Faculty of Psychology

Árni Gunnar Ásgeirsson

Associate Professor
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Location

  • Utan skólans / Off Campus

Specialisation

Visual perception Cognitive neuroscience Memory Synesthesia Synaesthesia Experimental psychology Cognition R statistical programming MATLAB EEG Visual attention Human performance Psychology
Research portal - Árni Gunnar Ásgeirsson 

General information

Courses

TSÁ0176110
Experimental Psychology

Education

2014
University of Copenhagen, Ph.D. Psychology
2010
University of Iceland, MS Psychology
2007
University of Iceland, BA Psychology

Career

2017
University of Akureyri, Assistant Professor
2020
University of Akureyri, Associate Professor
2018
University of Akureyri, Head of Department (psychology)
2023
University of Akureyri, Head of Faculty
2015 - 2016
Leiden University, Postdoc
2014 - 2015
University of Copenhagen, Research assistant
2014 - 2014
Aarhus University, Research assistant
2014 - 2014
Aalborg University, External Lecturer
2010 - 2014
University of Copenhagen, Doctoral fellow

Research

2023
Are attentional templates based on physical feature values or perceptual interpretations?
2023
How does color distribution learning affect oculomotor selection?
2023
Probabilistic attentional selection during continuous visual search
2021
The moment-by-moment attentional temperature: How do history effects influence attentional capture?
2019
Attentional priming: recent insights and current controversies
2019
Attentional priming does not enable observers to ignore salient distractors
2019
The sun is no fun without rain: Physical environments affect how we feel about yellow across 55 countries
2019
No feature-based attention in additional singleton search
2019
Effects of arousal on biased competition in attention and short-term memory
2018
Flexible visual memory encoding revealed by probing method
2017
No arousal-biased competition in focused visuospatial attentino
2017
No arousal-biased competition in focused visuospatial attention
2017
No arousal-biased competition in visuospatial attention
2016
Arousing brute force and alerting selectivity
2016
Gradual consolidation of synesthesia during adolescence : a case study
2015
Repetition priming in selective attention: A TVA analysis.
2015
Components of Attention in Grapheme-Color Synesthesia: A Modeling Approach.
2015
Dissociating Measures of Consciousness from Measures of Short-Term Memory
2015
Synesthesia induced colors do not bias attention in the same manner as physical colors do
2014
Independent priming of location and color in identification of briefly presented letters.
2014
Dissociating Contents of Consciousness from Contents of Short-Term Memory
2014
Random reward priming is task-contingent: the robustness of the 1-trial reward priming effect.
2014
The color of money
2014
The color of money : Value-driven selectivity enhancements
2013
Components of Attention in Synesthesia
2013
Components of attention in synesthesia
2013
When actions have no consequences: Rewards in visual search and the role of contingencies
2012
Saccade performance in the nasal and temporal hemifields.
2012
Saccade perfromance in the nasal and temporal hemifields
2012
The weight of the visual world is modified by recent experience : Modeling repetition priming in a partial report task
2012
The weight of the visual world is modified by recent experience: Modeling repetition priming in a partial report task.
2011
Episodic retrieval and feature facilitation in intertrial priming of visual search.
2011
Position and color priming in briefly presented search arrays
2011
Position priming in briefly presented search arrays
2011
Saccadic asymmetries in response to temporal versus nasal trigger stimuli depends upon attentional demands
2010
Accounting for priming in visual search Episodic retrieval does not explain priming of pop-out
2010
Independent and additive effects of repetition of target and distractor sets in active visual search
2010
Independent and additive effects of repetition of target and distractor sets in active visual search
2008
Episodic retrieval accounts of priming in visual search explain only a limited subset of findings on priming.