UBC Visual Cognition Lab

Celebrating another successful term with our traditional lab dinner! 🥳

Have a happy and safe Halloween! 🎃

Tune in to The Ouija Board Episode on KIOS-FM featuring our Ouija team! 🎃

https://www.kios.org/post/ouija-board-episode

The Ouija Board Episode We explore the origins as well as the social, psychological and philosophical implications of the popular American “boardgame”, The Ouija Board. There is

Congratulations to our recent graduates, Adam West Herr '19 and Andy Moldwin '19! We're proud of all their accomplishments and wish them the very best for the future that lies ahead.

Tuum est. :)

Happy end-of-term! Celebrating months of hard work and science at our traditional lab dinner. 🎉

Happy holidays everyone! We hope you have a joyful and restful winter break. ☃️🎄

Thanks for another great term, VCL!

Last but not least, congratulations to Yana Pertels '18 and Rebecca Watson '18 on graduating from UBC! We are proud of all your achievements and wish you the very best.

Congratulations to VCL alumni Ti Wu '18 and Kimi De Rosa '18 on their graduation from UBC this week! We wish you the very best in your future endeavours.

Exciting news: we were recently featured in The Science of Magic by CBC. Check it out!
http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/the-science-of-magic

The Science of Magic Explore why magic is a unique tool for gaining new insights into human cognition, neurobiology, and behaviour.

Thanks to our hardworking lab members, we celebrate yet another successful term with our traditional term dinner! 🎉

Special shout out to Wendy Chai, our beloved lab manager and now VCL alumna, who has helped shape VCL into the lab it is today through her countless contributions. We can never thank her enough for all that she has done for the lab and wish her the very best for the future. Farewell, Wendy!

And we're up and running again! Sign up for our experiments here to help further vision science research. :)

https://www.reservax.com/ubcviscog/

UBC Visual Cognition Lab - Subject Sign-up System

UBC Visual Cognition Lab updated their phone number.

It's the start of a new summer term! Sign up for paid experiments at http://www.reservax.com/ubcviscog/ and help vision science research!

UBC Visual Cognition Lab - Subject Sign-up System

In preparation for your next research conference, here are some scientific poster don't's and don't's :)

Warmest congratulations to Mario Zimet Dattoli '17, Spencer Williams '17, Jason Yen '17, Ong Ee Faye '17, and Louisa Hardjasa '17 on their graduation last week! Thank you for your valuable contributions and dedication to the lab. We wish you the best of luck in your adventures ahead!

Need some extra cash to help fund your summer festivities? Sign up for paid experiments here! https://www.reservax.com/ubcviscog/

UBC Visual Cognition Lab - Subject Sign-up System

Thankful for another amazing term at VCL. To graduating members, we wish you all the best in your future endeavors!

Good luck to everyone writing final exams and papers! :)

Our IT and Correlations teams had an amazing time at PURC! Thanks to all of the PURC organizers and congratulations to all of the wonderful presenters!

VCL's IT team will be presenting at MURC today at 5:00 PM in room 345 at the Henry Angus building! Be sure to check us out!

Earn some extra cash for the holiday season!

Are our visual systems smarter than we think? We want to find out whether or not changing the global configuration of the display will affect the time it takes to find the target.

Sign up for the Line IT 1 experiment at https://www.reservax.com/ubcviscog/member_exp_signup.php?id=61&page=2.

You will participate in a visual search task on the computer which should take no longer than 1hr. You will be compensated $10 for your time.

UBC Visual Cognition Lab - Subject Sign-up System

Happy October! Hope everyone’s midterms are going well. You can sign up for our paid experiment to get cash ($10/hour) AND early candy for Halloween!

Sign up at: www.reservax.com/ubcviscog

Don't you wish you had a warm cup of tea in this cold season?
You can get this VCL mug if you participate in eight of our experiments! :)
Sign up at: http://www.reservax.com/ubcviscog/

Just letting you all know the VA workshops are back in January! Learn how to enhance your analysis using your visual intelligence. This 8-week workshop series will walk you through the process. Registrations are open: http://ow.ly/VAdrL

We are very proud to announce that our very own Lisa Shiozaki and Taj Darra combined their powers and data designing skills to win the top spot in the Vancouver Data Science pre-competition! They presented their analytics work on November 25 at Michael Smith Laboratories. Congratulations guys!

City of Vancouver Data Science Competition City of Vancouver Data Science Competition in anticipation of SportsHack. DataSense and Big Data University are co-hosting a pre-competition.

Get your User Experience caps on!! What are your thoughts on the recent updates and creations made by this superpower in the digital world?

https://www.fastcodesign.com/3053406/how-apple-is-giving-design-a-bad-name

How Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name

The Visual Cognition Lab is recruiting!

If you love science and would like to volunteer in a UBC research lab investigating vision, perception, attention, and memory, then follow this link and send us your information. Come and see if the UBC VCL is a great fit for you!

http://viscoglab.psych.ubc.ca/opportunities/

Test your color vision! https://www.igame.com/eye-test/

"Hawk: Wow, you have excellent color vision. You can see a worm from the top of a tree." - think you can get the same? ;)

iGame | Free Eye Test Do you know how good your Colour Vision is? Come in and test it for free!

Bionic eyes: restoring eyesight to the functionally blind!

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2015/07/02/researchers-successfully-test-bionic-eye-implant-device/

Researchers Successfully Test Bionic Eye Implant Device Bionic eye implants were successfully placed in the retinas of patients blinded by retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited and degenerative eye disease that causes severe vision impairment.