Talks and presentations

Selected invited talks, conference presentations and posters. Where presentation material is available online, a link is included.

2026

3 July. Annual Working Memory Discussion Meeting 2026, Skipton, UK.From working memory episodes to later recognition: A mechanistic account of WM-to-LTM traces
18 June. Yorkshire Innovation in Science and Engineering Conference 2026, University of Huddersfield, UK.Minds, machines, and the shape of intelligence
21 April. British Cochlear Implant Group Conference 2026, Glasgow, UK.AI in health and cochlear implant services: Separating signal from noise
11 February. Invited talk, School of Psychology, Keele University, UK.A mechanistic account of prioritisation in visual working memory

27 July. 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.Combining individuating and context-general cues in lie detection [slides]
23 July. 31st Annual ACT-R Workshop, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.Modelling the effect of prioritisation in visual working memory [slides]
27 June. 4th International Conference on Working Memory, University of Leeds, UK.Modelling the effect of prioritisation on recall in visual working memory [poster]
15 May. Invited talk, Working Memory and Cognition Group, School of Psychology, University of Leeds, UK.Modelling the effect of prioritisation in a visual working memory task [slides]

18 December. Annual Conference of the United Kingdom Alliance for Disaster Research, University of Huddersfield, UK.The effective communication of risk: Insights from cognitive science [slides]
5 October. Public lecture, University of Huddersfield, UK.Minds, machines and the quest for artificial general intelligence [slides]

1 July. Invited expert panel discussing Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds.Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds: expert panel [recording]

27 July. 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada.Modelling mental imagery in the ACT-R cognitive architecture [poster]
22 July. 17th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling, Montreal, Canada.Modelling alternative strategies for mental rotation [slides]

7 June. 16th European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition, Padua, Italy.Multiple representations and visual mental imagery in cognitive architectures [slides]
21 March. Socio-Technical Systems Research Group, Robert Gordon University, UK.Multiple representations and visual mental imagery in artificial cognitive systems [slides]
23 February. Artificial Intelligence Research Group, Middlesex University, UK.Multiple representations and visual mental imagery in artificial cognitive systems [slides]

25 April. Engage Research Festival, University of Huddersfield, UK.Machine Learning, Artificial General Intelligence, and Robots with Human Minds [slides]

9 August. ACT-R Post-Graduate Summer School, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA.Two methods for optimising cognitive model parameters [slides]

14 November. DECISIVe Workshop, IEEE VIS Conference, Paris, France.Sources of bias when working with visualisations [slides]
14 November. DECISIVe Workshop, IEEE VIS Conference, Paris, France.A cognitive architecture-based modelling approach to understanding biases in visualisation behaviour [slides]
25 July. 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Canada.A model of object location memory: ACT-R plays Kim's game [poster]

31 July. Diagrammatic Cognition: Discovery and Design workshop, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.Cognitive-architectural approaches to diagrammatic reasoning [slides]

17 February. Laboratoire Travail et Cognition, Université Toulouse Le Mirail, France.A cognitive-architecture based model of graph comprehension [slides]
15 February. Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.A computational model of graph comprehension [slides]

12 April. School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, UK.Map-based orientation in urban environments [slides]

3 August. 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, USA.Strategies for Orientation: The Role of 3D Landmark Salience and Map Alignment [poster]

6 August. 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, USA.Distortions of perceptual judgement in diagrammatic representations [poster]

22 August. 12th European Conference on Eye Movements, Dundee, UK.Modelling eye movements with the ACT-R cognitive architecture [poster]

20 August. 21st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada.Multiple processes in graph-based reasoning [slides]