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Prof Cheryl Metcalf @cherylmetcalf.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Looking forward to today - always an interesting day @sehta.bsky.social

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Haden Dewis @hadendewis.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

🧵5/6 To our surprise, in Experiment 2, participants consistently prioritised interactions with information-poor cubes first. 🔍 Why? We believe that whilst less optimal, it was cognitively easier to process information-poor cubes first. In other words, effort wins again.

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Haden Dewis @hadendewis.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

🧵 4/6 In Experiment 2 we focused on visual information. Cubes either contained multiple shapes (information-rich) or were predominately empty (information-poor). Our logic? Focusing on areas with a large number of potential targets would be the more optimal strategy.

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Haden Dewis @hadendewis.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

🧵 3/6 In Experiment 1, half of the cubes were made to be hard to rotate, and half were easy. Our results showed that participants developed an extremely strong and consistent bias towards selecting easy cubes first. 😴 We’re wired to avoid physical effort – even in simple mouse movements.

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Haden Dewis @hadendewis.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

🧵 2/6 Methods: We ran two experiments where participants rotated virtual cubes whilst trying to find a target T-shape amongst distractor L shapes. 💻 We utilised @threejs.org and @jspsych.org to make this possible. You can demo this yourself via this link! – tinyurl.com/4tz6aufs

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Haden Dewis @hadendewis.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Ever fumbled through your bag for your keys? That’s an interactive search: moving objects to uncover obscured visual information. In a new paper from our lab, we asked: What determines where people choose to look first in these tasks? Spoiler: effort matters. 🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s134... 🧵1/6

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Easy does it: Selection during interactive search tasks is biased towards objects that can be examined easily - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

It is well understood that attentional selection is required to deploy visual attention to relevant objects within displays during visual search tasks. Interactive search, an extension of visual searc...

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Prof Cheryl Metcalf @cherylmetcalf.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Well, that’s one way to work at a weekend!

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Prof Cheryl Metcalf @cherylmetcalf.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Fascinating introduction to the health system in Sri Lanka today from our excellent colleagues from the Commonwealth Fellowship and the University of Columbo.

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Chris Ponting @cgatist.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

On World ME Day, congratulations Jodie Hamilton, winner of the Emerge Australia ME/CFS Awards for Excellence in Journalism vist.ly/3n3rpyr. Thank you, Emerge, for shortlisting my "Ignored, blamed, and sometimes left to die" article. theconversation.com/ignored-blam...

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Ignored, blamed, and sometimes left to die – a leading expert in ME explains the origins of a modern medical scandal

The co-lead of the world’s largest ever genetic study into ME calls for a radical change in how society deals with the disease.

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Prof Cheryl Metcalf @cherylmetcalf.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

For Head Space week I’m taking a moment and have whisked my way up to London to @thekingsfund.bsky.social to hear Marshall Ganz talk about his new book: People Power Change : Organising for Democratic Renewal #booklaunch