal-directed action F Zhang, M. Makwana, J.-H. Song, D. Heinke

2021

November - Accepted publication with long-standing collaborator Shan Xu at Beijing Normal University. It is a pre-registered study and the first of its kind for the CPL. 

Xu, S., Liu, X., Almeida, J. & Heinke, D. (2021) The contributions of the ventral and the dorsal visual streams to the automatic processing of action relations of familiar and unfamiliar object pairs. (2021). NeuroImage (Vol. 245, p. 118629). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118629

October - Dietmar Heinke, Peter Wachman, Wieske vanZoest and Charles Leek publish paper in Visual Research. We also want to higlight Peter's contribution. He laid the foundation for this paper in his dissertation in the CNCR MSc and then went on to work on this in his spare time while working in a full-time job.

Heinke, D., Wachman, P., vanZoest, W., & Leek, E. C. (2021) A failure to learn object shape geometry: implications for convolutional neural networks as plausible models of biological vision. Vision Research , 189, 81-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2021.09.004

September - Dietmar Heinke is appointed as a Turing Fellow. 

August  - Presentation at the ECVP . 

July - Won a collaborative studentship with Southern University of Science and Technology, China. We are looking forward to co-supervising a PhD-student with Quanying Liu.

May - Poster presentation at the Virtual-VSS . 

February - Jordan Deakin, Lily Porat, Wieske van Zoest and Dietmar Heinke contribute to chapter in the Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience . Special congratulation to Jordan Deakin (PhD-student) for her first 1st-author publication. 

Deakin, J., Porat, L., van Zoest, W., & Heinke, D. (2021). Behavioral Research, Overt Performance. In Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-819641-0.00162-6

2020

November - Anna-Maria Velentza, Dietmar Heinke and Jeremy Wyatts publish paper in Advanded Robotics.

Velentza, A. M., Heinke, D., & Wyatt, J. (2020). Museum robot guides or conventional audio guides? An experimental study. Advanced Robotics , 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/01691864.2020.1854113

July - Julia has passed her viva.

June - Presentation of first results from the collaborative ESRC-NSF grant with Joo-Hyun Song at poster sessions at Virtual-VSS.

February - Dominic Standage, Corson Areshenkoff, Joseph Nashed, R. Matthew Hutchinson, Melina Hutchison, Dietmar Heinke, Ravi Menon, Stefan Everling and Jason Gallivan publish paper in Cerebral Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa085

Standage, D., Areshenkoff, C., N., Nashed, J. Y., Hutchinson, R. M., Hutchison, M., Heinke, D., Menon, R. S., Everling, S., & Gallivan, J. P. (in press). Dynamic reconfiguration, fragmentation and integration of whole-brain modular structure across depths of unconsciousness. Cerebral Cortex.

2019

December - Fan Zhang join lab as post doc funded for three years by our ESRC-NSF(SBE) grant.

October - Anna-Maria Velentza presents poster at the 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).

Velentza, A.-M., Heinke, D., & Wyatt, J. (2019). Human Interaction and Improving Knowledge through Collaborative Tour Guide Robots. 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). Presented at the 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). https://doi.org/10.1109/ro-man46459.2019.8956372

June - Julia presents poster at ESCOP. 'Fast but not slow responses cause interference in conflicting stimuli: evidence for cognitive control and the bottleneck'. 

June - Ahmad Abu-Akel, Carrie Allison, Simon Baron-Cohen, and Dietmar Heinke publish paper in Molecular Autism.

Abu-Akel, A., Allison C., Baron-Cohen, S., & Heinke, D. (2019). The distribution of autistic traits across the autism spectrum: evidence for discontinuous dimensional subpopulations underlying the autism continuum. Molecular Autism , 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-019-0275-3

April - Won a ESRC-NSF(SBE) grant entitled 'SBE-UKRI: Integrating vision and action through selection history' This grant will support the collaboration with Joo-Hyun Song (Brown University).

April - A. K. Abadi, K. Yahya, M. Amini, K. Friston, & D. Heinke publish paper in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Abadi, A. K., Yahya, K., Amini, M., Friston, K., & Heinke, D. (2019). Excitatory versus inhibitory feedback in Bayesian formulations of scene construction. Journal of The Royal Society Interface , 16(154), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2018.0344

January - J. Robinson, D. N. George & D. Heinke publish paper in Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition.

Robinson, J., George, D. N., & Heinke, D. (2019). A computational implementation of a Hebbian learning network and its application to configural forms of acquired equivalence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition , 45(3), 356-371. href=https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000203

2018

September - Dominic Standage visits CPL as Marie Curie fellow for the two years. His project is called VISSATO (Visual search and Cognitive Control of the speed-accuracy trade-off).

February - Vilius Narbutas passes his viva.

2017

November - Francois Osiurak & Dietmar Heinke publish paper in American Psychologist.

Osiurak, F., & Heinke, D. (2018) Looking for Intoolligence: A unified framework for the cognitive study of human tool use and technology. American Psychologist, 73(2), 169-185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000162.

August - Diana Orghian, Anna Smith, Leonel Garcia-Marques, & Dietmar Heinke publish paper in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. We are pleased to note that this paper was largely driven by Anna Smith's energy to complete the experiments. This was a very remarkable performance for a MSc student.

Orghian, D., Smith, A., Garcia-Marques, L., & Heinke, D. (2017) Capturing spontaneous trait inference with the modified free association paradigm. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 73, 243-258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2017.07.004.

August - Vilius Narbutas, Yi-Shin Lin, Matej Kristan, & Dietmar Heinke publish paper in Visual Cognition.

Narbutas, V., Lin, Y.-S., Kristan, M., & Heinke, D. (2017) Serial versus parallel search: A model comparison approach based on reaction time distributions. Visual Cognition, 1-3, 306-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2017.1352055.

June - Shan Xu & Dietmar Heinke publish paper in Visual Cognition.

Xu, S., & Heinke, D. (2017) Implied between-object actions affect response selection without knowledge about object functionality. Visual Cognition, 1-3, 152-168. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2017.1330792.

2016

December - Xu, S., Glyn Humphreys, Carmel Mevorach, and Dietmar Heinke publish in Neuropsychologia. 

Xu, S., Humphreys, G. W., Mevorach, C., & Heinke, D. (2017) The involvement of the dorsal stream in processing implied actions between object pairs: a TMS study. Neuropsychologia, 95, 240-249.

2015

September - Fard, Hollensen, Heinke, and Trappenberg publish paper in Neural Networks.

Fard, F. S., Hollensen, P., Heinke, D.,& Trappenberg, T. P. (2015) Modeling human target reaching with an adaptive observer implemented with dynamic neural fields. Neural Networks, 72, 13-30. doi

September - Soeren Strauss, Phil Woodgate, Saber Sami, Dietmar Heinke publish paper in Neural Networks.

Strauss, S., Woodgate, P.J.W., Sami, S. A., & Heinke, D. (2015) Choice reaching with a LEGO arm robot (CoRLEGO): The motor system guides visual attention to movement-relevant information. Neural Networks, 72, 3-12. doi

June - Abu-Akel, Heinke, Gillespie, Mitchell, Bo publish paper in Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

Abu-Akel, A., Heinke, D., Gillespie, S. M., Mitchell, I. J., & Bo, S. (2015) Metacognitive impairments in schizophrenia are arrested at extreme levels of psychopathy: The cut-off effect.

April - Phil Woodgate, Soeren Strauss, Saber Sami, Dietmar Heinke publish paper on their paper in Behavioral Brain Research.

Woodgate, P.J.W., Strauss, S., Sami, S. A., & Heinke, D. (2015) Motor cortex guides selection of predictable movement targets. Behavioural Brain Research, 287, 238-246.

March - Shan Xu publishes paper in JEP:HPP. 

Xu, S., Humphreys, G. W., & Heinke, D. (2015) Implied actions between paired objects lead to affordance selection by inhibition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41(4), 1021-1036. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000059

2014

October - Social Cognition has accepted a paper with Diana Orghian, Leonel Garcia-Marques, J. Uleman.

Orghian, D., Garcia-Marquesa L., Uleman, J. S. , & Heinke, D. (2015) A Connectionist Model of Spontaneous Trait Inference and Spontaneous Trait Transference. Social Cognition, 33,1, 20 - 66.

September - Vision Research has accepted a paper with Yuanyuan Zhao.

2013

December - Soeren passes his viva.

March - Greg's first paper has been accepted in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS).

2012

December - Greg Carslaw passes his viva.

May - The Psychogical Review - paper by Eirini Mavritsaki, Dietmar Heinke, Harriet Allen, Gustavo Deco and Glyn Humphreys wins the BPS Cognitive Psychology Section Award 2012

April - Soeren's first paper has been accepted in Frontiers.

2011

December - Yuanyuan's second paper has been accepted in Visual Cognition.

November - Giles' third paper has been accepted in Vision Research.

October - Soeren presents a poster on his work with our LEGO robotarm at the Bernstein conference in Freiburg. Abstract.

July - Yuanyuan's first paper has been accepted in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics (APP).

May - Christoph passes his viva.

2010

October - Andreas and Dietmar's paper has been accepted in Cognitive Computation.

September - Giles second paper has been accepted in Visual Cognition.

August - Yuanyuan Zhao passes her viva.

Eirini Mavritsaki, Dietmar Heinke, Harriet Allen, Gustavo Deco and Glyn Humphreys have a paper in Psychological Review.

April - Dietmar became an Associate Editor for Frontiers.

2009

December - 2009 Giles Anderson passes his PhD Viva.

June - Giles Anderson has his first publication accepted in JEP:HPP.

2008

January 3rd-4th London meeting of the EPS

At the January 2008 meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS), Giles Anderson presented a talk on the 'Differential time course of top-down cueing by colour and orientation in visual search'. 

2007

May - Computational modelling workshop, University of Birmingham, UK

To complement the above Computational modelling workshop, a one-day satellite workshop for postgraduate students and junior postdocs provided hands-on experience as well as a theoretical introduction to computational models. The method of computational modelling: A practical introduction

Proceedings from the workshop published in a book: Heinke, D. & Mavritsaki, E. (Eds.) (2009).Computational Modelling in Behavioural Neuroscience: Closing the gap between neurophysiology and behaviour, London: Psychology Press.

January - Eirini Mavritsaki (talk) and Dietmar Heinke (poster) present work at Fourth international workshop on attention in cognitive systems as part of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. .