Summer Farewells and Congratulations
The BAR lab would like to celebrate and congratulate the accomplishments and graduations of several of our outgoing members: Jake Gerlofs (PhD), Oliver Jacobs (PhD), and Kevin Roberts (PhD). We would also like to thank Dr. Walter Bischof for another productive year of collaborating and mentorship.
Thank you to our Summer 2025 Work Learn and USRA Students!
As the summer terms come to a close, the lab would like to acknowledge and appreciate the work that has been achieved by all our Work Learn and USRA students. We had the pleasure of working throughout the summer with Annaliese and Ivy through the UBC Work Learn programme, Gabriel through the WLIURA programme, Casey […]
Congratulations and farewell (for now) to Kyle!
This year the BAR lab had the privilege of hosting high-school student Kyle, through the seed2STEM program, a summer research program for Indigenous youth. During his time with us, the lab was continually impressed by Kyle’s energy and enthusiasm, from learning to code, different research methods and apparatuses, and the work being done in the […]
Congratulations Jake!
The lab is pleased to announce that PhD Candidate, Jake Gerlofs, successfully passed his dissertation defence! We are all incredibly proud of Jake for accomplishing this huge milestone.
Farewell (for now) to Chloe!
This summer the BAR lab hosted our first summer high-student volunteer, Chloe Yang. During her time in the lab Chloe experienced and participated in various stages of the research process, including data collection, analysis, and presenting her own independent research project to the lab. It was a pleasure to have gotten to know and work […]
Visit from Dr. Pei-Hsuan Hsieh and her students
Last week we had the pleasure of seeing Dr. Pei-Hsuan Hsieh (Department of Information Science, National Chengchi University) and her students. Pei-Hsuan was a visiting scholar who had spent her sabbatical with the BAR lab in 2024.
Alan Gives Keynote Talk at SCSMI
Alan delivering keynote talk at the 2025 meeting of The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) held in Edmonton, Alberta. (Photo courtesy of Rikke Schubart, University of Southern Denmark.)
Congratulations to Tom and Alan for their TICS paper! – Covert orienting: The dark matter of social attention
Congratulations to Drs. Tom Foulsham and Alan Kingstone for their paper – Covert orienting: The dark matter of social attention – which is now available in Trends in Cognitive Science An online and PDF version of this paper can also be found at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.05.001
Congratulations to Oliver for a successful PhD defence!
The BAR Lab is proud to announce that PhD candidate, Oliver Jacobs, successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations to Dr. Oliver Jacobs!